Why Are Some People and Countries More Protectionist than Others

This paper is a summary of the case studies about the question: why are some people and countries more protectionist than others? Some economist (Rodrik, O’Rouke and Pasadilla et al.) have studied it with econometric analysis. After studying with some data sets they find out that: gender, social class, region, education, skill level, work sector, national pride are significant factors by the attitude building to free trade.

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