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Sheldon Richman
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Editor and Writer, Freelance
Arkansas
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Family, Entertainment , Music, wellness , politics, Personality Profiles , General Interest Journalism, business , sports
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By Sheldon Richman Verified| FEE - Foundation for Economic Education@ by Sheldon Richman is the editor of The Freeman and In brief. The Commerce Department (whose idea was that?) said last week that 2006 was another record year for the U.S. trade deficit. The value of imports beat the value of exports by $764 billion. That makes five record years in a row. China's trade surplus with us hit $233 billion. Ordinarily, I would ignore this nonstory because, as Adam Smith wisely said, Nothing . . . can be more absurd than this whole doctrine of the balance of trade
By Sheldon Richman Verified| The Libertarian Institute Verified Many people are uneasy with the free market. I think that’s because they subscribe, implicitly if not explicitly, to the labor theory of value. Workers, people lament, seem not to reap the full and just reward for their labors. Belief in the labor theory puts adherents in good company. Adam Smith and his successor, David Ricardo, were labor theorists. Fédéric Bastiat held a variant of the labor theory
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Freelance
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