One belief of all the great American industrial barons had in common was economic nationalism. What is it? A belief that America was exceptional and its success would be a beacon of light to change the world. Not by supplying the world fish but teaching them to fish. It was a combination of scientific tariffs, realizing that trade is never free. Currency differences was one reason but more important was the fact that American products carry the internal costs of liberty and freedom as well as worker social costs- pension and health. We have been taken in by the idea that "free" is necessary for capitalism. It is our "free" trade that promotes slavery and socialism around the world. My brother conservatives once carried the flag of economic nationalism, but now the flag has fallen. Some one needs to pick it up and pronounce the the "free trade" economists are not wearing clothes. Capitalism is national - ONLY the states demonstrate truly equal and free trade.
http://www.amazon.com/Carnegie-Boys-Lieutenants-Changed-America/dp/0786464550/ref=sr_1_44?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1345210976&sr=1-44&keywords=skrabec
my new book on the Carnegie Boys is out - that shows how American capitalists once beleived in economic nationalism of Alexander Hamilton, Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln, and William McKinley -- and taught in our schools by William McGuffey
