Mastodawn

@bontchev I've been thinking about "the end of geography" recently and I think that this quote is sort of in the same vein? Like (paraphrasing) "no country with a McDonald's wages war on its neighbours" sort of thing?

Anyway, I looked up the quote and apparently Bastiat never said it?

https://www.econlib.org/archives/2013/08/when_goods_dont.html

#EndOfGeography #EndOfBoomAndBust
#MarkTwain #RumorsOfMyDemise

When Goods Don't Cross Borders, Armies Will - Econlib

One quote that Bastiat lovers–I include myself–love to cite is Bastiat’s famous quote, “When goods don’t cross borders, armies will.” There’s one little problem with the quote: he never said it. He should have said it. One can imagine, with Bastiat’s penchant for the pithy, that he would have said it. But in a thorough […]

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