HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴This was so foreseeable. Alas, I cannot link back to my #DeadBirdSite posts of that period anymore.
Just 3 points:
1) David #Ricardo's #ComparativeAdvantage* (and his successors like Gottfried #Haberler or Y. #Shiozawa) might have shown that a nation is always better off trading internationally, in particular with its neighboring countries, due to lower transport costs.
2) Just looking at the development of EEC/EU countries since WWII and...