Bildung erhöht die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass Menschen den Freihandel befürworten, erheblich – Die Studie, die Reformen der Schulpflicht in 18 Ländern analysiert, kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass zusätzliche Bildungsjahre die Unterstützung für den Freihandel steigern. Diese Effekte stehen in keinem Zusammenhang mit den Verteilungsfolgen des Freihandels.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-organization/article/effect-of-education-on-support-for-international-trade-evidence-from-compulsoryeducation-reforms/11513D6D2509A2B939ED0B3470916E09
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Of course, by people, they mean “capitalists who believe in free will and the possibility of a free market composed of freely acting agents.”
Those who are educated beyond such thinking will tell you that the institution of capitalism is inherently invalid as the result of an anti-epistemological supposition. If we don’t need proof before establishing a global hegemony, I have a whole set of better hegemonies for you.
What a dumb title. Even the title of the article is about international trade. This is about support for economic globalization and trade between nations. Not the localized free market BS that the title and all the other comments imply.
This is not about “hard workers” supporting “competition” in the slightest.
Interesting. The longer I’ve studied, the more opposed I’ve become to free trade at least in its current form.
I find it extremely hard to believe that education does not make one more likely to benefit from free trade and less likely to be harmed by it. Income doesn’t tell the whole story. There are plenty of blue collar workers who make more money than I do as a college educated professional but it’s usually because they have a union and seniority. If we both lose our jobs tomorrow I’ll probably find another at a similar pay scale and they’ll be looking at $18/hr.
Free trade is fine. The issue is that the corollary to that was for the government to train people to reskill/upskill in industries other than the ones that they gutted by gutting manufacturing. Economists talked about this in the 90s in the US, but the government didn’t do that part because “government bad.” Now, here we are. It’s not like there aren’t a whole lot of jobs that we need people to do. Just no one will pay to train people into them.
Its class dummies.
There are so many studies like this that suggest that being ‘uneducated’ makes people bigoted or sexist or racist or whatever negative thing.
Free trade is horrible for the working class, competing with communist slaves is bad for us, mass immigration is bad for us, foreign wars are bad for us.
It is not in our interests, we know our interests and the liberal classes do not listen to, ever.