Most countries, when you look at the history, assumed that Hamiltonian economic policy was the default among nations. And they planned around it. The negotiators at Bretton woods and other economic conferences wrote new rules based on this and baked tariffs and trade measures into the post war international economic order. That makes sense because all major nations had used tariffs and industrial policy to support their economic development. This was the world they lived in. (18:50–19:00)
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