The purpose of today was to read an example of persuasive writing. We took our example from Frederic Bastiat's A Petition.
To preface this paper we discussed the economic concept of Protectionism and used such examples as tariffs, licensing and regulations, the Luddites, George Stigler, and one's freedom of association.
We wrote in our commonplace books our personal thoughts as to how the U.S. government justifies protectionism and restricting one's freedom of association.
We continued our reading of Crusoe.
