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[Economist's View] James Surowiecki of The New Yorker explains why tariffs, quotas, price guarantees, and subsidies in the sugar and ethanol markets are "bad economic policy, bad energy policy, and bad foreign policy": Deal Sweetners, by James Surowiecki, New Yorker: America .consume .

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Goodmagazine.comhttp://www.goodmagazine.com [Goodmagazine.com] GOOD MAGAZINE | What Matters: Yet in just the past decade, it's refused to ratify the International Criminal Court, refused to vote for a resolution banning land mines, refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol, until recently declared the Geneva Conventions inapplicable to enemy combatants, and so on. From the perspective of American interests, each of those decisions may have been the correct one.

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