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Acknowledging Inequality in Trade Negotiations

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Acknowledging Inequality in Trade Negotiations
The U.S. flag flies over a container ship unloading it's cargo from Asia, at the Port of Long Beach, Calif., on Aug. 1, 2019. Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
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Inequality is all around us. It is a ubiquitous fact of life, whether we are comparing individuals or societies. Nobody “planned” inequality. No, let me modify that statement. It’s true that individual and social inequality occur naturally; however, tyrannical political beliefs and ideologies can add an artificial political inequality that is created by using force against one’s fellow human beings.

Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.