Xenophon paragraphs to ponder

Australia’s government needs to scrap its “free trade Taliban mentality”, buy more local products and properly scrutinise foreign investment, says Nick Xenophon, the leader of one of the minor parties that holds considerable sway following last month’s election.

Most of all, it hurts that he is called Xenophon; some of you will know that Xenophon from ancient Greece was the first (surviving) author to point out the phenomenon of division of labor.

Apparently there is a “Great Xenophon stagnation” or even retrogression.  This passage notwithstanding, the Taliban, by the way, did not favor free trade.

Here is the full FT piece by Jamie Smythe.