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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!auvm!THAMA1.APGEA.ARMY.MIL!EKFRIEDM
  3. Message-ID: <9209111029.aa03523@thama1.apgea.army.mil>
  4. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.history
  5. Date:         Fri, 11 Sep 1992 10:16:00 EST
  6. Sender:       History <HISTORY@RUTVM1.BITNET>
  7. From:         ekfriedm@THAMA1.APGEA.ARMY.MIL
  8. Subject:      Corn Laws, UK vs. Japan
  9. Comments: To: c.currie@clus1.ulcc.ac.uk, HISTORY@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu
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  12.      Re the perceived connection between 19th c. British and modern
  13.      Japanese protectionist grain policies.  I thought that the
  14.      Japanese policy was a result of the MacArthur-imposed postwar
  15.      constitution, which gave disproportionate strength to rural
  16.      constituencies, who use it to keep grain prices artificially high
  17.      for their own profit.
  18.  
  19.      Couldn't a similar argument be made for the British corn laws,
  20.      which seemed to disappear as the farming interests lost their
  21.      parliamentary dominance?
  22.  
  23.      Is it possible that a farmer-dominated government might disguise
  24.      a giveaway to farmers as a strategic necessity for national
  25.      defense?  Pre-MacArthur Japan didn't seem to have any problem
  26.      driving down domestic rice prices by huge imports from the
  27.      mainland.
  28.  
  29.      -Eliot
  30.      ekfriedm@thama1.apgea.army.mil
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