protectionism

That said it is a very different type of protectionism to European protectionism.

European attempts at cultural protectionism will fail as market pressures force them to adopt American customs and habits.

Platform protectionism of this nature is not helpful today: customers expect their products to work across multiple platforms.

Now, short of open borders in every direction, any immigration system could be seen as a form of protectionism.

Actually, the dirty secret amongs development economists is that protectionism works when you're trying to establish yourself in an industry.

The protectionism in this situation is protecting the company from having to participate in an open and free employment market.

It's an attempt at protectionism of labor and preventing a race to the bottom.

Incidentally, you are aware that Jim Crow laws were mainly about economic protectionism, right?

The anti-H1B folks want to remove the protectionism and have a fair employment market.

Instead we seemingly ended up with a whole bowl of agreements regarding controversial protectionism, financial regulation, etc.

These voluminous inter-governmental managed trade agreements are just protectionism by another name.

Call me old-fashioned, but I remember a time where the goal of regulation was to create competition and not protectionism.

By trying to regulate an "acceptable quality of life" for drivers, protectionism is imposing a lower standard of living on everyone else.

Just waving the word "protectionism" around is a non-statement that doesn't say anything about what may or may not be wrong wit the current policy.

Protectionism as a concept is counter-productive, while free trade and the ability for skilled labor to go where they’re in demand is beneficial for everyone.

Protectionism in this situation is just the act of putting ill-conceived roadblocks in this 'trade'.