Heh:

Dear Editor:

Harold Meyerson repeats the canard that "globalization entails [a] downward leveling" of economic well-being ("Tipping Point for Trade," November 11).

This belief is crushed by mountains of evidence. It's crushed also by its own illogic: if ordinary people are served by being "protected" from globalization, then they can be made even better off by being protected from countryization - and better off still by being protected from townization and neighborhoodization. Protectionist quackery implies that we achieve maximum prosperity when no one consumes anything produced by anyone else.

Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux

I like Cafe Hayek because Boudreaux writes all the angry letters to the editor that my mild OCD really makes me want to write.