Time to let the air out of the feel-good ‘buy local’ bubble 
Economics: the dismal science.
Making fun of economists: a respected journalistic subcategory.
Pretending to understand economics: our incurable national delusion.
And one of the most persistent of our national delusions, one which affects businessmen, politicians, the employed and the unemployed alike, is that of autarky.
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