"More Productive Workers Receive Higher Wages Than Less Productive Workers

question 39

Multiple Choice

"More productive workers receive higher wages than less productive workers." This observation is a major flaw in which of the following arguments for protectionism?

• A) The infant industry argument.
• B) The national security argument.
• C) The employment argument.
• D) The cheap foreign labor argument.

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