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beggar-thy-neighbor

beggar-thy-neighbor adjective: an economic policy that favors domestic interests at greater total cost to the economies of trading partners.

Adjective

beggar-thy-neighbor

  1. An economic policy that favors domestic interests at greater total cost to the economies of trading partners.
    • The traditional beggar-thy-neighbor view of older Keynesian models saw unilateral tariffs as having an expansionary effect on the domestic economy, due to their expenditure-switching effect, moving domestic demand away from foreign goods and towards domestic goods.2025 May, Iván Werning, Guido Lorenzoni, Veronica Guerrieri, “Tariffs as Cost-Push Shocks: Implications for Optimal Monetary Policy”, in NBER Working Paper Series, number 33772, page 2

Synonyms of beggar-thy-neighbor

Origin of beggar-thy-neighbor

From beggar-my-neighbor (“a card game”).

Questions about beggar-thy-neighbor

What does beggar-thy-neighbor mean?
Beggar-thy-neighbor means an economic policy that favors domestic interests at greater total cost to the economies of trading partners.
What part of speech is beggar-thy-neighbor?
Beggar-thy-neighbor is an adjective.

Words near beggar-thy-neighbor in the dictionary

  1. beggar's purse
  2. beggar's ticks
  3. beggar's-lice
  4. beggar-my-neighbor
  5. beggar-my-neighbour
  6. beggar-thy-neighbor
  7. beggar-thy-neighbour
  8. beggar-ticks
  9. beggardom
  10. beggared
  11. beggared belief

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