Clashing Over Commerce - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Clashing Over Commerce write by Douglas A. Irwin. This book was released on 2017-11-29. Clashing Over Commerce available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year: “Tells the history of American trade policy . . . [A] grand narrative [that] also debunks trade-policy myths.” —Economist Should the United States be open to commerce with other countries, or should it protect domestic industries from foreign competition? This question has been the source of bitter political conflict throughout American history. Such conflict was inevitable, James Madison argued in the Federalist Papers, because trade policy involves clashing economic interests. The struggle between the winners and losers from trade has always been fierce because dollars and jobs are at stake: depending on what policy is chosen, some industries, farmers, and workers will prosper, while others will suffer. Douglas A. Irwin’s Clashing over Commerce is the most authoritative and comprehensive history of US trade policy to date, offering a clear picture of the various economic and political forces that have shaped it. From the start, trade policy divided the nation—first when Thomas Jefferson declared an embargo on all foreign trade and then when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union over excessive taxes on imports. The Civil War saw a shift toward protectionism, which then came under constant political attack. Then, controversy over the Smoot-Hawley tariff during the Great Depression led to a policy shift toward freer trade, involving trade agreements that eventually produced the World Trade Organization. Irwin makes sense of this turbulent history by showing how different economic interests tend to be grouped geographically, meaning that every proposed policy change found ready champions and opponents in Congress. Deeply researched and rich with insight and detail, Clashing over Commerce provides valuable and enduring insights into US trade policy past and present. “Combines scholarly analysis with a historian’s eye for trends and colorful details . . . readable and illuminating, for the trade expert and for all Americans wanting a deeper understanding of America’s evolving role in the global economy.” —National Review “Magisterial.” —Foreign Affairs
Peddling Protectionism
Peddling Protectionism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Peddling Protectionism write by Douglas A. Irwin. This book was released on 2017-10-24. Peddling Protectionism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A history of America's most infamous tariff The Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930, which raised U.S. duties on hundreds of imported goods to record levels, is America's most infamous trade law. It is often associated with—and sometimes blamed for—the onset of the Great Depression, the collapse of world trade, and the global spread of protectionism in the 1930s. Even today, the ghosts of congressmen Reed Smoot and Willis Hawley haunt anyone arguing for higher trade barriers; almost single-handedly, they made protectionism an insult rather than a compliment. In Peddling Protectionism, Douglas Irwin provides the first comprehensive history of the causes and effects of this notorious measure, explaining why it largely deserves its reputation for combining bad politics and bad economics and harming the U.S. and world economies during the Depression. In four brief, clear chapters, Irwin presents an authoritative account of the politics behind Smoot-Hawley, its economic consequences, the foreign reaction it provoked, and its aftermath and legacy. Starting as a Republican ploy to win the farm vote in the 1928 election by increasing duties on agricultural imports, the tariff quickly grew into a logrolling, pork barrel free-for-all in which duties were increased all around, regardless of the interests of consumers and exporters. After Herbert Hoover signed the bill, U.S. imports fell sharply and other countries retaliated by increasing tariffs on American goods, leading U.S. exports to shrivel as well. While Smoot-Hawley was hardly responsible for the Great Depression, Irwin argues, it contributed to a decline in world trade and provoked discrimination against U.S. exports that lasted decades. Peddling Protectionism tells a fascinating story filled with valuable lessons for trade policy today.
Summary of Tariff Information, 1929, on Tariff Act of 1922
Summary of Tariff Information, 1929, on Tariff Act of 1922 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Summary of Tariff Information, 1929, on Tariff Act of 1922 write by United States Tariff Commission. This book was released on 1929. Summary of Tariff Information, 1929, on Tariff Act of 1922 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Tariff History of the United States
The Tariff History of the United States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Tariff History of the United States write by Frank William Taussig. This book was released on 1931. The Tariff History of the United States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Subject Index of United States Tariff Commission Publications
Subject Index of United States Tariff Commission Publications - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Subject Index of United States Tariff Commission Publications write by United States Tariff Commission. This book was released on 1931. Subject Index of United States Tariff Commission Publications available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
