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 Protectionism write by Jagdish N. Bhagwati. This book was released on 1988. Protectionism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Through a combination of text, quotations, cartoons, tables, charts, and graphs, Bhagwati ... looks at the forces for and against protection."--Jacket.
America's Protectionist Takeoff 1815-1914
America's Protectionist Takeoff 1815-1914 - 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 America's Protectionist Takeoff 1815-1914 write by Michael Hudson. This book was released on 2010-03-01. America's Protectionist Takeoff 1815-1914 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The contribution of the American School of Political Economy (1848 to 1914) to America's wildly successful industrial development has disappeared from today's history books. American protectionists and technology theorists of the day were concerned with securing an economic competitive advantage and conversely, with offsetting the soil depletion of 19th century America's plantation export agriculture. They also emphasized the positive effect of rising wage levels and living standards on the productivity that made the American economic takeoff possible. The American School's "Economy of High Wages" doctrine stands in contrast to the ideology of free traders everywhere who accept low wages and existing productivity as permanent and unchanging "givens," and who treat higher consumption, health and educational standards merely as deadweight costs. Free trade logic remains the buttress of today's financial austerity policies imposed on debtor economies by the United States, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. By contrast, the lessons of the American School of Political Economy can provide a more realistic and positive role model for other countries to emulate - what the United States itself has done, not what its condescending "free-trade" diplomats are telling them to do. The lesson is to adopt the protectionist policies of the late 19th and early 20th centuries that made America an economic superpower. Michael Hudson (Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Missouri, Kansas City) is a frequent contributor to The Financial Times, Counterpunch, and Global Research.
Resisting Protectionism
Resisting 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 Resisting Protectionism write by Helen V. Milner. This book was released on 1988. Resisting Protectionism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Milner explores the similarities between the economic conditions of the 1920s and the 1970s, where both Western Europe and the U.S. had high unemploymnet rates and sizeable agricultural and industrial overcapacity. She draws on evidence from six U.S. industries in the 1920s, six U.S. firms in the 1970s, and six French industries in the 1970s, and concludes that in the 1970s both nations had corporations with international market interests than they had in the 1920s. She believes that in modern industrial nations, the corporate sector plays an important role in policy determination, and that any move toward protectionism would be at the behest of large corporations with international interests. ISBN 0-691-05670-6: $29.50.
John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes - 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 John Maynard Keynes write by Joseph R. Cammarosano. This book was released on 2013-12-18. John Maynard Keynes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the course of his professional life, John Maynard Keynes altered his views from free trade in the classical tradition to restricted foreign trade, and ultimately, at the end of his career, back to his original position. There is no general agreement among economists as to whether Keynes ended his career in the camp of the free traders or aligned himself with the protectionists. John Maynard Keynes: Free Trader or Protectionist? seeks an answer to this question by analyzing Keynes’ own views on this issue, as stated in his major publications, letters, speeches, testimony before government bodies, newspaper articles, participation in conferences, and other sources. Through this detailed review of what Keynes himself had to say on the issue as opposed to what others have alleged, this book strives to make a significant contribution to the resolution of this issue.
The Political Economy of Trade Protection
The Political Economy of Trade Protection - 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 Political Economy of Trade Protection write by Anne O. Krueger. This book was released on 2007-12-01. The Political Economy of Trade Protection available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This clear, concise summary of the in-depth analyses presented in The Political Economy of American Trade Policy examines the level, form, and evolution of American trade protection. In case studies of trade barriers imposed during the 1980s to help the steel, semiconductor, automobile, lumber, wheat, and textile and apparel industries, the contributors trace the evolution of efforts to obtain protection, protectionist measures, and their results. A chapter assessing the common themes that emerge from the studies concludes that the focus of current trade law is exclusively on the individual protection-seeking industries, with little regard for indirect effects on using industries or for consumers. Reform could usefully take these effects into account. This volume will interest policymakers, business executives, and anyone interested in trade policy formulation and practice.
