Selected Readings In Economics Classic Reprint

Author : F. W. Taussig
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330341452
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (414 download)

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Download or read book Selected Readings in International Trade and Tariff Problems written by F. W. Taussig and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Selected Readings in International Trade and Tariff Problems The explanation is that nowhere else is there to be found a well-reasoned statement on the fundamentals. The analysis of this phase of economics constitutes probably the most enduring contribution made by called classical writers. The literature of no other country contains any comparable contribution to the theory of international trade. The student who would secure command of the only sustained and consistent exposition that has ever been made must still turn chiefly to the British writers. Part II is on the controversy between free trade and protection and particularly on the arguments advanced pro and con. Beginning with Adam Smith, it proceeds to writers of other countries than Great Britain, and to schools of thought different from the British. Some of the strongest and most effective reasoning in favor of protection has come from Germans; and not only Germans of the mid-nineteenth-century period, like List, but of the modem school of German economists. Among these, Wagner and Brentano are well known; others, like Schüller of Vienna, are much less known to English readers. A representative of the now dominant French attitude is found in Meline, whose report, here reprinted, was made in connection with the great overturn of French tariff policy that took place under his leadership in 1892. Part III deals with the protective controversy in the United States. Here also the selections, while largely from familiar sources, come in part from others not generally known. Hamilton's Report on Manufactures, of 1791, has probably been more frequently referred to than any public document which has appeared on this subject in the United States. Gallatin's free-trade memorial of.1831, on the other hand, is comparatively little known, yet no less deserving of attention. The two between them represent the divergent views of statesmen of the early generation. As representative of the character of the American controversy in the middle of the nineteenth century, selections have been drawn chiefly from Clay and Webster. Some of these, again, are well-known utterances of the two statesmen; others are from writings and speeches of theirs less frequently referred to. Among public men of more recent times, Cleveland and McKinley have been chosen as representatives of the two extremes of opinion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.