Free Trade and its Reception 1815-1960: Freedom and Trade: Volume One

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Andrew Marrison
Routledge, Jan 8, 2002 - Business & Economics - 344 pages
This book examines the Corn Laws and their repeal. It brings together leading international experts working in the field from Britain, Europe and the United States. Their contributions range widely over the history, politics and economics of free trade and protectionism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; together they provide a landmark study of a vitally important subject, and one which remains at the top of today's international agenda.
 

Contents

Editors Introduction
1
Free trade and high wages the economics of the AntiCorn Law League
14
Gladstone Peel and the Corn Laws
28
Comments on Kadish and Maloney
48
Peel rotten potatoes and providence the repeal of the Corn Laws and the Irish Famine
50
Interests ideology and politics agricultural trade policy in nineteenth century Britain and Germany
63
Comments on Kinealy and SchonhardtBailey
82
Merchant City The Manchester business community the trade cycle and commercial policy c1820 1846
86
Free trade and the Victorians
164
Time is bearing another son Tariff reform and imperial apocalypse
184
15 Comments on Howe and Sykes
203
Free trade social reform and imperialism JA Hobson and the dilemmas of Liberalism 18901914
207
Insular free trade retaliation and the MostFavouredNation Treaty 18801914
224
Comments on Cain and Marrison
243
The sources and origins of Britains return to protection 19312
246
Comments on Capie
260

Ein Stück Englands? A contrast between the freetrade movements in Hamburg and Manchester
105
Comments on LloydJones and Breuilly
127
The reciprocity debate in Parliament 18421846 Douglas A Irwin
129
The reception of political economy of free trade the case of Sweden
145
Comments on Irwin and Magnusson
161
The end of free trade protection and the exchange rate regime between the world wars
262
Shaping the lessons of history Britain and the rhetoric of American trade policy 19301960
287
Comments on ForemanPeck Hughes Hallet and Ma and on Calvin
308
Index
312
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