Free trade versus protectionism : a source book of essays and readings / by Johannes Overbeek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Overbeek, Johannes.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Free trade--History.

Free trade.

Protectionism--History.

Protectionism.

International economic relations--History.

International economic relations.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 646 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, [1999]

Contents:

1. Mercantilism and its Critics 1

Reading 1 / Thomas Mun 4

Reading 2 / Philipp Wilhelm von Hornick 12

Reading 3 / David Hume 18

2. Classical Liberalism and Free Trade in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century 29

Reading 4 / Adam Smith 34

Reading 5 / David Ricardo 50

Reading 6 / Jean Baptiste Say 59

Reading 7 / Frederic Bastiat 74

Reading 8 / John Stuart Mill 81

Reading 9 / Nicolaas Gerard Pierson 95

Reading 10 / William Graham Sumner 134

3. Protectionism in the Nineteenth Century 150

Reading 11 / Alexander Hamilton 157

Reading 12 / Daniel Raymond 183

Reading 13 / Henry Charles Carey 198

Reading 14 / Adam Heinrich Muller, Friedrich List 209

Reading 15 / Adolph Wagner, The German Historical School 227

Reading 16 / Paul Emile Cauwes, Felix Jules Meline 254

4. The Decline of Economic Liberalism and the Idea of Free Trade during the 1900-1940 Period 283

Reading 17 / Frank William Taussig 289

Reading 18 / Arthur Cecil Pigou 321

Reading 19 / Ludwig Elder von Mises 342

Reading 20 / Lionel Robbins 364

5. Protectionist Arguments during the 1900-1940 Period 392

Reading 21 / Benito Mussolini 404

Reading 22 / John Maynard Keynes 410

Reading 23 / Reed Smoot, Willis C. Hawley 425

6. The Economics of Free Trade during the Second Half of the Twentieth Century 437

Reading 24 / Henry Hazlitt 448

Reading 25 / Gottfried Haberler 450

Reading 26 / John Richard Hicks 463

Reading 27 / Milton Friedman 485

Reading 28 / Mancur Lloyd Olson 489

Reading 29 / Jagdish Bhagwati 502

Reading 30 / Melvin Krauss 516

Reading 31 / Paul Robin Krugman 529

7. Protectionist Opinions and the Idea of Managed Trade after 1945 551

Reading 32 / Gunnar Myrdal 558

Reading 33 / Raul Prebisch 569

Reading 34 / John Mathew Culbertson 589

Reading 35 / Robert L. Kuttner 606

Reading 36 / Robert Reich 617.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

185898971X

OCLC:

39765489