Power, Protection, and Free Trade : International Sources of U.S. Commercial Strategy, 1887-1939 / David A. Lake.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lake, David A., author.

en Book Program, National Endowment for the Humanities Op, Author.

Contributor:

en Book Program, funder.

Series:

Cornell studies in political economy.

Cornell Studies in Political Economy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International economic relations.

Free trade--United States--History.

Free trade.

United States--Commercial policy.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cornell University Press 2018

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

David A. Lake is Jerri-Ann and Gary E. Jacobs Professor of Social Sciences and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of The Statebuilder's Dilemma: On the Limits of Foreign Intervention, and Hierarchy in International Relations and the coeditor of Politics in the New Hard Times: The Great Recession in Comparative Perspective and The State and American Foreign Economic Policy, all from Cornell University Press.

Summary:

Why do nations so frequently abandon unrestricted international commerce in favor of trade protectionism? David A. Lake contends that the dominant explanation, interest group theory, does not adequately explain American trade strategy or address the contradictory elements of cooperation and conflict that shape the international economy. Power, Protection, and Free Trade offers an alternative, systemic approach to trade strategy that builds on the interaction between domestic and international factors. In this innovative book, Lake maintains that both protection and free trade are legitimate and effective instruments of national policy, the considered responses of nations to varying international structures.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

PART I. STRUCTURE AND STRATEGY

1. A Theory of International Economic Structures

2. Structure, the State , and Trade Strategy

PART II . AMERICAN TRADE STRATEGY

3. Free Riding on Free Trade, 1887- 1897

4. British Decline and American Opportunism, 1897-1912

5. The Politics of Opportunistic Accommodation, 1912-1930

6. Protection , Retaliation, and Response, 1930-1939

Conclusion

Appendix: Relative Labor Productivity : Definitional and operational Considerations

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

9781501723049

1501723049

OCLC:

1028937837