The Tariff History of the United States [5th Edition].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taussig, Frank William.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States Tariff Commission.

Agriculture--Economic aspects.

Agriculture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Patavium Publishing, 2023.

Summary:

American economist FRANK WILLIAM TAUSSIG (1859-1940) was professor of political economy at Harvard University, longtime editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and an advisor to U.S. president Woodrow Wilson during World War II. He is also the author of The Tariff History of the United States (1888), the two-volume Principles of Economics (1911), and International Trade (1927).In this seminal work he shows how the tariff policies had an enormous influence on the direction of U.S. industrial development, and the conflicts caused by intervention.

Contents:

Title page

TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOTE TO THE FIRST EDITION.

NOTE TO THE FIFTH EDITION

PART I

CHAPTER I - PROTECTION TO YOUNG INDUSTRIES AS APPLIED IN THE UNITED STATES.

I. - THE ARGUMENT FOR PROTECTION TO YOUNG INDUSTRIES.

II. - THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, AND THE COURSE OF PROTECTIVE LEGISLATION, FROM 1789 TO 1838.

III. - THE COTTON MANUFACTURE.

IV. - THE WOOLLEN MANUFACTURE.

V. - THE IRON MANUFACTURE.

VI. - CONCLUDING REMARKS.

CHAPTER II. - THE EARLY PROTECTIVE MOVEMENT AND THE TARIFF OF 1828.

CHAPTER III. THE TARIFF, 1830-1860.

PART II. - TARIFF LEGISLATION, 1861-1909.

CHAPTER I. - THE WAR TARIFF.

The tariff before the war.

The Morrill tariff act of 1861.

Tax and tariff acts of 1862.

Internal revenue act, 1864.

Tariff act of 1864.

CHAPTER II. - THE FAILURE TO REDUCE THE TARIFF AFTER THE WAR.

Abolition of the internal taxes 1866-1872.

Unsuccessful tariff bill of 1867.

Act of 1870.

Situation in 1872.

Ten per cent. Reduction proposed.

Act of 1872.

Ten per cent. reduction repealed in 1875.

CHAPTER III. - HOW DUTIES WERE RAISED ABOVE THE WAR RATES.

Wool and woolen act of 1867.

The compensating system.

Wool and woollen duties of 1864.

Duty on flannels, carpets, dress goods, etc.

Comment on the ad-valorem duty.

Comment on the specific duties.

Manufacturers not benefited by the act.

Copper act of 1869.

Steel rails, 1870.

Marble 1864 and 1870.

Other examples, flax nickel.

CHAPTER IV. - THE TARIFF ACT OF 1883.

Agitation on the tariff renewed.

Tariff Commission of 1882 - Act of 1883

how passed.

Steel.

Woollens.

Cottons.

Iron.

Steel rails.

Other reductions.

Wheat corn, etc.

CHAPTER V. - THE TARIFF ACT OF 1890.

CHAPTER VI. - THE TARIFF ACT OF 1894.

CHAPTER VII. - THE TARIFF ACT OF 1897.

CHAPTER VIII. - THE TARIFF ACT OF 1909.

APPENDIX.

TABLE I. - Imports, Duties, and Ratio of Duties to Imports, 1860-1907.

TABLE II. - Duties on Some Important Articles, Raised during the War, and Retained without Reduction till 1883.

TABLE III. - Revenue from Customs Duties and Internal Revenue, 1861-1907.

TABLE IV. - Production, Imports, and Exports of Copper, and Foreign and Domestic Prices.

TABLE V. - Production, Imports, and Foreign and Domestic Prices of Steel Rails.

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Other Format:

Print version: Taussig, Frank William The Tariff History of the United States [5th Edition]

ISBN:

9781805232902

1805232908

OCLC:

1395184337