Classical Trade Protectionism 1815-1914

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Series-Title......Page 3
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Part I: Assessing the intensity of nineteenth-century protectionism......Page 20
1. The myth of free-trade Britain and fortress France: Tariffs and trade in the nineteenth century......Page 22
2. Free trade and protection in nineteenth-century Britain and France revisited: A comment on Nye......Page 45
3. Protectionism is “special”: Reply to Irwin on free trade......Page 54
4. Measuring protection: A cautionary tale......Page 62
5. Measuring protection in the early twentieth century......Page 76
6. Assessing the protectionist intensity of tariffs in nineteenth-century European trade policy......Page 108
Part II: The impact and implications of tariff barriers......Page 130
7. Tariffs and growth in the late nineteenth century......Page 132
8. Interpreting the tariff-growth correlation of the late nineteenth century......Page 161
9. The impact of late-nineteenth-century tariffs on the productivity of European industries (1870-1930)......Page 169
10. Protection and Italian economic development: Much ado about nothing......Page 202
11. From virtual free-trade to virtual protectionism: Or, did protectionism have any part in Germany’s rise to commercial power 1850-1913......Page 228
12. Protectionism and Portuguese industrialisation......Page 251
13. Spanish protectionism during the Restauración, 1875-1930......Page 274
14. The role of open economy forces in Portugal and the Balkans, 1870-1913......Page 307
15. A model of later-nineteenth-century European economic development......Page 327
References......Page 350
Index......Page 372