Power, Protection, and Free Trade : : International Sources of U.S. Commercial Strategy, 1887-1939 / / David A. Lake.
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...
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Superior document: | Cornell Studies in Political Economy |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press,, [2018] ©1990 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Cornell studies in political economy.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (242 pages). |
Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of 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