Which? Protection, Free Trade, Or Revenue Reform: A Collection of the Best Articles on Both Sides of this Great National Issue, from the Most Eminent Political Economists and Statesman ...H. W. Furber |
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... clothing , while the competition of cheap wools from abroad keeps down the price of his product . A tariff on the foreign wools will enhance the cost of material to the manu- facturer . So two parties whose interests are really one are ...
... clothing , while the competition of cheap wools from abroad keeps down the price of his product . A tariff on the foreign wools will enhance the cost of material to the manu- facturer . So two parties whose interests are really one are ...
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... clothes , but employs a tailor . The farmer attempts to make neither the one nor the other , but employs those different artificers . All of them find it for their interest to employ their whole industry in a way in which they have some ...
... clothes , but employs a tailor . The farmer attempts to make neither the one nor the other , but employs those different artificers . All of them find it for their interest to employ their whole industry in a way in which they have some ...
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... clothing and manufactured fabrics on the old . As this is probably the point on which the doctrines of protection first come directly in collision with those of free trade , I will treat it more deliberately , and endeavor to illustrate ...
... clothing and manufactured fabrics on the old . As this is probably the point on which the doctrines of protection first come directly in collision with those of free trade , I will treat it more deliberately , and endeavor to illustrate ...
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... cloths ; and , in the absence of all tariffs , these can be transported to them from England for two to three per cent ... cloth at three dollars per yard in Leeds or Huddersfield , and he can decidedly undersell his American rival , and ...
... cloths ; and , in the absence of all tariffs , these can be transported to them from England for two to three per cent ... cloth at three dollars per yard in Leeds or Huddersfield , and he can decidedly undersell his American rival , and ...
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... cloths at a trifling profit so long as they encounter American rivalry ; and I say it is . perfectly obvious that , if ... cloth , and to adjust his prices so as to recover what it - But had cost him to put down the dangerous competition ...
... cloths at a trifling profit so long as they encounter American rivalry ; and I say it is . perfectly obvious that , if ... cloth , and to adjust his prices so as to recover what it - But had cost him to put down the dangerous competition ...
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Page 173 - The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself...
Page 92 - The only case in which, on mere principles of political economy, protecting duties can be defensible, is when they are imposed temporarily (especially in a young and rising nation) in hopes of naturalizing a foreign industry, in itself perfectly suitable to the circumstances of the country.
Page 28 - As every individual, therefore, endeavours as much as he can both to employ his capital in the support of domestic industry, and so to direct that industry that its produce may be of the greatest value ; every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it.
Page 29 - I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. It is an affectation, indeed, not very common among merchants, and very few words need be employed in dissuading them from it.
Page 173 - It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy.
Page 92 - ... protecting duty, continued for a reasonable time, will sometimes be the least inconvenient mode in which the nation can tax itself for the support of such an experiment. But the protection should be confined to cases in which there is good ground of assurance that the industry which it fosters will after a time be able to dispense with it; nor should the domestic producers ever be allowed to expect that it will be continued to them beyond the time necessary for a fair trial of what they are capable...
Page 38 - Humanity may in this case require that the freedom of trade should be restored only by slow gradations, and with a good deal of reserve and circumspection. Were those high duties and prohibitions taken away all at once, cheaper foreign goods of the same kind might be poured so fast into the home market as to deprive all at once many thousands of our people of their ordinary employment and means of subsistence.
Page 29 - By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
Page 30 - ... senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
Page 31 - If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of our own industry employed in a way in which we have some advantage. The general industry of the country being always in proportion to the capital which employs it, will not thereby be diminished, no more than that of the above-mentioned artificers, but only left to find out the way in which it can be employed with the greatest advantage.