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Record Nr.

UNINA9910272350203321

Autore

Lake David A.

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cornell University Press, 2018

Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2018]

©1990

ISBN

1-5017-2304-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 pages)

Collana

Cornell Studies in Political Economy

Disciplina

382/.3/0973

Soggetti

International economic relations

Free trade - United States - History

United States Commercial policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.