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Perils to British trade : how to avert them

Title
Perils to British trade : how to avert them / by Edwin Burgis.
Author
Burgis, Edwin
Publication
  • London : Swan Sonnenschein & Co. ; New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895.
  • Perth : Cowan & Co., Limited

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Additional Authors
  • Charles Scribner's Sons, publisher.
  • Swan Sonnenschein & Co., publisher.
Description
xii, 251 pages; 20 cm
Series Statement
Social science series ; 82
Uniform Title
Social science series (Swan Sonnenschein & Co.) ; 82.
Subject
  • Tariff
  • Protectionism
  • tariff
  • Commercial policy
  • Protectionism
  • Tariff
  • Great Britain > Commercial policy
  • Great Britain
Note
  • Library of Congress.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- "Convictions" re "free trade" and "bargaining power" considered -- Foolish hopes and false issues -- Capital and labour -- Continued. taxation a burden upon native industry -- Production the source of national wealth. The superiority of home trade -- Individualism v. collectivism. Our present industrial system breaking down -- National effacement, or an imperial policy. Which is it to be? -- The free trade movement of bright and coben. Repeal of the corn laws. Poor law relief -- The excess of imports over exports, and how paid for -- Fanaticism in politics and political economy. Free trade predestinarians and their idolatry -- Ireland under free trade distressed and disaffected. Ireland's real need -- "Cheapness." Competition and honesty -- Consumers and producers. The latter sacrificed -- The struggle for wages and higher wages. A "living wage"--a "minimum wage" -- Protection to British and Irish labour -- The fate of being undeceived. A day of reckoning -- Protection does not hinder an export trade. Protectionist countries undersell us in the home market -- The incidence of import taxation, or, who pays it? -- Emigration. The value of British colonies -- Commercial treaties with foreign states -- Maintain the British empire by imperial commercial union -- Continued. Conclusion.
LCCN
60000004
OCLC
  • ocm08340282
  • 8340282
  • SCSB-669658
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library