Author:
George, Henry, 1839-1897.
Imprint:[Whitefish MT] : Kessinger, [2008]
Descriptionvi, 359 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Facsimile reprint of Protection or free trade: an examination of the tarrif question, with especial regard to the interests of labour / Henry George. London : Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1886.
Note:Includes index.
Note:Introductory -- Clearing grond -- Of method -- Protection as a universal need -- The protective unit -- Trade -- Production and producers -- Tariffs for revenue -- Tariffs for protection -- The encouragement of industry -- The home market and home trade -- Exports and imports -- Confusions arising from the use of money -- Do high wages necessitate protection? -- Of advantages and disadvantages as reasons for protection -- The development of manufactures -- Protection and producers -- Effect of protection on American industry -- Protection and wages -- The abolition of protection -- Inadequacy of the free-trade argument -- The real weakness of free trade -- The real strength of protection -- The paradox -- The robber that takes all that is left -- True free trade -- The lion in the way -- Free trade and socialism -- Practical politics -- Conclusion.
