Free Trade: America’s Opportunity
A brief and succinct defense of free trade.
Free Trade: America’s Opportunity (New York: Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1954).
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- Author: Leland B. Yeager
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Table of Contents
- Contents
- One: Free Trade—A Timely Proposal
- Two: The Nature of Protectionism
- TYPES OF IMPORT BARRIERS
- CUSTOMS COMPLICATIONS1
- UNSTABLE TRADE BARRIERS
- THE “BUY AMERICAN” IDEA
- THE PROTECTIONIST MENTALITY
- Three: The Positive Case for Free Trade
- TRADE AND PRODUCTIVITY
- COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE
- OTHER ECONOMIC GAINS
- FREE TRADE AND GOOD GOVERNMENT
- FREE TRADE AND PEACE
- UNILATERAL FREE TRADE
- AMERICA’S OPPORTUNITY
- Four: The Reasons for Protectionism
- PROTECTIONIST THEORIZING
- SAVING AN INDUSTRY
- NATIONAL DEFENSE
- EMPLOYMENT AND THE HOME MARKET
- CHEAP FOREIGN LABOR
- INCOME DISTRIBUTION
- CHEAP IMPORTS
- DUMPING
- INFANT INDUSTRIES AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
- TARIFFS FOR REVENUE
- THE TERMS OF TRADE
- RETALIATION AND TARIFF BARGAINING
- MONEY AND EXCHANGE RATES
- POLITICAL REASONS FOR PROTECTIONISM
- Five: Progress toward Free Trade
- ECONOMIC EDUCATION
- RECIPROCAL TRADE AGREEMENTS
- ADJUSTMENT TO FREE TRADE
- HOW TO SET TRADE FREE
- THE IMPORTANCE OF NOT WEASELING
- About the Author
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