Protection or Free Trade: An Examination of the Tariff Question 1886 Henry George
Henry George spoke out often for free trade although he was not a free trader from the beginning. The protected industries in the United States were capital intensive, not labor intensive. Labor was not gaining by protection. George's argument was consistent with the logic of the 20th-century neoclassical theory when he examined the two critical issues of the nations' relative factor abundances and relative factor intensities in production.
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- IV Protection as a Universal Need. V The Protective Unit. VI Trade. VII Production and Producers. VIII Tariffs for Revenue. IX Tariffs for Protection X The Encouragement of Industry. XI The Home Market and Home Trade. XII Exports and Imports. XIII Confusions Arising From the use of Money XIV Do High Wages Necessitate Protection? XV Of Advantages and Disadvantages as Reasons for Protection. XVI The Development of Manufactures. XVII Protection and Producers. XVIII Effect of Protection on American Industry. XIX Protection and Wages. XX The Abolition of Protection. XXI Inadequacy of the Free Trade Argument. XXII The Real Weakness of Free Trade. XXIII The Real Strength of Protection. XXIV The Paradox. XXV The Robber That Takes All That is Left. XXVI True Free Trade. XXVII The Lion in the Way. XXVIII Free Trade and Socialism. XXIX Practical Politics. XXX Conclusion.
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