...A. Petridis Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 History of Political Economy 11 :I 0 1979 by Duke University Press Bilateral monopoly, tariff reform, and the teaching of economics: the neglected...

..., including the tariff. Two authors and advocates who represent well the religious influence on the U.S. tariff controversy are the Reverend Joshua Leavitt (1794–1873) and the Reverend Calvin Colton (1789–1857). Both were swept up in the religious revivals of the 1820s, and both became, over the following two...

...Nahid Aslanbeigui; Guy Oakes In the acrimonious British controversy over free trade in 1903–6, tariff reformers advocated protective and preferential tariffs to increase the revenue of the exchequer and unify the British Empire. Their arguments—generally informal and labile—were based on several...

...Edward Tower; John Gilbert A Golden Jubilee Note on Graaff’s Optimum Tariff Structures Edward Tower and John Gilbert The year 1999 marked the golden jubilee of the publication of Jan de V. Graaff’s (1949) influential analysis of the optimum tariff, so it seems reasonable to appropriate...

... of Measuring Marginal Utility . Tübingen: Verlag von J. C. B. Mohr. Gale , David , and Hukukane Nikaido. 1965 . The Jacobian Matrix and Global Univalence of Mappings. Mathematische Annalen 159 : 81 -93. Graaff , J. de V. 1949 . On Optimum Tariff Structures Review of Economic Studies 17...

... of public concern. While economists then and now adduced monetary causes for the price increases, popular theories blamed the tariff, monopolies, middlemen, profiteers, supply and demand, lazy farmers, incompetent housewives, and more. These explanations supported important political positions, and they had...

...Murray C. Kemp; Koji Shimomura Correspondence may be addressed to Murray C. Kemp, School of Economics,University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia. Duke University Press 2000 An Antiquarian Note on Optimal Tariffs Murray C. Kemp and KojiShimomura The notion that a single...

...Jan Graaff Optimal Tariffs Revisited Jan Graaff This issue of HOPE contains two contributions commenting on a paper I wrote over fifty years ago. One is by Murray Kemp and Koji Shimo- mura; the other, by Ed Tower and John Gilbert. Both are incisive and sympathetic. I have been asked...

... thus identified several exceptions to free international trade that justified government intervention in the form of restrictions on imports and public subsidies to domestic industries. Going beyond Adam Smith’s arguments for protective tariffs, Say maintained that government could play a role...

... that led to the Civil War and persisted during Reconstruction. It is well known that Carey perceived those differences before the war and proposed, on grounds of his economic development theory, to alleviate sectionalism through a protective tariff. What is hardly known is that Carey continued to engage...

... with his involvement in the tariff controversy. Second, Pigou became embroiled in a quarrel with an MP who was a representative critic of liberal social legislation and cooperated with an antisocialist organization. Third, Pigou had indirect contact with a student socialist movement. I conclude...

...James C. W. Ahiakpor Both the 1932 Harvard and Chicago recommendations for dealing with the Great Depression include vigorous open market purchases by the Fed; federal government deficit spending, including public works, financed by new money creation; reduction in tariffs; and the cancellation...

...William J. Barber Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 References Beauties of the Art Tariff. 1906 . Nation, 18 October. Belmont , Perry . 1940 . An American Democrat: The Recollections of Perry Belmont . New York: Columbia University Press. Boime , Albert...

... . Canadian Tariff Policy. Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science 21 ( November ): 513 -30. Carey, Henry C. Papers. Letters to Henry C. Carey [from David A. Wells]. Carey Section, Edward Carey Gardiner Collection . Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. ____. 1869 . How...

... and were in fact the normal way in which tariff adjustments were made." Moreover, by 1950 Viner himself had been writing on the theory of preferential tariffs for more than thirty years.' It seems then unlikely that the historical background...

... of traffic . . . form the most iuslipificlant item of the entire cost; and this item alone is in the direct proportion of the quantity of transport. ’ ’9 Figure 1, which is taken from the only dia-gram in Railway Economy, represents the relationship abetweentotal cost and the tariff (rate...

... with topics beyond the physical development of railroads and equipment and the relations between railroad companies (cf. Hawke 1970). In chapter 13, “Receipts-Tariffs-Profits,” Lardner inge- niously examines the principles of a profit-maximizing railway firm. Tak- ing data furnished by the state...

.... In Essays: Moral, Political and Literary . Indianapolis: Liberty Classics. Johnson , Harry G. 1951 . Optimum Welfare and Maximum Revenue Tariffs. Review of Economic Studies 19 . 1 : 28 -35. Kames , Henry , and Lord Home. 1774 . Sketches of the History of Man . Edinburg: W. Creech...

.... (#878 in the catalogue), 81–85. Cooper , Thomas 1824 . On the tariff (1823, 1st ed. Charleston). Philadelphia. Dorfman , Joseph 1966 . The economic mind in American civilization, 1606–1865 , vol. 2. Reprint, New York. Eiselen , M. R. 1932 . ‘The rise of Pennsylvania...

... was merely a reduction in the level of the existing tariff on corn imports, not an abolition of the tariff’ (section 1.1). I beg to differ. Let me return the sentence to its context: Correspondence may be addressed to Professor Samuel Hollander, Department of Economics, University of Toronto...