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From the corn laws to free trade : interests, ideas, and institutions in historical perspective /
The overlapping and interacting forces that caused a Conservative government to repeal the protectionist Corn Laws against its own political principles and economic interests: extensive qualitative and quantitative analysis.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the puzzle
- Interests, ideas and institutions simplified : a demand- and supply-side perspective
- The demand side : the league, the landowners, and free trade ; Lessons in lobbying for free trade : to concentrate or not ; Nationalizing the interest in free trade ; The waning demand for protection : portfolio diversification of landowners ; Votes in Parliament, dissected into ideology, party, and interests
- The supply side. Conservatives who sounded like trustees but voted like delegates ; Repeal in historical context : key Parliamentary debates on the corn laws before 1846 ; Free trade's last hurdle : why the lords acquiesced ; Feeling the heat of the league? : how local newspapers affected MPs' voting on repeal ; Concluding thoughts on repeal and the road to democratic reform in nineteenth-century Britain.