War, Wine, and Taxes : The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689-1900 /
'War, Wine, and Taxes' debunks the myth that Britain was a free-trade nation during and after the industrial revolution, by revealing how the British used tariffs - notably on French wine - as a mercantilist tool to politically weaken France and to respond to pressure from local brewers an...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2007]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Problems of perspective : the myth of free trade Britain and fortress France
- The history of British economic policy
- The unbearable lightness of drink : assessing the effects of British tariffs on French wine
- The beginnings : trade and the struggle for European power in the late 1600s
- Counterfactuals or what if?
- Wine, beer, and money : the political economy of brewing and eighteenth-century British fiscal policy
- The political economy of nineteenth-century trade
- Trade and taxes in retrospect : were British fiscal exceptionalism and economic success linked?