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Imperial trade, protection, and the costs of free import policy are laid out with clear, timely case studies. A. Bonar Law’s The Fiscal Question argues for a shift toward imperial preferences and explains why free trade may fail workers and industry. The text weighs economic evidence, public debate, and policy choices to show how trade policy can affect the British Empire and its people.
The book frames the issue around how tariffs and preferences could protect home industries while expanding trade within the Empire. It uses examples from Germany, the colonies, and other major nations to compare outcomes and argue for a policy that supports workers and national interests without blocking global commerce.
- Learn the practical arguments for preference and how they could benefit trade with the Empire
- See comparisons of wage trends, unemployment, and living standards across nations
- Understand how colonial and imperial markets might respond to different trade rules
- Examine how policy choices relate to national security, prosperity, and international respect
Ideal for readers of economic policy, imperial affairs, and late‑19th to early‑20th century political economy.
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Let me say at the very beginning that we do not claim, and never have claimed, that all the industries of this country are on the same footing in regard to this question.
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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book presents speeches by the author on the subject of Tariff Reform. First proposed in 1903, by Joseph Chamberlain, it was designed to change the UK's system of free trade to one of protectionism and Imperial preference. The proposed reforms were hotly debated and fiercely opposed by the Liberal government of the day, with the then Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, a staunch advocate of free trade. The author, a prominent supporter of Tariff Reform, here presents arguments he made at various speeches proposing a system of Imperial preference whereby tariffs would be reduced on goods imported from the colonies in exchange for similar reductions from the colonies on goods imported from the UK. This would, the author argues, help to secure a hold on markets in the colonies that were vital to British manufacturing, and assist in countering the growing competition from other industrial nations with protectionist systems, such as Germany and the United States. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Seller Inventory # 9781330481455_0
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