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British protectionism and the international economy : overseas commercial policy in the 1930s
Yazar:
Rooth, Tim. author
ISBN:
9780521416085

9780521892582
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
xv, 357 pages ; 24 cm.
İçerik:
1. Britain's international economic position in the 1920s -- 2. The political economy of protectionism -- 3. Imperial preference and the Ottawa Conference -- 4. The Scandinavian negotiations: formulation of policy -- 5. Completion of the first phase of negotiations: Scandinavia, Germany and Argentina -- 6. The world economic conference, Finland and Japanese competition -- 7. The Baltic states and Poland -- 8. British agricultural policy and imports during the 1930s -- 9. British exports to the trade agreement countries -- 10. Appeasing Germany and the United States -- 11. Some general conclusions -- Appendix A United Kingdom: payments, clearing etc., Agreements in force 1931-1938 -- Appendix B Miscellaneous trade and payments agreements -- Appendix C Imports into Britain from foreign agreement countries -- Appendix D Total exports from Britain to foreign agreement countries and four dominions -- Appendix E Imports of selected commodities into UK, 1931, 1937, showing percentage from Empire sources.
Özet:
When in the winter of 1931-2 Britain first abandoned the gold standard and then free trade, two potent symbols of its nineteenth-century international economic predominance had gone within the space of little more than six months. Tim Rooth's comprehensive study in the political economy of protectionism examines the forces behind the abandonment of free trade and the way that Britain then used protection to bargain for trade advantages in the markets of its chief suppliers of food and raw materials. One result of the depression, greatly accentuated by the rise of protectionist barriers elsewhere in the world, was to heighten the importance of the British market, and particularly the dependence of primary producers, both within and outside the Empire, on Britain. The United Kingdom government, finding itself with enormously enhanced economic leverage, was therefore able to take advantage of this in a series of trade agreements both with the Commonwealth at Ottawa in 1932 and, comparatively neglected in previous studies, with the countries of Northern Europe and with Argentina. The book examines these, the World Economic and Monetary Conference of 1933, the trade dispute with Japan and the impact of Britain's trade treaty obligations on domestic agricultural protection. The symbiosis between economic policy and the deteriorating international political environment became all the more apparent in the negotiations with Germany and the USA in the late 1930s.
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Kitap EKOBKN0007609 382.3094109043 ROO 2002
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