Author(s): William Smart
Edition: 2
Publisher: Macmillan & Co.
Year: 1906
Language: English
Pages: 297
City: London
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Chapter I - What Trade is, 1
Chapter II - Our Foreign Trade, 7
Chapter III - The Balance of Trade, 15
Chapter IV - The Equivalence of Imports and Exports, 29
Chapter V - Some Conclusions and a Moral, 38
Chapter VI - The Rival Policies, 47
Chapter VII - Protection, 55
Chapter VIII - The Principle of a Protective Tariff, 69
Chapter IX - Possibility of a Scientific Tariff, 78
Chapter X - Conclusions as to Protection, 91
Chapter XI - Protection as Indirect and Delegated Taxation, 95
Chapter XII - Protecton Judged by the Canons of Taxation, 110
Chapter XIII - Retaliation, 121
Chapter XIV - Retaliation on Protective Tariffs: Prospects of Success, 126
Chapter XV - Retaliation on Protective Tariffs: Method and Effects, 139
Chapter XVI - Dumping, 147
Chapter XVII - Retaliation on Dumping, 163
Chapter XVIII - Tests of Prosperity, 173
Chapter XIX - Exports as a Test of Prosperity, 183
Chapter XX - The Stagnation of Exports, 190
Chapter XXI - Employment as Affected by Exports and Imports, 205
Chapter XXII - Preferential Tariffs, 222
Chapter XXIII - The Canadian Preference, 226
Chapter XXIV - Our Possible Gain from Colonial Preference, 235
Chapter XXV - The Price of Preference, 242
Chapter XXVI - How Preference Will Affect Agriculture, 253
Chapter XXVII - The Price of Empire, 257
Chapter XXVIII - Taking Stock, 269
Appendix - The Abuse of Shipping Statistics, 284
Index, 290