The political economy of protection
Bibliographic Information
The political economy of protection
Arye L. Hillman
(Harwood fundamentals of pure and applied economics / editors in chief, J. Lesourne, H. Sonnenschein, . International economics 2 ; 2)
Routledge, 2001
Available at / 6 libraries
Note
Reprint. Originally published: Chur, Switzerland : Harwood Academic Publishers, 1989
Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-160) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: set ISBN 9780415269124
Description
First published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Table of Contents
R. Hodrick The Empirical Evidence on the Efficiency of Forward and Futures Foreign Exchange Markets A. Hillman The Political Economy of Protection M. Kemp and H. Wan The Welfare Economics of International Trade
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ISBN 9780415269148
Description
This book examines how trade policy is determined in democratic countries, and illustrates how protectionist policies are engendered by political processes that allow groups to pursue their own interests.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: The Efficiency of Free Trade and The Prevalence of Protection
- Chapter 1 1. Identifying the Gainers and Losers from Protection
- Chapter 2 2. Political Self-Interest Motives and Protection
- Chapter 3 3. Protection under Direct Democracy
- Chapter 4 4. Protection under Representative Democracy
- Chapter 5 5. Shadow Prices of Factors and the Social Cost of Lobbying
- Chapter 6 6. The Resource Cost of Political Contestability
- Chapter 7 7. Political Choice of the Means of Protection
- Chapter 8 8. Foreign Interests: The Role for Voluntary Export Restraints
- Chapter 9 9. Trade Policy as Social Insurance
- Chapter 10 10. The Institutional Setting
- Chapter 11 11. Evidence
- Chapter 12 12. Concluding Remarks
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