War, Wine, and Taxes (eBook)

The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689-1900

John V.C. Nye (Autor)

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2018
192 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19049-5 (ISBN)

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In War, Wine, and Taxes, John Nye 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 and others. The book reveals that Britain did not transform smoothly from a mercantilist state in the eighteenth century to a bastion of free trade in the late nineteenth.This boldly revisionist account gives the first satisfactory explanation of Britain's transformation from a minor power to the dominant nation in Europe. It also shows how Britain and France negotiated the critical trade treaty of 1860 that opened wide the European markets in the decades before World War I. Going back to the seventeenth century and examining the peculiar history of Anglo-French military and commercial rivalry, Nye helps us understand why the British drink beer not wine, why the Portuguese sold liquor almost exclusively to Britain, and how liberal, eighteenth-century Britain managed to raise taxes at an unprecedented rate-with government revenues growing five times faster than the gross national product.War, Wine, and Taxes stands in stark contrast to standard interpretations of the role tariffs played in the economic development of Britain and France, and sheds valuable new light on the joint role of commercial and fiscal policy in the rise of the modern state.

Autor

John V. C. Nye is Professor of Economics and History at Washington University in St. Louis. From the Fall of 2007, he will be Professor of Economics at George Mason University and will occupy the Frederic Bastiat Chair in Political Economy at the Mercatus Center.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.6.2018
• Reihe/Serie: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
• Reihe/Serie: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: Ad valorem tax • Alcoholic beverage • alcohol industry • Anti-Corn Law League • bilateral trade • Bordeaux wine • Buying in (securities) • Capitalism • cartel • Cider • Commercial diplomacy • Commercial Policy • Comparative Advantage • Competition (economics) • Confiscation • Corn Laws • cost overrun • curtailment • economic interventionism • economic liberalism • economic nationalism • Economic Power • Economics • Economism • Embargo • excise tax • Expense • Export • Export subsidy • Finance • Fiscal Policy • Foreign Direct Investment • Fraud • Free Trade • french wine • gallon • Government Debt • government revenue • Great Famine (Ireland) • Holy Roman Empire • imperialism • Import • Import Duty • Law of demand • Liberalism (book) • Liberalization • Market power • mercantilism • Methuen Treaty • Molasses Act • napoleonic wars • Napoleon III • Oliver Cromwell • overproduction • Physiocracy • Political Economy • Poll Tax • Portuguese wine • power politics • Price controls • Price Fixing • Profit Maximization • Property Tax • protectionism • Public intoxication • Rapprochement • Rates (tax) • rationing • red wine • Rent-Seeking • Reprisal • Ricardian (Richard III) • Richard Cobden • Ronald Coase • Salt tax • spanish wine • state actor • Subsidy • substitution effect • Sumptuary law • tariff • Tax • tax and spend • Tax Collector • Tax Incidence • Tax Rate • Tax Reform • tax revenue • The Wealth of Nations • Tonnage and poundage • Tories (British political party) • Trade barrier • trade war • Vinegar • warfare • wine • Wine competition • winemaker • Winery • World War I
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19049-6 / 0691190496
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19049-5 / 9780691190495