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Subject Area: Economics
Topic: Free Trade

Yves Guyot, The Comedy of Protection [1906]

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The Comedy of Protection, trans. M.A. Hamilton (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1906).


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Guyot provides a history of French tariff policy from the time of Colbert and a discussion of its effects on particular industries such as textiles and food. He then discusses protection in the US and Germany and refutes many arguments in favour of tariffs.

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