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oapen-20.500.12657-620652024-03-27T14:14:44Z Power, Protection, and Free Trade Lake, David A. Political economy History of the Americas International economics thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCP Political economy thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas Why do nations so frequently abandon unrestricted international commerce in favor of trade protectionism? David A. Lake contends that the dominant explanation, interest group theory, does not adequately explain American trade strategy or address the contradictory elements of cooperation and conflict that shape the international economy.Power, Protection, and Free Trade offers an alternative, systemic approach to trade strategy that builds on the interaction between domestic and international factors. In this innovative book, Lake maintains that both protection and free trade are legitimate and effective instruments of national policy, the considered responses of nations to varying international structures. 2023-03-29T15:49:40Z 2023-03-29T15:49:40Z 1990 book ONIX_20230329_9781501723049_51 9781501723049 9781501723056 9781501727993 9780801497537 9780801421341 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62065 eng Cornell Studies in Political Economy application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781501723049.pdf 9781501723056.epub Cornell University Press Cornell University Press 10.7298/ghd8-tz03 10.7298/ghd8-tz03 06a447d4-1d09-460f-8b1d-3b4b09d64407 0314e571-4102-4526-b014-3ed8f2d6750a 9781501723049 9781501723056 9781501727993 9780801497537 9780801421341 Cornell University Press 264 Ithaca [...] Open Book Program National Endowment for the Humanities NEH open access
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Why do nations so frequently abandon unrestricted international commerce in favor of trade protectionism? David A. Lake contends that the dominant explanation, interest group theory, does not adequately explain American trade strategy or address the contradictory elements of cooperation and conflict that shape the international economy.Power, Protection, and Free Trade offers an alternative, systemic approach to trade strategy that builds on the interaction between domestic and international factors. In this innovative book, Lake maintains that both protection and free trade are legitimate and effective instruments of national policy, the considered responses of nations to varying international structures.
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