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" When any particular country imposes import duties upon the productions of other countries, while those other countries continue to receive her products duty free, then such particular country draws to herself a larger proportion of the precious metals,... "
The Budget. On Commercial and Coloniae Policy With an Introduction in which ... - Page 29
by Robert Torrens - 1844 - 427 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 78

1843 - 586 pages
...prices will be the same in each. ' Second — When any particular country imposes import duties upon tho productions of other countries, while those other...larger proportion of the precious metals, maintains B higher range of general prices than her neighbours, and obtains in exchange for the produce of a...
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The Budget: A Series of Letters on Financial, Commercial, and ..., Volume 1

Robert Torrens - Colonization - 1841 - 224 pages
...amongst them in equal proportions, and the general scale of prices will be the same in each. Second, — When any particular country imposes import duties...the produce of a greater quantity of foreign labour. Third, — When any country is deprived of that command ever the precious metals which is due to the...
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Lectures on Colonization and Colonies, Volume 2

Herman Merivale - Colonies - 1842 - 364 pages
...among them in " equal proportions, and the general scale of prices will be the " same in each. 2. " When any particular country imposes import duties...produce of a greater quantity of " foreign labour. 3. " When any country is deprived of that command over the " precious metals which is due to the efficacy...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 44; Volume 78

English literature - 1843 - 590 pages
...amongst them in equal proportions, and the general scale of prices will be the same in each. ' Second — When any particular country imposes import duties...neighbours, and obtains in exchange for the produce of a,given quantity of her labour, the produce of a greater quantity of foreign labour. ' Third — When...
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Industrial Efficiency and Social Economy, Volume 2

Nassau William Senior - Economics - 1928 - 440 pages
...them in equal proportions, and the general scale of prices will be the same in each. Second—When any particular country imposes import duties upon...maintains a higher range of general prices than her neighbors, and obtains in exchange for the produce of a given quantity of her labor, the produce of...
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Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade

Douglas A. Irwin - Business & Economics - 1998 - 290 pages
...metals through the price-specie-flow mechanism. From these precepts, Torrens (1844, 28) argued that "when any particular country imposes import duties...produce of a greater quantity of foreign labour." This last statement, regarding the quantity of goods a country's labor could procure on the world market,...
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The Rise of Free Trade, Volume 4

Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey - Business & Economics - 1997 - 530 pages
...have led to national bankruptcy and revolution." This conclusion was derived from the proposition that when any particular country imposes import duties...the produce of a greater quantity of foreign labour. [Emphasis added] These precious metals, he wrote, could be recovered by tariff retaliation to restore...
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Free Trade: 1793-1886, Volume 1

Lars Magnusson - Business & Economics - 1997 - 472 pages
...were due to a unilateral dismantlement of its import duties. He stated his views in this general form: When any particular country imposes import duties...such particular country draws to herself a larger portion of the precious metals, maintains a higher range of general prices than her neighbours, and...
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The Rise of Free Trade: Protectionism and its critics, 1815-1837

Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey - Business & Economics - 1997 - 420 pages
...advantages in the production of the commodities most extensively demanded in the countries of the mines, obtains, in exchange for the produce of a given quantity of her labour, a larger quantity of the precious metals, and of all foreign goods, than is obtained by other countries...
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The Classical Economists Revisited

Denis Patrick O'Brien - Business & Economics - 2004 - 458 pages
...amongst them in equal proportions, and the general scale of prices will be the same in each. Second, — When any particular country imposes import duties...proportion of the precious metals, maintains a higher rate of general prices than her neighbours, and obtains, in exchange for the produce of a given quantity...
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