道格拉斯·欧文(Douglas A. Irwin)
经济史学家,美国八大常青藤盟校之一达特茅斯学院 John French 经济学讲席教授,美国国民经济研究局(NBER)研究员。曾任教于芝加哥大学布斯商学院,出任美联储经济学家、美国总统经济顾问委员会经济学家等,已有7本关于美国经济和贸易政策的著作出版,是该领域的权威人物。他还颇受《经济学人》《华尔街日报》《纽约时报》《金融时报》的青睐,是这几家知名报刊的撰稿人。
AI导读
核心看点
揭示美国贸易政策受地理与政治利益驱动
梳理从税收、限制到互惠的三阶段演变
论证高关税并非美国制造业崛起主因
读者共识
逻辑清晰史料翔实,是理解美国贸易史佳作
打破高关税造就美国工业神话,观点客观
指出贸易政策本质是党派利益与政治博弈
精彩摘录
"Thus, on June 19, 1812, just two days after the British government announced that it was suspending the Orders in Council, the United States formally declared war on Britain. Later that month, somehwere in the north Atlantic, the ship from Britain brininging news of the Orders in Council suspension "
"By endorsing nullification, South Caroline chose a risky strategy that changed the fundamental issue from the injustice of the tariff to the power of a state to defy the federal government. While several southern states supported it on the tariff question, few defenced its extreme position on states"
"...Republicans branded all opponents of protective tariffs or advocate of tariff reform as "free traders" who represented foreign interests that only wanted to weaken the United States. Anglophobia figured prominently in late nineteenth-century American politics. Advocates of lower tariffs, such as "
"The embargo was the most dramatic, self-imposed shock to US trade in its history."