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-- The unbearable lightness of drink : assessing the effects of British tariffs on French wine -- The beginnings : trade and … the struggle for European power in the late 1600s -- Counterfactuals or what if? -- Wine, beer, and money : the political …
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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 … Anglo-French military and commercial rivalry, Nye helps us understand why the British drink beer not wine, why the …
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This paper investigates how internal migration is affected by Brazil's increased integration into the world economy. We analyze the impact of regional differences in access to foreign demand on sector-specific bilateral migration rates between the Brazilian states for the years 1995 to 2003....
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We investigate the role of networks of military alliances in preventing or encouraging wars between groups of countries. A country is vulnerable to attack if there is some fully-allied group of countries that can defeat that country and its (remaining) allies based on a function of their...
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The growing importance of Japan on the world market has brought with it changes in the international division of labour and a shift in the focus of the expansion in world trade away from the EC and the USA. What factors determine the shares of the EC, the USA and Japan in international trade?...
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