ContentsForeword, ixI. Introductory, 1II. The Nature of Protection, 8III. Critique of Popular, and Fallacious, Arguments for Protection, 17IV. The Argument for Free Trade, 50V. Rational Protection, 63VI. Anti-dumping Legislation and Special Forms of Foreign Trade Control, 89VII. The Future...

Canadian historians have always looks favourably on Macdonald's national policies, including the protective tariff. On the other hand, the canons of economic theory have little or nothing to say in favour of protection. Professor Dales attempts in these essays to bridge this gap between trade...

Designing appropriate import tariff rates is crucial for global trade. In this paper, we propose game-theoretic models to investigate how tariff policies affect the competition of multinational firms (MNFs) in a global trading environment. The MNFs sell substitutable products and compete in two...

This paper develops a spatial duopoly model by taking land consumption and mobile households into consideration and examines the respective effects of a tariff and a quota on an open economy with various price conjectural variations (including Loschian, H-S and G-O competition). The main...