International trade

In this book, originally published as Part II of my International Trade and Exchange, I have aimed to cover the general theory of international trade and government interference with such trade. The book begins with a discussion of the gains of trade, whether the trade is between countries or wholly within a single country. Attention is then turned to the conditions determining the share which each of two or more countries gets from trade between them. The remainder of the book is devoted to a consideration of revenue tariffs, bounties, navigation acts, government construction of canals for the free use of commercial interests, land grants in encouragement of railroad building, etc. Proposals for such indirect encouragement to commerce as is afforded by the last two policies, are perhaps no less frequent and insistent than are proposals for its direct encouragement by means of bounties or for its discouragements by means of protective tariffs. Analysis of the effects to be expected from such policies may be as important, therefore, as analysis of the effects of a protective tariff or bounty system. This book, International tradeA study of the economic advantages of commerce, by Harry Gunnison Brown, is a replication of a book originally published before 1920. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.