| Series |
The Princeton economic history of the western world
Princeton economic history of the Western world. ^A682933
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| Contents |
Problems of perspective : the myth of free trade Britain and fortress France -- The history of British economic policy -- 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 economy of brewing and eighteenth-century British fiscal policy -- The political economy of nineteenth-century trade -- Trade and taxes in retrospect : were British fiscal exceptionalism and economic success linked? |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-165) and index. |
| LCCN | 2006032179 |
| ISBN | 9780691129174 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0691129177 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
