International trade

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Identifikator:: 1758394757

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-136209

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Taussig, Frank William http://d-nb.info/gnd/120199459

Title:: International trade

Place of publication:: New York, NY

Publisher:: Macmillan

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: XXI, 425 Seiten; graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Document type:: Monograph

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Collection:: Economics Books

Vi CONTENTS CHAPTER 15 DirrerReENCES IN LABOR Costs Labor cost and cost as understood by accountants, 161. Some international comparisons of the effectiveness of labor in coal mining; in brick making, 162. Comparison of beer production in the United States and Germany, 166. Iron production per worker in the United States and in Great Britain, 167; superior- ity of American production, and reasons for it, 168. British and American 1 tin plate production ; sugar refining, 170; butter; ice, 171. Effectiveness of hand and machine production of glass in Belgium, Sweden, and the United States, 171. American and Japanese cotton spinning and weaving, 174. CHAPTER 16 COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGES AND PROTECTIVE TARIFFS IN THE UNITED STATES . : Effects of protective legislation in the United States can be understood only on the basis of the principle of comparative ad- vantage, 178. Factors which secure for the United States such an advantage in agricultural commodities, 179. How the inter- play of physical and human factors combines to bring about or to take away a comparative advantage in the beet sugar industry, 183; in flax and flax seed cultivation, 186; in the iron and steel industry, 188. The United States has a comparative advantage in those industries in which the processes of manufacture can be standardized, 189. The textile industries, 192. The Ameri- can aptitude in the use of machinery, 193. PAGES 161-177 178-196 CHAPTER 17 INTERNATIONAL PAYMENTS IN RELATION TO MONETARY SYSTEMS Acceptance of some form of the quantity theory of money essential to the theory of international trade, 197. The influence of specie movements on the range of prices of paramount signifi- cance, 198. Is the total of the medium of exchange sensitive to gold movements? 199. Discount policy of banks primarily affected by flow of specie. The volume of deposits in relation to specie reserves, 201. Sensitiveness of monetary system to specie movement in Great Britain, 203; in Canada, 205; in the United States from 1879 to 1914, 206. An inflow of specie may follow, not precede, a rise in prices, 207. Degrees of sensitiveness in Continental monetary systems, 210. United States post-war monetary conditions under the Federal Reserve System, 213. 197-214

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