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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Title:: Part I. Theory

Collection:: Economics Books

WAGES NOT UNIFORM — NON-COMPETING GROUPS 57 that results from the domestic conditions is well established and seems to be deeply rooted; and it is not likely that international trade will impinge on it with such special effect on a particular grade as to warp it noticeably. The case is somewhat different as regards the train of causation running the other way. While international trade is not likely to modify the alignment of grades within a country, peculiarities in that alignment may affect international trade. I will call atten- tion to one or two instances in which this sort of influence seems to have appeared, departing for the moment from the general plan of this book, under which illustration and verification have been relegated to the later chapters. The first illustration comes from the history and position of the chemical industry of Germany. I speak of the situation as it was before the war of 1914-18; what happened in Germany in the years immediately after the war is too confused for the illustra- tion of the forces ordinarily at work in international trade. Before 1914, as 1s well known, chemical industries, and especially those vielding highly elaborated coal-tar products, were more success- fully carried on in Germany than in any other country. Coal-tar dyes and drugs were supplied to England and the United States from Germany; the domestic output in these countries was negligible. Other countries also were supplied by German imports, tho not as preponderantly as the two English-speaking countries. The Germans evidently had some advantage in making these things. A comparative advantage? Certainly not one of a natural (physical) sort. It arose largely from the plenty and the especial cheapness of a particular kind of labor: that of chemists and of chemists’ skilled assistants. Germany had a learned proletariat. The excellence and easy access of technological education, and the powerful social forces which attracted large numbers from the middle classes into ‘the learned professions, brought about a large supply and a low remuneration of highly trained chemists. A similar excellence of intermediate education supplied to these officers a capable non-commissioned staff; (to use a military analogy) there was a supply of exact, careful

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