Deutsche Geschichte: Neuere Zeit

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Identifikator:: 1892063557

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Author:: Lamprecht, Karl http://d-nb.info/gnd/118569015

Title:: Deutsche Geschichte

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Gaertner

Year of publication:: 1891-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1892067714

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-237124

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Author:: Lamprecht, Karl http://d-nb.info/gnd/118569015

Title:: Neuere Zeit

Volume count:: Abt. 2

Place of publication:: Freiburg im Breisgau

Publisher:: Heyfelder

Year of publication:: 1906

Scope:: XIV S., S. [399] - 873

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Zweites Kapitel. Türkenkriege und spanischer Erbfolgekrieg; Österreich europäische Großmacht

Collection:: Economics Books

370 POSTSCRIPT and thus have a prospect of either obtaining a revenue, or of inducing our neighbours to give us better terms. It seems as if a time were coming when it would only be by specific agreement that we shall have access to markets in which to dispose of the wares with which we purchase the necessaries of life, and of industrial activity. The imposition of retaliatory tariffs on protectionist countries may be forced upon us as the only means of strengthening our business connection? with the great self-governing colonies, and of thus securing the command of supplies of food and raw materials. It is possible that England would by this means not only ward off the dangers which threaten her very existence, but enter on a path by which the completest sconomic co-operation between the distant regions which form parts of the Empire may be most quickly and easily realised. The persuasive force of economic principles becomesgreater when concrete instances, which affect immediate interests, can be adduced in supporting them. The manufacturers in 1846 realised that by the adoption of Free Trade and the admission of foreign cereals, the demand for our manufactures would be enormously increased®. They had such a belief in the su- periority of our methods of production, and the eagerness of foreigners to buy on the cheapest terms, that they could not conceive that any market which was once open to our goods would ever be deliberately closed against us. Circumstances have so far changed, and our industrial rivals have so far developed in efficiency and in commercial influence, that the Thiscourse question is forced upon public attention whether itis prudent amonise for us to continue to trust entirely to laissez faire, or whether oith Ie we are not compelled to take active measures to retain and agvies extend the market for our goods. Under changed conditions benefit of there may be a new reading of the Whig commercial tradition. and securing an open door for our manu- factures. 1 Such retaliation is quite different in economic character from any scheme for reverting to the protection of home industries, as it was in vogue in the eighteenth tentury, or is maintained in any country which regulates economic life on a strictly National basis. Huskisson attempted to modify our tariffs in such a fashion as to create new ties of common interests throughout the Empire, but his plan would cot be applicable to present conditions. (Cunningham, Wisdom of the Wise, 50.) The scheme for an Imperial Zollverein is discussed sympathetically by Lord Elgin, who -egarded it as no longer practicable, Letters and Journals, 61. But it may still be possible to introduce particular measures that benefit the mother-country and some particular colony too, without attempting to impose one system on all the members of the Empire. 3 Moxley, op. ett. 1. 141.

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