The Change of the US Tariff Policy: Engels's Perspective and Enlightenment
<p class="first" id="d353394e80">Engels discussed tariff and the related issues on many occasions in his writings. Using “tariff” as the keyword, we search all the 50 volumes of <i>Marx and Engels Collected Works</i> and find out two imp...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Pluto Journals
2020-06-01
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| Series: | World Review of Political Economy |
| Online Access: | https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/worlrevipoliecon.11.2.0148 |
| Summary: | <p class="first" id="d353394e80">Engels discussed tariff and the related issues on many occasions in his writings.
Using “tariff” as the keyword, we search all the 50 volumes of
<i>Marx and Engels Collected Works</i> and find out two important stages in which Engels formulated intensively tariff and
related issues. The first one is 1845–1853, when Engels mainly elaborated from the
perspective of the impact of tariffs on the interests of various classes in the European
nations, and the second one is 1879–1893, when he mainly elaborated from the perspective
of the relation between tariff policies and the stage of economic development in the
United States and the roles played by the tariff policies in the national competition.
At the second stage, standing at the height of world history and starting from competition
and evolution, Engels made a comprehensive and in-depth illustration of the changes
in the US tariff policies and their roles; at this stage, he recognized to a certain
extent some of List's thoughts on tariff, which is not in conflict with his criticism
of List at the first stage. The essence of Engels's thoughts on tariffs is the multi-level
investigation based on his profound historical insight and grand global vision. Engels's
thoughts of the political economy formulated on the development and evolution of the
tariff policies and their roles and mechanisms after the US Civil War are still of
great practical significance even for nowadays.
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| ISSN: | 2042-891X 2042-8928 |