The Budget, on Commercial and Colonial Policy: With an Introduction in which the Deductive Method as Presented in Mr. Mill's System of Logic is Applied to the Solution of Some Controverted Questions in Political Economy

Robert Torrens

ISBN 10: 0678005583 / ISBN 13: 9780678005583

Published by Augustus M. Kelley, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1970

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• Title: The Budget, on Commercial and Colonial Policy: With an Introduction in which the Deductive Method as Presented in Mr. Mill's System of Logic is Applied to the Solution of Some Controverted Questions in Political Economy
• Publisher: Augustus M. Kelley, New York, NY, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0678005583
• ISBN 13: 9780678005583
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book
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Torren's most widely recognized contribution to commercial trade theory was his modification of the doctrine that a regime of free international trade is necessarily optimally advantageous for individual countries. "This abrogation of the classical Ricardian [free trade] doctrine ... survived to modern times as a genuine qualification of the theory." M. Blaug Great Economists Before Keynes