月归档：十二月 2008

Saving the X Industry 第14章 救救X产业 THE LOBBIES OF Congress are crowded with representatives of the X industry. The X industry is sick. The X industry is dying. It must be saved. It can be saved only by a tariff, … 继续阅读 →

第13章 “平准价格” （接前面部分） 2 Dismissing all these considerations, let us return to the central fallacy that specially concerns us here. This is the argument that if the farmer gets higher prices for his products he can buy more goods from … 继续阅读 →

“Parity” Prices第13章 “平准价格” SPECIAL INTERESTS, as the history of tariffs reminds us, can think of the most ingenious reasons why they should be the objects of special solicitude. Their spokesmen present a plan in their favor; and it seems at … 继续阅读 →

第12章 拉动出口 （接前面部分） Yet among the arguments put forward in favor of huge foreign lending one fallacy is always sure to occupy a prominent place. It runs like this. Even if half (or all) the loans we make to foreign … 继续阅读 →

The Drive for Exports 第12章 拉动出口 EXCEEDED ONLY BY the pathological dread of imports that affects all nations is a pathological yearning for exports. Logically, it is true, no thing could be more inconsistent. In the long run imports and … 继续阅读 →

第11章 关税“保护”了哪些人？   （接前面部分） 5   The tariff has been described as a means of benefiting the producer at the expense of the consumer. In a sense this is correct. Those who favor it think only of the interests of … 继续阅读 →

第11章 关税“保护”了哪些人？   （接前面部分） 3 Now let us look at the matter the other way round, and see the effect of imposing a tariff in the first place. Suppose that there had been no tariff on foreign knit goods, that … 继续阅读 →

Who’s “Protected” by Tariffs? 第11章 关税“保护”了哪些人？   A MERE RECITAL of the economic policies of governments all over the world is calculated to cause any serious student of economics to throw up his hands in despair. What possible point can … 继续阅读 →

The Fetish of Full Employment 第10章 盲目崇拜充分就业 THE ECONOMIC GOAL of any nation, as of any individual, is to get the greatest results with the least effort. The whole economic progress of mankind has consisted in getting more production with … 继续阅读 →