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The Politics of Protection
Author(s) -
Greenaway David
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1988.tb01533.x
Subject(s) - politics , competition (biology) , diversity (politics) , variety (cybernetics) , economics , political economy , public economics , business , market economy , political science , law , ecology , biology , artificial intelligence , computer science
A variety of methods of controlling imports is available to governments who wish to protect domestic producers from foreign competition. The political choice of which device to use will often be dictated by the diffusion of costs and benefits among differing interest groups in society. David Greenaway, Professor or Economics at the diversity of Nottingham, examines the political market for protection.