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Quarterly Journal of Economics Vol. 45 No. 2 1931

A Neglected Phase of Tariff Controversy

D. B. Copland

The University of Melbourne

Abstract

I. The Australian Tariff Committee's report and free trade theory, 289. — The expansion of primary production, 290. — The tariff and the growth of population in Australia, 293. — II. Marshall's doctrine of increasing and decreasing returns, 295. — The tariff and land values, 296. — The tariff as a method of reducing the severity of decreasing returns, 297. — III. Patten's case for protection, 299. — The conditions necessary for its application, 302. — IV. The limits of economic protection, 305. — V. The expediency of the tariff as a method of subsidizing industry, 306.

DOI
10.2307/1885476
Volume
45
Issue
2
Pages
289
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