A Short-Lived Backlash: The political economy of wheat protection in Europe in the first half of the 19th century
dc.contributor.author | FEDERICO, Giovanni | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-11-24T15:20:38Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-11-24T15:20:38Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1028-3625 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/12876 | |
dc.description.abstract | In the first half of the 19th century, the wheat trade policy in Western European countries followed a major political cycle, featuring a massive increase in protection in the late 1810s and early 1820s, and a slow process of liberalisation from the end of that decade until the 1850s. This paper aims at understanding the causes of this cycle in seven wheat-importing countries (the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Piedmont). It discusses several causes, within the framework of a simple model of political economy. Ideas and political considerations may have played a role, but, at the end of the day, the single most important cause were changes in the expected income of the producers, mainly reflecting movements in wheat prices. | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | EUI RSCAS | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 2009/61 | en |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
dc.subject | Political economy | en |
dc.subject | trade policy | en |
dc.subject | wheat | en |
dc.subject | Europe early 19th century | en |
dc.title | A Short-Lived Backlash: The political economy of wheat protection in Europe in the first half of the 19th century | en |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
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