"In "War, Wine, and Taxes" John Nye overturns the widespread belief
that Britain promoted the free trade that eventually brought so
many benefits in the nineteenth century. Britain, it turns out, was
surprisingly protectionist, and the political economy of its
tariffs has left a mark on French winemaking and on British pubs
that still survives today."--Philip T. Hoffman, author of "Growth
in a Traditional Society: The French Countryside, 1450-1815"
"The humorist Artemus Ward famously said, 'It ain't so much the
things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we
do know that just ain't so.' Everyone knows that England was the
first European nation to move, largely unilaterally, toward a
free-trade regime. And everyone also knows that this was the cause
of British prosperity and power. The problem is that it just ain't
so, as Nye shows in this remarkable book. Using data that have long
been available, but that have never been compiled and compared in
any systematic manner, Nye meticulously discredits the conventional
wisdom. And the history he writes of the economics of trade in beer
and wine is a tour de force, well written and with as many strange
characters and unexpected twists as a detective novel. It is no
exaggeration to say that this is the most controversial, and
possibly the most important, book on political economy yet
published in the new millennium."--Michael Munger, Duke
University
"Nye's arguments are novel and fresh, and they are enunciated
with great gusto. He brings to bear a fine intuition and
understanding of economic analysis, and he combines his economic
history with a deep understanding of political economy and the
complex ways in which specialinterests and ideology jointly affect
policy decisions. His analysis of the politics and economics of
protectionist legislation is quite compelling, and his handling of
the data and ability to see in them something that others have
missed are quite impressive."--Joel Mokyr, author of "The Gifts of
Athena"
"Nye provides a new view of British commercial policy and its
links to financing war. Historians have long studied politics, war,
taxation, and trade. What they have failed to do is see how all
these are connected. Nye's strength is suggesting how these stories
tie together into a single story. Along the way emerges a wonderful
treatment of the industrial organization of beer and wine,
particularly why Britain was a nation of beer drinkers and France
of wine."--Barry Weingast, Stanford University
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