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Review of War, Wine, and Taxes: The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689–1900 , by John V. C. Nye, ed.

The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics

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07/30/2014Mark Thornton

Volume 11, No. 2 (2008)

 

In terms of the domestic economy, the established history of English liberation and French stagnations still holds, but War, Wine, and Taxes: The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689–1900 shows that England was a late comer to free trade while France was a relative trail blazer.

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Thornton, Mark. Review of "War, Wine, and Taxes: The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689–1900, John V.C. Nye, ed." The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 11, No. 2 (2008): 159–161.