Tariff reform and empire in one clear voice. This collection argues for a practical, growth‑miented approach to Britain’s economy and public policy.
In these essays, Frederick Edwin Smith Birkenhead lays out how imperial preference could ease food costs, boost industry, and fund social reform. He ties economic policy to naval strength, population growth, and the future of the British Empire, offering a data‑driven case for reform over outdated free trade thinking.
- Understand the central ideas behind tariff reform and imperial preference.
- See how population trends, emigration, and global markets influence policy decisions.
- Learn how a stronger empire could fund social reforms and sustain national defense.
- Explore the author’s view of how economic strategy shapes politics and the future of the United Kingdom.
Ideal for readers of political history, economic policy, and imperial strategy who want a concise, argument‑driven perspective from a cabinet‑level thinker.
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My thanks are due to the Editors of The Oxford and Cambridge Review (in which the majority appeared), The Nineteenth Century, The Fortnightly, and The National Review, for leave to reproduce articles which they respectively published, and to the Editor of The Times for permission to reprint the letter contained in the A ppendix. Papers written under these circumstances are necessarily fugitive, but these are collected in the hope that they have not yet exhausted their short space of life. Mr Maurice Woods has given me much assistance in preparing the book for the press, and Mr Cyril Potter has been good enough to draw up the I ndex. F. E. SMITH.
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