Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Pedro Schwartz Girón
Author-Workplace-Name: Facultad de Ciencias Ecocómicas y Empresariales. Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Author-Name: Carlos Rodríguez Braun
Author-Workplace-Name: Departamento de Historia e Instituciones Económicas I. Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Author-Workplace-Homepage:
 https://www.ucm.es/deaeh
Title: Bentham on Spanish protectionism
Abstract: In 1821, John Bowring published a manuscript of Bentham's under the title of Observations on the restrictive 
	and prohibitory commercial system: especially with a reference to the Decrep of the Spanish Cortes of July 
	1820. In all probability this text was originally conceived as an appendix to a book that Bentham never 
	published, to Wit Rid Yourselves of Ultramarina, the commentary on Spanish colonization. The 1821 publisned 
	text has been reprinted by W. Stark in the third volume of Jeremy Bentham's Economic With some corrections of 
	obvious misprints, but without the benefit of the mauscript. Stark was very dismissive of this work, which he 
	thought demonstrated how barren Bentham's economic thought had become. Stark believed thad Bentham was too 
	orthodox in attacking Spanish protectionism when, Stark said, Spain was a case fit for an educational tariff, 
	in the fashion proposed by list. However, many economists today think that few things are so harmful for an 
	underdevelooped country as a tariff, eduational or not (except when it is low rated, revenue raising and 
	accompanied by an equivalent domestic excise tax).

Keywords: Proteccionismo; España; Jeremy Bentham.

Length: 26 pages 
Creation-Date: 1991 
Number: 91-16
File-URL: https://eprints.ucm.es/id/eprint/25986/1/9116.pdf
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Handle: RePEc:ucm:doctra:91-16