Mitigation by Tariff

John Maynard Keynes

Chapter 6 in Essays in Persuasion, 2010, pp 231-244 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Do you think it a paradox that we can continue to increase our capital wealth by adding both to our foreign investments and to our equipment at home, that we can continue to live (most of us) much as usual or better, and support at the same time a vast body of persons in idleness with a dole greater than the income of a man in full employment in most parts of the world—and yet do all this with one-quarter of our industrial plant closed down and one-quarter of our industrial workers unemployed? It would be not merely a paradox, but an impossibility, if our potential capacity for the creation of wealth were not much greater than it used to be. But this greater capacity does exist. It is to be attributed mainly to three factors—the ever-increasing technical efficiency of our industry (I believe that output per head is 10 per cent greater than it was even so recently as 1924), the greater economic output of women, and the larger proportion of the population which is at the working period of life. The fall in the price of our imports compared with that of our exports also helps. The result is that with three-fourths of our industrial capacity we can now produce as much wealth as we could produce with the whole of it a few years ago.

Keywords: Currency Question; Revenue Tariff; Foreign Loan; International Instability; Budget Problem (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-59072-8_18

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