Manufacturing Fetishism: The Neo-Mercantilist Preoccupation with Protecting Manufacturing

Alecia Waite Cassidy, Edward Tower and Xiaolu Wang

Chapter 6 in The Region and Trade:New Analytical Directions, 2015, pp 137-175 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Two common views are that a country cannot develop without a strong manufacturing base and that trade restrictions are essential to facilitate the development of that strong manufacturing base and thus spur economic growth. We ask …

Keywords: Interregional Trade; Input-Output System; Economics; Regional Economics; Region and Trade; Natural Resources; Labor; Capital; Computational Methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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