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From the Corn Laws to Free Trade: Interests, Ideas, and Institutions in Historical Perspective.(Book review)
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Independent Review
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June 22, 2008
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- Nye, John V.C.
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From the Corn Laws to Free Trade: Interests, Ideas, and Institutions in Historical Perspective
By Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006.
Pp. xiv, 426. $47.50.
In From the Corn Laws to Free Trade, Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey takes a fresh and rigorous look at the determinants of Corn Law repeal in mid-nineteenth-century Great Britain and tries to integrate the role of broader economic interests with the role of ideas and politics to find out why the British adopted free trade. She approaches Corn Law repeal by treating it as a puzzle.
Political representatives acted in a way that was contrary both to the mandate on which most of them had ...