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Tariffs 101: Trade, Taxes and Revenues in U.S. History (G&R 376)
Everyone's talking about tariffs . . . but do we really know what they are, how they work, what their purpose is?
Scott and Bob give backgrounder on tariffs from a historical perspective (we're not economists) and discuss the reason they are used in global economic relationships and describe some of the reasons that American founders advocated for them (hint, it's not about revenues--it's for capitalist development of industry). We also discuss the political meaning of the tariff--they're part of a dispute over trade policy between northern manufacturing and southern agriculture (the…
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