IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/pshchp/978-3-030-47102-6_12.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Staving off the Protectionist Slide: Snowden and the Struggle to Keep Britain Open

In: Political Economy and International Order in Interwar Europe

Author

Listed:
  • Oksana Levkovych

    (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Abstract

Traditionally, the interwar collapse of European and international integration is thought to have been overdetermined in its causes and redundant in its scope. International decline, combined with protectionist interests and ideology at home, made Britain abandon its signature free trade policy and embrace an Imperial Preference system in 1932. However, this narrative veils the intense debate during 1929–1931 over whether the Labour Government’s internationalist trade policies should be sacrificed for the sake of the economically consolidating the British Empire. When leading intellectuals and policymakers found themselves compelled to embrace tariffs and preferences in the hope of addressing the economic slump, Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden launched a powerful defence of free trade, effectively staving off Britain’s introduction of protectionism in 1930.

Suggested Citation

  • Oksana Levkovych, 2021. "Staving off the Protectionist Slide: Snowden and the Struggle to Keep Britain Open," Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought, in: Alexandre M. Cunha & Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak (ed.), Political Economy and International Order in Interwar Europe, chapter 0, pages 335-360, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:pshchp:978-3-030-47102-6_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-47102-6_12
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:pshchp:978-3-030-47102-6_12. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.