The Antebellum Tariff: Different Products or Competing Sources? A Comment on Irwin and Temin
评论欧文和特明关于关税对美国工业化影响的研究，指出其误解了英国棉纺织业及美英布匹在无保护下的竞争性质。
Doug Irwin and Peter Temin offer a welcome study of the tariff and American industrialization. Although largely overlooked, the tariff significantly influences our interpretation of early American industrialization. If the tariff had no substantial effect, as Irwin and Temin argue, we view early American industrialization quite differently than if the tariff induced industrialization by diverting trade to otherwise noncompetitive firms within a customs union, as I believe. Although I welcome attention to the tariff, I feel that Irwin and Temin's argument rests on a misconception of the British cotton industry and of the nature of potential competition between American and British cloth in the absence of protection.