The Cobden-Chevalier Network and the Nineteenth Century Order

• In Event: The Politics of Preferential Trade Agreements

Brief Overview

I analyze 1860s-1870s commercial treaties containing MFN clauses to map out the conventional tariff network begun by the Cobden-Chevalier treaty, demonstrating that it was in fact France and Belgium instead of Britain that led its creation.

Author

• Robert Shaver, The New School