Making Sense of Smoot-hawley Technology And Tariffs

This book, based on the author's earlier work on Mass Production and the Great Depression, offers an altogether radical interpretation of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, namely as a response on the part of U.S. policymakers to the problem of underincome, itself the result of the massive technology shock that was electrification and the ensuing extremely-high-throughput, continuous-flow production techniques pioneered at the Ford Motor Company at its Highland Park plant.Beaudreau, Bernard is the author of 'Making Sense of Smoot-hawley Technology And Tariffs', published 2005 under ISBN 9780595378883 and ISBN 0595378889.