Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on January 4, 2006
Enterprise and Society 2006 7(1):187-189; doi:10.1093/es/khj017
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Published by Oxford University Press 2006.
Daniel Lederman. The Political Economy of Protection: Theory and the Chilean Experience. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2005. ix + 191 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4917-5, $55.00.
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To anyone teaching the political economy of protection, Chile must be among the closest "natural" experiments around. This book provides a rich and very informative interpretation of Chilean trade policies that covers the period 18102000.
Chapter 1 reviews the contributions by economists and political scientists to the public choice approach to the determinants of protection. Contributions by the economics and political science literature are grafted to a supply-demand framework of protection, with much of the discussion focusing on
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