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Economic imperialism and resource nationalism. Comment on Kemp and Ohyama

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Tower, E
Published in: Journal of International Economics
January 1, 1979

Kemp and Ohyama show that a self-seeking resource-poor imperial economy can use tariffs to completely exploit its resource-rich raw-material producing colonial trading partner, but that when capital is immobile, the colonial economy loses all power to exploit by means of ad valorem trade taxes. We use geometry to explain why, and demonstrate that there are other instruments (export quotas, import quotas, an export tariff specified in units of the import per unit of the export, and destruction of the raw material by the colonial economy's government) which may restore the colonial economy's ability to exploit the imperial one. © 1979.

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Journal of International Economics

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0022-1996

Publication Date

January 1, 1979

Volume

9

Issue

3

Start / End Page

423 / 427

Related Subject Headings

  • Economics
  • 3803 Economic theory
  • 3802 Econometrics
  • 3801 Applied economics
  • 14 Economics
 

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Tower, E. (1979). Economic imperialism and resource nationalism. Comment on Kemp and Ohyama. Journal of International Economics, 9(3), 423–427. https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-1996(79)90036-9
Tower, E. “Economic imperialism and resource nationalism. Comment on Kemp and Ohyama.” Journal of International Economics 9, no. 3 (January 1, 1979): 423–27. https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-1996(79)90036-9.
Tower E. Economic imperialism and resource nationalism. Comment on Kemp and Ohyama. Journal of International Economics. 1979 Jan 1;9(3):423–7.
Tower, E. “Economic imperialism and resource nationalism. Comment on Kemp and Ohyama.” Journal of International Economics, vol. 9, no. 3, Jan. 1979, pp. 423–27. Scopus, doi:10.1016/0022-1996(79)90036-9.
Tower E. Economic imperialism and resource nationalism. Comment on Kemp and Ohyama. Journal of International Economics. 1979 Jan 1;9(3):423–427.
Journal cover image

Published In

Journal of International Economics

DOI

ISSN

0022-1996

Publication Date

January 1, 1979

Volume

9

Issue

3

Start / End Page

423 / 427

Related Subject Headings

  • Economics
  • 3803 Economic theory
  • 3802 Econometrics
  • 3801 Applied economics
  • 14 Economics