| Titre | Adam Smith : The Demise of the Colonial Relationship with America | |
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| Auteur | Andrew S. Skinner | |
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Revue | Cahiers d'économie politique |
| Numéro | no 27-28, automne 1996-printemps 1997 Le libéralisme à l'épreuve : de l'empire aux nations. (Adam Smith et l'économie coloniale) | |
| Page | 113-130 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Having offered some account of Smith's assessment of the conduct of the War of Independence, the paper is divided into three main parts. In Part I we consider Smith's account of the mercantile relationship which existed between Great Britain and her American Colonies. This relationship is shown to have conferred major benefits on both parties, économie and military, through providing a system of complementary markets.
But in Part II Smith is seen to have concentrated on the point that the mercantile policy which he described was fundamentally flawed ; flawed in that the rapid rate of growth in America would eventually confront the restraints currently imposed upon her. The strategy was also flawed, on Smith's account, in the Great Britain's rate of growth had been adversely affected by the link with America. The last section of the argument is concerned with Smith's preferred solution : an incorporating union which would eventually see the transfer of economic and political power to Philadelphia. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cep_0154-8344_1996_num_27_1_1198 |
