The paradoxical coexistence between free trade ideology and economic nationalism within left liberals in Britain
The paradoxical coexistence between free trade ideology and economic nationalism within left liberals in Britain
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英国左翼自由主义者内部自由贸易意识形态与经济民族主义的矛盾共存
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10.1080/01916599.2021.1894589
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2021
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0.3
通讯作者：
Tomoari Matsunaga
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木俣元一;松井裕美責任監修（執筆・芳賀京子）;Tomoari Matsunaga
本文对20世纪上半叶英国自由贸易主义者的经济思想进行了新的探讨。以往的研究主要集中在消费主义和理想主义国际主义这两个方面，认为这是英国自由贸易思想的特征。在这样做的时候，他们忽略了英国自由贸易思想的另一个重要方面。也就是说，特别是在左倾自由主义者或新自由主义者的传统中，生产主义的话语和一种强调国内市场而不是外部市场的经济民族主义与对自由贸易的热情支持矛盾地共存。本文主要通过对美国经济学家J·A·M·R霍布森和J. M.凯恩斯众所周知，霍布森和凯恩斯都经常改变他们对外部经济政策的看法，对于如何解释他们不断变化的经济思想一直存在争议。本文还通过观察自由主义传统中经济民族主义与自由贸易意识形态的矛盾共存，对这一问题提出了一种独特的连贯性解释，并对霍布森和凯恩斯的经济思想提供了新的认识。
This paper presents a new perspective on British free traders’ economic thought in the first half of the twentieth century. Former studies have exclusively focused on the aspect of consumerism and idealistic internationalism as the characteristics of British free trade ideology. In so doing, they have overlooked another important aspect of British free traders’ thought. That is, especially within the tradition of left-leaning liberals or New Liberals, the discourse of producerism and a kind of economic nationalism emphasising the home market rather than the external market paradoxically coexisted with fervent support for free trade. This paper elucidates that overlooked tradition of producerism and economic nationalism within liberal economic thought, mainly based on the analysis of the works of J. A. Hobson and J. M. Keynes. Both Hobson and Keynes are known to have frequently changed their opinions on external economic policy, and there has been controversy over how their changing economic thought should be interpreted. This article also suggests an original coherent interpretation regarding this matter by observing the contradictory coexistence of economic nationalism and free trade ideology within the liberal tradition and sheds new light on both Hobson’s and Keynes’s economic thought.