William H. Kaempfer, Edward Tower and Thomas D. Willett, "Trade Protectionism",
in The Encyclopedia of Public Choice, edited by Charles K. Rowley and Friedrich Schneider
(October, 2003),
pp. 550-576, Kluwer Academic Publishers
(last updated on 2010/05/14)
Abstract: This paper is a short, nontechnical exposition of the
political economy of protection. It asks how do political
forces operate to generate protection, and what determines
the magnitude and form that protection takes.