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Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey

Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey is Reader in Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the author of From the Corn Laws to Free Trade: Interests, Ideas, and Institutions in Historical Perspective (MIT Press).

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From the Corn Laws to Free Trade

Interests, Ideas, and Institutions in Historical Perspective
By Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey

The repeal of Britain's Corn Laws in 1846—one of the most important economic policy decisions of the nineteenth century—has long intrigued and puzzled political scientists, historians, and economists. Why would a Conservative prime minister act against his own party's interests?