[justshutupandtakeit]

It is easy enough to say "Tariff protection did not work." Taussig does not say that at all that is the reality of his study. He can't prove that it worked but neither can he prove that it did NOT work.

[GOPcapitalist]

It is easy enough to say "Tariff protection did not work." Taussig does not say that at all that is the reality of his study.

Yes he does: "little, if any thing, was gained by the protection which the United States maintained in the first part of this [the nineteenth] century."