Richard Riedl compiled the era’s most comprehensive tariff index

Evidence

Richard Riedl, an economist at the Vienna Chamber of Commerce, prepared one of the most extensive reports for the ICC with two publications calling for the sinking of tariffs. At the time his was the most extensive attempt to calculate the tariff index; his calculations covered 402 commodities and fourteen countries. — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 137

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Vienna School of liberal economics background here (the Stubenring group) that links this chapter to the book’s broader cast of Austrian/Habermas-adjacent economists.