Throughout his political economy, Carey asserted that there was a harmony of interests among men and nations in their economic relationships. Unfortunately, the British system of free trade was not in keeping with this harmony. It was his opinion that countries like India, for example, that were in trade-dependent relationship with Great Britain, were farther from development than they would have been, were they not forced to trade with the British’ (R. Morrison, Henry C. Carey and American Economic Development, 1986, p. 71).