The world economy : trade and finance /
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| Language: | English |
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Fort Worth :
The Dryden Press, Harcourt Brace College Publishers,
c1994.
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
| Series: | The Dryden Press series in economics
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Table of Contents:
- Why Study International Economics?
- What Do We Mean by International Interdependence?
- The Economic Significance of Political Boundaries
- Studying International Economics
- International Microeconomics
- Comparative Advantage I: Labor Productivity and the Ricardian Model
- Early Thinking about Trade: The Mercantilists
- The Decline of Mercantilism (and the Birth of Economics)
- Keeping Things Simple: Some Assumptions
- The Ricardian World without Trade
- The Ricardian World with Trade
- The Gains from Trade: Exchange and Specialization
- Using Demand and Supply to Analyze Trade
- Can the Ricardian Model Really Explain Trade?
- Does Labor Productivity Really Vary?
- Turning Back Trade Turns Back the Clock
- What Can the World Produce? The World Production Possibilities Frontier
- Comparative Advantage II: Factor Endowments and the Neoclassical Model
- The Neoclassical World without Trade
- The Neoclassical World with Trade
- Sources of Comparative Advantage
- Do Autarky and Trade Matter? The Two Koreas
- From Fish to Information Technology
- Socks: Made in USA
- Can Heckscher-Ohlin Explain China's Trade?
- The Edgeworth Box
- Offer Curves
- Trade, Distribution, and Welfare
- Partial- and General-Equilibrium Analysis
- How Do Output Prices Affect Factor Prices? The Stolper-Samuelson Theorem
- How Do Factor Prices Vary across Countries? The Factor Price Equalization Theorem
- What If Factors Are Immobile in the Short Run? The Specific-Factors Model
- Trade and Welfare: Gainers, Losers, and Compensation.