Author : Leonard Gomes
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 36,3 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
"The book does so by reviewing and integrating doctrinal history and past policy debates. First the book deals with the doctrinal evolution of the economics of free trade from the mercantilists onwards (including the reaction against classical economics by Friedrich List and the American national economists).
Author : David A. Lake
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 27,36 MB
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501723049
No detailed description available for "Power, Protection, and Free Trade".
Author : Douglas A. Irwin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 26,92 MB
Release : 1998-01-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691058962
A delightful as well as educational read. It should be a set text for anyone interested in trade policy - The Economist.
Author : Jagdish N. Bhagwati
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,15 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262521505
"Through a combination of text, quotations, cartoons, tables, charts, and graphs, Bhagwati ... looks at the forces for and against protection."--Jacket.
Author : Bernard Semmel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 31,98 MB
Release : 2004-02-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521548151
The Rise of Free Trade Imperialism seeks to uncover some of the intellectual origins of the imperialism of the classic period, the sources from which later theories of imperialism were constructed, and the character of the ideology which underlay the dismantling of the old colonial system and the construction of the Victorian Pax Britannica. The author discusses the development and diffusion of a number of the central arguments of the 'science' of political economy, from the standpoint of a historian rather than an economist, which were crucial not only to the construction of theories of capitalist imperialism, but also served as a spur both to efforts at colonization, and to establishing a British Workshop of the World.
Author : Devashish Mitra
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 31,16 MB
Release : 2016-03-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9814569151
The Political Economy of Trade Policy: Theory, Evidence and Applications is a collection of sole-authored and co-authored papers by Devashish Mitra that have been published in various scholarly journals over the last two decades. It covers diverse topics in the political economy of trade policy, ranging from the role of modeling lobby formation in the context of trade policy determination to its applications to the question of unilateralism versus reciprocity and trade agreements. It also includes the theory and the empirics of the choice of policy instruments. Finally, the book presents the empirical investigation of the Grossman-Helpman “Protection for Sale” model as well as the Mayer “Median-Voter” model of trade policy determination.
Author : Barrister and Professor of International Commercial Law Ian Fletcher
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,59 MB
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780578082615
Are you wondering how Americans can compete with nations like China? Are you wondering how, if they can offshore call centers, computer programming, and accounting, there will be any good jobs left they can't offshore? Are you wondering how America can keep importing and running up debt without going bankrupt? Are you wondering how America can be a powerful nation without an industrial base? Are you wondering why the politicians keep denying all of these problems? Are you wondering whether the economics you learned in school and hear on TV is really valid? Are you wondering who you can trust? This very readable book is aimed at both ordinary concerned citizens and people with a bit of sophistication about economics. It is a systematic examination of why free trade is slowly bleeding America's economy to death and what can be done about it. It explains in detail why the standard economic arguments free traders use all the time are false, and what kind of economic ideas - well within the grasp of the average American - justify protectionism instead. It examines the history and politics of free trade and explains how America came to adopt its present disastrous free trade policy. It looks at the breakdown of specific industries and how we can rebuild them and bring millions of high-paying jobs back to this country. It examines what's wrong with NAFTA, CAFTA, the WTO, and the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership. It is sharply critical of the current establishment, but from a bipartisan point of view, so it should satisfy progressives, conservatives, and everyone in between. Unlike many past critiques of free trade, it is economically-literate; it also explains New Trade Theory, the hot new area of economics that critiques free trade.
Author : Lavoie, Marc
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 25,78 MB
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1802206957
Post-Keynesian Growth Theory is a collection of 18 articles by Marc Lavoie, published between 1995 and 2020, with an extended foreword by Eckhard Hein. Marc Lavoie’s introduction recalls how he became attracted to the post-Keynesian theory of growth more than 45 years ago and explains how and why this book came about.
Author : Robert Sirico
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 11,15 MB
Release : 2012-05-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1596988118
Thirty years ago, the economic system of the Soviet empire—socialism—seemed definitively discredited. Today, the most popular figures in the Democratic Party embrace it, while the shapers of public opinion treat capitalism as morally indefensible. Is there a moral case for capitalism? Consumerism is an appalling spectacle. Free markets may be efficient, but are they fair? Aren’t there some things that we can’t afford to leave to the vicissitudes of the market? Robert Sirico, a onetime leftist, shows how a free economy—including private property, legally enforceable contracts, and prices and interest rates freely agreed to by the parties to a transaction—is the best way to meet society’s material needs. In fact, the free market has lifted millions out of dire poverty—far more people than state welfare or private charity has ever rescued from want. But efficiency isn’t its only virtue. Economic freedom is indispensable for the other freedoms we prize. And it’s not true that it makes things more important than people—just the reverse. Only if we have economic rights can we protect ourselves from government encroachment into the most private areas of our lives—including our consciences. Defending the Free Market is a powerful vindication of capitalism and a timely warning for a generation flirting with disaster.
Author : Reinhard Schumacher
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 21,14 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3869561955
This thesis deals with two theories of international trade: the theory of comparative advantage, which is connected to the name David Ricardo and is dominating current trade theory, and Adam Smith’s theory of absolute advantage. Both theories are compared and their assumptions are scrutinised. The former theory is rejected on theoretical and empirical grounds in favour of the latter. On the basis of the theory of absolute advantage, developments of free international trade are examined, whereby the focus is on trade between industrial and underdeveloped countries. The main conclusions are that trade patterns are determined by absolute production cost advantages and that the gap between developed and poor countries is not reduced but rather increased by free trade.
