The Economics and Politics of International Trade: Freedom and Trade (Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy, 10)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 9
List of tables......Page 10
List of contributors......Page 12
General editors\' preface......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 18
Introduction GARY COOK......Page 20
Reconsidering free trade FRANK HAHN......Page 32
Ricardo\'s difficult idea: Why intellectuals don\'t understand comparative advantage PAUL KRUGMAN......Page 41
Commentary on Chapter 3 JACOB KOL......Page 56
International monetary arrangements and international trade: Does the monetary regime matter? K.ALEC CHRYSTAL......Page 61
Commentary on Chapter 5 PARMJIT KAUR......Page 72
International competition and industrial performance: Allocative efficiency, productive efficiency and turbulence JOHN R.BALDWIN AND RICHARD E.CAVES......Page 76
Commentary on Chapter 7 LYNDEN MOORE......Page 104
The regional impact of inward direct investment: Some reflections on the issue of measurement DAVID WILLIAMS......Page 105
Commentary on Chapter 9 GEORGE A.PETROCHILOS......Page 119
Shallow foundations: Labour and the selective regulation of free trade ROBERT O\'BRIEN......Page 124
Commentary on Chapter 11 GEORGE A.PETROCHILOS......Page 144
Richard Cobden and the democratic peace MARTIN WOLF......Page 149
Commentary on Chapter 13 JACOB KOL......Page 162
The Corn Laws and the CAP CHRISTOPHER BLISS......Page 167
Commentary on Chapter 15 HYLKE VANDENBUSSCHE......Page 185
Antidumping actions in high technology industries: The case of semiconductors HARALD GRUBER......Page 188
Commentary on Chapter 17 HYLKE VANDENBUSSCHE......Page 204
Subsidies, exchange rates and job protection in the British steel industry, 1967  85 ANTHONY COCKERILL......Page 207
Commentary on Chapter 19 LYNDEN MOORE......Page 235
East-West trade in transition: The case of Austria JARKO FIDRMUC, CHRISTIAN HELMENSTEIN AND PETER HUBER......Page 236
Commentary on Chapter 21 MAGDOLNA SASS......Page 255
Free trade movement in Asia Pacific: APEC\'s Osaka Action Agenda and its implications for multilateral trade liberalization IPPEI YAMAZAWA......Page 258
Commentary on Chapter 23 GARY COOK......Page 271
Knowledge, trade and growth ALVIN BIRDI......Page 273
Commentary on Chapter 25 GARY COOK......Page 292
Raw materials in the history of economic policy ERIK S.REINERT......Page 294
Commentary on Chapter 27 PARMJIT KAUR......Page 320
Index......Page 323