International Trade Theories and the Evolving International Economy

In: Bloomsbury Academic Collections: Economics Ser

Abstract

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Part I: Trade and the International Economy -- 1 Boundary-transcending technologies, trade development and the micro-structural activities of firms -- 2 Borders, national industrial structures and international trade relations -- 3 The changing parameters of external trade: the integration and growth of the international economy in historical perspective -- Part II: General Theoretical Approaches to the Explanation of Trade Flows -- 4 Methodological aspects of conventional explanations of international trade flows -- 5 The classical concept of comparative advantage: the cosmopolitan model of national industrial specialisation and international exchange -- 6 The neo-classical Heckscher-Ohlin theory -- 7 Post-Leontief orthodox trade explanations and models -- Part III: The Structural Transformation of the International Trading System and Analyses of Specific Economic Relationships -- 8 International 'competitiveness' and "revealed" comparative advantage -- 9 Modern industrial trade structures and their new orientations for trade theory -- 10 The analysis of dependent trade relationships as an outcome of international exchange -- Appendix: The fragmentation of sovereignty: countries of the world by region, year of independence, and size of population -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.