Afonso, Óscar - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2001
economic growth and the theory of international trade, during the ‘classic period’, constituted two inseparable branches of … economics. In this epoch, it was believed that international trade has a positive effect on the economic growth. Later, during …. Consequently, the importance of international trade was neglected in the context of economic growth, especially until the 1960’s …