trade in explaining British living standards or growth rates.  We construct a three-region model of the world in which …Many previous studies of the role of trade during the British Industrial Revolution have found little or no role for … find that while trade had only a small impact on British welfare in the 1760s, it had a very large impact in the 1850s …

This paper considers a model of endogenous growth with two sectors. It shows that it may be desirable to concentrate … research in one sector, and so have unbalanced growth, but that the pressure of competition in research may cause the private … sector to spread research too widely, and so have growth that is too balanced. It is also shown that even if private agents …

on economic growth is affected by wealth inequality.  The results suggest (a) that opening to trade tends to accelerate …Panel data on 54 developing countries between 1960 and 2000 are used to investigate how the impact of opening to trade … growth but (b) that the addition to growth depends inversely on the level of wealth inequality prior to opening.  These …

, 2007).  This paper develops a simple theory, in the context of a two sector growth model in which learning-by-doing drives … growth, to explain the time path of inequality following a resource boom.  Under plausible conditions, we find that income …

abolition of the Corn-Laws and to North-South trade are discussed. …

specific purpose. That was the origin of the famous trade model, the Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson (HOS) Model, originally … constructed to model Nineteenth Century transatlantic trade. Despite its simplicity, the HOS model is often invoked in discussions …

can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? Building on Schott (2003), we estimate the production …