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Offshoring in the Global Economy: Microeconomic Structure and Macroeconomic Implications

Feenstra, Robert C. - The MIT Press

workers in the middle of the wage distribution. In Offshoring in the Global Economy, noted economist Robert Feenstra offers a …, prices, and productivity on the macroeconomics of offshoring. In a concluding chapter, he addresses the broader implications … of both empirical and theoretical work on offshoring and suggests directions for future research. Ohlin Lectures series …

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Aggregation: Aggregate Production Functions and Related Topics

Fisher, Franklin M. (contributor); Monz, John (contributor) - The MIT Press

Aggregation lies at the heart of macroeconomics. Economists using such aggregates as capital, investment, labor, and even output or GNP assume that such constructions have a sound analytic foundation. The question of the existence of aggregate production functions is not only part of the...

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Geography and Trade

Krugman, Paul - The MIT Press

"I have spent my whole professional life as an international economist thinking and writing about economic geography, without being aware of it," begins Paul Krugman in the readable and anecdotal style that has become a hallmark of his writings. Krugman observes that his own shortcomings in...

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Illicit Trade and the Global Economy

Storti, Cláudia Costa (contributor); … - The MIT Press

As international trade has expanded dramatically in the postwar period--an expansion accelerated by the opening of China, Russia, India, and Eastern Europe--illicit international trade has grown in tandem with it. This volume uses the economist's toolkit to examine the economic, political, and...

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Trade Policy Disaster

Irwin, Douglas A. - The MIT Press

The recent economic crisis--with the plunge in the stock market, numerous bank failures and widespread financial distress, declining output and rising unemployment--has been reminiscent of the Great Depression. The Depression of the 1930s was marked by the spread of protectionist trade policies,...

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Global Trade and Conflicting National Interests

Gomory, Ralph E.; Baumol, William J. - The MIT Press

In this book Ralph Gomory and William Baumol adapt classical trade models to the modern world economy. Trade today is dominated by manufactured goods, rapidly moving technology, and huge firms that benefit from economies of scale. This is very different from the largely agricultural world in...

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Market Structure and Foreign Trade: Increasing Returns, Imperfect Competition, and the International Economy

Helpman, Elhanan; Krugman, Paul - The MIT Press

Market Structure and Foreign Trade presents a coherent theory of trade in the presence of market structures other than perfect competition. The theory it develops explains trade patterns, especially of industrial countries, and provides an integration between trade and the role of multinational...

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Comparative Political Economy

Kindleberger, Charles P. - The MIT Press

Charles P. Kindleberger's rich and distinguished career has spanned nearly six decades. The essays collected here reflect the author's shift in interests from foreign exchange to international trade, economic growth, and economic history, especially financial history. They also contain dollops...

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Mexico-U.S. Free Trade Agreement

Garber, Peter M. - The MIT Press

The seven contributions in this book examine the potential impact of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Mexico on the U.S. economy. They cover such key aspects as the general sources of comparative advantage between Mexico and the U.S., regional and local effects on production...

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Real-Financial Linkages among Open Economies

Arndt, Sven W. (contributor); … - The MIT Press

The contributions in this book identify and take up an important problem in international economics -- the split in theoretical and empirical work in international finance and in international trade. This book is unique in attempting to link these two aspects of the international economy...

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