This essay analyzes the differences between the economies of industrialized countriesand developing countries, which have important implications for macroeconomics in terms of theory and policy. It considers the differences in macroeconomic objectives and examines why the reach of macroeconomic...

The free-trade argument as situated in the normative dimension of orthodox theory had an explicit prescriptive role of expressing that free trade is efficient. Moreover, the factor-price equalisation theorem as framed in the positive dimension of orthodox theory served an implicit prescriptive...