continuum of goods to show that trade liberalization causes higher unemployment in countries with comparative advantage in … contradicting evidence in the empirical literature on the impact of trade on unemployment. …

This paper addresses the final steps to global free trade – what they might look like, what sort of political economy … here to stay; world trade is regulated by a motley assortment of unilateral, bilateral and multilateral trade agreements; 2 …) this motley assortment is not the best way to organise world trade. Moving to global duty-free trade will require a …

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

former colonies of the same empire erodes as much as trade with the metropole, whereas trade with third countries exhibits …The majority of independent nations today were part of empires in 1945. Using bilateral trade data from 1948 to 2006 …, we examine the effect of independence on post-colonial trade. On average, there is little short run effect of trade with …

have placed an emphasis on the importance of trade with New World colonies, and the expanded supply of raw cotton it … trade with the rest of the world, not the American colonies, that allowed Britain to export its rapidly expanding textile … supply side at center stage, affording little or no role for demand or overseas trade. Recently, alternative explanations …

The paper proposes a general model that will encompass trade and social benefits of a common language, a preference for … externalities and international trade that are typically treated separately. …

internet, publishing and international trade. As to the second question, about the future prospects of English, the chapter …