Madrick. He argues that the growth of markets through trade, colonization, and domestic expansion was the predominate factor … in Western economic development. While technological innovation is necessary to growth, it is as much a consequence of … economic opportunity as it is a cause, and perhaps even more a follower of economic growth than a leader. …

article concludes that the book will be required reading for all economists interested in long-run economic growth trends and …

endowments, associated trade diversification paths, openness of low wage Asiatic countries and technological bias in imports. The … growth.(Full text in French) …

terms of trade and in the real exchange rate (the price of tradables relative to the price of nontradables). Canada has … enjoyed vast improvements in its terms of trade over recent years and there is a growing suspicion that real GDP has done an … measures of the terms of trade and real exchange rate effects confirm this view, with the trading gains adding up to 4.8 per …

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 …

This paper provides new estimates of international trade in services for mode 3 (foreign affiliates’sales in a host … country) for four major OECD countries, thanks to the harmonisation of FATS statistics with conventional international trade … ones (trade recorded in the balances of payments – modes 1 and 2), using the CEPII’s exhaustive CHELEM-BAL database. The …