On explore les relations entre lesproblemes d'efficacite et de redistribution dans la theorie du commerce international. D'abord, dans une version dynamique du modele de Ricardo, l'analyse d'un cas tres stylise montre que des effets d'apprentissage par l'experience peuvent induire des...

The paper presents a brief review of recent work that focuses on the normative economics of international trade. In an Heckscher Ohlin - like economy, with skilled and unskilled workers, the available redistributive tools, (that include income taxation) are not powerful enough to allow the...

The paper discusses the concept of "expectational market failures" ; it attempts to assess the scope for Government intervention aiming at stabilizing economic agents' expectations. The Rational Expectations Hypothesis, "evolutive" and "eductive" learning credibility, "indicative Planning",...

This paper considers a simple "three goods" model and focuses attention on the expectational stability of its equilibria. The setting allows us to describe stylised general equilibrium macro interactions : firms hire workers and then sell production to buyers whose purchasing power depends on...

The paper analyses the robustness of the conclusions previously obtained showing that, in a simple three-goods model, the success of "eductive" expectational coordination relates with low supply elasticity, high demand elasticity, and high marginal propensity to consume (or high "elementary...