We review the literature on the links between technology and international trade. The older literature assumed … relationship between each one of these forms of change in technology with international trade. Apart from integrating much of the … exogenous technologies and focused on their effects on the structure of foreign trade and on welfare. Recently much of the …

International trade has shaped the modern world, yet until now no single book has been available for both economists …. <i>Power and Plenty</i> fills this gap, providing the first full account of world trade and development over the course …-way interplay of trade and geopolitics, and how war and peace have been critical determinants of international trade over the very …

International trade has shaped the modern world, yet until now no single book has been available for both economists …. <i>Power and Plenty</i> fills this gap, providing the first full account of world trade and development over the course …-way interplay of trade and geopolitics, and how war and peace have been critical determinants of international trade over the very …

This paper explores the role of imports as a mechanism of transmission of international technology spillovers and its … significance for the growth of the OECD countries. For this purpose we estimate a version of the growth model proposed by Benhabib … measurement of international technology spillovers instead of using per capita GDP gap in respect to the leader country as …

activity, an advanced export structure and a large domestic market. However, the rapid growth in world trade in this period did … uses the Schumpeterian model of innovation-diffusion as a framework for the study of "why growth rates differ" between … countries, while chapter 3 extends the analysis to include international trade - or "competitiveness" - as well. The main …

.S. productivity levels during the postwar period and finds strong evidence for this phenomenon up to 1990, with rapid growth in … the 1990s, reflecting slower growth in OECD countries, a diminishing of the forces behind the convergence process given …

to a large extent to the differences in their population growth rates, which are due mainly to inter-regional migrations. …

The article reviews Vernon Ruttan's new book, Is War Necessary for Economic Growth? Military Procurement and …-war growth experience can be attributed to them. The reviewer finds that this is not Prof. Ruttan's best work, in part because …

Trends in Globalization’ website (http://ablog.typepad.com/), the paper analyzes growth in four types of country typified by … the EU, the USA, India, and China. The fastest growth has been registered in China, which has followed a policy of … expansionary money with strong banking controls, combined with an investment-led stimulus. Strong growth has also however been …

dependency on resource exploitation and the sustainability of the chosen growth path With few notable exceptions, social theory … growth in demand for labour services, which would be, in Mark Swilling’s terminology, ‘resource-decoupled’, decreasing the … things to invest in humans. This poses an especial challenge for policy, since the growth of the creative industry sector …