Klappentext: Early modern trade and shipping through the Danish Sound has attracted the interest of many historians since a long time. A prominent reason for this is that the route via the Sound connected Europe?s main economies with the economically important Baltic Sea region. The other reason...

Contents -- Foreword -- Bozhong Li -- Foreword -- Maarten Duijvendak -- Emperors of the Qing Dynasty -- List of Maps, Figures and Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Chinese Terms -- About the Guan (Customs Office) -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Research Approach -- 1.1 Previous Research...

This book gauges possible development implications of current WTO trade negotiations by examining various proposals and assessing their likely economic impact. The experiences of a number of countries at different levels of development and across various regions are examined to ascertain the...

Cover -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- I -- 1. Comparative Advantage and Factor Mobility -- 2. The Cost of Protectionism with High International Mobility of Factors -- 3. On the High Cost of Maintaining a Tariff -- II -- 4. Comparing the Canadian and American Economies -- 5. Canadian...

In Neoliberal Frontiers, Brenda Chalfin presents an ethnographic examination of the day-to-day practices of the officials of Ghana's Customs Service, exploring the impact of neoliberal restructuring and integration into the global economy on Ghanaian sovereignty. From the revealing vantage point...

Intro -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- I: Tariffs and Trade Agreements -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. "A 3X3 Model of Customs Unions" Journal of International Economics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Notation and assumptions -- 3. The analysis of prices -- 4. Utility analysis -- 5. The customs union...