Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Preface -- The roadmap -- 1 Mapping the meaning of "transaction" -- 1.1. The ideas of transaction in Coase (1937) and (1960) -- 1.2. John Commons's formulation of transaction -- 1.3. Each...

We argue that the US trade and industry sector has experienced several unsustainable sectoral processes, including (i) a fall in the trade balance in machinery and equipment and high-tech (HT) industries, (ii) a rise in import multipliers in machinery and equipment and HT industries, (iii) a...