Das neue Buch von Heike Knortz verdeutlicht den Zusammenhang von bereits kurz nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges einsetzenden Migrationsbewegungen und wirtschaftlicher Zusammenarbeit in Europa. Die Wirtschaftshistorikerin verbindet in ihrer Analyse historische Migrationsforschung mit...

Angaben aus der Verlagswerbung: Das bewährte Lehrbuch behandelt zum einen die Prinzipien der internationalen Arbeitsteilung, ihre Auswirkung auf die Volkswirtschaften, die Hypothesen zur Erklärung von Güterbewegungen und Faktorwanderungen, das Konzept des Handelsgleichgewichts sowie die...

World trade is not only an economic but also a social, political, environmental, labor and legal matter. Economists and government planners aim at finding the efficient trade policy which enhances economic welfare and growth in a more harmonious and sustainable way. This book contains 12...

The paper departs from the perception that trade in services in general and developing countries' exports in services in particular are dynamic segments of world trade. Both total trade data as well as US import trade figures do not support this perception. Success episodes such as the recent...

Globalization improves the prospects for developing countries (DCs) to catch up economically with industrialized countries. Depending on economic policies with respect to openness and factor accumulation, globalization may increase capital and technology flows to DCs, thereby generating a higher...

Openness appears to have a strong impact on economic growth especially in DCs, which typically exhibit a high share of physical capital in factor income and a low share of labor. In the neoclassical growth model with partial capital mobility, physical capital's share in factor income determines...