is to show how a dictatorship can manipulate trade policy to maintain its grip on power in the face of permanent world …

This paper shows how a world price shock can increase the likelihood that democratization must be used to resolve the … threat of revolution. Initially, a ruling elite may be able to use trade policy to maintain political stability. But a world … resolve. Because the world price shock may also reduce average incomes, the model provides a way to understand why the level …

Second World War and of China during more recent decades as being the result of selective protection and industrial targeting …

The world economy has become more open and integrated in recent years. Countries are more engaged in international … mind when they talk about the 'internalisation' or 'globalisation' of the world economy. While the general trend toward … disagreement on whether all this is on balance good or bad - for the world economy and for individual countries and their citizens …