Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Idealised models of 'efficient' international exchange -- 2 Aboriginal external trade and the global evolution of inter-state trade relations -- 3 The national political economy of overseas colonial...

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- PART I: The General Economic Rationale for Offshore Finance Centre Development -- Chapter I: The Importance of National Friction Structures and Distortions Therein and the International Politico-economic Friction Matrix --...