International Trade, Factor Movements, and the Environment

ISBN-13: 9780198290506 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 352 str.

Michael Rauscher

Opis

This is a theoretical study of the relationship between international trade policies and environment policy, which has become a major theme in international policy disputes. Rauscher investigates whether free trade and globalizing markets are bad for the environment, or whether environmental policies can be used to improve international competitiveness. He also examines the political use of lax environmental regulation to help domestic producers.

Recenzje

This book provides a thorough account of the static theory of international trade in the presence of national and trans-boundary environmental externalities...not only is Rauscher very comforatble with the techniques of comparative statics, but that he is also adept at getting maximum mileage from the use of such techniques. After posing different questions in trade and the environment as static optimization problems, Rauscher skillfully performs algebraic manipulations, applies Cramer's rule, and makes reasonable assumptions in order to sign as many of the relevant derivatives, as possible. I suspect that researchers working in this area, and other Kyklos readers who are interested in becoming knowledgeable about the scope of static analysis in trade and the environment, will want to read this book. - Amitrajeet Batabyal. Utah State University.