Trade in Transit: World Trade and World Economy -- Past, Present, and Future

ISBN-13: 9789401577373 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 338 str.

H. Visser; E. Schoorl

Opis

PAPERsJOF THE WORLD TRADE CONFERENCE 1985 HELD IN AMSTERDAM ON THE OCCASION OF THE OPENING OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER AMSTERDAM ON 4,5, AND 6 SEPTEMBER 1985 Between the covers of this book the reader will find the papers presented at the World Trade Conference 1985, held on 4,5 and 6 September 1985. This conference was organized by the World Trade Center Amsterdam, the University of Amsterdam and the Free University of Amsterdam on the occasion of the opening of the World Trade Center Amsterdam. The aim was to bring together businessmen, academics and policy makers in order to study pro blems of international trade and finance from a variety of viewpoints, sc. of those who are engaged in the cut and thrust of trade and finance, those who analyse it without being themselves involved, and those who regulate it. Hopefully this resulted in some useful cross fertilisation. The conference covered not only the whole globe, including the Japanese threat, the problems of the dollar, East-West trade, the Pacific Basin, barter trade etcetera, but also spanned a long historical period. The present and the future were examined, but also the past. The articles provide a round-up of what's going on in the field of international trade and finance. They cover a wide field, not remaining within the traditional boundaries of international economics. At the same time, the organizers strove to avoid shallowness."

Spis treści

Opening lecture.- Peace and trade: The classical vs the marxian view.- James and John Mill on comparative advantage: Sraffa’s account corrected.- The financial conditions for sustaining the present recovery.- World trade and international finance: lessons from the past.- The influences of international capital flows on world trade.- High-tech and the changing shape of world trade.- International equilibrium — Some longer-term issues.- The trend in world protectionism.- The United States economy in transition.- The role of domestic US economic and financial policy in the world economy: cures that could be worse than the disease.- Exchange stability, international monetary coordination, and the U.S. Federal Reserve System.- Surveillance over exchange rate policies.- The future of North—South relations: alternative approaches.- Countertrade: a disruptive phenomenon in international trade.- Barter: the misunderstood alternative.- East—West trade and the role of the Western government.- Some thoughts about East—West economic relations and the world economy.- Did the exchange rate stability within the EMS contribute to more trade?.- The viability of the ECU.- The Pacific Basin, recent economic and financial developments.- The trading company: past and future.- Success factors for the next ten years: an approach to the development of international trading.- The consumer in world trade.- Export finance from a Keynesian point of view.- Doing business crossculturally: International trade and the resurgence of Islam.