The 1980s have seen significant advances in coordinating analyses of foreign trade with those of industrial organization. Contributors to this volume illuminate topics in trade theory, including the role of R & D, the nature of gains from trade, the part played by scale economies, the arguments for intervention, theories of intra-industry trade, international capital movements under monopolistic competition, and economic integration and product differentiation.
The 1980s have seen significant advances in coordinating analyses of foreign trade with those of industrial organization. Contributors to this volume ...
As the world economy becomes more integrated, products become more globalized. Airplanes, automobiles, computers, watches, and garments are among products whose constituent parts are made all over the world. This volume presents arguments and evidence showing that this process is benign: it raises competitiveness, creates jobs, and enhances economic welfare.
As the world economy becomes more integrated, products become more globalized. Airplanes, automobiles, computers, watches, and garments are among prod...
Henryk Kierzkowski Marek Okolski Stanislaw Welliss
On attaining office in Autumn 1989, the Solidarity-led government in Poland faced two enormous tasks. First was the restoration of stability to an economy prone to hyperinflation; second, was the replacement of a crumbling command system in favour of a market mechanism, in a country whose market institutions had been destroyed under 40 years of communist rule. Stabilization and Structural Adjustment in Poland recounts the events of this period and the course taken by the new government. The authors analyze the issues involved and their significance for the transition process in Poland and...
On attaining office in Autumn 1989, the Solidarity-led government in Poland faced two enormous tasks. First was the restoration of stability to an eco...
Global Production and Trade in East Asia focuses on the profound change that the traditional paradigm of production and international trade has undergone in the last two decades or so as a result of worldwide trade and investment liberalization. This ongoing transformation has been both aided and stimulated by advances in telecommunications, transportation, and information management. The liberalization of trade and investment on the one hand and advances in communications technology on the other have further promoted global production networks in which vertical stages of final goods...
Global Production and Trade in East Asia focuses on the profound change that the traditional paradigm of production and international trade h...
The central question of "Europe and Globalization" is "what did Europe do for globalization in the past, and what is globalization doing for Europe today?" The contributors to the volume assess this complex process, and Europe's role within it.
The central question of "Europe and Globalization" is "what did Europe do for globalization in the past, and what is globalization doing for Europe to...
