International economics : theory and policy
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International economics : theory and policy
Harper Collins College Publishers, c1994
3rd ed
Available at 71 libraries
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  Gifu
  Shizuoka
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
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  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
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  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Using a step-by-step approach, the text builds a unified framework international economics. It includes three new chapters covering regional economic issues (including location theory), optimum currency areas and the European Community, and the problems of former communist countries in the transition to a market economy. Topical new applications include the US oilseed dispute with Europe, the BCCI scandal, Third-World debt forgiveness and "1980-1993 - disinflation, recovery and the global slump".
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Introduction: international trade theory
- labour productivity and comparative advantage - the Ricardian model
- specific factors and income distribution
- resources and trade - the Heckscher-Ohlin model
- the standard trade model
- economics of scale, imperfect competition and international trade
- international factor movements. Part 2 International trade policy: regional economics issues
- the instruments of trade policy
- the political economy of trade policy
- trade policy in developing countries
- industrial policy in advanced countries. Part 3 Exchange rates and open-economy: national income accounting and the balance of payments
- exchange rates and the foreign-exchange market - an asset approach
- money, interest rates and exchange rates
- price levels and the exchange rate in the long run
- output and the exchange rate in the short run.
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