ABSTRACT
This volume is contemporary in focus, and explores key issues in current debates concerning international trade policy. The contributors are leading economists and political economists from Britain, Europe, the United States and Japan.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 5|11 pages
International monetary arrangements and international trade
Does the monetary regime matter?
chapter 7|28 pages
International competition and industrial performance
Allocative efficiency, productive efficiency and turbulence
part 8|1 pages
COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER 7
chapter 9|14 pages
THE REGIONAL IMPACT OF INWARD DIRECT INVESTMENT
Some reflections on the issue of measurement
part 20|1 pages
COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER 19
chapter 23|13 pages
FREE TRADE MOVEMENT IN ASIA PACIFIC
APEC’s Osaka Action Agenda and its implications for multilateral trade liberalization
part 24|2 pages
COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER 23
part 26|2 pages
COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER 25
chapter 27|26 pages
RAW MATERIALS IN THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC POLICY
Or why List (the protectionist) and Cobden (the free trader) both agreed on free trade
