International trade : a European text / Peter Sinclair, Paul Brenton, Henry Scott.
By: Brenton, Paul
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Contributor(s): Scott, Henry | Sinclair, Peter.
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BookPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997Description: xv, 380 p. : ill ; 23 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0198774443 (pbk); 0198774435 (hbk.Subject(s): International trade | Europe -- CommerceDDC classification: 382.094 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 382.094 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00016215 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Trade within the EU has been freed, but European and foreign barriers still restrict trade with the rest of the world. Rapid growth in East Asia, and liberalization in Eastern Europe, pose facinating and urgent questions for West European policy. Some of the questions this book setsa out to answer are: why do countries trade?; who gains?; who could lose?; why are some goods exported, others imported, and yet others both exported and imported?; how does imperfect competition modify trade?; what impact do regional trade barriers have?; why do they exist?; what effects do regional trade blocs have, and is their enlargement a cause for worry?; what is the significance of increasing capital mobility across frontiers?; what are the links between trade and growth, and trade and employment?; and how do environmental considerations affect trade and trade policy? These are some of the questions this book sets out to answer.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-374) and index.
Introduction and overview -- Labour productivity and comparative advantage -- Neo-classical production -- Reciprocal demand and trade -- Factor endownments -- Trade and technology -- International trade and imperfect competition -- Testing trade theories -- Theory of trade policy -- Strategic trade policy -- International factor migration -- Trade and growth -- Trade blocs -- Trade, competitiveness, employment and wages -- The political economy of protection -- Trade and the environment -- European Union trade policy and developing countries -- The European Union's trade policy and the CAP.