Welfare Economics of International Trade
Subtitle: Harwood Fundamentals of Applied Economics
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: May 3, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780415269155
First sentence: Questions relating to the gainfulness or otherwise to international trade and investment have interested economists at least since Adam Smith's rebuttal of the Mercantilist dogma that balanced trade is never gainful, and we now have at our disposal a well-stocked arsenal of pro-positions about the trading gains of single countries and of groups of countries under alternative institutional arrangements and policy choices.