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... Essays in the History of International Trade Theory. By Arthur I. Bloomfield. Brookfield, Vt.: Edward Elgar, 1994. 273 pp. $59.95. An economist interested in writing on the history of international trade theory must do two things after reading the prim’ary literature. First, consult the writings...

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... Genovesi’s theory of production as an inquiry into the proportionality conditions that productive activities should meet for a well-functioning polity to persist over time. Third, our argument emphasizes the importance of Genovesi’s analysis of production structures for his theory of internal and foreign...

... their ideas, and how industrialization became a key concern, requires paying closer attention to the geopolitical changes brought by World War II. We discuss how Argentina and Brazil, their home countries, navigated the troubled waters brought by the war and the international trade disruptions and turned...

... Essai , relevant passages from the English versions of Cantillon’s writings. Two kinds of development can be seen in his writings. The first kind of development, internal to each of the versions of his work, is due to the way in which Cantillon builds up his theories. Since he typically starts from...

.... The final essay of the book, “Aspects of the Theory of International Trade in France: 1800-1 9 14,” completes the review and evaluation of French contributions to trade theory that Bloomfield began in the previous piece 51 years earlier. The conclusion regarding nineteenth-century French...

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..., U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2001. 242 pp. $80.00. International trade theory demonstrates that, for a country with a small, distortion- free economy, free trade maximizes social welfare. If the country is large enough to influence the terms of trade, a tariff can improve on the free trade result...

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.... Takuo Dome, Osaka University InternationalTrade and PoliticalInstitutions: Instituting Trade in the Long Nineteenth Century. By Fiona McGillivray, Iain McLean, Robert Pahre, and Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2001. 242 pp. $80.00. International trade theory...

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... thought. It does not emphasize the ideas recorded in mercantilist writing (char- 3. Cf. Andrea Maneschi, “Dynamic aspects of Ricardo’s international trade theory,” Oxford Economic Papers, March 1983. 4. “Mr. Ricardo and the moderns,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Aug. 1977; Cas- arosa...

... international trade theory, in which Morishima proceeds to “modernize” Ricardo’s trade theory by making a number of un-Ricardian assumptions, such as that (a) workers can freely migrate from one country to the other; (b) capital is also mobile, so that the profit rate is equalized everywhere, and (c...