商品簡介
Helpman (international trade, Harvard U.) summarizes and synthesizes the economics literature on international trade for a nonspecialist audience. His exposition follows the historical development of the field, although it places a greater emphasis on recent work of the past few decades, in way that is structured to highlight the interplay between theoretical development and empirical investigation. He first covers the foreign trade paradigms of David Ricardo, explaining trade flows in terms of labor productivity, and of Eli Heckscher and Bertil Ohlin, explaining trade by differences in factor endowments, as well as the associated topics of gains from trade and distributional conflicts. He next turns to the development of "new" trade theory in the 1980s, discussing trade in goods, foreign direct investment, offshoring, and outsourcing in some detail. The final chapter considers future research directions. Belknap Press is an imprint of Harvard U. Press. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
