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Essays in International Economic Theory, Volume 2: International Factor Mobility

by Jagdish N. Bhagwati , Robert C. Feenstra
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780262521215
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: MIT Press
  • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press
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  • Pages: 578
  • Original Price: USD 60.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Revised
  • Item Weight: 908 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): International / General

These two volumes contain seventy essays chosen largely for theoriginality of their contributions.The first volume contains several classic papers.Among them are the many contributions to the theory of distortions in the 1960swhich laid the foundations of the postwar theory of commercial policy. Also includedare Bhagwati's important papers of the 1970s and 1980s which have shaped a newrevolution in the theory of trade and welfare: the political-economy-theoreticanalysis of DUP (directly-unproductive profit-seeking) activities. Influentialessays on the nonequivalence of tariffs and quotas, immiserizing growth, cost-benefit analysis in open economies, and other major areas of trade theory arecovered.The second volume presents essays that have opened up new areas of analysisin the theory of international trade and in the associated fields of public financeand developmental economics. Bhagwati's seminal work on the novel question of theappropriate income tax jurisdiction in the presence of international factormobility, his well-known analyses of the consequences of skilled migration, theproblem of the optimal choice between international capital and labor mobility, areall included.

Bhagwati, Jagdish N.: - Jagdish N. Bhagwati is University Professor of Economics, Law, and International Relations at Columbia University and former Adviser to the Director General of GATT, Arthur Dunkel. He is the author (with Arvind Panagariya) of Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries.

Feenstra, Robert C.: - Robert C. Feenstra is Professor of Economics and C. Bryan Cameron Distinguished Chair in International Economics at the University of California, Davis. He directs the International Trade and Investment Program at the NBER and is the author of Advanced International Trade: Theory and Evidence and Offshoring in the Global Economy: Microeconomic Structure and Macroeconomic Implications (MIT Press, 2010).

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