International Trade

Description

This new edition of International Trade has been rewritten to provide an up-to-date, clear and comprehensive account of the most important developments currently taking place in the world economy. The topic-driven text introduces the reader to the major economic theories and models, with an emphasis on changes within the world trading system and how governments respond. Features include: an expansion of chapter three to include some formal models of intra-industry trade under imperfect competition a restructuring of the text to create two separate chapters on Japan and newly industrialising countries, updating and incorporating new material new sections on Strategic Trade Policy and on the Political Economy of Protectionism a new chapter providing a more extensive treatment of the institutional aspects of world trade, in particular to discuss the deliberations of the World Trade Organization Extra pedagogical content in the form of background boxes, comprehensive suggestions for further reading and a glossary.

Nigel Grimwade is Principal Lecturer in Economics and Head of Economics Division in the Business School at South Bank University. He is the author of International Trade Policy: a Contemporary Analysis, published by Routledge in 1996 and has written extensively on aspects of International Trade and International Trade Policy.