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Eli Heckscher, International Trade, and Economic History
"The contributors first discuss Heckscher's efforts to forge the discipline of economic history by combining both the historian's careful evaluation of sources and the economist's rigorous models. The Heckscher-Ohlin theory of factor proportions is described and tested empirically. Contributors then apply the theory to historical material, including Mediterranean trade in Biblical times, the ec…
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- 1 online resource (xi, 560 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations
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Exchange Rate Regimes: Choices and Consequences
An empirical study of exchange rate regimes based on data compiled from 150 member countries of the International Monetary Fund over the past thirty years.Few topics in international economics are as controversial as the choice of an exchange rate regime. Since the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system in the early 1970s, countries have adopted a wide variety of regimes, ranging from pure float…
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- 9780262273770
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- 1 online resource (232 pages) :illustrations
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Exchange Rates under the East Asian Dollar Standard: Living with Conflicted V…
Essays by prominent scholars and policymakers honor one of the most influential macroeconomists of the last thirty years discussing the themes behind his work.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262279550
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- 1 online resource (xix, 491 pages) :illustrations
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Globalizing innovation :state institutions and foreign direct investment in e…
The impact of host country institutions and policy on innovation by multinational firms in emerging economies. In the past, multinational firms have looked to developing countries as sources of raw materials, markets, or production efficiencies, but rarely as locations for innovation. Today, however, R & D facilities and other indicators of multinational-linked innovation are becoming more comm…
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- 9780262344265
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- 1 online resource (xx, 291 pages) :illustrations
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When things don't fall apart :global financial governance and developmental f…
An account of the significant though gradual, uneven, disconnected, ad hoc, and pragmatic innovations in global financial governance and developmental finance induced by the global financial crisis. In When Things Don't Fall Apart, Ilene Grabel challenges the dominant view that the global financial crisis had little effect on global financial governance and developmental finance. Most observers…
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- 9780262344043
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 372 pages)
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Bring the world to the child :technologies of global citizenship in american …
How, long before the advent of computers and the internet, educators used technology to help students become media-literate, future-ready, and world-minded citizens. Today, educators, technology leaders, and policy makers promote the importance of "global," "wired," and "multimodal" learning; efforts to teach young people to become engaged global citizens and skilled users of media often go han…
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- 9780262356732
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- 1 online resource (296 pages).
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Managing Institutional Complexity: Regime Interplay and Global Environmental …
"A Core Research Project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)."Here, experts investigate how states and other actors can improve inter-institutional synergy. They examine the complexity of over-lapping environmental governance structures.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298346
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 353 pages) :illustrations.
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Going alone :the case for relaxed reciprocity in freeing trade
An analytic and empirical study of unilateral trade liberalization agreements, from the nineteenth century to the present.Since the end of World War II, the freeing of trade has been most visible in reciprocal liberalization agreements negotiated under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, or GATT, and through increasing bilateral and plurilateral agreements. There has also, however, been…
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- 9780262268455
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- 1 online resource (xii, 586 pages) : illustrations
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Science and Technology in the Global Cold War
Investigations of how the global Cold War shaped national scientific and technological practices in fields from biomedicine to rocket science.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262326100
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- 1 online resource (viii, 456 pages) :illustrations.
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Multinational firms and the theory of international trade
Despite the great importance of multinational firms in international economics, theoretical and empirical research on these firms has generally been conducted separately from that on international trade. In this book, James Markusen provides a comprehensive integration of the two fields. Drawing on twenty years of research, he focuses on the interaction of scale economies, trade costs, factor e…
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- 9780262279154
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 440 pages) :illustrations
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