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Title: International Trade: Theory and Evidence by James R. Markusen, James R. Melvin, William M. Kaempfer, Keith Maskus ISBN: 0-07-040447-X Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin Pub. Date: 01 November, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $102.25 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: great text!
Comment: We used this as a textbook for a one semester course in international trade relations. The writing is clear and the book is well-organized, making it very readable. It has very few errors, perhaps that's why a new edition hasn't come out lately. Most of the analyses of the models are done graphically and using only algebra, so it is suited for beginners of international trade theory/international economics. The questions at the end of each chapter vary from very easy to difficult, but the difficult ones can be answered after reading the text about two or three times and digesting its contents. This book is aimed primarily for undergraduates but first year graduate students can use this book as a review for more advanced texts in international trade such as "Lectures in International Trade",(1998) by Bhagwati et al. This textbook is highly-recommended and could be a better alternative than Krugman and Obstfeld's popular text ("International Economics: Theory and Policy").
Rating: 4
Summary: Clear exposition - a good text
Comment: This book can be used in the international trade component of a two-semester ug course in international trade and finance (as the editorial review points).
The book uses - at least for me - an extremely useful approach to studying the rudiments of trade theory: after reviewing the standard concepts from consumer and producer theory, it provides a set of sufficient conditions that jointly determine the no-trade world. The core of the text then relaxes each of the mentioned conditions while keeping the others valid, showing why trade arises and at the same time providing a very clear overall picture. All models are discussed in a non-technical way but still with a fair amount of rigour, clearly stating the assumptions and proving the propositions.
The idea of using the revealed preference to show the existence of gains from trade in various settings is defenitely sth worth examining.
The trade policy part offers a chapter on strategic trade policy to shake the validity of the standard "trade barriers are harmful" belief from a perpective that is usually not presented by competitive texts.
Still, two elements could be improved: the part on the link between trade and economic growth is not very readable. Maybe the authors could do sth more about it by using algebra. Secondly, although the concept of intra-industry trade is discussed on many occasions, the authors could consider devoting an additional chapter to it just to summarise the already mentioned ideas.
To conclude: I consider the book as being better than, say, Krugman's or Salvatore's probably more popular texts.
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Title: Free Trade under Fire by Douglas A. Irwin ISBN: 0691088438 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 04 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: International Economics: Theory and Policy (6th Edition) by Paul R. Krugman, Maurice Obstfeld ISBN: 0201770377 Publisher: Pearson Addison Wesley Pub. Date: 26 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $119.00 |
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Title: The Global Resurgence of Democracy by Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner ISBN: 0801853052 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: July, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: United States Trade Policy : A Work in Progress by Charles S. Pearson ISBN: 0471267325 Publisher: Wiley Text Books Pub. Date: 14 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $41.95 |
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Title: Macroeconomics by N. Gregory Mankiw ISBN: 0716752379 Publisher: Worth Publishing Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $126.40 |
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