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Table of Contents

    • About the Author
    • Acknowledgments
    • Preface
    • 1Introductory Trade Issues: History, Institutions, and Legal Framework
      • 1.1The International Economy and International Economics
      • 1.2Understanding Tariffs
      • 1.3Recent Trade Controversies
      • 1.4The Great Depression, Smoot-Hawley, and the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act (RTAA)
      • 1.5The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
      • 1.6The Uruguay Round
      • 1.7The World Trade Organization
      • 1.8Appendix A: Selected U.S. Tariffs—2015
      • 1.9Appendix B: Bound versus Applied Tariffs
    • 2A Pure Exchange Model of Trade

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      • 2.1A Pure Exchange Model: Preliminaries

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      • 2.2Indifference Curves

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      • 2.3The Edgeworth Box

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      • 2.4The Terms of Trade

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      • 2.5Evaluating the Gains from Trade

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      • 2.6Achieving a Unique Solution

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      • 2.7Additional Exercises

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    • 3The Pure Exchange Model and Market Ethics

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      • 3.1Self-Interest and Cooperation

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      • 3.2Honesty and Markets

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      • 3.3Property Protection and Markets

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      • 3.4Self-Interest vs. Greed

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      • 3.5Ethics Enforcement

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    • 4Production, Trade, and Comparative Advantage

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      • 4.1Production Possibilities

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      • 4.2The Opportunity Cost of Production

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      • 4.3Absolute and Comparative Advantages

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      • 4.4Gains from Specialization and Trade

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      • 4.5David Ricardo and Comparative Advantage

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      • 4.6A Second Method of Defining Comparative Advantage

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      • 4.7Misunderstandings about Comparative Advantage

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      • 4.8Production Possibilities with More than Two Individuals

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      • 4.9Sources of Economic Growth

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      • 4.10Additional Exercises

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    • 5The Ricardian Theory of Comparative Advantage (Redux)

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      • 5.1The Theory of Comparative Advantage: Overview

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      • 5.2Ricardian Model Assumptions

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      • 5.3The Ricardian Model Production Possibility Frontier

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      • 5.4Definitions: Absolute and Comparative Advantage

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      • 5.5A Ricardian Numerical Example

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      • 5.6Relationship between Prices and Wages

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      • 5.7Deriving the Autarky Terms of Trade

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      • 5.8The Motivation for International Trade and Specialization

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      • 5.9Welfare Effects of Free Trade: Real Wage Effects

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      • 5.10The Welfare Effects of Free Trade: Aggregate Effects

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      • 5.11Appendix: Robert Torrens on Comparative Advantage

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    • 6The Pure Exchange Model Again with Three Traders

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      • 6.1A Simple Pure Exchange Economy

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      • 6.2Determinants of the Terms of Trade

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      • 6.3Example of a Two-Person Trade Pattern

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      • 6.4Three Traders and Redistribution with Trade

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      • 6.5Three Traders with International Trade

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      • 6.6The Nondiscrimination Argument for Free Trade

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    • 7Factor Mobility and Income Redistribution

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      • 7.1Factor Mobility Overview

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      • 7.2Domestic Factor Mobility

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      • 7.3Time and Factor Mobility

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      • 7.4Immobile Factor Model Overview and Assumptions

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      • 7.5The Production Possibility Frontier in the Immobile Factor Model

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      • 7.6Autarky Equilibrium in the Immobile Factor Model

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      • 7.7Depicting a Free Trade Equilibrium in the Immobile Factor Model

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      • 7.8Effect of Trade on Real Wages

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      • 7.9Intuition of Real Wage Effects

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      • 7.10Interpreting the Welfare Effects

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      • 7.11Aggregate Welfare Effects of Free Trade in the Immobile Factor Model

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    • 8The Heckscher-Ohlin (Factor Proportions) Model

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      • 8.1Chapter Overview

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      • 8.2Heckscher-Ohlin Model Assumptions

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      • 8.3The Production Possibility Frontier (Fixed Proportions)

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      • 8.4The Rybczynski Theorem

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      • 8.5The Magnification Effect for Quantities

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      • 8.6The Stolper-Samuelson Theorem

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      • 8.7The Magnification Effect for Prices

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      • 8.8The Production Possibility Frontier (Variable Proportions)

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      • 8.9The Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem

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      • 8.10Depicting a Free Trade Equilibrium in the Heckscher-Ohlin Model

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      • 8.11National Welfare Effects of Free Trade in the Heckscher-Ohlin Model

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      • 8.12The Distributive Effects of Free Trade in the Heckscher-Ohlin Model

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      • 8.13The Compensation Principle

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      • 8.14Factor-Price Equalization

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      • 8.15The Specific Factor Model: Overview

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      • 8.16The Specific Factor Model

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      • 8.17Dynamic Income Redistribution and Trade

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    • 9Economies of Scale and International Trade

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      • 9.1Chapter Overview

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      • 9.2Economies of Scale and Returns to Scale

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      • 9.3Gains from Trade with Economies of Scale: A Simple Explanation

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      • 9.4Monopolistic Competition

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      • 9.5Model Assumptions: Monopolistic Competition

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      • 9.6The Effects of Trade in a Monopolistically Competitive Industry

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      • 9.7The Costs and Benefits of Free Trade under Monopolistic Competition

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    • 10Trade Policy Effects with Perfectly Competitive Markets

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      • 10.1Basic Assumptions of the Partial Equilibrium Model

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      • 10.2The Welfare Effects of Trade Policies: Partial Equilibrium

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      • 10.3The Effects of International Trade

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      • 10.4Depicting a Free Trade Equilibrium: Large and Small Country Cases

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      • 10.5Import Tariffs: Small Country Price Effects

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      • 10.6Import Tariffs: Small Country Welfare Effects

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      • 10.7Import Tariffs: Large Country Price Effects

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      • 10.8Import Tariffs: Large Country Welfare Effects

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      • 10.9The Optimal Tariff

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      • 10.10Retaliation and Trade Wars

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      • 10.11Import Quotas: Large Country Price Effects

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      • 10.12Administration of an Import Quota

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      • 10.13Import Quota: Large Country Welfare Effects

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      • 10.14Import Quota: Small Country Price Effects

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      • 10.15Import Quota: Small Country Welfare Effects

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      • 10.16The Choice between Import Tariffs and Quotas

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      • 10.17Export Subsidies: Large Country Price Effects

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      • 10.18Export Subsidies: Large Country Welfare Effects

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      • 10.19Countervailing Duties

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      • 10.20Voluntary Export Restraints (VERs): Large Country Price Effects

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      • 10.21Administration of a Voluntary Export Restraint

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      • 10.22Voluntary Export Restraints: Large Country Welfare Effects

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      • 10.23Export Taxes: Large Country Price Effects

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      • 10.24Export Taxes: Large Country Welfare Effects

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    • 11Domestic Policies and International Trade

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      • 11.1Chapter Overview

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      • 11.2Domestic Production Subsidies

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      • 11.3Production Subsidies as a Reason for Trade

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      • 11.4Production Subsidy Effects in a Small Importing Country

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      • 11.5Domestic Consumption Taxes

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      • 11.6Consumption Taxes as a Reason for Trade

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      • 11.7Consumption Tax Effects in a Small Importing Country

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      • 11.8Equivalence of an Import Tariff with a Domestic (Consumption Tax plus Production Subsidy)

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    • 12Trade Policies with Market Imperfections and Distortions

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      • 12.1Chapter Overview

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      • 12.2Imperfections and Distortions Defined

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      • 12.3The Theory of the Second Best

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      • 12.4Unemployment and Trade Policy

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      • 12.5The Infant Industry Argument and Dynamic Comparative Advantage

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      • 12.6The Case of a Foreign Monopoly

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      • 12.7Monopoly and Monopsony Power and Trade

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      • 12.8Public Goods and National Security

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      • 12.9Trade and the Environment

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      • 12.10Economic Integration: Free Trade Areas, Trade Creation, and Trade Diversion

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    • 13Political Economy and International Trade

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      • 13.1Chapter Overview

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      • 13.2Some Features of a Democratic Society

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      • 13.3The Economic Effects of Protection: An Example

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      • 13.4The Consumers’ Lobbying Decision

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      • 13.5The Producers’ Lobbying Decision

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      • 13.6The Government’s Decision

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      • 13.7The Lobbying Problem in a Democracy

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    • 14Evaluating the Controversy between Free Trade and Protectionism

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      • 14.1Introduction

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      • 14.2Economic Efficiency Effects of Free Trade

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      • 14.3Free Trade and the Distribution of Income

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      • 14.4The Case for Selected Protection

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      • 14.5The Economic Case against Selected Protection

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      • 14.6Free Trade as the “Pragmatically Optimal” Policy Choice

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