International Trade

Jacob Viner's The Customs Union Issue was originally published in 1950 by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. It set the framework for ...

Empty shelves, petrol station queues and energy shortages: crises more familiar to those who lived through the 1960s and 1970s have now become a re...

The collapse in commodity prices since 1980 has been a major cause of the economic crisis in a large number of developing countries. This book inve...

Michael Schaller supplies the historical background to show how the US transformed Japan from enemy to ally, covering the crucial years from 1945 t...

This book is written out of a conviction that development economics needs to draw more heavily and systematically on recent advances in knowledge m...

This title is comprised of 19 commissioned articles which are mainly focused on the timely global issues of volatility in equity and foreign exchan...

The second edition of this classic text on international economics includes three completely new chapters on the environment and trade policy, stra...

This first of three volumes focuses on the evolution of Bengal's economy and society before colonisation beginning from pre-historic days. With no ...

How might Russia and Eurasia attract private investment and trade from the West over the next several years, and what conditions in Russia and Eura...

Exploring the movement of peoples, perfumes, and spices across vast distances in this period of medieval history across Asia, the Middle East, and ...

This first of three volumes focuses on the evolution of Bengal's economy and society before colonisation beginning from pre-historic days. With no ...

Why didn't the protectionist spiral of the 1920s reappear in the 1970s in light of similar economic and political realities? In Resisting Protectio...

Growth miracles typically have been studied at the country level. The Making of Miracles in Indian States breaks from that tradition and studies th...

In these heady days of ever increasing globalization it has become vital to question whether governments should be allowed to protect domestic ente...

Substantial progress in the fight against extreme poverty was made in the last two decades. But the slowdown in global economic growth and signific...

In its first seven years, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) tripled trade and quintupled foreign investment among the U.S., Mexico, a...

This volume brings together many of the leading international figures in development studies, such as Jose Antonio Ocampo, Paul Krugman, Dani Rodri...

More than 50 developing countries depend on three or fewer commodities for more than half of their exports and, in fact, many rely on a single comm...

In The Politics of CANDU Exports, Duane Bratt provides a comprehensive history of the export of the Canada Deuterium-Uranium (CANDU) reactor - a pr...

The European Union, the world's foremost trader, is not an easy bargainer to deal with. Its twenty-five member states have relinquished most of the...

This detailed account of the politics of opening agricultural markets explains how the institutional context of international negotiations alters t...

As a top 20 global economy and tech powerhouse, a liberal democracy on the frontline of autocratic pressure and a pivotal component in the free and...

This book concentrates upon the historic associations of the marketplace in the work of Aristotle, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and demonstrates how what...

First published in 1960 Trade with Communist Countries presents an important research report for the first time covering the essential facts and dr...

This second yearbook of The Vienna Institute for Comparative Economic Studies presents studies dealing with the economic situation in Eastern Europ...

With ever increasing levels of international trade, many countries are now completely dependent on cross border trade. However, the suspicion that ...

The focus of this volume is the rise and fall of the Indian maritime merchant in the early modern period: the heyday of Moghul Surat, the appearanc...

Ethical sourcing, both through fair trade and ethical trade, is increasingly entering the mainstream of food retailing. Large supermarkets have com...

Translated from the Russian. Edited and with a foreword by Serge L. Levitsky. A systematic and authoritative analysis of current Soviet legislation...

Textiles in the Pacific, 1500-1900 brings together 13 articles which include both classics and lesser-known but important works related to the trad...

During the 1990s, the Eastern Caribbean was caught in a bitter trade dispute between the US and EU over the European banana market. When the Worl...

Precious metals played a key role in inter-continental trade between Europe and Asia in the early modern period. An assured supply of these metal ...

International Trade Theories and the Evolving International Economy provides a much-needed from which to approach this topic, offering a self-conta...

Richard Harris's now classic study on trade and industrial policy was written for the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospe...

Over the past two decades, sales of fair trade coffee have grown significantly and the fair trade network has emerged as an important international...

A Splendid Exchange tells the epic story of global commerce, from its prehistoric origins to the myriad crises confronting it today. It travels fro...

Under the Reagan presidency, the United States saw a period of strong economic growth. Analyzing the evolution of US foreign trade and its impact o...

Marshaling a great deal of new information in a highly readable manner, the author explains the reasons for the dramatic expansion of arms sales du...