by Robert C. Feenstra (Author), Alan M. Taylor (Author)
About the Author
Robert C. Feenstra and Alan M. Taylor are Professors of Economics at the University of California, Davis. They each began their studies abroad: Feenstra received his B.A. in 1977 from the University of British Columbia, in Canada, and Taylor received his B.A. in 1987 from King’s College, Cambridge, in England. They trained as professional economists in the United States, where Feenstra earned his Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 1981 and Taylor earned his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1992. Feenstra has been teaching international trade at the undergraduate and graduate levels at the University of California, Davis, since 1986, where he holds the C. Bryan Cameron Distinguished Chair in International Economics. Taylor teaches international finance and macroeconomics at the University of California, Davis, where he also holds appointments as Director of the Center for the Evolution of the Global Economy and Professor of Finance in the Graduate School of Management.
Both Feenstra and Taylor are active in research and policy discussions in international economics. They are research associates of the National Bureau of Economic Research, where Feenstra directed the International Trade and Investment research program from 1992 to 2016. They have published monographs in international economics: Offshoring in the Global Economy and Product Variety and the Gains from International Trade (MIT Press, 2010) by Robert C. Feenstra, and Global Capital Markets: Integration, Crisis, and Growth (Cambridge University Press, 2004) by Maurice Obstfeld and Alan M. Taylor. Feenstra received the Bernhard Harms Prize from the Institute for World Economics, Kiel, Germany, in 2006, and he delivered the Ohlin Lectures at the Stockholm School of Economics in 2008. Taylor was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004 and was a Houblon-Norman/George Fellow at the Bank of England in 2009–10.
About this book
Since the first edition of this text, it has been the goal to present the theories of international economics and bring its models alive through applications that draw on world events. All students want to understand the events they see described on their mobile screens, and this book helps them do just that. It is drawn on the very latest research—presented at a level appropriate to undergraduate students—to put solid numbers on the models discussed. The applications deal not only with the economics behind world events but also with the political economy underlying policy decisions.
Brief Contents
Chapter 1: Trade in the Global Economy
Chapter 2: Trade and Technology: The Ricardian Model
Chapter 3: Gains and Losses from Trade in the Specific-Factors Model
Chapter 4: Trade and Resources: The Heckscher–Ohlin Model
Chapter 5: Movement of Labor and Capital Between Countries
Chapter 6: Increasing Returns to Scale and Monopolistic Competition
Chapter 7: Offshoring of Goods and Services
Chapter 8: Import Tariffs and Quotas Under Perfect Competition
Chapter 9: Import Tariffs and Quotas Under Imperfect Competition
Chapter 10: Export Policies in Resource-Based and High-Technology Industries
Chapter 11: International Agreements on Trade and the Environment
Index
Notes
ASIN : B08GL159ZY
Publisher : Worth Publishers; 5th edition (October 23, 2020)
Language : English
Pages : 1218
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