A Theory of International Trade

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-22

3. Global Growth and Trade Patterns

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   Pages 23-40

4. Growth, Trade, and Wealth Distribution Among Groups

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   Pages 41-52

5. Trade, Time Distribution, and Sexual Division of Labor

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   Pages 53-66

6. Growth and Trade Patterns with National Public Goods

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   Pages 67-79

7. Growth, Trade, and International Migration

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   Pages 80-96

8. Trade with Endogenous Capital and Knowledge

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   Pages 97-108

9. Global Economic Growth with Trade and Research

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   Pages 109-123

10. Trade Patterns in a Multi-Group and Multi-Sector Global Economy

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    Pages 124-139

11. Global Growth, Trade, and Economic Structures

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12. A Multi-Sector Trade Model with Endogenous Knowledge

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    Pages 160-174

13. Further Issues on International Trade

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    Pages 175-179

14. Back Matter

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Over more than two centuries the development ofeconomic theory has created a wide array of different concepts, theories, and insights. My recent book Capital and Knowledge (Zhang, 1999a) shows how separate economic theories such as the Marxian economics, the Keynesian economics, the general equilibrium theory, and the neoclassical growth theory can be examined within a single theoretical framework. The Capital and Knowledge constructs an economic theory to account for the phenomena explained by the main economic theories (of national economies) in a unified manner. It tries to draw together the disparate branches of economics into a single organized system ofknowledge. This book is a part of my economic theory with endogenous population, capital, knowledge, preferences, sexual division of labor and consumption, institutions, economic structures and exchange values over time and space (Zhang, 1996a). As an extension of the Capital and Knowledge, which is focused on the dynamics of national economies, this book is to construct a theory of international trade. We are concerned with dynamic relations between international division of labor, division of consumption and determination of prices structure in global economy. We examine dynamic interdependence between capital accumulation, knowledge creation and utilization, economic growth, price structures and international trade patterns under free competition. Our theory is constructed on the basis of a few concepts within a compact framework.

• Außenhandel
• Global Growth
• Global economy
• International Trade
• Knowledge
• Preferences
• Präferenzen
• Trade theory
• Wissen
• globales Wachstum

• Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, Singapore

  Wei-Bin Zhang

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