Conflict, cooperation and change: the political economy of trade and trade policy

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Abstract:: Domestic and international economic policy is still dominated by laissez-faire economics, despite the failure of such policy analysis in the 1980s to have brought about the sort of economic growth and high employment witnessed through the 1950s and 1960s. The dominant feature of international trade theory is the assumed superiority of free trade and non-intervention. In this paper we argue that the neo-classical case for free trade is based on inappropriate assumptions; relax these assumption...
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University of Cambridge

Department:

Judge Business School

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Author

Institution:

University of Oxford

Oxford college:

Kellogg College

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Author

Language:: English
Keywords:: trade policy

globalization

regionalization

managed trade

trade

blocs
Subjects:: Economics
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Local pid:: ora:2199
Deposit date:: 2008-07-23

Copyright holder:: Routledge
Notes:: N.B. Professor Michie was based at the University of Cambridge when this article was first published. The full-text of this article is not available in ORA at this time. Citation: Kitson, M. & Michie, J. (1995). 'Conflict, cooperation and change: the political economy of trade and trade policy', Review of International Political Economy, 2(4), 632-657. [Available at http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713393878~db=all].

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