Rethinking Trade and Commercial Policy Theories: Development Perspectives - Hardcover

Ho, P. Sai-wing

 
9781840649420: Rethinking Trade and Commercial Policy Theories: Development Perspectives
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1840649429 ISBN 13: 9781840649420
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

Mainstream trade and commercial policy theories with lineage traced back to Smith, Ricardo, Torrens, and Mill have often trivialised the process of development as static resource allocation. Peter Sai-wing Ho re-interprets the works of these classical economists and those of the so-called 'protectionists' Hamilton, List, Manoïlesco, Prebisch, Myrdal, and Singer to offer an alternative framework that considers the role of trade, foreign investment, and technology in engendering uneven development. The author reveals that these protectionists actually offered sophisticated prescriptions involving non-trade instruments, interweaving import-substitution with export-promotion, and emphasising indigenous technological-capability cultivation.

This controversial book offers a unique approach to rethinking the trade and development literature and will therefore strongly appeal to researchers, academics, and students of trade and development as well as those involved in the history of economic thought.

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About the Author

P. Sai-wing Ho, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Denver, US

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Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1840649429
ISBN 13 
9781840649420
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
424