Machine derived contents note: Contents
Preface vi
About the Author xv
Chapter 1
International Economics Is Different 1
Four Controversies 1
Outsourcing 1
Immigration 3
China?s Exchange Rate 5
Sovereign Wealth Funds 7
Economics and the Nation-State 9
Factor Mobility 9
Different Fiscal Policies 10
Different Moneys 10
The Scheme of This Book 11
Part One
The Theory Of International
Trade 13
Chapter 2
The Basic Theory Using Demand and
Supply 15
Four Questions about Trade 16
A Look Ahead 16
Demand and Supply 17
Demand 17
Consumer Surplus 18
Case Study Trade: Increasingly Important 20
Supply 22
Producer Surplus 22
A National Market with No Trade 23
Two National Markets and the Opening of
Trade 24
Free-Trade Equilibrium 25
Effects in the Importing Country 27
Effects in the Exporting Country 29
Which Country Gains More? 29
Summary: Early Answers to the Four Trade
Questions 30
Key Terms 30
Suggested Reading 31
Questions and Problems 31
Chapter 3
Why Everybody Trades: Comparative
Advantage 33
Adam Smith?s Theory of Absolute
Advantage 34
Case Study Mercantilism: Older than
Smith?and Alive Today 35
Ricardo?s Theory of Comparative
Advantage 37
Ricardo?s Constant Costs and the
Production-Possibility Curve 40
Focus on Labor Absolute Advantage
Does Matter 42
Extension What If Trade Doesn?t
Balance? 44
Summary 45
Key Terms 46
Suggested Reading 46
Questions and Problems 46
Chapter 4
Trade: Factor Availability and Factor
Proportions Are Key 49
Production with Increasing Marginal
Costs 50
What?s Behind the Bowed-Out Production-Possibility
Curve? 50
What Production Combination Is Actually
Chosen? 52
Community Indifference Curves 53
Production and Consumption Together 55
Without Trade 55
With Trade 56
Focus on China The Opening of Trade and
China?s Shift Out of Agriculture 58
Demand and Supply Curves Again 60
The Gains from Trade 60
Trade Affects Production and
Consumption 61
What Determines the Trade Pattern? 62
The Heckscher?Ohlin (H?O)
Theory 63
Summary 64
Key Terms 65
Suggested Reading 65
Questions and Problems 65
Chapter 5
Who Gains and Who Loses from
Trade? 69
Who Gains and Who Loses Within a
Country 69
Short-Run Effects of Opening Trade 70
Long-Run Factor-Price Response 70
Three Implications of the H?O Theory 72
The Stolper?Samuelson Theorem 72
Extension A Factor-Ratio Paradox 73
The Specialized-Factor Pattern 75
The Factor-Price Equalization Theorem 75
Does Heckscher?Ohlin Explain Actual Trade
Patterns? 76
Factor Endowments 77
Case Study The Leontief Paradox 78
International Trade 79
What Are the Export-Oriented and
Import-Competing Factors? 81
The U.S. Pattern 81
The Canadian Pattern 81
Focus on China China?s Exports and
Imports 82
Patterns in Other Countries 84
Do Factor Prices Equalize Internationally? 84
Focus on Labor U.S. Jobs and Foreign Trade 86
Summary: Fuller Answers to the Four Trade
Questions 87
Key Terms 88
Suggested Reading 88
Questions and Problems 88
Chapter 6
Scale Economies, Imperfect Competition,
and Trade 91
Scale Economies 92
Internal Scale Economies 93
External Scale Economies 94
Intra-Industry Trade 95
Monopolistic Competition: The Basics 98
The Monopoly Element: Price Setting 99
The Competitive Element: Entry and Profit
Erosion 101
Monopolistic Competition: Opening to
Trade 101
Basis for Trade 105
Gains from Trade 106
Oligopoly and International Trade 107
Extension The Gravity Model of Trade 108
Substantial Scale Economies 110
Oligopoly Pricing 110
External Scale Economies and Trade 112
Summary: How Does Trade Really Work? 114
Key Terms 117
Suggested Reading 117
Questions and Problems 117
Chapter 7
Growth and Trade 121
Balanced versus Biased Growth 122
Growth in Only One Factor 123
Changes in the Country?s Willingness to
Trade 124
Case Study The Dutch Disease and
Deindustrialization 127
Effects on the Country?s Terms of Trade 127
Small Country 128
Large Country 128
Immiserizing Growth 129
Technology and Trade 131
Individual Products and the Product Cycle 133
Openness to Trade Affects Growth 134
Focus on Labor Trade, Technology, and
U.S. Wages 134
Summary 137
Key Terms 138
Suggested Reading 138
Questions and Problems 139
Part Two
Trade Policy 141
Chapter 8
Analysis of a Tariff 143
Global Governance WTO and GATT: Tariff
Success 144
A Preview of Conclusions 146
The Effect of a Tariff on Domestic
Producers 147
The Effect of a Tariff on Domestic
Consumers 149
The Tariff as Government Revenue 151
The Net National Loss from a Tariff 151
Extension The Effective Rate of Protection 154
The Terms-of-Trade Effect and a Nationally
Optimal Tariff 156
Summary 160
Key Terms 161
Suggested Reading 162
Questions and Problems 162
Chapter 9
Nontariff Barriers to Imports 165
Types of Nontariff Barriers to Imports 165
The Import Quota 167
Quota versus Tariff for a Small Country 167
Global Governance The WTO: Beyond
Tariffs 168
Ways to Allocate Import Licenses 172
Extension A Domestic Monopoly Prefers
a Quota 174
Quota versus Tariff for a Large Country 176
Voluntary Export Restraints (VERs) 178
Other Nontariff Barriers 179
Case Study VERs on Textiles and
Clothing 180
Product Standards 180
Case Study Auto VER: Protection with
Integrity? 182
Domestic Content Requirements 183
Case Study Carrots Are Fruit, Snails Are Fish,
and X-Men Are Not Humans 184
Government Procurement 185
How Big Are the Costs of Protection? 185
As a Percentage of GDP 185
For Specific Products with High Protection 187
International Trade Disputes 189
Focus on China China?s First Years in the
Wto 190
America?s ?Section 301?: Unilateral Pressure 192
Dispute Settlement in the WTO 192
Summary 193
Key Terms 194
Suggested Reading 195
Questions and Problems 195
Chapter 10
Arguments for and against
Protection 199
The Ideal World of First Best 200
The Realistic World of Second Best 201
Government Policies toward Externalities 203
The Specificity Rule 203
Promoting Domestic Production or
Employment 204
The Infant Industry Argument 208
How It Is Supposed to Work 208
How Valid Is It? 209
Focus on Labor How Much Does It Cost to
Protect a Job? 210
The Dying Industry Argument and Adjustment
Assistance 213
Should the Government Intervene? 213
Trade Adjustment Assistance 215
The Developing Government (Public Revenue)
Argument 216
Other Arguments for Protection: Noneconomic
Objectives 217
National Pride 217
National Defense 217
Income Redistribution 218
The Politics of Protection 218
The Basic Elements of the Political-Economic
Analysis 219
When Are Tariffs Unlikely? 220
When Are Tariffs Likely? 220
Case Study How Sweet It Is (or Isn?t) 222
Applications to Other Trade-Policy Patterns 223
Summary 224
Key Terms 226
Suggested Reading 227
Questions and Problems 227
Chapter 11
Pushing Exports 229
Dumping 229
Reacting to Dumping: What Should a
Dumpee Think? 232
Actual Antidumping Policies: What Is
Unfair? 233
Case Study Antidumping in Action 236
Proposals for Reform 239
Export Subsidies 241
Exportable Product, Small Exporting Country 242
Exportable Product, Large Exporting Country 243
Switching an Importable Product into an
Exportable Product 244
WTO Rules on Subsidies 246
Should the Importing Country Impose
Countervailing Duties? 246
Case Study Agriculture Is Amazing 248
Strategic Export Subsidies Could Be Good 251
Global Governance Dogfight at the WTO 252
Summary 256
Key Terms 256
Suggested Reading 257
Questions and Problems 257
Chapter 12
Trade Blocs and Trade Blocks 259
Types of Economic Blocs 259
Is Trade Discrimination Good or Bad? 260
The Basic Theory of Trade Blocs: Trade
Creation and Trade Diversion 262
Other Possible Gains from a Trade Bloc 265
Case Study Postwar Trade Integration in
Europe 266
The EU Experience 267
North America Becomes a Bloc 269
Trade Blocs among Developing Countries 272
Trade Embargoes 274
Summary 279
Key Terms 280
Suggested Reading 280
Questions and Problems 280
Chapter 13
Trade and the Environment 283
Is Free Trade Anti-Environment? 283
Is the WTO Anti-Environment? 288
Global Governance Dolphins, Turtles,
and the WTO 290
The Specificity Rule Again 292
A Preview of Policy Prescriptions 293
Trade and Domestic Pollution 295
Transborder Pollution 298
The Right Solution 299
A Next-Best Solution 301
NAFTA and the Environment 302
Global Environmental Challenges 303
Global Problems Need Global Solutions 303
Extinction of Species 305
Overfishing 306
CFCs and Ozone 307
Greenhouse Gases and Global Warming 308
Kyoto Protocal 310
A Global Approach 311
Summary 313
Key Terms 314
Suggested Reading 314
Questions and Problems 315
Chapter 14
Trade Policies for Developing
Countries 317
Which Trade Policy for Developing
Countrie