附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-177) and index.
Cover; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Key to Abbreviated References; Preface; 1 Historical Dynamics: Cosmopolitan and International; I Vision and Analysis; II From Cosmopolitan to International; III A Language of the Past and Present?; Part I: From Cosmopolitan to International: Four Classical Visions of Commercial Openness; 2 Trading in Innovation: Hume and the Case for Freer Trade; I Economics and the Science of Man; II Hume as the Antidote to Mercantilism; III Trade Jealousy and Trade War; IV Towards an Economic Sociology of Technical Change.
摘要:In this enlightening book, John Berdell addresses the widely-held belief that classical economics distanced itself from policy issues and public debates regarding the effects of international trade on economic growth in advanced economies. He argues, through a detailed consideration of the evolution and structure of Hume's, Smith's, Ricardo's and Malthus' analyses, that it is not only contemporary international economic theory which takes account of these issues. Berdell uses a series of non-linear dynamic models to illustrate and analyze important aspects of each author's discussion to the in.
