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A Theory of International Trade

Capital, Knowledge, and Economic Structures

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  • © 2000

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Authors:
  1. Wei-Bin Zhang

    1. Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, Singapore

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems (LNE, volume 482)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages iii-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 1-22

  3. Global Growth and Trade Patterns

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 23-40

  4. Growth, Trade, and Wealth Distribution Among Groups

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 41-52

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

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 53-66

  6. Growth and Trade Patterns with National Public Goods

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 67-79

  7. Growth, Trade, and International Migration

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 80-96

  8. Trade with Endogenous Capital and Knowledge

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 97-108

  9. Global Economic Growth with Trade and Research

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 109-123

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

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 124-139

  11. Global Growth, Trade, and Economic Structures

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 140-159

  12. A Multi-Sector Trade Model with Endogenous Knowledge

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 160-174

  13. Further Issues on International Trade

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 175-179

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 180-196
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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.

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  • Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, Singapore

    Wei-Bin Zhang

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