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Structural Change and Patterns of International Trade

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Book cover Causes of Changes in the Structure of International Trade, 1960–85

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What determines the commodity pattern of trade between countries? Why does one country export textiles and another export wine? This has long been the central question of trade theory.

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  1. Robert E. Baldwin
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Exeter, UK

    John Black (Professor of Economic Theory) (Professor of Economic Theory)

  2. University of Lancaster, UK

    Alasdair I. MacBean (Professor of Economics) (Professor of Economics)

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Baldwin, R.E. (1989). Structural Change and Patterns of International Trade. In: Black, J., MacBean, A.I. (eds) Causes of Changes in the Structure of International Trade, 1960–85. International Economics Study Group. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10131-3_2

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