[PDF] Evaluation Of The Gatt General Agreement On Tariffs And Trade Regarding The Free Trade Concepts According To David Ricardo eBook

Author : Carolin Wemhoff
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 40,31 MB
Release : 2021-07-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3346444465

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Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich BWL - Wirtschaftspolitik, Note: 1,3, FOM Essen, Hochschule für Oekonomie & Management gemeinnützige GmbH, Hochschulleitung Essen früher Fachhochschule, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: This thesis aims to present the GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) and its historical background in its main features and to examine what extent the GATT corresponds to the free trade conception according to David Ricardo. Historically, free trade is still a relatively new concept. Between the 16th and 18th centuries, in the age of mercantilism, the idea of protectionism still predominated. The interstate exchange of goods is based on the assumption that the own country could make profits at the expense of its trading partners through import quotas and import tariffs. At the same time, attempts are made to support the country's own exports through promotional measures. This protectionist approach has left its mark until today in form of protective tariffs for example. Mercantilism is followed by the idea of liberalism and therefore the idea of free trade. Adam Smith is considered the founder of free trade theory. His model of absolute cost advantage is later developed into the model of comparative cost advantage by the economist David Ricardo.

Author : Craig VanGrasstek
Publisher :
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 30,54 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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The History and Future of the World Trade Organization is a comprehensive account of the economic, political and legal issues surrounding the creation of the WTO and its evolution. Fully illustrated with colour and black-and-white photos dating back to the early days of trade negotiations, the publication reviews the WTO's achievements as well as the challenges faced by the organisation, and identifies the key questions that WTO members need to address in the future. The book describes the intellectual roots of the trading system, membership of the WTO and the growth of the Geneva trade community, trade negotiations and the development of coalitions among the membership, and the WTO's relations with other international organisations and civil society. Also covered are the organisation's robust dispute settlement rules, the launch and evolution of the Doha Round, the rise of regional trade agreements, and the leadership and management of the WTO.

Author : Christopher Findlay
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 17,81 MB
Release : 2009-12-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9814468223

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Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) have proliferated in East Asia as regional economies rush to catch up with the rest of the world — but what difference do they make? This book answers that question by providing an up-to-date assessment of the quality and impact of FTAs in the region. Featuring a collection of papers originally written for the prestigious Research Institute for Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) in Tokyo, it presents contemporary analysis and insights into the evolution of recent FTAs. The book is suitable for use by trade policy negotiators, policy analysts, and people developing business strategies in organizations, as well as graduate students and researchers in the field.

Author : Reinhard Schumacher
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 28,20 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3869561955

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This thesis deals with two theories of international trade: the theory of comparative advantage, which is connected to the name David Ricardo and is dominating current trade theory, and Adam Smith’s theory of absolute advantage. Both theories are compared and their assumptions are scrutinised. The former theory is rejected on theoretical and empirical grounds in favour of the latter. On the basis of the theory of absolute advantage, developments of free international trade are examined, whereby the focus is on trade between industrial and underdeveloped countries. The main conclusions are that trade patterns are determined by absolute production cost advantages and that the gap between developed and poor countries is not reduced but rather increased by free trade.

Author : Dani Rodrik
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 14,49 MB
Release : 2012-05-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0191634255

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For a century, economists have driven forward the cause of globalization in financial institutions, labour markets, and trade. Yet there have been consistent warning signs that a global economy and free trade might not always be advantageous. Where are the pressure points? What could be done about them? Dani Rodrik examines the back-story from its seventeenth-century origins through the milestones of the gold standard, the Bretton Woods Agreement, and the Washington Consensus, to the present day. Although economic globalization has enabled unprecedented levels of prosperity in advanced countries and has been a boon to hundreds of millions of poor workers in China and elsewhere in Asia, it is a concept that rests on shaky pillars, he contends. Its long-term sustainability is not a given. The heart of Rodrik’s argument is a fundamental 'trilemma': that we cannot simultaneously pursue democracy, national self-determination, and economic globalization. Give too much power to governments, and you have protectionism. Give markets too much freedom, and you have an unstable world economy with little social and political support from those it is supposed to help. Rodrik argues for smart globalization, not maximum globalization.

Author : Elhanan Helpman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,15 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262081993

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Centering on questions of the potential optimality of some trade protection, these original contributions present research at the frontier of international trade and trade policy. They expand and test the new trade theory that has developed during the last decade, incorporating elements of industrial organization and political economy into the study of trade structure and the formation of trade policy. Essays in the first two parts take up trade policy, addressing issues such as the formation of trading blocks, strategic trade policy, the political economy of protection, growth-oriented trade policies, and including empirical studies of the welfare effects of quality - upgrading voluntary export restrictions and import quotas. Essays in the third part discuss various structural issues such as trade in services, intersectoral adjustments, and the advantage of early entry. Elhanan Helpman and Assaf Razin are Professors of Economics at Tel Aviv University and NBER Research Associates. Contents: Trade Policy: Theory. Is Bilateralism Bad? Paul R. Krugman. Strategic Trade Policy and Direct Foreign Investment: When Are Tariffs and Quotas Equivalent? James A. Levinsohn. Making Altruism Pay in Auction Quotas, Kala Krishna. On the Ineffectiveness of Made-to-Measure Protectionist Programs, Aaron Tornell. Export Subsidies and Price Competition, Peter Neary. Adverse Selection in Credit Markets and Infant Industry Protection, Harry Flam and Robert W. Staiger. Protection, Politics, and Market Structure, Arye L. Hillman. Growth and Welfare in a Small Open Economy, Gene M. Grossman and Elhanan Helpman. Trade Policy: Evidence. Quality Upgrading and Its Welfare Cost in U.S. Imports, 1969-74, Randi Boorstein and Robert C. Feenstra. Counting the Cost of Voluntary Export Restraints in the European Car Market, Alasdair Smith and Anthony J. Venables. Structural Issues. Services in International Trade, Wilfred J. Ethier and Henrik Horn. First-Mover Advantages, Blockaded Entry, and the Economics of Uneven Development, James R. Markusen. Wage Sensitivity Rankings and Temporal Convergence, Ronald W. Jones and Peter Neary.