International trade : theory and evidence / James R. Markusen, James R. Melvin, Wiliam H. Kaempfer and Keith E. Maskus.

Preface, xxi -- Part I. Technical concepts and the gains from trade -- 1. Introduction, 3 -- 2. Supply and production possibilities, 17 -- 3. Preferences, demand, and welfare, 38 -- 4. General equilibrium in open and closed economies, 52 -- 5. The gains from trade, 61 -- Part II. Cause and consequences of trade -- 6. The causes of international trade, 79 -- 7. Differences in technology 84 -- 8. The Heckscher-Ohlin model, 98 -- 9. The specific-factors model, 127 -- 10. Government policies as determinants of trade, 142 -- 11. Imperfect competition as a determinant of trade and the gains from trade, 159 -- 12. Increasing returns to scale, 174 -- 13. Tastes, per capita income, and technological change as determinants of trade, 196 -- 14. Empirical studies of comparative advantage models, 216 -- Part III. Trade policy -- 15. Tariffs, 245 -- 16. Quotas and other nontariff barriers, 268 -- 17. Imperfect competition, increasing returns, and strategic trade policy, 292 -- 18. Preferential trade areas, 312 -- 19. The political economy of trade policy, 324 -- 20. Administered protection, 341 -- Part IV. Factor trade, growth and the theory of direct foreign investment -- 21. Trade in factors of production, 375 -- 22. Direct foreign investment and multinational firms, 394 -- 23. Factor accumulation and intertemporal trade, 409 -- Appendix 1: More on community indifference curves, 427 -- Appendix 2: The offer curve, 435 -- Appendix 3: Extensions of the Heckscher-Ohlin model, 445 -- Appendix 4: The specific-factors model: An alternative approach, 452 -- Index, 465.