Trade Policy and Economic Welfare

Corden, W. Max., Professor of International Economics, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University   Second Edition
Abstract: Expounds the normative theory of trade policy and sets out a framework for analysing trade and other intervention policies in the presence of domestic distortions. It includes discussion of static and dynamic arguments for protection, especially the infant industry argument, effects of trade policy on income distribution, monopoly, X-efficiency, foreign investment, and capital accumulation, and the choice between tariffs and subsidies as methods of protection. Chapters especially written for the second edition cover the environment and trade policy, strategic trade policy, and the relationship between trade policy and the exchange rate. The book contains many diagrams and very little mathematics.

Keywords: environment, exchange rate, infant industry, international trade, protection, subsidies, tariffs, trade policy