Aspects of the theory of tarriffs / Harry G. Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Harry G.

Series:

Collected Works of Harry G. Johnson

Collected Works of Harry G. Johnson ; Volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tariff.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (467 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Oxfordshire, England ; New York : Routledge, 2013, c1971.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

An internationally acknowledged authority on all aspects of the theory of international trade and payments, this book collects Harry Johnson’s contributions to the study of international trade, including a critique of the theory of effective protection. The book discusses: the integration of income distribution and other aspects of the economy into the positive theory of tariffs the issues raised by the use of tariffs to promote economic development the implications of distortions of various kinds in the working of competition for tariff theory and policy the costs of protection the implications of effective protection for world economic development and the economic effects of trade preferences the question of free trade and the extent to which it requires the harmonization other aspects of economic policy.

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Introduction; I THE POSITIVE THEORY OF TARIFFS; 1 International Trade, Income Distribution, The Offer Curve, and the Effects of Tariffs; Appendix: An Alternative Derivation of the Transformation Curve and Income Distribution Function; 2 A Generalized Theory of the Effects of Tariffs on the Terms of Trade (with Jagdish Bhagwati); 3 Tariffs and Economic Development: Some Theoretical Issues; II TARIFFS AND DISTORTIONS

4 Optimal Trade Intervention in the Presence of Domestic Distortions5 Factor Market Distortions and the Shape of the Transformation Curve; 6 The Gain from Exploiting Monopoly or Monopsony Power in International Trade; 7 Two notes on tariffs, distortions and growth; III THE COST OF PROTECTION; 8 The Cost of Protection and the Scientific Tariff; 9 The Costs of Protection and Self-Sufficiency; 10 An Economic Theory of Protectionism, Tariff Bargaining, and the Formation of Customs Unions; Appendix: The Limits of Non-Discriminatory Reciprocal Tariff Reduction; IV THE THEORY OF EFFECTIVE PROTECTION

11 The Theory of Content Protection12 The Theory of Tariff Structure, with special reference to world trade and development; 13 The Theory of Effective Protection and Preferences; 14 A Model of Protection and the Exchange Rate; 15 Effective Protection and General Equilibrium Theory; V TARIFF REDUCTION AND POLICY HARMONIZATION; 16 The Implications of Free or Freer Trade for the Harmonization of other Policies; Index of Subjects; Index of Names

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed July 12, 2013).

ISBN:

9781032051369

1032051361

9780203491560

0203491564

9781134624126

1134624123

OCLC:

851695568