An inframarginal approach to trade theory (World Scientific, 2005)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Preface; Contents; CHAPTER 1 DIVISION OF LABOR AND CORNER SOLUTIONS IN POSITIVE TRADE THEORY; CHAPTER 2 ECONOMICS AND BIOLOGY: SPECIALIZATION AND SPECIATION*; CHAPTER 3 SUBSTITUTION AND DIVISION OF LABOUR*; CHAPTER 4 TRADE AND INSURANCE WITH MORAL HAZARD*; CHAPTER 5 TRADE AND INSURANCE WITH IMPERFECTLY OBSERVED OUTCOMES*; Part 3 Exogenous Comparative Advantage: Corner Solutions in the Heckscher-Ohlin and Ricardian Models of Trade; CHAPTER 6 AN INFRAMARGINAL ANALYSIS OF THE RICARDIAN MODEL*; CHAPTER 7 A RICARDIAN MODEL WITH ENDOGENOUS COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE AND ENDOGENOUS TRADE POLICY REGIMES*
Inframarginal analysis represents a methodology that extends marginalanalysis, using non-classical mathematical programming, in efforts toinvestigate corner solutions and indivisibilities. As such thisapproach has been used to reintroduce classical insights regarding thedivision of labor and economic organization to the mainstream ofeconomic inquiry