Format:
1 online resource (319 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415679107
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9781136646317
Series Statement:
Routledge Revivals Series
Content:
First published in 1962, The Theory of Economic Integration provides an excellent exposition of a complex and far-reaching topic
Note:
Intro -- The Theory of Economic Integration -- Copyright -- THE THEORY OF ECONOMIC INTEGRATION -- Copyright -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- The Concept and Forms of Integration -- The Recent Interest in Economic Integration -- Integration and Politics -- The "Liberalist" and the "Dirigist" Ideal of Economic Integration -- Economic Integration and Welfare -- Some Fundamental Problems of Integration -- Appendix: The Sectoral Approach to Integration -- Part I. The Statics of Economic Integration -- Chapter 2 Commodity Movements: Production Aspects -- The Theory of Customs Unions -- Trade Creation and Trade Diversion -- Complementarity and Competitiveness -- Size of the Union -- Propinquity and Transportation Costs -- Height of Tariffs -- Reallocation of Production in a European Union -- Production Effects in a Latin-American Union -- Chapter 3 Commodity Movements: Consumption and Welfare Aspects -- Consumption Effects -- Terms of Trade Effects -- Administrative Economies -- Changes in Welfare -- Appendix: Problems of a Free Trade Area -- Chapter 4 Factor Movements -- Commodity Movements and Factor-Price Eqaulization -- Economic Effects of Factor Movements -- Labor Movements -- Capital Movements -- Movements of Entrepreneurial Resources -- Part II. The Dynamics of Economic integration -- Chapter 5 National Frontiers and Economic Growth -- Growth Models and Technological Change -- Views on the Interrelationship of Market Size and Growth -- Market Size and Productivity: Conceptual Problems -- Productivity Levels and Market Size -- The Market-Size Hypothesis: Criticism and Further Evidence -- Large-Scale Economies in Present-Day Integration Projects -- Chapter 6 Economies of Scale -- Concepts of Internal Economies -- Intraplant Economies -- A Comparison of Plant Sizes
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Selected Bibliography -- Indexes -- Author Index -- Subject Index
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The Relationship between Plant Size and Productivity: Industry Studies -- Plant Size and Efficiency for Homogeneous Products -- European Economic Integration and Economies of Scale -- Internal Economies in Latin-American Union Projects -- Interplant Economies -- Chapter 7 External Economies -- Concept and Classification of External Economies -- Pecuniary External Economies -- Market Size and External Economies -- Specialization in a Large Market -- External Economies in Present-Day Integration Projects -- Chapter 8 Further Dynamic Factors -- Economic Integration and Market Structures -- Market Size and Concentration: Some Empirical Evidence -- Problems of Competition in Present-Day Integration Projects -- Autonomous Technological Change -- Risk and Uncertainty in Foreign Transactions -- Investment Activity in a Union -- The Impact of a Union on Non-participating Economies -- Part III. Integration and Economic Policy -- Chapter 9 Regional Problems in a Common Market -- Location Theory and Regional Analysis -- Agglomerative Tendencies in Regional Development -- Patterns of Regional Development -- Economic Integration and Regional Policy -- The Objectives and Tools of Regional Development Policies in an Integrated Area -- Chapter 10 Harmonization of Social Policies -- Wage Differentials within a Union -- Social Benefits Financed by Enterprises -- Social Benefits Financed from General Taxes -- Social Policy Problems in a Union -- Chapter 11 Fiscal Problems in a Union -- Budgetary Problems in a Common Market -- The Harmonization of Production Taxes -- Problems of Consumption Taxes in a Union -- The Treatment of Direct Taxes -- Chapter 12 Monetary Unification and the Balance of Payments -- Regional Analysis of Monetary Problems -- Balance of Payments in a Union -- Fixed or Flexible Exchange Rates? -- Economic Policy for Stability and Growth
Additional Edition:
Print version Balassa, Bela The Theory of Economic Integration (Routledge Revivals) Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2011 ISBN 9780415679107
Language:
English
Keywords:
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