Explanations are provided for why governments do as they do in agriculture. Alternative
frameworks are assessed to explain government policy including collective action and …

This book provides a special interest theory of protection, developing a full general
equilibrium theory that explains the distribution of income with goods markets, factor …

We use disaggregated data on trade flows, production, and trade barriers for 41 countries in
1988 to examine the political and economic determinants of nontariff barriers, as well as the …

International trade seems to be a subject where the advice of economists is routinely
disregarded. Economists are nearly unanimous in their general opposition to protectionism …

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This paper incorporates the foreign interest in the determination of a country's international
trade policy into a model of political competition between candidates contesting elective …

Microeconomic theory can serve at least two useful functions in the development of a
coherent theory of political economy. First, the logic of individual choice is developed in …

It is a well-established proposition of trade theory that in the absence of directly trade-related
distortions or policy goals subsidies are superior to tariffs for achieving any economic or non …

This research analyzes the International Trade Commission's anti‐dumping decisions from
1980 to 1986. The results suggest that commissioners use criteria consistent with the …

This paper employs a three-factor Ricardo-Viner model of a small economy to analyse the
effect of a falling world import price on the domestic price of the economy's importable good …