Book Reviews

2011 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 162-164

James E. Rauch of University of California, San Diego reviews “Emergent Economies, Divergent Paths: Economic Organization and International Trade in South Korea and Taiwan” by Robert C. Feenstra and Gary G. Hamilton. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins, “Studies the business groups in South Korea and Taiwan and what their different paths of development say about economic organization. Discusses the problem of economic organization; interpreting business groups in South Korea and Taiwan; a model of business groups--the interaction of authority and market….”

2011 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 747-749

David E. Weinstein of Columbia University reviews “Product Variety and the Gains from International Trade” by Robert C. Feenstra. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Explores the methods that have been developed to measure the product variety of imports and exports in international trade and the gains from trade due to product variety. Discusses consumer benefits from import variety; producer benefits from export variety; the extensive margin of trade and country productivity; and product variety and the measurement of real gross domestic product. Feenstra is Professor of Economics and C. Bryan Cameron Distinguished Chair in International Economics at the University of California, Davis. Index.”


2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 191-192

Robert C. Feenstra of University of California, Davis reviews “Understanding Global Trade” by Elhanan Helpman. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins: Explores the forces that shape international trade and the organization of production across national boundaries. Discusses comparative advantage; gainers and losers; scale and scope; the impact of trade on reallocations within industries that are populated by firms with different productivities; and offshoring and outsourcing. Helpman is Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade at Harvard University. Bibliography; index.


2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sung-Jin Kim ◽  
Jung-Min Kim ◽  
Joo-Cheol Shim ◽  
Beom-Joo Seo ◽  
Sung-Soo Jung ◽  
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