The true story of wine and cloth, or: Building blocks of an evolutionary political economy of international trade

Journal of Evolutionary Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 383-417

  Herrmann Pillath, Carsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capabilities to trade; Market access rights; Networks; Power relations among countries; Trading and trade

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748375872     PISSN: 09369937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00191-006-0022-8     Document Type: Article

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