Trade, people and places: A social economic-geographic approach to comparative institutional advantage

Review of Social Economy

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 469-499

  Schneider, Geoffrey ^a   Susman, Paul ^a  

^a BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative advantage; Comparative institutional advantage; Geography; Social economics; Trade

Indexed keywords

EID: 46849097772     PISSN: 00346764     EISSN: 14701162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00346760801932684     Document Type: Article

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