North-South Ricardian trade and growth under the balance-of-payments constraint

Journal of Post Keynesian Economics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 299-324

  Sasaki, Hiroaki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cumulative causation; North South relation; Ricardian trade; Shifts in comparative advantage; Thirlwall's law

Indexed keywords

EID: 59449099834     PISSN: 01603477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/PKE0160-3477310206     Document Type: Article

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