How Nations Grow Rich: The Case for Free Trade

by Melvyn Krauss

There can be no doubt, writes economist Melvyn Krauss, that the prosperity of the industrial nations since the Second World War has been due largely to global specialization and interdependence. No one country does all tasks today -- products are designed in one country, produced in another and assembled in a third. The increased standard of living resulting from global specialization in turn has led to the growth of the modern welfare state, including...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195112377
• ISBN13: 9780195112375
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.6"