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Discussion About “The Main Contribution of the Ricardian Trade Theory”

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This chapter includes the discussion of the paper “The Main Contribution of the Ricardian Trade Theory” by Ronald W. Jones (Chap. 6 of this book) and of the comments to this paper by M. Scott Taylor (Chap. 7 of this book). It is based on the transcription of the discussion. The session was chaired by Harris Dellas, Professor in International and Monetary Economics at the University of Bern. He has a PhD from the University of Rochester.

Note: This chapter is based on a transcription of the discussion held at the Conference “Celebrating 200 Years of Ricardian Trade Theory” on May 12, 2017, at the University of Basel in Switzerland. The discussion in this Chap. 8 refers to the contents in Chaps. 6 and 7 of this book.

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    Samuelson (1964).

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    Brander and Taylor (1997).

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    Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Basel.

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Dellas, H. (2017). Discussion About “The Main Contribution of the Ricardian Trade Theory”. In: Jones, R., Weder, R. (eds) 200 Years of Ricardian Trade Theory. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60606-4_8

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