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While several specialistic fields of economics have been developed as distinct branches of general economic theory only in relatively recent times, the presence of a specific treatment of the theory of international economic transactions is an old and consolidated tradition in the economic literature. Various reasons can be advanced to explain the need for this specific treatment, but the main ones are the following.
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Gandolfo, G. (2004). Introduction. In: Elements of International Economics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07005-5_1
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