Factor Proportions, Trade, and Growth

by Ronald Findlay and Ragnar Nurkse Professor of Economics Ronald Findlay

In these six essays Ronald Findlay explores modifications to the factor proportions model, looking in particular at what happens when human capital and land use are allowed to vary endogenously.

The standard version of the Heckscher-Ohlin model of international trade treats the factors of production--land, labor, and capital--as essentially analytically similar and symmetrical. In these six essays Ronald Findlay explores modifications...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262061759
• ISBN13: 9780262061759
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher