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Record Nr.

UNINA9910961816403321

Autore

Johns Richard Anthony

Titolo

Colonial trade and international exchange : the transition from autarky to international trade / / R.A. Johns

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Bloomsbury, , 2013

ISBN

9781472553683

1472553683

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

Bloomsbury Academic collections: economics

Disciplina

382

Soggetti

Autarchy

Colonies

Commerce

International trade

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reprint. Originally published in 1988 by Pinter Publishers.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Idealised models of 'efficient' international exchange -- 2 Aboriginal external trade and the global evolution of inter-state trade relations -- 3 The national political economy of overseas colonial expansion in historical perspective -- 4 Proto-generic external trade specialisation: some 'regional' aspects of empire -- 5 Exchange aspects of colonial separatism: some macroeconomy effects of trade abnormalisation -- 6 The economics of graduation from colonial to national economy -- 7 Reflective synopsis -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

"International trade theory implicitly assumes that countries participating in external trade each have sovereign status. Its failure to recognise the pervasive importance of colonial trade as an intermediate stage of external trade development, interposed between autarky and 'international trade' narrowly defined creates a serious gap In its explanatory structure and direct applicability. Anthony John's book is an attempt to examine the properties of colonial resource management on the process of territorial specialisation. He considers the implications of such foreign involvement for the trade patterns which may ensue after political independence when formal 'international'



trade entry is effected."--Bloomsbury Publishing.