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Introduction to International Trade and Finance is written for a one semester course in international economics found in undergraduate business programs. The author, Dominick Salvatore, is very well known and respected in this segment of the market. He presents the material using a real-world perspective in order to help readers gain a better understanding of critical concepts.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Importance of International Economics
• Case Study 1-1 The Dell PC Is All But American!
• Case Study 1-2 What Is an "American" Car?
• 1.2 International Trade and the Nation's Standard of Living
• Case Study 1-3 Rising Importance of International Trade to the United States
• 1.3 The Subject Matter of International Economics
• 1.4 Current International Economic Problems
• 1.5 The Globalization Challenge
• 1.6 Organization of the Text
• Summary
• Review Questions and Problems
• Appendix: International Trade Data and Sources of Additional Information
• A1.1 International Trade Data
• A1.2 Sources of Additional International Data and Information
• Selected Bibliography
• Internet
• Part 1 International Trade Theory
• 2 Comparative Advantage
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Mercantilists' Views on Trade
• 2.3 Trade Based on Absolute Advantage
• Case Study 2-1 Mercantilism Is Alive and Well in the Twenty-First Century
• 2.4 Trade Based on Comparative Advantage
• 2.5 Gains from Trade with Comparative Advantage
• 2.6 Comparative Advantage with Money
• Case Study 2-2 The Petition of the Candlemakers
• 2.7 Comparative Advantage and Opportunity Costs
• Case Study 2-3 Labor Productivities and Comparative Advantage
• 2.8 Production Possibility Frontier with Constant Costs
• 2.9 Opportunity Costs and Relative Commodity Prices
• 2.10 Basis for and Gains from Trade Under Constant Costs
• Summary
• Review Questions and Problems
• Appendix: Comparative Advantage with More than Two Commoditiesand Nations
• A2.1 Comparative Advantage with More than Two Commodities
• A2.2 Comparative Advantage with More than Two Nations
• Selected Bibliography
• Internet
• 3 The Standard Trade Model
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 The Production Frontier with Increasing Costs
• 3.3 The Marginal Rate of Transformation
• 3.4 Community Indifference Curves
• 3.5 Equilibrium in Isolation
• 3.6 The Basis and the Gains from Trade with Increasing Costs
• Case Study 3-1 Comparative Advantage of the United States, the European Union, and Japan
• 3.7 Equilibrium Relative Commodity Prices with Trade
• 3.8 Terms of Trade
• Case Study 3-2 Specialization and Export Concentration in Selected Countries
• Case Study 3-3 The Terms of Trade of the G-7 Countries
• 3.9 Specialization, Trade, and Deindustrialization
• Case Study 3-4 The Terms of Trade of Industrial and DevelopingCountries
• Case Study 3-5 Job Losses in High U.S. Import-Competing Industries 70
• Case Study 3-6 International Trade and Deindustrialization in the United States, the European Union, and Japan
• Summary
• Review Questions and Problems
• Appendix: Offer Curves and the Terms of Trade
• Selected Bibliography
• Internet
• 4 The Heckscher-Ohlin and Other Trade Theories
• Introduction
• Factor Endowments and the Heckscher-Ohlin Theory
• The Formal Heckscher-Ohlin Model
• 4.4 Factor-Price Equalization and Income Distribution
• Case Study 4-1 The Revealed Comparative Advantage of Various Countries and Regions
• Case Study 4-2 Has International Trade Increased U.S. Wage Inequalities?
• 4.5 Empirical Tests of the Heckscher-Ohlin Theory
• 4.6 Economies of Scale and International Trade
• Case Study 4-3 The New International Economies of Scale
• 4.7 Trade Based on Product Differentiation
• Case Study 4-4 Growth of Intra-Industry Trade
• 4.8 Technological Gap and Product Cycle Models
• 4.9 Transportation Costs and International Trade
• Case Study 4-5 The United States as the Most Competitive Economy in the World
• 4.10 Environmental Standards and International Trade
• Summary
• Review Questions and Problems
• Appendix : The Specific-Factors and Intra-Industry Trade Models
• A4.1 The