Factor proportions, trade, and growth

Description:

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 to the factor proportions model, looking in particular at what happens when human capital and land use are allowed to vary endogenously.

subjects: Comparative advantage (International trade),  Factor proportions,  Economic development,  Commerce