Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. National Bureau of Economic Research v
3. Contents vi
4. Preface ix
5. 1. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Adjustment Processes and Policies: Theoretical Issues
7. 2. Import Competition and Macroeconomic Adjustment under Wage-Price Rigidity 11
8. 3. Intersectoral Capital Mobility, Wage Stickiness, and the Case for Adjustment Assistance 39
9. 4. Government Policy and the Adjustment Process 73
10. 5. Protection, Trade Adjustment Assistance, and Income Distribution 123
11. Part II. Responses to Import Competition: Lobbying et al.
12. 6. Shifting Comparative Advantage, Protectionist Demands, and Policy Response 153
13. 7. Trade in Differentiated Products and the Political Economy of Trade Liberalization 197
14. 8. Endogenous Tariffs, the Political Economy of Trade Restrictions, and Welfare 223
15. 9. Tariff Seeking and the Efficient Tariff 245
16. 10. The Political Economy of Protectionism 263
17. Part III. Adjustment Processes, Assistance Policies, and Political Response: Some Empirical Realities
18. 11. Adjustment in Process: A Lancashire Town 295
19. 12. Trade Adjustment Assistance under the United States Trade Act of 1974: An Analytical Examination and Worker Survey 321
20. 13. European Community Protection against Manufactured Imports from Developing Countries: A Case Study in the Political Economy of Protection 369
21. Contributors 401
22. Author Index 403
23. Subject Index 406