 CommentA chapter in The International Allocation of Economic Activity, 1977, pp 80-91 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract It is an honour, and a thoroughly unearned pleasure, for me to be asked to comment on papers on trade theory by Gottfried Haberler and Bertil Ohlin. So it is with considerable diffidence that I offer my comments here. The papers by Professor Haberler and Ohlin are surveys of a literature that is at least decades, even centuries, old. A discussant can hardly touch on a majority of the points made in these surveys; rather he has to find a point of departure related to his particular comparative advantage with the hope that he can contribute to the discussion. As I read the two surveys, I decided that my contribution might lie in a discussion of recent empirical work on three-factor ‘explanations’ of the composition of trade in manufactured goods, and in a partial defence of the factor-proportions hypothesis concerning the source of comparative advantage. Here I put the word explanations in quotation marks, and mention a partial defence of the factor-proportions hypothesis because almost all of the recent empirical work has been on the factor content of trade; hardly any has been reported on relative factor endowments. Keywords: Human Capital; Comparative Advantage; Foreign Trade; Physical Capital; Labour Input (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-03196-2_5 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-03196-2_5 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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