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Comparative Advantage in a Changing Global Economy

In: Comparative Advantage, Growth, And The Gains From Trade And Globalization A Festschrift in Honor of Alan V Deardorff

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  • Avinash Dixit

    (Princeton University, USA)

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It is a special pleasure and privilege for me to be speaking at Alan Deardorff's 65th birthday celebration, and on the subject of comparative advantage. We have close connections in both respects. We were born only two days apart — he on D-day, and I on D + 2. And for a while we worked along closely parallel lines, albeit in total ignorance of each other's work. I still remember the pleasure I felt when I discovered his papers on generalizing comparative advantage: the fact that someone deeply immersed in the traditions of international trade had independently thought it useful to reformulate the question in the same way, and proceed to develop the theory very similarly, was comforting to Victor Norman and me, who were relative amateurs bumbling into the field…

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  • Avinash Dixit, 2011. "Comparative Advantage in a Changing Global Economy," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Robert M Stern (ed.), Comparative Advantage, Growth, And The Gains From Trade And Globalization A Festschrift in Honor of Alan V Deardorff, chapter 4, pages 21-25, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789814340373_0004
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