Services in the Global Market
Service activities are at the heart of a major economic revolution taking place all around us. This new economic revolution is equivalent to the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century, the rise of the guilds in the Middle Ages, and the shift from a hunter/gatherer economy to an agricultural...
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1987, 1987
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1987 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Brave New World of Intelligence
- Utility, disutility, and value
- What makes services valuable?
- The three-factor theory revisited
- The international dimension
- 3 Trade Classifications and Trade Determinants
- Defining and classifying services
- Testing times for comparative advantage
- H-O and services
- 4 Definitions, Functions and Regulations
- What is “labor”?
- Tradeability
- Functions
- Regulations
- Data problems
- Concluding remarks
- 5 Facts and Figures
- Banking
- Telecommunication and data services
- Insurance and reinsurance
- Transport
- Professional, business, and scientific services
- Distribution services
- Final consumer services
- Government services
- 6 The Internationalization Process
- From trade to integration
- Frorn integration to networking
- Services and developing countries
- 7 Technology and Trade, Two Sides of the Same Coin
- The new look of international trade
- Trade regulation in a new environment
- Scope and coverage of international trade regulations
- 8 A New Framework for Trade in Services: Rationale, Methodology, and Scope
- GATT and services: a bird’s eye view
- Could GATT apply?
- The story of the shoe
- FLK, UK, and international economic relations
- 9 By Way of Conclusion