International Trade, Welfare, and the Theory of General Equilibrium

This essential volume reflects the continuing and enduring utility of general equilibrium as a framework of analyses. It attempts to reiterate that understanding broad and holistic consequence of economic events and policies go beyond partial equilibrium perspective. Cutting across areas of research, general equilibrium perspectives in terms of small-scale GE models following the theory and perspectives of Ronald Jones can help readers develop informed judgement regarding critical policies. These include but are not limited to several areas of specific interest - the interaction of financial factors with international trade and implications for the 'real sectors' of the economy, the impact of labour market reforms on the unorganised sectors in developing and transition countries, the non-uniform effects of inflation and deflation on internal and external factor flows, and the sought-after relation between foreign investment and skill accumulation.

Sugata Marjit is Reserve Bank of India Professor of Industrial Economics at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. His research interests are International Economics, Economic Development, Governance, Banking and Finance, and Rational Choice Models of Political Economy. He is the editor of the South Asian Journal of Macroeconomics and Public Finance. Saibal Kar is Professor of Economics at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC), India and a Research Fellow of the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Bonn. He is the Managing Editor, South Asian Journal of Macroeconomics and Public Finance (Sage) and the Director of the Eastern Regional Centre of ICSSR.

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