Economists who explained why countries trade and how trade policy affects them, from comparative advantage to the new trade theory. An economist belongs here when the cited article credits the person with work on international trade. The group brings together the entries filed under the heading International Trade Theorists, so a reader can compare them and move from one to another within the same part of the economic field. Each entry in the group links to its own article with its sources and related entries.
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Wikipedia: Jagdish Bhagwati
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Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati (born July 26, 1934) is an Indian-born naturalized American economist and trade theorist.
Paul Krugman (Wikipedia)
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In 2008, Krugman was the sole winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to new trade theory and new economic geography.
Bertil Ohlin (Wikipedia)
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Ohlin's name lives on in one of the standard mathematical models of international free trade, the Heckscher-Ohlin model, which he developed together with Eli Heckscher.
History of Economic Thought Website: Gustav Cassel profile
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Among his other contributions is the rudiments of a "purchasing power parity" theory of exchange rates (1921) and an "overconsumption" theory of the trade cycle (1918).
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