International Trade Growth and Development or A Plague of Sheep

International Trade, Growth, and Development

Author: Pranab Bardhan

This collection of essays draws from over thirty years of work by noted economist Pranab Bardhan to address the inter-related themes of international trade, growth, and rural development. Covering a wide range of important issues within the field, these essays describe theoretical and empirical perspectives on economic agents both at the micro and macro levels of the economy in development. Introductions to each of the book's three sections place the articles in perspective and relate them to current research.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
Pt. I	Trade and Development	1
Ch. 1	Credit Markets and Patterns of International Trade	7
Ch. 2	Localized Technical Progress and Transfer of Technology and Economic Development	20
Ch. 3	Quality Variations and the Choice between Foreign and Indigenous Goods or Technology	30
Ch. 4	Imports, Domestic Production, and Transnational Vertical Integration: A Theoretical Note	37
Ch. 5	Disparity in Wages but not in Returns to Capital Between Rich and Poor Countries	52
Ch. 6	On Optimum Subsidy to a Learning Industry: An Aspect of the Theory of Infant-Industry Protection	65
Pt. II	Vintage Capital Growth Models	83
Ch. 7	International Trade Theory in a Vintage-Capital Model	88
Ch. 8	Dynamic Effects of Protection on Productivity	101
Ch. 9	Endogenous Growth Theory in a Vintage Capital Model	113
Ch. 10	Equilibrium Growth in a Model with Economic Obsolescence of Machines	133
Ch. 11	More on Putty-Clay	144
Ch. 12	On Estimation of Production Functions from International Cross-Section Data	157
Pt. III	Factor Markets and Rural Development	169
Ch. 13	Terms and Conditions of Sharecropping Contracts: An Analysis of Village Survey Data in India	175
Ch. 14	Terms and Conditions of Labor Contracts in Agriculture: Results of a Survey in West Bengal 1979	191
Ch. 15	On Measuring Rural Unemployment	215
Ch. 16	Labor-Tying in a Poor Agrarian Economy: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis	225
Ch. 17	Labor Mobility and the Boundaries of the Village Moral Economy	238
Ch. 18	Interlinkage of Land, Labor and Credit Relations in Agriculture: An Analysis of Village Survey Data in East India	259
	Index	281

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A Plague of Sheep: Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico

Author: Elinor G K Melvill

This is a book about the biological conquest of the New World. Taking as a case study the sixteenth century history of a region of highland central Mexico, it shows how the environmental and social changes brought about by the introduction of Old World species aided European expansion. The book spells out in detail the environmental changes associated with the introduction of Old World grazing animals into New World ecosystems, demonstrates how these changes enabled the Spanish takeover of land, and explains how environmental changes shaped the colonial societies.