This advanced text successfully links the two fields of trade theory and economic development. It combines mathematical rigour with an exceptional breadth of approaches, including institutions, history and comparative economics. Uniquely, the book focuses not only on countries participating in...

Social instability is a concept that economists rarely analyse, and yet it can lurk behind much economic policy-making.  China’s leadership has often publicly expressed its concerns to avoid ‘social instability’.  It is viewed as a threat both to the political order and to...