This is a unique account of the role played by 58 figures and diagrams commonly used in economic theory. These cover a large part of mainstream economic analysis, both microeconomics and macroeconomics and also general equilibrium theory.

This is a unique account of the role played by 58 figures and diagrams commonly used in economic theory. These cover a large part of mainstream economic analysis, both microeconomics and macroeconomics and also general equilibrium theory.

It has long been recognized that, in a restricted world of just two countries and two commodities, any feasible non-distorting international transfer can be replaced by a pair of individually distorting but collectively non-distorting equivalent import duties. In recent years it has sometimes...

The Walras-Arrow-Debreu-McKenzie model of general equilibrium forms the basis of almost all normative trade theory. In that model, a factor of production might be completely or incompletely immobile between alternative occupations. Whether it ever abandons an initial occupation depends on the...

With several identical deposits of an exhaustible non-reproducible resource, the working of a deposit entails a set-up cost but no other cost. The deposits must be extracted in strict sequence with jump discontinuities of marginal benefits at transition points. Moreover, the average rate of...

We consider the implications of improving on GATT/WTO tariff negotiations both the most-favoured-nation (MFN) clause and the twin Paretian rules (that negotiations leave the trading world on its efficiency locus and each participating country in a preferred position). It is shown that the set of...

It has been argued by Turunen-Red and Woodland that, on only mild empirical assumptions, any system of non-distorting international transfers can be replaced by an "equivalent set" of distorting national tariffs without disturbing the international allocation of resources. This remarkable claim...