The Constitution of Liberty in the Open Economy

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Psychology Press, 2004 - Business & Economics - 288 pages

In these heady days of ever increasing globalization it has become vital to question whether governments should be allowed to protect domestic enterprises from foreign competitors.
This book represents a first attempt to provide a new conceptual basis for discussing the cases in which free trade should be the option of choice in trade policy and those in which protectionism should be used. Lüder Gerken expands the economic tool of ordo-liberalism, founded by Walter Eucken and developed by Friedrich von Hayek, to make it applicable to foreign trade.
With impressive clarity and ingenuity, Gerken powerfully argues a scientific case for free trade as a best practice solution to the demands of globalization

 

Contents

Introduction
8
PART III
10
PART IV
11
PART I
12
Special problems of neoclassical trade theory
13
Classical and neoclassical free trade theory
15
General problems of neoclassical welfare economics
50
Summary of Part I
57
freedom
143
Freedom and equality as material claims against society?
145
Summary of Part III
150
PART IV
155
Free trade as an integral part of the order of liberty
163
Trade restrictions in the factor markets in the order of liberty
184
The causes of and possible approaches to overcoming
187
Trade restrictions on factor markets in the order
193

Do the functional conditions of the market order provide
59
The aim neutrality and rule dependence of the market order
65
Resolving the knowledge problem in the market order
72
Market order and policy on international trade
84
Summary of Part II
92
Reasons for and justification of the order of liberty as
115
The state in the order of liberty
124
The state in the order of liberty
126
Summary of Part IV
203
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50
210
115
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77
228
The causes of and possible approaches to overcoming
236
Name index
276
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