Contents

pp vii-x

List of figures

pp xi-xii

List of tables

pp xiii-xiv

Preface

pp xv-xvi

Acknowledgements

pp xvii-xvii

List of conference participants

pp xviii-xx

1 - Introduction

pp 1-4

PART ONE - REGIONALISM AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

pp 5-6

2 - Regionalism vs. multilateralism

pp 7-49

Discussion

pp 49-52

3 - Preferential agreements and the multilateral trading system

pp 53-79

Discussion

pp 79-85

4 - Politics and trade policy

pp 86-112

Discussion

pp 113-116

5 - Globalisation and labour, or: if globalisation is a bowl of cherries, why are there so many glum faces around the table?

pp 117-150

Discussion

pp 150-152

6 - Openness and wage inequality in developing countries: the Latin American challenge to East Asian conventional wisdom

pp 153-181

Discussion

pp 181-184

PART TWO - MARKET INTEGRATION AND REGIONALISM

pp 185-186

7 - Operationalising the theory of optimum currency areas

pp 187-216

Discussion

pp 216-227

8 - European migrants: an endangered species?

pp 228-251

Discussion

pp 251-253

9 - Geography and specialisation: industrial belts on a circular plain

pp 254-273

Discussion

pp 273-274

10 - Convergence … an overview

pp 275-295

Discussion

pp 295-297

11 - Convergence as distribution dynamics (with or without growth)

pp 298-328

Discussion

pp 328-336