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  • China's Growing Role in World Trade

    Series series National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
    In less than three decades, China has grown from playing a negligible role in international trade to being one of the world's largest exporters, a substantial importer of raw materials, intermediate outputs, and other goods, and both a recipient and source of foreign investment. Not surprisingly, China's economic dynamism has generated considerable attention and concern in the United States and ... Read more

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  • Histoire du droit savant (13e–18e siècle)

    Doctrines et vulgarisation par incunables

    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    This third selection of articles by Robert Feenstra complements the two previously published, continuing his studies of doctrines of private law and of texts related to university teaching from the 13th century into the early modern period. In the section on private law, some pieces deal with the Middle Ages, while others focus on Hugo Grotius. Property is again an important topic, but this time ... Read more

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  • Legal Scholarship and Doctrines of Private Law, 13th–18th centuries

    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    The emphasis in this present volume of Professor Feenstra’s studies lies on the post-medieval development of legal scholarship. The opening two studies are concerned with the University of Orléans in the 13th-14th centuries, but from there the centre of interest shifts to the early modern Netherlands. Two important themes are the teaching of law, especially at the legal faculties of Leyden and ... Read more

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  • Globalization in an Age of Crisis

    Multilateral Economic Cooperation in the Twenty-First Century

    Series series National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
    Along with its painful economic costs, the financial crisis of 2008 raised concerns over the future of international policy making. As in recessions past, new policy initiatives emerged, approaches that placed greater importance on protecting national interests than promoting international economic cooperation. Whether in fiscal or monetary policies, the control of currencies and capital flows, ... Read more

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