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Quarterly Journal of Economics Vol. 57 No. 4 1943

The Commodity Structure of World Trade

Albert O. Hirschman

University of California System

Abstract

Method of measurement: division of total trade into three categories, 566; possible misinterpretation of the figures, 572. — Main result of the calculations: the data, 573; the traditional type of exchange not dominant, 576; comparison with findings of the Institut für Weltwirtschaft, 577. — Analysis of the statistics for groups of countries, 579. — Commodity structure of British foreign trade since 1854, 588. — Historical importance of the traditional view of the commodity structure of world trade, 591.

DOI
10.2307/1884656
Volume
57
Issue
4
Pages
565
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