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The Political Economy of Preindustrial Korean Trade
- Authors
- Lee, Hun-Chang; Temin, Peter
- Issue Date
- 9월-2010
- Publisher
- J C B MOHR
- Keywords
- trade; tribute system; political economy; externalities; bounded rationality
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF INSTITUTIONAL AND THEORETICAL ECONOMICS-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR DIE GESAMTE STAATSWISSENSCHAFT, v.166, no.3, pp.548 - 571
- Indexed
- SSCI
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- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF INSTITUTIONAL AND THEORETICAL ECONOMICS-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR DIE GESAMTE STAATSWISSENSCHAFT
- Volume
- 166
- Number
- 3
- Start Page
- 548
- End Page
- 571
- ISSN
- 0932-4569
- Abstract
- Preindustrial Korea had little foreign trade in spite of the advantage of being a small peninsular country. We present a theory of political economy to show that the preindustrial Korean policy of suppressing private trade, like that of China, only can be explained by noneconomic factors such as the consideration of externalities and rulers' incentives, bounded rationality of policymakers, and the path dependence of history. It was a rational or bounded-rational decision to increase total gains, that is, economic and noneconomic gains, from trade under the east Asian geopolitics. (JEL: N 75, F 14)
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