This forthcoming Journal of Economic Perspectives article by Jonathan Eaton and Sam Kortum on the Ricardian model of trade is fantastic. It walks the reader from Ricardo (1818) to Mill (1844) to Dornbusch, Fischer, and Samuelson (1977) to Eaton and Kortum (2002) to the modern frontier. Put it on your syllabi.
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