- •Глава 1 / Chapter 1
- •Calling a Business / Деловой звонок
- •Leaving a Message / Как оставить сообщение
- •Dialogue
- •Holding the line / He вешайте трубки
- •Leaving a Message at a Home / Оставляем сообщение на домашнем телефоне
- •Voice Mail / Автоответчик. Звуковое письмо
- •Answering the Phone / Отвечаем на телефонный звонок
- •Answering a Wrong Number / Как ответить на звонок по ошибке
- •Starting a Conversation / Как начать разговор
- •When You Need More Information / Когда нужна дополнительная информация
- •Making Dates / Как назначить встречу
- •Making Appointments / Как назначить деловую встречу
- •Ending a Conversation / Как закончить разговор
- •Practice Drills
- •Grammar revision. English tenses (Active Voice)
- •Chapter 2 / Business Trip
- •Глава 2 / Деловая поездка
- •Hotel Reservations / Бронирование отеля
- •Dialogue: Making Hotel Reservations
- •Dialogue: Buying Airline Tickets
- •Renting a Car, Hiring a Taxi / Как арендовать машину или заказать такси
- •А Саr / Машина
- •A Taxi / Такси
- •Dialogue: At the Hotel
- •Grammar revision. Passive Voice Времена английского глагола в страдательном залоге
- •English tenses (Passive Voice)
- •Chapter 3 / Business Lunch
- •Глава 3 / Бизнес-ланч
- •Making Restaurant reservations / Бронирование столика
- •Making the Transition Between Small Talk and Business / Как перейти от общей беседы к делу
- •Closing the Business Lunch / Как завершить бизнес-ланч
- •Practice Drills
- •I. How would you answer these questions?
- •Interrogative sentences. Question types. Вопросительные предложения. Типы вопросов
- •Chapter 4 / Formal Meetings
- •Глава 4 / Формальные встречи
- •Opening a Meeting / Как начать встречу
- •The Language of Meetings / Язык встреч
- •1. Agreement or Disagreement / Согласие или несогласие
- •2. Making Suggestions/ Предположение
- •3. Expressing Certainty or Doubt / Выражение уверенности или сомнения
- •4. Asking for help / Просьба о помощи
- •Grammar revision. Participle Причастие
- •Chapter 5 / Perfect Presentations
- •Глава 5 / Как организовать идеальную презентацию
- •Opening a Presentation
- •Introducing yourself
- •Structuring a Presentation
- •Organization
- •Emphasizing important points
- •Talking about trends (Past Simple and Present Perfect)
- •Using your voice effectively
- •Stressing words
- •Making pauses
- •Dealing with questions
- •Conclusion
- •The Power of Language
- •Culture Shock
- •Grammar revision Gerund Герундий
- •Формы герундия
- •Chapter 6 / Better Business Letters
- •Глава 6 / Пишем деловые письма
- •Composition of Business Letter / Составление делового письма
- •Содержание письма / Body of the letter
- •Greeting / Вступительное обращение
- •Helpful Expressions in Business Corresponence / Полезные выражения в деловой переписке
- •Ending / завершение
- •The Simplest Business Deal
- •Full-Block Letter Format / Полноформатное письмо
- •International suit distributors
- •100 Kennedy circle
- •Prospecting Letter / Рекламное письмо-предложение
- •Follow-up Letter / Письмо-напоминание
- •Complaint Letter / Рекламационное письмо
- •Response to a Complaint Letter / Oтвет на рекламационное письмо
- •2233 Connection Avenue, n.W.
- •Rejection Letter / Отказное письмо
- •2500 North Fruitridge Road
- •Collection Letter / Инкассационное письмо
- •2297 Front Street
- •Practice Drills
- •Business letter 1
- •208 Eastside Road
- •Business letter 2
- •12207 Sunset Strip
- •Business letter 3
- •21 Mead Road
- •Business letter 4
- •Business letter 5
- •Business letter 6
- •1951 Benson Street
- •Business letter 7
- •Business letter 8
- •209 West Street
- •Business letter 9
- •24 North Main Street
- •Business letter 10
- •5500 South 96th Street
- •Business letter 11
- •72 Preston New Road
- •Business letter 12
- •609 San Anselmo Avenue
- •Business letter 13
- •Business letter 14
- •Grammar revision. Infinitive Инфинитив
- •Complex Object Винительный падеж с инфинитивом
- •Chapter 7 / Contracts and Their Performance
- •Глава 7 / Контракты и их исполнение
- •I. Subject Matter of Contract
- •II. Price of Goods
- •III. Quality of Goods
- •1. Предмет контракта
- •VI. Insurance
- •VII. Платеж
- •VIII. Force Majeure
- •IX. Arbitration
- •VIII. Форс-мажор
- •Iх. Арбитраж
- •X. Other Conditions
- •Practice Drills
- •7. Packing and marking
- •Chapter 8 / Job Application
- •Глава 8 / Устройство на работу Resume / Краткая биография
- •220 West Street
- •220 Уэст Стрит
- •Résumé formats / виды резюме
- •Chronological Format / Хронологическое резюме
- •2223 August Square Road
- •16 Osler Street
- •Vancouver, British Columbia v6r 2t1
- •Initiative:
- •Cover letters / сопроводительные письма
- •225 Hartman Drive
- •Interview / собеседование
- •Common interview questions
- •7. What did you like least about your previous job?
- •Dialogue
- •Practice Drills
- •Grammar revision. Мodal verbs and their equivalents Модальные глаголы и их эквиваленты
- •Modal verbs and their equivalents Модальные глаголы и их эквиваленты
- •Imagine someone is talking about the advantages and disadvantages of his job. Rewrite the sentences
- •I think you should… I think you shouldn’t …
- •Supplementary reading Text 1
- •A mixed economy: the role of the market
- •Reducing Taxable Income with Tax Planning
- •Method for Tax Payments
- •Importance of finance
- •Importance of Corporate Finance
- •Importance of Finance in Business
- •Importance of Personal Finance
- •Text 10
- •Text 11
- •Text 12
- •Text 13
- •Text 14
- •International trade
- •Scope and methodology of international trade
- •Classical theory
- •Text 15
- •The effects of trade: gains and terms
- •Factor price equalisation
- •Terms of trade
- •Text 16
- •The effects of trade: infant industries and trade policies
- •Trade policies
- •Text 17
- •Exchange rates and capital mobility
- •Text 18
- •Text 19
- •Indirect Intervention
- •Text 20
- •Intervention may Decrease Volatility
- •Intervention may Increase Volatility
- •Библиографический список Oсновная литература
- •Учебное издание
Text 15
The effects of trade: gains and terms
There is a strong presumption that any exchange that is freely undertaken will benefit both parties, but that does not exclude the possibility that it may be harmful to others. However (on assumptions that included constant returns and competitive conditions) Paul Samuelson has proved that it will always be possible for the gainers from international trade to compensate the losers. Moreover, in that proof, Samuelson did not take account of the gains to others resulting from wider consumer choice, from the international specialisation of productive activities - and consequent economies of scale, and from the transmission of the benefits of technological innovation. An OECD study has suggested that there are further dynamic gains resulting from better resource allocation, deepening specialisation, increasing returns to R&D, and technology spillover. The authors found the evidence concerning growth rates to be mixed, but that there is strong evidence that a 1 per cent increase in openness to trade increases the level of GDP per capita by between 0.9 per cent and 2.0 per cent. They suggested that much of the gain arises from the growth of the most productive firms at the expense of the less productive. Those findings and others have contributed to a broad consensus among economists that trade confers very substantial net benefits, and that government restrictions upon trade are generally damaging.
Factor price equalisation
Nevertheless there have been widespread misgivings about the effects of international trade upon wage earners in developed countries. Samuelson‘s factor price equalisation theorem indicates that, if productivity were the same in both countries, the effect of trade would be to bring about equality in wage rates. As noted above, that theorem is sometimes taken to mean that trade between an industrialised country and a developing country would lower the wages of the unskilled in the industrialised country. However, it is unreasonable to assume that productivity would be the same in a low-wage developing country as in a high-wage developed country.
It has been argued that, although there may sometimes be short-term pressures on wage rates in the developed countries, competition between employers in developing countries can be expected eventually to bring wages into line with their employees' marginal products. Any remaining international wage differences would then be the result of productivity differences, so that there would be no difference between unit labour costs in developing and developed countries, and no downward pressure on wages in the developed countries.
Terms of trade
There has also been concern that international trade could operate against the interests of developing countries. Influential studies published in 1950 by the Argentine economist Raul Prebisch and the British economist Hans Singer suggested that there is a tendency for the prices of agricultural products to fall relative to the prices of manufactured goods; turning the terms of trade against the developing countries and producing an unintended transfer of wealth from them to the developed countries.
Their findings have been confirmed by a number of subsequent studies, although it has been suggested that the effect may be due to quality bias in the index numbers used or to the possession of market power by manufacturers. The Prebisch/Singer findings remain controversial, but they were used at the time - and have been used subsequently - to suggest that the developing countries should erect barriers against manufactured imports in order to nurture their own “infant industries” and so reduce their need to export agricultural products. The arguments for and against such a policy are similar to those concerning the protection of infant industries in general.