Download or read book Pollution and the Struggle for the World Product written by H. Jeffrey Leonard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1970s, observers have noted that complying with environmental regulations might be a significant new factor in determining the locations of industries involved in world trade. Two related hypotheses have been offered to explain how environmental regulations are altering international comparative advantage in industrial production: first, that stringent regulations push industries out of the United States and other advanced industrial nations; second, that less developed countries compete to attract multinational industries by minimizing their own regulations.