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International Economics and International Economics Policy A Reader

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ISBN-10: 0072873337

ISBN-13: 9780072873337

Edition: 4th 2005 (Revised)

Authors: Philip King, Sharmila King

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Book details

List price: $76.56
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Publication date: 3/5/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 456
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Now retired, Philip King was Professor of Quantitative Methods and Psychology at Hawaii Pacific University.

Issues in trade and protectionism
How costly is protectionism?
Toughest on the poor : America's flawed tariff system
Steel policy : the good, the bad, and the ugly
America's bittersweet sugar policy
Using sanctions to fight terrorism
WTO, trade labor, and the environment
The Doha development agenda
Bridging the trade-environment divide
Labor standards : where do they belong on the international trade agenda?
Borders beyond control
Intellectual property rights and the WTO
Reducing America's dependence on foreign oil
Trade and development : NAFTA
The global governance of trade as if development really mattered
Farm fallacies that hurt the poor
Economic developments during NAFTA's first decade
Globalization
Trading in illusions
Five wars of globalization
Spreading the wealth
The new wave of globalization and its economic effects
The balance of payments
What drives large current accounts deficits?
Does the US have a current account deficit disorder?
Exchange rates and macroeconomic policy
The structure of foreign exchange markets
What determines the exchange rate : market factors or market sentiment?
Fixed versus floating exchange rates
Exchange rate choices
Does the exchange rate regime matter for inflation and growth?
Currency borders
Dollarization as a monetary arrangement for emerging market economies
The Euro
EMU at 1
The creation of the Euro and the role of the dollar in international markets
European labor markets and EMU challenges ahead
Financial crises
A case study of currency crisis : the Russian default of 1998
Learning from Argentina's crisis
The onset of the East Asian financial crisis
Argentina's currency crisis : lessons for Asia
Capital controls and emerging markets
Restructuring the new world
Chapter 11 for countries?
The international lender of last resort : what are the alternatives?
Dirty money