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Week 1

Economic Globalization: facts and figures

Approaches to Foreign Economic Policy

 

Week 2

The United States and the World Economy, 1800-1900

Logic of Collective Action

 

Week 3

The Interwar Period

The Post-WWI Period

Trade Policymaking Institutions

 

Week 4

International Trade Theory

Redistributional Aspects of Trade Theory

Wage Dispersion in the U.S

Rent-Seeking Lawyers and Economic Growth

 

Week 5

Hegemonic Stability Theory

Societal Influences on Trade Policy

 

Week 6

Trade, Environment, and Labor Standards

"What's so Scary about the WTO" [read this article!  It pulls together several elements of the course]

 

Week 7

International Monetary System

International Approaches to International Monetary Outcomes

 

Week 8

Institutions of Exchange-Rate Policymaking

Societal Influences on Exchange-Rate Policy

 

Week 9

The Economics of Multinational Corporations

U.S. Policy Toward American MNCs and Outward FDI

 

Week 10

International Efforts to Liberalize FDI