HANDOUTS AND SLIDES

* I used PowerPoint for these slides so – surprise! - they look better in Internet Explorer than Netscape.

Week 1: Orientation

Global Economic Integration

WEEK 2: Economic Globalization: Benefits and Costs, Winners and Losers

International Trade Theory

Causes of Financial Crises

WEEK 3: Globalization, Jobs, and Wages

Redistributional Aspects of Trade Theory

Ricardo-Viner Approach (New!)

Stolper-Samuelson Theorem (New!)

WEEK 4: Workers and the World Economy

Wage Dispersion in the U.S

WEEK 5: Sources of Protection and Other Autarchy Policies

Theory of Collective Action (explains why some groups organize interest groups and others do not).

Environmental Economics

WEEK 7: Trade Disputes Between Countries and Within Them

Institutions of Trade Policy

Presentation by Angie Sanabria, Molly James, Rachel Mize and Karen Green

WEEK 8: Capital Flows and Currency Crises

Exchange rates and the International Monetary System

Causes of Financial Crises

Negative Effect of Lawyers on Economic Growth

WEEK 9: The IMF, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization

WEEK 10: Globalization and Economic Development