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Now in its third edition, Hendrik Van den Berg's International
Economics: A Heterodox Approach covers all of the standard topics
taught in undergraduate international economics courses. Written in
a friendly and approachable style, this new edition is unique in
that it presents the key orthodox neoclassical models of
international trade and investment, while supplementing them with a
variety of heterodox approaches. This pluralist approach is
intended to give economics students a more realistic understanding
of the international economy than standard textbooks can provide.
Changes to the new edition include: updates throughout to reflect
recent world events, including coverage of trade negotiations and
the Greek crisis; expanded discussion of pluralist approaches with
more coverage of alternative schools of thought; discussions of the
growing financialization of global economic activity; additional
real-world examples; increased coverage of environmental issues;
transnational corporations and their behavior in the international
economy; the difference between international investment and
international finance; and monetary history; a consolidated and
updated chapter on international banking. This book also maintains
a broad perspective that links economic activity to the social and
natural spheres of human activity, with emphasis on the
distributional and environmental effects of international trade,
investment, finance, and migration. Chapter summaries, key terms
and concepts, problems and questions, and a glossary are included
in the book. A Student Study Guide and an Instructor's Manual are
available online.
Unlike any other text on international trade, this groundbreaking
book focuses on the dynamic long-run relationship between trade and
economic growth rather than the static short-run relationship
between trade and economic efficiency. The authors begin with well
known theory on international trade, and then take the student into
more recent and less well known work, all with a careful balance
between empirical and theoretical perspectives. A valuable teaching
tool for courses in international economics, economic growth, and
economic development at both the undergraduate and graduate levels,
the book uses some very modest algebra, calculus, and statistics.
However, most analytical discussions are built around diagrams in
order to make the text accessible to students with a variety of
social science backgrounds. An Instructor's Manual is available
online to professors who adopt the text.
Unlike any other text on international trade, this groundbreaking
book focuses on the dynamic long-run relationship between trade and
economic growth rather than the static short-run relationship
between trade and economic efficiency. The authors begin with
well-known theory on international trade, and then take the student
into more recent and less well-known work, all with a careful
balance between empirical and theoretical perspectives. A valuable
teaching tool for courses in international economics, economic
growth, and economic development at both the undergraduate and
graduate levels, the book uses some very modest algebra, calculus,
and statistics. However, most analytical discussions are built
around diagrams in order to make the text accessible to students
with a variety of social science backgrounds. An Instructor's
Manual is available to professors who adopt the text.
Now in its third edition, Hendrik Van den Berg's International
Economics: A Heterodox Approach covers all of the standard topics
taught in undergraduate international economics courses. Written in
a friendly and approachable style, this new edition is unique in
that it presents the key orthodox neoclassical models of
international trade and investment, while supplementing them with a
variety of heterodox approaches. This pluralist approach is
intended to give economics students a more realistic understanding
of the international economy than standard textbooks can provide.
Changes to the new edition include: updates throughout to reflect
recent world events, including coverage of trade negotiations and
the Greek crisis; expanded discussion of pluralist approaches with
more coverage of alternative schools of thought; discussions of the
growing financialization of global economic activity; additional
real-world examples; increased coverage of environmental issues;
transnational corporations and their behavior in the international
economy; the difference between international investment and
international finance; and monetary history; a consolidated and
updated chapter on international banking. This book also maintains
a broad perspective that links economic activity to the social and
natural spheres of human activity, with emphasis on the
distributional and environmental effects of international trade,
investment, finance, and migration. Chapter summaries, key terms
and concepts, problems and questions, and a glossary are included
in the book. A Student Study Guide and an Instructor's Manual are
available online.
The Economics of Immigration is written as a both a reference for
researchers and as a textbook on the economics of immigration. It
is aimed at two audiences: (1) researchers who are interested in
learning more about how economists approach the study of human
migration flows; and (2) graduate students taking a course on
migration or a labor economics course where immigration is one of
the subfields studied. The book covers the economic theory of
immigration, which explains why people move across borders and
details the consequences of such movements for the source and
destination economies. The book also describes immigration policy,
providing both a history of immigration policy in a variety of
countries and using the economic theory of immigration to explain
the determinants and consequences of the policies. The timing of
this book coincides with the emergence of immigration as a major
political and economic issue in the USA, Japan Europe and many
developing countries.
The Economics of Immigration is written as a both a reference for
researchers and as a textbook on the economics of immigration. It
is aimed at two audiences: (1) researchers who are interested in
learning more about how economists approach the study of human
migration flows; and (2) graduate students taking a course on
migration or a labor economics course where immigration is one of
the subfields studied. The book covers the economic theory of
immigration, which explains why people move across borders and
details the consequences of such movements for the source and
destination economies. The book also describes immigration policy,
providing both a history of immigration policy in a variety of
countries and using the economic theory of immigration to explain
the determinants and consequences of the policies. The timing of
this book coincides with the emergence of immigration as a major
political and economic issue in the USA, Japan Europe and many
developing countries.
International Finance and Open-Economy Macroeconomics provides a
complete theoretical, historical, and policy-focused account of the
international financial system that covers all of the standard
topics, such as foreign exchange markets, balance of payments
accounting, macroeconomic policy in an open economy, exchange rate
crises, multinational enterprises, and international financial
markets. The book uses the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference as a
unifying theme to relate the many controversial issue. It is
written in a lively manner to bring real world events into the
discussion of all of the concepts, topics, and policy issues. There
is also emphasis on the history of economic thought in order to
explain how economists in different time periods dealt with
international financial issues.
This textbook covers the full range of topics and issues normally
included in a course on economic growth and development. Both
mainstream economic perspectives as well as the multi-paradigmatic,
inter-disciplinary, and dynamic-evolutionary perspectives from
heterodox economics are detailed. Economic development is viewed in
terms of the long-run well-being of humanity, social stability,
environmental sustainability, and just distribution of economic
gains, not simply as the growth of GDP. Furthermore, this textbook
explicitly recognizes the complexity of economic development by
linking economic activity to our broader social and natural
environments.The textbook's unique feature is its focus on the
natural environment. Both the historical effects of economic
development on the environment and the environmental constraints on
future economic development are thoroughly discussed in two
chapters on environmental issues and policies. In fact, because
economic development is defined in terms of economic, social, and
environmental sustainability, the natural environment is included
in discussions throughout the book.The textbook is
inter-disciplinary: knowledge from fields such as sociology,
psychology, political science, economic history, and ecology is
called on to enhance the economic analysis. A thorough historical
account of the development of the principal paradigms of economic
development is also included, and the important issues of
institutional development and cultural change merit their own
chapters. Two chapters on technological change holistically focus
on production technologies as well as the dynamic performance of
entire economic, social, and ecological systems. Also, the
important relationship between economic development and
globalization is presented in three chapters on international
trade, international finance and investment, and immigration from
both orthodox and heterodox perspectives.
This historically-based textbook on international finance and
open-economy macroeconomics provides a complete course on the
theory and policies that shaped our international financial system.
Utilizing the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference as a unifying theme,
the book covers all the standard topics of international finance,
such as foreign exchange markets, balance of payments accounting,
macroeconomic policy in an open economy, exchange rate crises,
multinational enterprises, international banking, and the evolution
of our international financial system. The detailed international
financial theory is presented in a lively manner that reflects the
close relationship between actual world events and the development
of economic thought.The book also analyzes the causes of the 2008
international financial crisis and recession, encourages critical
thinking about whether the current international financial system
promotes human well-being, and concludes with a discussion on
whether it is time to summon the world's financial leaders to
another Bretton Woods Conference. In additional to providing
students with a solid understanding of international finance and
open-economy macroeconomics, the book is written in a
reader-friendly style that makes it a good reference for anyone
interested in the many fascinating issues related to our
still-evolving global financial system and, more generally, our
global economy.
This textbook covers the full range of topics and issues normally
included in a course on economic growth and development. Both
mainstream economic perspectives as well as the multi-paradigmatic,
inter-disciplinary, and dynamic-evolutionary perspectives from
heterodox economics are detailed. Economic development is viewed in
terms of the long-run well-being of humanity, social stability,
environmental sustainability, and just distribution of economic
gains, not simply as the growth of GDP. Furthermore, this textbook
explicitly recognizes the complexity of economic development by
linking economic activity to our broader social and natural
environments.The textbook's unique feature is its focus on the
natural environment. Both the historical effects of economic
development on the environment and the environmental constraints on
future economic development are thoroughly discussed in two
chapters on environmental issues and policies. In fact, because
economic development is defined in terms of economic, social, and
environmental sustainability, the natural environment is included
in discussions throughout the book.The textbook is
inter-disciplinary: knowledge from fields such as sociology,
psychology, political science, economic history, and ecology is
called on to enhance the economic analysis. A thorough historical
account of the development of the principal paradigms of economic
development is also included, and the important issues of
institutional development and cultural change merit their own
chapters. Two chapters on technological change holistically focus
on production technologies as well as the dynamic performance of
entire economic, social, and ecological systems. Also, the
important relationship between economic development and
globalization is presented in three chapters on international
trade, international finance and investment, and immigration from
both orthodox and heterodox perspectives.
International Finance and Open-Economy Macroeconomics provides a
complete theoretical, historical, and policy-focused account of the
international financial system that covers all of the standard
topics, such as foreign exchange markets, balance of payments
accounting, macroeconomic policy in an open economy, exchange rate
crises, multinational enterprises, and international financial
markets. The book uses the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference as a
unifying theme to relate the many controversial issue. It is
written in a lively manner to bring real world events into the
discussion of all of the concepts, topics, and policy issues. There
is also emphasis on the history of economic thought in order to
explain how economists in different time periods dealt with
international financial issues.
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