International Studies 320
Spring 2007
Mr. Easton
Trade Topics of Interest
Doha: What went wrong and what are the consequences?
http://benmuse.typepad.com/ben_muse/2006/06/index.html
http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/9-16-2003-45472.asp
http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/sppl_e/sppl39_e.htm
Trading Blocs: bilateralism versus multilateralism
Robert C. Feenstra, “How Costly is Protectionism?” Philip King and
Sharmila King, International Economics and International Economics
Policy: A Reader McGraw Hill, 4th edition (2005): 1-18.
Paul, Krugman. “Is Bilateralism Bad? In Helpman and Razin eds.,
International Trade and Trade Policy. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999: 9-23.
HF 1372 I58 1991
World Trade
Kent Albert, Export restraint and the new protectionism: The political
economy of discriminatory trade restrictions; Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press, 1994
Problems in Agriculture
Michael R. Reed, International Trade in Agricultural Products
Prentice Hall, 2001. HD 9000.6 R436 2001
World Subsidies:
Timothy E. Josling, Stefan Tangermann, and T.K. Warley,
Agriculture in the GATT New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press,
1996: HF 2651 F26 A244 1996
H. Wayne Moyer and Tim Josling, Agricultural policy reform :
politics and process in the EU and US 1990s HD 1761 M678 2002
Problems in Textiles
The MFA
Aggarwal, Vinod K., Liberal Protectionism: The International
Politics Of Organized Textile Trade: HD 9850.6 A35
Immigration and Emigration
The ebb and flow of labour
The Brain Drain
Stephen T. Easton, Richard Harris and Nicolas Schmitt (eds.) Brains on
the Move: Human Capital in the Global Economy (C.D. Howe Institute,
Toronto, 2005) HD 5717 E28 2005
Capital Movements
What is that the movement of capital does to National Income? How does it
affect other aspects of trade policy?
Selected topics in Industrial Organization
For example:
The airline industry around the world
Doganis, Rigas. Flying Off Course: the Economics of the International
Airlines HE 9780 D64 2002
David W. Gillen, Tae Hoon Oum, Michael W. Tretheway. Airline cost
and performance: implications for public and industry policies (1985) HE
9815 A5 G55
Problems in International Macroeconomics and Finance
The Role of International Institutions in context
The IMF/WB/WTO/BIS
Krueger, Anne. Whither the World Bank and the IMF?; By
Journal of Economic Literature, December 1998, v. 36, iss. 4, pp.
1983-2020.
Currency Crises
What is a crisis?
Krugman and Obstfeld, International Economics: Theory and
Policy, chapter 17.
International Debt Crises
Case studies
Aggarwal, Vinod K., 1996, Debt Games: Strategic Interaction in
International Debt Rescheduling, Cambridge University Press. HG
3891.5 A379 (1996)
Regional Issues: topics for student papers
Asia
Southeast Asia
China: development and pitfalls
Korea: integration
Jonathan D. Pollack, Chung Min Lee. Preparing for Korean
unifications : scenarios and implications. Santa Monica,
CA : RAND, c1999.DS 917.444 P65 1999
Europe
The EU: Is the expansion leading to fragmentation?
Germany
Retrospective on economic integration
Americas
NAFTA: what success?
South American trade and development: Is a trade bloc right for
Latin America? Who should be in?
Africa: Why is economic growth such a problem?