International political economy : interests and institutions in the global economy / Thomas Oatley.

By: Oatley, Thomas H., 1962- [author]
Language: English Publisher: New York: Pearson Longman, c2008Edition: Third editionDescription: xiv, 417 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume ISBN: 0205589804; 9780205589807Subject(s): International economic relations | International finance | GlobalizationDDC classification: 649.151
Contents:
CONTENTS Preface Chapter 1 International Political Economy What Is International Political Economy? Studying International Political Economy Traditional Schools of International Political Economy Interests and Institutions in International Political Economy The Global Economy in Historical Context The Organization of the Book Conclusion Key Terms Suggestions for Further Reading Chapter 2 The WTO and the World Trade System What Is the WTO? A Closer Look: The Doha Round Power and Interests in the World Trade System Hegemonic Power and the Creation of the Postwar Trade System Hegemonic Decline and the World Trade System The Evolving WTO: New Directions, New Challenges Policy Analysis and Debate: Regulating Risk in the World Trade Organization The Greatest Challenge? Regional Trade Arrangements and the WTO Conclusion Key Terms Web Links Suggestions for Further Reading Chapter 3 The Political Economy of International Trade Cooperation The Economic Case for Trade The Gains from Trade in Partial Equilibrium The Gains from Trade in General Equilibrium The Politics of Trade Cooperation Policy Analysis and Debate: Fisheries Studies and the WTO The WTO and Trade Cooperation Conclusion Key Terms Web Links Suggestions for Further Reading Chapter 4 A Society-Centered Approach to the Politics of Trade Trade Policy Preferences Factor Incomes and Class Conflict Policy Analysis and Debate: Trade Adjustment Sector Incomes and Industry Conflict Organizing Interests: The Collective Action Problem and Trade Policy Demands Political Institutions and Interests in American Trade Politics A Closer Look: Trade Politics in the European Union Conclusion Key Terms Web Links Suggestions for Further Reading Chapter 5 A State-Centered Approach to Trade Politics States and Industrial Policy The Infant-Industry Case for Protection A Closer Look: Criticism of the Infant Industry Case for Protection State Strength: The Political Foundation of Industrial Policy Industrial Policy in High-Technology Industries Strategic-Trade Theory Strategic Rivalry in Semiconductors and Commercial Aircraft Policy Analysis and Debate: Government Support of High-Technology Industries Conclusion Key Terms Web Links Suggestions for Further Reading Chapter 6 Trade and Development I: Import Substitution Industrialization Domestic Interests, International Pressures, and Protectionist Coalitions The Structuralist Critique: Markets, Trade, and Economic Development Market Imperfections in Developing Countries Market Imperfections in the International Economy Domestic and International Elements of Trade and Development Strategies Import Substitution Industrialization A Closer Look: Import Substitution Industrialization in Brazil Reforming the International Trade System Policy Analysis and Debate: Intellectual Property and the WTO Conclusion Key Terms Web Links Suggestions for Further Reading Chapter 7 Trade and Development II: Economic Reform Emerging Problems with Import Substitution Industrialization The East Asian Model Structural Adjustment and the Politics of Reform A Closer Look: Structural Adjustment in Mexico Developing Countries and the WTO Policy Analysis and Debate: Core Labor Standards and the WTO Conclusion Key Terms Web Links Suggestions for Further Reading Chapter 8 Multinational Corporations in the Global Economy MNCs in the Global Economy Economic Explanations for MNCs Locational Advantages Market Imperfections Locational Advantages, Market Imperfections, and MNCs MNCs and Host Countries A Closer Look: Singer Sewing Machines in Taiwan Conclusion Key Terms Web Links Suggestions for Further Reading Chapter 9 The Politics of Multinational Corporations Regulating MNCs Regulating MNCs in the Developing World Regulating MNCs in the Advanced Industrialized World Bargaining with MNCs A Closer Look: Luring the German Luxury Car Producers to the U.S. South The International Regulation of MNCs A Closer Look: Protecting Investment in NAFTA Policy Analysis and Debate: The Race to the Bottom Conclusion Key Terms Web Links Suggestions for Further Reading Chapter 10 The International Monetary System The Economics of Monetary Systems Exchange-Rate Systems The Balance of Payments Balance-of-Payments Adjustment The Rise and Fall of the Bretton Woods System Creating the Bretton Woods System Implementing Bretton Woods: From Dollar Shortage to Dollar Glut A Closer Look: Dollar Overhang and the Confidence Problem The End of Bretton Woods: Crises and Collapse Policy Analysis and Debate: Who Should Adjust? Conclusion Key Terms Web Links Suggestions for Further Reading Chapter 11 Contemporary International Monetary Arrangements International Financial Integration A Closer Look: The Unholy Trinity Life Under Floating Exchange Rates Managing Exchange Rates in a World of Mobile Capital Exchange-Rate Cooperation in the European Union Exchange-Rate Cooperation in the Group of 5 Policy Analysis and Debate: The Dollar versus the Euro? Speculative Attacks and the Prospect for Exchange-Rate Reform Conclusion Key Terms Web Links Suggestions for Further Reading Chapter 12 A Society-Centered Approach to Monetary and Exchange-Rate Policies Electoral Politics, the Keynesian Revolution, and the Trade-off Between Domestic Autonomy and Exchange Rate Stability Society-Based Models of Monetary and Exchange-Rate Politics The Electoral Model of Monetary and Exchange-Rate Politics A Closer Look: Exchange-Rate Arrangements in the OECD The Partisan Model of Monetary and Exchange-Rate Politics The Sectoral Model of Monetary and Exchange-Rate Politics Policy Analysis and Debate: A Strong Dollar or a Weak Dollar? Conclusion Key Terms Web Links Suggestions for Further Reading Chapter 13 A State-Centered Approach to Monetary and Exchange-Rate Policies Monetary Policy and Unemployment A Closer Look: The Natural Rate of Unemployment in the United States and the European Union The Time-Consistency Problem Commitment Mechanisms Policy Analysis and Debate: Central-Bank Independence and Democracy Independent Central Banks and Exchange Rates Conclusion Key Terms Web Links Suggestions for Further Reading Chapter 14 Developing Countries and International Finance I: The Latin American Debt Crisis Foreign Capital and Economic Development Capital Flows in the Early Postwar Period A Closer Look: The World Bank Commercial Bank Lending and the Origins of the Latin American Debt Crisis Managing the Debt Crisis The Debt Regime A Closer Look: The International Monetary Fund The Sources of Bargaining Power Policy Analysis and Debate: IMF Conditionality The Domestic Politics of Economic Reform Conclusion Key Terms Web Links Suggestions for Further Reading Chapter 15 Developing Countries and International Finance II: A Decade of Crises The Asian Financial Crisis Reforming the Crisis Management Regime A Closer Look: Crisis in Argentina Policy Analysis and Debate: Capital Controls The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Conclusion Key Terms Web Links Suggestions for Further Reading Chapter 16 Globalization: Consequences and Controversies The Globalizing World Economy Globalization and Income: Rising Poverty, Widening Inequality? Globalization and ?Sweatshops? Policy Analysis and Debate: Labor Standards in the WTO Trade and the Environment A Closer Look: Environmental Disputes in the WTO Conclusion Key Terms Web Links Suggestions for Further Reading Glossary References Index
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 394-407) and index.

CONTENTS
Preface
Chapter 1 International Political Economy
What Is International Political Economy?
Studying International Political Economy
Traditional Schools of International Political Economy
Interests and Institutions in International Political Economy
The Global Economy in Historical Context
The Organization of the Book
Conclusion
Key Terms
Suggestions for Further Reading
Chapter 2 The WTO and the World Trade System
What Is the WTO?
A Closer Look: The Doha Round
Power and Interests in the World Trade System
Hegemonic Power and the Creation of the Postwar Trade System
Hegemonic Decline and the World Trade System
The Evolving WTO: New Directions, New Challenges
Policy Analysis and Debate: Regulating Risk in the World Trade Organization
The Greatest Challenge? Regional Trade Arrangements and the WTO
Conclusion
Key Terms
Web Links
Suggestions for Further Reading
Chapter 3 The Political Economy of International Trade Cooperation
The Economic Case for Trade
The Gains from Trade in Partial Equilibrium
The Gains from Trade in General Equilibrium
The Politics of Trade Cooperation
Policy Analysis and Debate: Fisheries Studies and the WTO
The WTO and Trade Cooperation
Conclusion
Key Terms
Web Links
Suggestions for Further Reading
Chapter 4 A Society-Centered Approach to the Politics of Trade
Trade Policy Preferences
Factor Incomes and Class Conflict
Policy Analysis and Debate: Trade Adjustment
Sector Incomes and Industry Conflict
Organizing Interests: The Collective Action Problem and Trade Policy Demands
Political Institutions and Interests in American Trade Politics
A Closer Look: Trade Politics in the European Union
Conclusion
Key Terms
Web Links
Suggestions for Further Reading
Chapter 5 A State-Centered Approach to Trade Politics
States and Industrial Policy
The Infant-Industry Case for Protection
A Closer Look: Criticism of the Infant Industry Case for Protection
State Strength: The Political Foundation of Industrial Policy
Industrial Policy in High-Technology Industries
Strategic-Trade Theory
Strategic Rivalry in Semiconductors and Commercial Aircraft
Policy Analysis and Debate: Government Support of High-Technology Industries
Conclusion
Key Terms
Web Links
Suggestions for Further Reading
Chapter 6 Trade and Development I: Import Substitution Industrialization
Domestic Interests, International Pressures, and Protectionist Coalitions
The Structuralist Critique: Markets, Trade, and Economic Development
Market Imperfections in Developing Countries
Market Imperfections in the International Economy
Domestic and International Elements of Trade and Development Strategies
Import Substitution Industrialization
A Closer Look: Import Substitution Industrialization in Brazil
Reforming the International Trade System
Policy Analysis and Debate: Intellectual Property and the WTO
Conclusion
Key Terms
Web Links
Suggestions for Further Reading
Chapter 7 Trade and Development II: Economic Reform
Emerging Problems with Import Substitution Industrialization
The East Asian Model
Structural Adjustment and the Politics of Reform
A Closer Look: Structural Adjustment in Mexico
Developing Countries and the WTO
Policy Analysis and Debate: Core Labor Standards and the WTO
Conclusion
Key Terms
Web Links
Suggestions for Further Reading
Chapter 8 Multinational Corporations in the Global Economy
MNCs in the Global Economy
Economic Explanations for MNCs
Locational Advantages
Market Imperfections
Locational Advantages, Market Imperfections, and MNCs
MNCs and Host Countries
A Closer Look: Singer Sewing Machines in Taiwan
Conclusion
Key Terms
Web Links
Suggestions for Further Reading
Chapter 9 The Politics of Multinational Corporations
Regulating MNCs
Regulating MNCs in the Developing World
Regulating MNCs in the Advanced Industrialized World
Bargaining with MNCs
A Closer Look: Luring the German Luxury Car Producers to the U.S. South
The International Regulation of MNCs
A Closer Look: Protecting Investment in NAFTA
Policy Analysis and Debate: The Race to the Bottom
Conclusion
Key Terms
Web Links
Suggestions for Further Reading
Chapter 10 The International Monetary System
The Economics of Monetary Systems
Exchange-Rate Systems
The Balance of Payments
Balance-of-Payments Adjustment
The Rise and Fall of the Bretton Woods System
Creating the Bretton Woods System
Implementing Bretton Woods: From Dollar Shortage to Dollar Glut
A Closer Look: Dollar Overhang and the Confidence Problem
The End of Bretton Woods: Crises and Collapse
Policy Analysis and Debate: Who Should Adjust?
Conclusion
Key Terms
Web Links
Suggestions for Further Reading
Chapter 11 Contemporary International Monetary Arrangements
International Financial Integration
A Closer Look: The Unholy Trinity
Life Under Floating Exchange Rates
Managing Exchange Rates in a World of Mobile Capital
Exchange-Rate Cooperation in the European Union
Exchange-Rate Cooperation in the Group of 5
Policy Analysis and Debate: The Dollar versus the Euro?
Speculative Attacks and the Prospect for Exchange-Rate Reform
Conclusion
Key Terms
Web Links
Suggestions for Further Reading
Chapter 12 A Society-Centered Approach to Monetary and Exchange-Rate Policies
Electoral Politics, the Keynesian Revolution, and the Trade-off Between Domestic
Autonomy and Exchange Rate Stability
Society-Based Models of Monetary and Exchange-Rate Politics
The Electoral Model of Monetary and Exchange-Rate Politics
A Closer Look: Exchange-Rate Arrangements in the OECD
The Partisan Model of Monetary and Exchange-Rate Politics
The Sectoral Model of Monetary and Exchange-Rate Politics
Policy Analysis and Debate: A Strong Dollar or a Weak Dollar?
Conclusion
Key Terms
Web Links
Suggestions for Further Reading
Chapter 13 A State-Centered Approach to Monetary and Exchange-Rate Policies
Monetary Policy and Unemployment
A Closer Look: The Natural Rate of Unemployment in the United States and the
European Union
The Time-Consistency Problem
Commitment Mechanisms
Policy Analysis and Debate: Central-Bank Independence and Democracy
Independent Central Banks and Exchange Rates
Conclusion
Key Terms
Web Links
Suggestions for Further Reading
Chapter 14 Developing Countries and International Finance I: The Latin American Debt
Crisis
Foreign Capital and Economic Development
Capital Flows in the Early Postwar Period
A Closer Look: The World Bank
Commercial Bank Lending and the Origins of the Latin American Debt Crisis
Managing the Debt Crisis
The Debt Regime
A Closer Look: The International Monetary Fund
The Sources of Bargaining Power
Policy Analysis and Debate: IMF Conditionality
The Domestic Politics of Economic Reform
Conclusion
Key Terms
Web Links
Suggestions for Further Reading
Chapter 15 Developing Countries and International Finance II: A Decade of Crises
The Asian Financial Crisis
Reforming the Crisis Management Regime
A Closer Look: Crisis in Argentina
Policy Analysis and Debate: Capital Controls
The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries
Conclusion
Key Terms
Web Links
Suggestions for Further Reading
Chapter 16 Globalization: Consequences and Controversies
The Globalizing World Economy
Globalization and Income: Rising Poverty, Widening Inequality?
Globalization and ?Sweatshops?
Policy Analysis and Debate: Labor Standards in the WTO
Trade and the Environment
A Closer Look: Environmental Disputes in the WTO
Conclusion
Key Terms
Web Links
Suggestions for Further Reading
Glossary
References
Index

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