PLS 3373: International Political Economy
Fall 2012

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  • Course Information
  • Notions of Nation and State: Introduction to International Political Economy (PowerPoint slides)
  • Theoretical Variants of Political Economy: Mercantilism, Liberalism and Marxism (PowerPoint slides)
  • Cooperation and Discord: Before and after Hegemony (PowerPoint slides)
  • World Systems and Dependency Theory: Views from the Global South (PowerPoint slides)
  • Monetary Systems: The Gold Standard (PowerPoint slides)
  • Monetary Systems: Fixed Exchange Rate Systems during and after Bretton Woods (PowerPoint slides)
  • Monetary Systems: Floating Exchange Rate and Alternatives (PowerPoint slides)
  • The International Monetary Fund and International Debt and Restructuring (PowerPoint slides)
  • The World Bank and the Politics of Under-Development (PowerPoint slides)
  • International Trade: From GATT to WTO (PowerPoint slides)
  • Regional Trading Blocs: General Considerations (PowerPoint slides)
  • The Politics and Economics of Foreign Direct Investment (PowerPoint slides)

    • Course Information:

  • The syllabus for the course
  • Outline of the research paper
  • The Economist is available online
  • Here is the WebCT link to the course
  • Click here for the EIU library
  • Sample exam (yep, this material rocks)
  • My StumbleUpon page
  • BBC World News
  • Daily Show
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    Notions of Nation and State: Introduction to International Political Economy:

  • America (IO School of IPE)
  • Theory of public goods
  • Game theory
  • PD concerns
  • PD in trade
  • Relative versus absolute gains
  • John Maynard Keynes is one of the most influential economists of the 20th century
  • Countercycical demand management
  • Phillips Curve
  • Stagflation proved difficult for Keynesianism to deal with
  • Monetarism
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    • Theoretical Variants of Political Economy: Mercantilism, Liberalism and Marxism:

  • Lenin's "theory of imperialism"
  • Thomas Mun was a leading British mercantilist
  • David Ricardo formalized the concept of comparative advantage
  • Adam Smith
  • Milton Friedman is also recognized as one of the great 20th century economic intellectuals
  • Gosplan was responsible for state planning
  • Paul Krugman maintains a very comprehensive site on international trade and monetary policy
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    • Cooperation and Discord: Before and after Hegemony:

  • Hegemonic stability theory
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    World Systems and Dependency Theory: Views from the Global South:

  • Dependency theory
  • Brazil car industry
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    Monetary Systems: The Gold Standard:

  • Price of gold
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    • Monetary Systems: Fixed Exchange Rate Systems during and after Bretton Woods:

  • Bretton Woods
  • Currency boards
  • Dollarization in Ecuador
  • Estonia's Currency Board
  • Hard currency conversation in Russia
  • International Monetary Fund (IMF) features general information and publications
  • Videos chronicling the history of the IMF
  • Printing currency
  • Zimbabwe currency
  • Weimar Republic inflation
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    • Monetary Systems: Floating Exchange Rate and Alternatives:

  • Buy and sell currency
  • EMS
  • EU
  • Printing currency
  • Zimbabwe currency
  • Weimar Republic inflation
  • European Monetary System
  • History of the euro
  • Exchange rates
  • Financial crisis in graphs and charts (BBC)
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    • The International Monetary Fund and International Debt and Restructuring:

  • G8 debt relief from the Cologne Summit
  • International Monetary Fund (IMF) features general information and publications
  • General information on IMF quotas
  • IMF quotas as a basis of lending
  • Videos chronicling the history of the IMF
  • London Club
  • Russia's London Club debt
  • Latvian economic crisis explained by Minister Slakteris (and humorous take on interview)
  • Paris Club of official creditors
  • Paris Club and relationship with private sector
  • Stand by agreement with Peru
  • Click here for an example of the Naples Treatment as applied to Chad
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    • The World Bank and the Politics of Under-Development:

  • General Development Issues
  • Relationship between democracy and economic development
  • African and Asian urbanization
  • Child labor practices
  • List of Fortune top MNCs and compared to state GDP
  • Failed states
  • GDP per capita
  • Ranking of country GDP
  • Spending on defense in USD
  • Spending on defense as a % of GDP
  • Import substitution industrialization (ISI)
  • Marshall Plan was revolutionary in its vision
  • Population life expectancy
  • Population growth in LDCs
  • Population growth worldwide
  • Population growth in urban areas
  • North-South Gap
  • Transparency International
  • UNDP combats international poverty
  • Click here for USAID
  • Regional Banks
  • Asia Development Bank provides loans to Asian countries
  • European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) helps finance economic transitions
  • Inter-American Development Bank is a regional bank of the Americas
  • World Bank
  • World Bank features general background and information by region and country
  • Video on World Bank efforts to reduce poverty
  • World Bank consultancy solicitation
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    International Trade: From GATT to WTO

  • Trade Barriers
  • US views on anti-dumping
  • Anti-dumping definition
  • Export subsidies (US and EU)
  • VERs
  • Non-tariff barriers (NTBs)
  • Quotas
  • US Commerce Department Subsidy Enforcement Office
  • US Trade Representative's Office negotiates trade agreements on behalf of the president
  • US trade statistics
  • GATT/WTO
  • GATT trade rounds
  • World Trade Organization (WTO) covers a variety of trade-related issues
  • NGOs active in monitoring the WTO
  • WTO has a video about the changes from the GATT to WTO
  • The WTO also has a video on solving trade disputes
  • WTO has a video about the changes from the GATT to WTO
  • Organizations opposed to WTO practices
  • Economic statistics
  • Trade statistics since the 1950s
  • More trade statistics
  • WTO trade statistics
  • GDP per capita
  • List of Fortune top MNCs and compared to state GDP
  • Other
  • Bretton Woods
  • Europa is the official site of the European Union
  • Economy of Cuba
  • Economy of North Korea
  • The Economist Big Mac indicator
  • Georgian energy crisis
  • Comecon conducted communist trade
  • Financial crisis in graphs and charts (BBC)
  • G8 Information Centre houses documents and publications about the annual G8 summit and participating countries
  • Import substitution industrialization (ISI)
  • Inter-American Development Bank is a regional bank of the Americas
  • North-South Gap
  • Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
  • Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
  • Prisoner's dilemma in trade
  • Weimar Republic inflation
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    Regional Trading Blocs: General Considerations:

  • General Issues
  • Customs union of the EU
  • Common market of the EU
  • RTB diagram
  • Role of regional trading blocs
  • EFTA as a free trade area
  • RTB diagram
  • Role of regional trading blocs
  • Trade preference association example (drawn from the US GSP)
  • Trade statistics since the 1950s
  • More trade statistics
  • Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
  • APEC's web portal
  • European Union (EU)
  • Europa is the official site of the European Union
  • Council of the European Union
  • European Commission
  • European Court of Justice
  • European Parliament
  • ECSC
  • Enlargement of EU
  • Future enlargement of the EU
  • ECB's section devoted to the euro
  • Member-states of the EU (interactive map of enlargement)
  • Neofunctionalism
  • Schengen travel in Europe
  • Robert Schuman Bio
  • Jean Monnet Bio
  • Treaties of the EU
  • Maastricht Treaty
  • Single European Act
  • Treaty of Lisbon
  • Treaty of Nice
  • Treaty of Nice voting scheme in the Council of the European Union (more on the voting scheme)
  • World War II effects
  • Schengen travel in Europe
  • North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA):
  • NAFTA's web site
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    • The Politics and Economics of Foreign Direct Investment:

  • Harvard web site on FDI
  • OECD FDI statistics
  • UNCTAD FDI statistics
  • Venezuela's nationalization of industry
  • Zimbabwe currency
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    • Other Links of Interest:

  • Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress
  • Jeffry Frieden's home page has numerous papers focusing on exchanges rates and monetary systems
  • Institute for International Economics has a wealth of information
  • Paul Krugman maintains a very comprehensive site on international trade and monetary policy
  • Nouriel Roubini maintains an excellent home page devoted to a range of international political economy issues
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