INTL 4230 - International Political Economy

Spring 2009 (course id: 06-541)

Jan. 20: Comparative advantage and the politics of trade: lecture outline.
Jan. 22: Hegemons, free trade, and protectionism before WWII: lecture outline.
Jan. 27: The domestic politics of trade: lecture outline.
Useful Economist article about the Smoot- Hawley tariff
Jan. 29: Trade and jobs: lecture outline.
Link to Krugman & Lawrence's "Trade, Jobs, and Wages"
Feb. 3: Multinational corporations: lecture outline.
Feb. 5: Regional integration: lecture outline.
Feb. 10: Multilateral trade negotiations & the WTO: lecture outline.
WTO website.

Feb. 12: Monetary politics & exchange rate regimes: lecture outline.
Feb. 17: The gold standard & Bretton Woods: lecture outline.
The full text of William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech. This link also has a recording Bryan made some time later of his speech, so you can hear him speak his own words much better than I did in class. :-)
Feb. 19: The Wizard of Oz (movie): Interesting discussion of more recent scholarship interpreting the Wizard of Oz.
Feb. 24: Financial politics and the IMF: lecture outline.
IMF website.
Feb. 26: Dollarization & monetary integration: lecture outline.
Link to the website showing pictures of hyperinflation banknotes.
Mar. 3: International financial crises: lecture outline.

Mar. 17: National systems of political economy: lecture outline.
Mar. 19: The state and economic development: lecture outline.
Mar. 24: Development in the South: lecture outline.
Mar. 26: Patterns of reform and success: lecture outline.
Mar. 31: Helping poor countries? Debt, debt relief, and aid: lecture outline.
Apr. 2: Helping the Bottom Billion 1: lecture outline.
Apr. 7: Helping the Bottom Billion 2: lecture outline.

UGA writing center
See also the useful writing resources at Princeton's writing center
-- see especially the sections on "Advice on Academic Writing" and "Nuts and Bolts".

INTL 4230 - International Political Economy / maurits@uga.edu
Last updated 7 April 2009.