This reader is a useful supplement for any international economics course. Balanced coverage of trade and finance topics is supplemented by relevant data on foreign debt, balance of payments and other current issues.

Current Issues in the International Economy: A Reader

Klein, Michael W.

GOLDBERG

Goldberg, Linda S.

Addison-Wesley

How does your level of education affect your lifetime earnings profile? Will economic development lead to increased environmental degradation? How does the participation of women in the labor force differ across countries? How do college scholarship rules affect savings? Each of these questions is the subject of an application in this book.

Mathematical Methods for Economics

Business & Money

Economics

Pearson College Div

Demonstrates how mathematics is used to solve economic problems across a wide range of fields including microgrowth, and macroeconomics, economic international trade, finance, labor and environmental economics. DLC: Economics, mathematical.

Mathematical Methods for Economics (The Addison-Wesley Series in Economics)

An analysis of the operation and consequences of exchange rate regimes in an era of increasing international interdependence.
The exchange rate is sometimes called the most important price in a highly globalized world. A country's choice of its exchange rate regime, between government-managed fixed rates and market-determined floating rates has significant implications for monetary policy, trade, and macroeconomic outcomes, and is the subject of both academic and policy debate. In this book, two leading economists examine the operation and consequences of exchange rate regimes in an era of increasing international interdependence.
Michael Klein and Jay Shambaugh focus on the evolution of exchange rate regimes in the modern era, the period since 1973, which followed the Bretton Woods era of 1945–72 and the pre-World War I gold standard era. Klein and Shambaugh offer a comprehensive, integrated treatment of the characteristics of exchange rate regimes and their effects. The book draws on and synthesizes data from the recent wave of empirical research on this topic, and includes new findings that challenge preconceived notions.

Exchange Rate Regimes in the Modern Era (Mit Press)

Shambaugh, Jay C.

MIT Press]

Something for Nothing

A young economic professor's adventures in his quest for a tenure-track position and a well-balanced life.
David Fox (Ph.D. Economics, Columbia, Visiting Assistant Professor at Kester College, Knittersville, New York) is having a stressful year. He has a temporary position at a small college in a small town miles from everything except Albany. His students have never read Freakonomics. He thinks he is getting the hang of teaching, but a smart and beautiful young woman in his Economics of Social Issues class is distractingly flirtatious. His research is stagnant, to put it kindly. His search for a tenure-track job looms dauntingly. (The previous visiting assistant professor of economics is now working in a bookstore.) So when a right-wing think tank called the Center to Research Opportunities for a Spiritual Society (CROSS)―affiliated with the Salvation Academy for Value Economics (SAVE)―wants to publish (and publicize) a paper he wrote as a graduate student showing the benefits of high school abstinence programs, fetchingly retitled “Something for Nothing,” he ignores his misgivings and accepts happily. After all, publication is “the coin of the realm,” as a senior colleague puts it.
But David faces a personal dilemma when his prized results are cast into doubt. The school year is filled with other challenges as well, including faculty politics, a romance with a Knittersville native, running the annual interview gauntlet, and delivering the culminating “job talk” lecture under trying circumstances. David's adventures offer an instructive fictional guide for the young economist and an entertaining and comic tale for everyone interested in questions of balancing career and life, success and integrity, and loyalty and desire.

Mit Pr

A young economic professor's adventures in his quest for a tenure-track position and a well-balanced life.David Fox (Ph.D. Economics, Columbia, Visiting Assistant Professor at Kester College, Knittersville, New York) is having a stressful year. He has a temporary position at a small college in a small town miles from everything except Albany. His students have never read Freakonomics. He thinks he is getting the hang of teaching, but a smart and beautiful young woman in his Economics of Social Issues class is distractingly flirtatious. His research is stagnant, to put it kindly. His search for a tenure-track job looms dauntingly. (The previous visiting assistant professor of economics is now working in a bookstore.) So when a right-wing think tank called the Center to Research Opportunities for a Spiritual Society (CROSS)―affiliated with the Salvation Academy for Value Economics (SAVE)―wants to publish (and publicize) a paper he wrote as a graduate student showing the benefits of high school abstinence programs, fetchingly retitled “Something for Nothing,” he ignores his misgivings and accepts happily. After all, publication is “the coin of the realm,” as a senior colleague puts it.But David faces a personal dilemma when his prized results are cast into doubt. The school year is filled with other challenges as well, including faculty politics, a romance with a Knittersville native, running the annual interview gauntlet, and delivering the culminating “job talk” lecture under trying circumstances. David's adventures offer an instructive fictional guide for the young economist and an entertaining and comic tale for everyone interested in questions of balancing career and life, success and integrity, and loyalty and desire.

Literature & Fiction

Job Creation, Job Destruction, and International Competition

Klein, Schuh, and Triest explore how fluctuations in exchange rates, overseas economic activity, and the relaxation of trade restrictions (such as NAFTA) contribute to the simultaneous creation and destruction of jobs within the American economy. They find these "gross job flows" vary greatly across industries and even among firms within industries. Klein, Schuh, and Triest conclude that although the openness to international trade and other international factors expose some workers to significantly greater risk than is often acknowledged by economists and trade policy analysts, globalization improves our overall economic performance and efficiency. The authors advocate policies that target workers dislocated by trade, rather than policies, such as tariffs, that endeavor to protect workers by protecting industries.

Schuh, Scott

Triest, Robert K.

Job Hunting & Careers

W E Upjohn Inst for

When job loss occurs in the U.S. labor market - particularly in the manufacturing sector - international competition invariably receives the brunt of the blame. Jobs, it seems, are being siphoned off overseas as a result of free trade agreements with nations that have eager, low-wage workforces. In fact, say the book's authors, this is only part of the story. At the same time jobs are being lost, other jobs are being created. Therefore, a more nuanced view of the effects of international competition is called for in order to truly understand its effects on the U.S. job market. In Job Creation, Job Destruction, and International Competition, Michael W. Klein, Scott Schuh, and Robert K. Triest offer such a view by presenting a picture of how the effects of international trade on employment in U.S. manufacturing industries vary widely. They explore the labor-market dynamics and adjustment costs associated with international factors, particularly the way fluctuations in exchange rates, overseas economic activity, and the altering of trade restrictions contribute to churning-the simultaneous job creation among some firms and job destruction among others. This effort produces insights that go beyond economy-wide or even sector-wide analyses of the effects of free trade. The documentation of the disparate effects between and even within narrowly defined industries shows that churning characterizes the labor markets for manufacturing industries, and that changes in international factors have a much larger and more complex impact on labor markets than was previously thought. "For any size of total employment change induced by changes in international factors, the changes in individual jobs at individual establishments are much greater. Many more jobs are destroyed, but many more jobs also are created, than is apparent from the change in total employment. In fact, even when changes in international factors seem to have no effect on total employment at all, these changes are linked to greater job creation and destruction." By documenting the impact of international factors on employment across and within manufacturing industries in the United States, and by pointing out the ineffectiveness of simplistic policies intended to ameliorate the impact of globalization, this book serves as the first step toward building a base of knowledge that should improve our understanding of, and policies toward, the effects of international competition on labor markets.

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Current Issues in the International Economy: A Reader

Mathematical Methods for Economics

Mathematical Methods for Economics (The Addison-Wesley Series in Economics)

Exchange Rate Regimes in the Modern Era (Mit Press)

Something for Nothing

Exchange Rate Regimes in the Modern Era (Mit Press)

Something for Nothing

Job Creation, Job Destruction, and International Competition

Job Creation, Job Destruction, and International Competition