CHAPTER 1  International Economics Is Different

CHAPTER 2  The Basic Theory Using Demand and Supply

CHAPTER 3  Why Everybody Trades: Comparative Advantage

CHAPTER 4  Trade: Factor Availability and Factor Proportions Are Key

CHAPTER 5  Who Gains and Who Loses from Trade?

CHAPTER 6  Scale Economies, Imperfect Competition, and Trade

CHAPTER 7  Growth and Trade

CHAPTER 8  Analysis of a Tariff

CHAPTER 9  Non-tariff Barriers to Imports

CHAPTER 10  Arguments for and against Protection

CHAPTER 11  Pushing Exports

CHAPTER 12  Trade Blocs and Trade Blocks

CHAPTER 13  Trade and the Environment

CHAPTER 14  Trade Policies for Developing Countries

CHAPTER 15  Multinationals and Migration: International Factor Movements

CHAPTER 16  Payments among Nations

CHAPTER 17  The Foreign Exchange Market

CHAPTER 18  Foreign Exchange and International Financial Investment

CHAPTER 19  What Determines Exchange Rates?

CHAPTER 20  Government Policies toward the Foreign Exchange Market

CHAPTER 21  International Lending and Financial Crises

CHAPTER 22  How Does the Open Macro-economy Work?

CHAPTER 23  Internal and External Balance with Fixed Exchange Rates

CHAPTER 24  Floating Exchange Rates and Internal Balance

CHAPTER 25  National and Global Choices: Floating Rates and the Alternatives

About the Author

Thomas Pugel

Professor of Economics and International Business at the Stern School of Business, New York University. His research and publications focus on international industrial competition and government policies toward international trade and industry. He has been a Visiting Professor at Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan and a member of the U.S. faculty at the National Center for Industrial Science and Technology Management Development in China. He received the university-wide, Distinguished Teaching Award at New York University in 1991, and twice he was voted Professor of the Year by graduate students at the Stern School of Business.