International Trade and Economic Development, EC 73-371 Fall 2000
blunderbussDr. Gary Quinlivan, GQ@stvincent.edu Syllabus
Office Hours: 3:00-6:00 T-Th
Class meets 7:00 - 8:20, Tuesday & Thursday in Wean Hall 8427
Class Tutor: Shyam Ayengar, u.edu
eachRequired Textbook:
Peter B. Kenen, The International Economy, Third Edition, Cambridge University Press, 1994
Articles will be handed out in class. We will be reading numerous current Wall Street Journal articles. I strongly recommend that you obtain a subscription. We will also read veral think tank and Federal Rerve publications--some are listed below.
Cour objectives:
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1. To enhance your microeconomic skills with international applications
2. To prepare you for future application oriented cours in international business
3. To analyze current international economic policy issues
Cour Focus:
The cour will focus on topics dealing with international trade, development, and contemporary international trade policies.
Cour Level:
The cour assumes you have had both principles of microeconomics and macroeconomics, and intermediate microeconomics (although all intermediate topics will be delineated). Calculus I-III will be ud to explain some concepts, but no Calculus is required on the exams and a knowledge of Calculus is not esntial to do well in this cour. Applied mathematical and graphical skills are to be developed to the best of your ability.
Chapter Outline
I. Introduction
Chapter 1
Trade Deficits and Imports
item什么意思Mann, Catherine L., “Is the U.S. Current Account Deficit Sustainable?” Finance and Development, IMF, March 2000, pp. 42–45.
Griswold, Daniel T., “America’s Maligned and Misunderstood Trade Deficit,” CATO Institute, April 24, 1998.
Griswold, Daniel T., “Trade, Jobs, and Manufacturing: Why (Almost all) U.S. Workers should Welcome Imports,” CATO Institute, September 30, 1999.
Humpage, Owen F., “Do Imports Hinder or Help Economic Growth?” Economic Commentary6410, Federal Rerve Bank of Cleveland, March 15, 2000.
American Trade Policy and Global Philosophy
Weidenbaum, Murray, “Neoisolationism and Global Realities,” Center for the Study of American Business, May 1996.behonest
Krueger, Anne O., “Trade Policy and Economic Development: How We Learn,” The American Economic Review, March 1997.
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Sweeney, John P., “The High Cost of Clinton’s Trade War with the European Union,” The Heritage Foundation, March 26, 1999.
Quinlivan, Gary, “Multinational Corporations: Myths and Facts,” unbreak my heartReligion and Liberty, Fall 2000.
Lash, William H.III, “U.S. International Trade Regulation: A Primer,” The Heritage Foundation, December 1998.
Schaefer, Brett D., Jay Kingham, “The Overas Private Investment Corporation: Myths and Realities,” The Heritage Foundation, June 26, 1997.
Griswold, Daniel T., “Free Trade, Free Markets: Rating the 105 Congress,” CATO Institute, February 3, 1999.
1. Japan
Latham, Scott, “Market Opening of Corporate Welfare?” Cato Institute, April 15, 1996.
Lindy, Brink; Aaron Lukas, “Revisiting the ‘Revisionists’: The Ri and Fall of the Japane Economic Model,” CATO Institute, July 31, 1998.
Makin, John H., “Can Japan Have a Golden Age?” American Enterpri Institute for Public Policy Rearch, May 1999.
2. China
Yates, Stephen J. and Larry M. Wortzel, “How Trade With China Benefits Americans,” Backgrounder,
Heritage Foundation, May 5, 2000.
Bhagwati, Jagdish, “China and WTO: Unions Are Wrong,” 求知欲Wall Street Journal.
3. Russia
Vedder, Richard, “Putin’s Potential for Economic Reforms,” The Washington Times, CSAB, June 4, 2000.
Sachs, Jeffrey D., “Life After Communism,” Wall Street Journal, November 17, 1999.
4. Africa
Schaefer, Brett D., “The Keys to an African Economic Renaissance,” Backgrounder,
Heritage Foundation, May 10, 2000.
Trade Agreements and the Question of Sovereignty
Bhagwati, Jagdish, Arvind Panagariya, “The Economics of Preferential Trade Agreements,” American Enterpri Institute for Public Policy Rearch, January 1997.
Weidenbaum, Murray, “Is America Slipping in International Trade?” Center for the Study of American Business, July 1999.
naccLash, William H. III, “The Exaggerated Demi of the Nation State,” Center for the Study of American Business, June 1996.
