INTERNATIONAL FINANCE AND OPEN-ECONOMY MACROECONOMICS: THEORY, HISTORY, AND POLICY (2ND EDITION) - Softcover

Van Den Berg, Hendrik

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9814730246 ISBN 13: 9789814730242

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2016

Synopsis

International Finance and Open-Economy Macroeconomics provides a complete theoretical, historical, and policy-focused account of the international financial system that covers all of the standard topics, such as foreign exchange markets, balance of payments accounting, macroeconomic policy in an open economy, exchange rate crises, multinational enterprises, and international financial markets. The book uses the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference as a unifying theme to relate the many controversial issue. It is written in a lively manner to bring real world events into the discussion of all of the concepts, topics, and policy issues. There is also emphasis on the history of economic thought in order to explain how economists in different time periods dealt with international financial issues.

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About the Author:

Hendrik Van den Berg is Professor of Economics at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where since 1989 he has taught classes in economic growth and development, international economics, international finance, and the economics of immigration. He has published numerous articles in international economics and development economics. He has written several textbooks including Economic Growth and Development (2001), International Economics (2004) and International Trade and Economic Growth (2009) (co-authored with Joshua Lewer). This new textbook, International Finance and Open-Economy Macroeconomics (2010), is thus Professor Van den Berg's fifth textbook.

About this edition

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 9814730246
• ISBN 13: 9789814730242
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 988