International Political Economy: Perspectives on Global Power and Wealth - Softcover

Frieden, Jeffry A.; Lake, David A.; Broz, J. Lawrence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393603881 ISBN 13: 9780393603880

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2017

Synopsis

With 70 percent new readings, the Sixth Edition of International Political Economy has been extensively updated to reflect changes in the scholarship and the global economy. This compact book brings together a flexible and provocative set of articles and excerpts on a broad range of topics, including the global economic crisis, international migration, and the ongoing challenges in the Eurozone. The text also provides clear introductions and headnotes to help students get the most out of each reading.

About this title

About the Author:

Jeffry A. Frieden is the Stanfield Professor of International Peace at Harvard University. A specialist on the politics of international financial relations, he is also coauthor, with Menzie Chinn, of Lost Decades, a history of the 2008 financial crisis.

David A. Lake is the Jerri-Ann and Gary E. Jacobs Professor of Social Sciences and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He is, most recently, the author of Hierarchy in International Relations. His other books include Entangling Relations: American Foreign Policy in Its Century and Power, Protection and Free Trade: International Sources of U.S. Commercial Strategy, 1887–1939. In addition, he is co-editor of 10 volumes and author of over 80 articles and book chapters on international relations, international political economy, and American foreign policy. He is Associate Dean of Social Sciences and Director of the Yankelovich Center for Social Science Research at UCSD. In 2013, he received the UCSD’s Chancellor’s Associates Awards for Excellence in Research in Humanities and Social Sciences.

J. Lawrence Broz (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles) is professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego. He studies the institutions that regulate national and international monetary and financial relations: central banks, exchange rate regimes, and international financial institutions. He is the author of International Origins of the Federal Reserve System (1997) and a series of articles on the congressional politics of financing the International Monetary Fund.

Review:

"This book surpasses the others especially in its ability to link the economics of IPE with the politics of IPE. It is also better than most others at striking the balance between treating the students intelligently and making the material accessible."

"Ultimately I chose Lairson and Skidmore because of its early chapters on the historical construction of the world economy (chapters 3 and 4) and its very strong chapter on globalization (chapter 5). These, in combination with the very good nuts and bolts chapter on markets (chapter 2), edged out the other books for this course."

"I find the text far more readable than the one I am currently using. In particular, I like the case studies that are presented in many of the chapters."

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0393603881
• ISBN 13: 9780393603880
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 576