3rd Edition

International Economics A Heterodox Approach

By Hendrik Van den Berg Copyright 2017
680 Pages 128 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

680 Pages 128 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

710 Pages 128 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Now in its third edition, Hendrik Van den Berg’s International Economics: A Heterodox Approach covers all of the standard topics taught in undergraduate international economics courses. Written in a friendly and approachable style, this new edition is unique in that it presents the key orthodox neoclassical models of international trade and investment, while supplementing them with a... Read more

Part I Introduction to International Economics

I Interdependence!

2 Introduction to Heterodoxy

Part II International Trade Theory

3 Orthodox International Trade Theory: Why Mainstream Economists Like Free Trade

4 International Trade: Beyond the Neoclassical Perspective

5 International Trade: Imperfect Competition and Transnational Corporations

6 International Trade and Economic Development

7 International Trade, Human Happiness, and Inequality

PART III International Trade Policy

8 Tariffs, Quotas, and Other Trade Restrictions

9 The History of Trade Policy

10 International Trade Policy: A Holistic Perspective

PART IV International Investment and Finance

11 International Investment and International Finance

12 The Foreign Exchange Market

13 International Banking and Financial Markets

14 Exchange Rate Crises

PART V The History of the International Monetary System

15 Early Monetary History: Ancient Times Through the End of the Gold Standard

16 The International Monetary System: Bretton Woods to the End of the Twenty-First Century

17 Another Bretton Woods Conference?

Part VI Immigration

18 Immigration: The International Movement of People

19 Immigration Policy

20 The Evolving International Economy in an Ecologically Constrained World

Biography

Hendrik Van den Berg is Professor Emeritus at the University of Nebraska, and he continues teaching at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, USA.