[PEN-L:2722] book on global economic institutions

[Peter Dorman <dormanp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This spring I will be co-teaching a course on international political
economy.  It would be helpful to be able to assign a book that lays out
the history and institutional detail of the global economy: the rise and
fall of the dollar standard, the IFI's, the emergence of offshore
dollars, financial liberalization, GATT/WTO, etc.  What I have in mind
is an update of Fred Block's wonderful but now utterly dated "Origins of
International Economic Disorder".  It would be nice if the book had
stirring political analysis, but that is not necessary.  The main thing
is for students with little or no background in global economics to find
out what the facts on the ground are so that they can make sense of the
theoretical arguments.

Does anyone have suggestions?

Peter Dorman