[PEN-L:2723] Re: book on global economic institutions

[knowware@xxxxxxxx (Tom Walker)]

Peter,

As I started to read your message, I was thinking, "what he needs is an
update of Fred Block's _Origins of International Economic Disorder_ . . ."
Then I got to the punch line in the third sentence.

>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.
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>Does anyone have suggestions?
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>Peter Dorman
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Tom Walker
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