[PEN-L:2726] Re: book on global economic institutions

[Mathew Forstater <forstate@xxxxxxxx>]

How about Eric Helleiner's _States & the Reemergence of Global Finance From
Bretton Woods to the 1990s_, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996?

Mat

Peter Dorman wrote:

> 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