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The Politics of International Economic Relations

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As the last reviewer, who appears to be the author, said, this is a good book for undergraduate courses on international political economy. It does a great job of explaining the basic concepts and is a very readable book. It was an assigned reading for a course I took on international political economy and it provided an excellent structure and basis for the course.

The only downsides are a few bad examples and minor factual details. It is nothing that seriously affects or hurts the book as a whole. Also, the book has a slight slant to the neo-liberal perspective on political economy. Marxism, as a serious alternative theory, is short-changed a bit in the text, although most other texts have an even larger bias in this area. Overall, it is a good text.

This is a text book for use in undergraduate courses on international political economy. Currently, it is the top choice of many instructors because it provides a thorough but readable historical account of how the world economy has been managed since the end of World War II. The book is organized in chapters about the international monetary system, foreign direct investment, and trade in both the developed and developing countries. In addition, it contains chapters about world oil politics, theories of economic development, and economic transitions in the formerly communist countries.

Minus the cost, of course, the book was a good purchase. I found it easy to read and helpful when it came time to write papers and site examples. This is definitely a good reference book to have around.

For anyone who wonders just how the heck the marriage between politics and economics produce functional and/or disfunctional governments, this book is for you. I like the historical aspect it gives in breaking down the three international economic systems since the end of WWII (Bretton Woods, Interdependence and Globalization.)

This book is a learning tool which gives the layman and those entering the field of economics a strong and factual foundation on a subject that is crucial to our global world and how we live in it today and tomorrow. The language is decipherable and the content is relative. I found myself finding the answers to political and economic questions I've held for well over a decade. The book connects the dots that line up to form today's global economy. It appears that the evolved creature known as globalization is an ever evolving group of cells that could be the catalyst or downfall of the economics of capitalism.