Western sanctions on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine quickly led the Ruble to lose more than 45 percent of its value. But these days, the Russian currency is back to its pre-war value. Cameron and Adam explain the turnaround and discuss what it means for the war. 2022 Level: debutante How the Russian Ruble Bounced Back Adam Tooze interviewed by Cameron Abadi Foreign Policy This course is an introduction to Development Economics and is concerned with how economists have sought to explain how the process of economic growth occurs, and how – or whether – that delivers improved well-being of people. 2015 Level: adelantado Development Economics Sakiko Fukuda-Parr The New School The deceleration of world trade since 2011 has been widely discussed How much is due to a reversal of international production fragmentation And how much is due to decreasing demand for trade intensive goods The authors present a consistent framework that quantifies their relative importance A central concept in the … 2017 Level: adelantado An Anatomy of the Global Trade Slowdown based on the WIOD 2016 Release Timmer, Marcel P. Los, Bart Stehrer, Robert de Vries, Gaaitzen J. Groningen Growth and Development Centre, University of Groningen This course provides an introduction into the basic concepts of mainstream macroeconomics, including supply and demand in a competitive market, to all the usual introductory macroeconomic topics, and also to both international trade and the Foreign Exchange Market. Level: debutante AP® Macroeconomics Clark Ross Davidson Next What are the challenges and opportunities for achieving decent work in global supply chains How do transnational corporations and their global supply chains operate How can they be more effectively governed Mark Anner Esther Busser Michael Fichter Tandiwe Gross Frank Hoffer Jenny Holdcroft Praveen Jha Maité Llanos Adam Lee Victor … Level: debutante Decent Work in Global Supply Chains Mark Anner, Esther Busser, Michael Fichter, Tandiwe Gross, Frank Hoffer, Jenny Holdcroft, Praveen Jha, Maité Llanos, Adam Lee, Victor Hugo Ricco, Christoph Scherrer Iversity From the mercantile monopolies of seventeenth-century empires to the modern-day authority of the WTO, IMF, and World Bank, the nations of the world have struggled to effectively harness globalization's promise. The economic narratives that underpinned these eras the gold standard, the Bretton Woods regime, the "Washington Consensus" brought great success and great failure. 2011 Level: adelantado The Globalization Paradox Dani Rodrik W. W. Norton & Company Trade disputes are usually understood as conflicts between countries with competing national interests, but as Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis show in this book, they are often the unexpected result of domestic political choices to serve the interests of the rich at the expense of workers and ordinary retirees. 2020 Level: adelantado Trade Wars Are Class Wars Matthew C. Klein & Michael Pettis Yale University Press 'Impressive... provides a very good compendium of what are usually classified as "heterodox" development economics... an excellent volume.' Journal of International Development This important new collection tackles the failure of neoliberal reform to generate longterm growth and reduce poverty in many developing and transition economies. 2003 Level: adelantado Rethinking Development Economics Ha-Joon Chang Anthem Press Big challenges lie ahead for our society: increased automation of work, and the threat of catastrophic climate change. But so, too, are the huge possibilities presented by new technology and better ways of organising our economy in the wake of neoliberalism's failure. 2018 Level: adelantado Economics for the Many John McDonnell Verso Books This book is designed for a one-semester or two-semester course in international economics, primarily targeting non-economics majors and programs in business, international relations, public policy, and development studies. It has been written to make international economics accessible to wide student and professional audiences. 2011 Level: adelantado An Introduction to International Economics Kenneth A. Reinert Cambridge University Press Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, there has been an unprecedented move towards 'rethinking economics' due to the damages generated by the global financial crisis that burst in 2007-2008. Almost a decade after this crisis, policy is still unable to provide all citizens greater wellbeing or at least an encouraging economic future. 2017 Level: adelantado A Modern Guide to Rethinking Economics Louis-Philippe Rochon, Sergio Rossi Edward Elgar Publishing An honest discussion of free trade and how nations can sensibly chart a path forward in today’s global economy. 2019 Level: adelantado Straight Talk on Trade Dani Rodrik Princeton University Press Despite the Doha declaration of November 2001, the failure to start a new round of global trade negotiations at Seattle in December 1999 and the hostility of protesters to the trade liberalization process and growing global economic and social disparities was a wake-up call for the World Trade Organisation (WTO). 2002 Level: adelantado The WTO, Agriculture and Sustainable Development Heinrich Wohlmeyer, Theodor Quendler Greenleaf International Economics, 15e continues to combine rigorous economic analysis with attention to the issues of economic policy that are alive and important today in this field. 2011 Level: adelantado International Economics Pugel, Thomas A. McGraw Hill Book Co The book is offered, in the first instance, to students who are beginners in economics, but some parts of it may be of wider interest. The three topics, Economic Doctrines, Analysis and Modern Problems, might be the subject of concurrent courses or they may be studied consecutively. 1973 Level: debutante An Introduction to Modern Economics Robinson, Joan; Eatwell, John Maidenhead McGraw-Hill All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. People and ideas are important; but if you don't know geography, you'll never have the full picture. 2016 Level: debutante Prisoners of Geography Tim Marshall Elliott and Thompson Limited In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows neoliberal thinkers from the Habsburg Empire’s fall to the creation of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism emerged less to shrink government and abolish regulations than to deploy them globally to protect capitalism. 2020 Level: debutante Globalists Quinn Slobodian Harvard University Press In this book, the author, Intan Suwandi, engages with the question of imperialism through the specific channel of Global Value Chains. 2019 Level: debutante Value Chains Intan Suwandi NYU Press