Suchergebnisse

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- 1. Introduction and overview -- Defining international economic relations -- The organisation of the international economy -- Basic trends in international economic relations -- Summary -- 2. Rebuilding the international economic system 1945-50 -- Wartime cooperation and planning -- Bretton Woods and the founding of the IMF -- International Trade Organisation -- Recovery of the international economy -- Conclusions and summary -- 3. Years of growth 1950-70 -- Changing patterns of growth -- European integration: from the ECSC to the EEC -- Trade liberalisation, market integration and economic growth -- Persistent inequalities -- Challenges to the pegged exchange rate system -- Collapse of the international monetary system 1971-73 -- Conclusions and summary -- 4. Years of crisis 1970-1985 -- Introduction -- OPEC and the oil crisis -- Operation of floating exchange rates -- Problems of unequal development -- Rise of sovereign debt and the Third World Debt Crisis -- Conclusions and summary -- 5. The start of the second globalisation -- Introduction -- Ideology of globalisation -- Measuring globalisation -- China re-enters the international economy -- Convergence and divergence -- European monetary integration -- Conclusions and summary -- 6. The acceleration of globalisation and renewed crises -- Introduction -- Spread of global economic activity -- International economic cooperation -- Financial crises in emerging markets -- Conclusions and summary -- 7. Lessons not learned: The 2000s -- Introduction -- Economic and Monetary Union in Europe -- The BRIC phenomenon -- Global imbalances -- Global recession and global governance -- Euro area crisis -- Conclusions and summary.

"This second edition has been updated to include an assessment of economic relations up to the Covid-19 pandemic. It focuses on three main threads that tie national economies together: flows of goods, of people and of finance. Using non-technical language and providing clear examples and evidence, the book is an accessible introduction to international economic relations that will be useful for all students of modern world history since 1945"--