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.