The Origins of International Economics


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The collection will cover both international trade theory (the real or microeconomic side of international economics) and open-economy macroeconomics (balance of payments adjustment and the determination of exchange rates).










The Origins of International Economics: The emergence of Keynesian open-economy macroeconomics ; Absorption, elasticity, and monetary approaches to the foreign exchanges and balance of payments ; Fixed versus flexible exchange rates ; The Mundell-Fleming or IS-LM-BP approach to open economy macroeconomics


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A collection of materials reprinted from various sources.




Kicking Away the Ladder


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How did the rich countries really become rich? In this provocative study, Ha-Joon Chang examines the great pressure on developing countries from the developed world to adopt certain 'good policies' and 'good institutions', seen today as necessary for economic development. His conclusions are compelling and disturbing: that developed countries are attempting to 'kick away the ladder' with which they have climbed to the top, thereby preventing developing countries from adopting policies and institutions that they themselves have used.