The Politics of International Economic Relations

by Joan Edelman Spero and Jeffrey A. Hart

Book Overview

THE POLITICS OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS gives students the historical and political background needed to understand the world economy. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0534602746
• ISBN13: 9780534602741
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

One textbook I was glad I bought

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.

Good Book on Political Economy

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.

The Politics of International Economic Relations

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.