Unit 1: Economics and Globalization

Lesson 20b: International Trade and Foreign Exchange Markets

Assignments: Readings

 

Ch. 20, pp. 443-465 (19th, 398-418), "Some Key Trade Facts", "Trade Barriers and Export Subsidies", "The Case for Protection", "Multilateral Trade Agreements and Free-Trade Zones"

Ch. 20, p. 464 (19th, 419), "The Last Word - Petition of the Candlemakers, 1845"

Ch. 21, 475-78 (19th, 429-432), "Flexible Exchange Rates"

Ch. 21, 484-488 (19th, 438-439) "Recent U.S. Trade Deficits"

 

Trans-Pacific Partnership

- http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/business/unpacking-the-trans-pacific-partnership-trade-deal.html

- http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/13/upshot/what-you-should-know-about-the-trans-pacific-partnership.html

- http://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2015/08/11/q-a-what-yuan-devaluation-means-for-china-other-countries

VERY USEFUL: Lecture Outline

 

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