Economics 395 - SEM:INTERNATIONAL TRADE

The globalization of the world economy has contributed to both boom and crisis. This seminar explores selected topics relating to the increased openness of national borders to the flow of goods and services, labor and real capital. Possible topics include the implications the new theories of international trade for the analysis of commercial policy; the national politics of commercial policy in a global economy; regional integration; the emergence of China as a global trading power; the use of trade policy as a strategy for growth and development; direct foreign investment; the relationships between trade; international trade organizations and national sovereignty; the international implications of financial crisis and recession; and the constraints on the United States as a debtor nation. Prerequisites: ECO 250 and one 200-level course in international economics.

Instructor permission. Not open to first-years, sophomores