International Political Economy: Navigating the Logic Streams: An Introduction - Softcover

Economic relationships are transforming the world.International Political Economy is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to international political economy that examines the predicaments, risks, and tensions that anchor the dynamics of economic governance relative to openness, stability, and prosperity. A wide range of concepts, perspectives, and examples illustrate the relationship between economic activities at a national, international, transnational, regional, world, and global levels. The learning approach emphasizes logic streams of specialization, efficiency, and equity. Students explore how political solutions to economic problems generate challenges to economic governance. They investigate how public goods and regulation counter the risks of market failures. At its thematic core, International Political Economy examines interdependence as it gives rise to liberalization, regionalization, and globalization. It analyzes how mechanisms of economic governance including governments, markets, institutions, hegemons, firms, and networks operate within political economy. Students discover how trust propels efficiency with equity in the world economy. International Political Economy includes an interactive website with assessments, discussion boards, assignments, and much more to enable your students to apply the concepts learned in the text. This complete package combines a consistent thematic structure with divergent exercises to promote learning.