LECTURE SLIDES

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WEEK 1

Globalization -Trends and Causes

International Trade Theory    

International Finance  [optional]

Politics and the World Economy: Prologue to the 20th Century

Miscellaneous slides: Sugar Politics; Mexico 1994: Anatomy of a Currency Crisis

WEEK 2

Overview of the Golden Age

Movement of Money, Capital, and People

Divergent Patterns of Development

Opposition to Globalization (NOTE: Due to the shortened week, these slides are not required).

WEEK 3

World War I, Recovery, and Collapse

Responses to the Great Depression

Settlement and Reconstruction

The Bretton Woods System

WEEK 4

Decolonization and Development

The Turbulent 1970s and 1980s

Tensions in the Developing World

Tensions in the Developed World

Course Summary