本书从两个方面阐述了国际经济学理论:国际贸易关系和国际货币关系。全书讲述了国际经济学领域内研究的五大热点问题:经济活动的全球化问题,自由贸易和生活质量的关系问题,发展中**与工业化**之间的贸易冲突问题,世界贸易组织与区域性贸易协定解度的贸易自由化问题以及作为主要货币的美元的作用和地位问题。全书的突出物点是紧密联系实践,理论和方法的阐述通谷易懂。如作者罗伯特·J·凯伯教授在本书的前言中所说:“我相信,把一门专业课的知识在实践中的应用讲授给学生,是激励他们学习这门课程的*好方式”。
本书非常适合我国高等院校经济管理专业本科生作为《国际经济学》教材使用,也可供从事国际经济学研究的人员参考。

INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1 The International Economy
Globalization of Economic Activity
Waves of Globalization
First Wave of Globalization: 1870-1914
Second Wave of Globalization: 1945-1980
New Wave of Globalization
FOREIGN COMPETITION AND THE U.S.Atrro INDUSTRY
The United States as an Open Economy
Why Is Globalization Important?
COMPETITION IN THE WORLD STEEL INDUSTRY
Common Fallacies of Intemational Trade
What Makes a Company "American"?
International Competitiveness
Firm (Industry) Competitiveness
A Nation's Competitiveness
Globalization and Competitiveness
Has Globalization Gone Too Far?
The plan of this book
Summary
Study Questions
PART 1:INTERNATIONAL TRADE RELATIONS
Chapter2 Foundations of Modern Trade Theory
Historical Development of
Modern Trade Theory
The Mercantilists
Why Nations Trade: Absolute Advantage
Why Nations Trade:Comparative Advantage
WHERE DOES U.S. COMPARATIVE
ADVANTAGE LtE?
Comparative Advantage in Money Terms
Production Possibilities Schedules
Trading Under Constant-Cost Conditions
Constant Costs
Basis for Trade and Direction of Trade.
Production Gains from Specialization
Consumption Gains from Trade
Distributing the Gains from Trade
Complete Specialization
Productivity and Comparative Advantage
Changing Comparative Advantage
Trade Restrictions
Trading Under Increasing-Cost Conditions
Increasing Costs
Increasing-Cost Trading Case
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Chapter3 International equilibrium
Chapter4 Trade model extensions and applications
Chapter5 Tariffs
Chapter6 Nontariff trade bbarriers
Chapter7 Trade regulations and industrial policies
Chapter8 Trade policies for the developing nations
Chapter9 Regional trading arrangements
Chapter10 Interational factor movements and multinational enterprises
PART 2:INTERNATIONAL MONETARY RELATIONS
Chapter11 The balance of payments
Chapter12 Foreign exchange
Chapter13 Exchange-rate determination
Chapter14 Balance-of -payments adjustments under fixed exchange rates
Chapter15 Exchange-rate adjustments and the balance of payments
Chapter16 Exchange-rate systems
Chapter17 Macroeconomic policy in an open economy
Chapter18 International banking :reserves,debt ,and risk
Index