Introduction to the World Economy
Philip Leatherwood, Lecturer
Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics, and Strategic Planning
Spring, 2001
Course Reading List
From Hunt and Sherman's Economics
Chapter 1: The Ideology Precapitalist Europe
Chapter 2: The Transition to Early Capitalism and the Beginnings of the Mercantilist View
Chapter 3: The Conflict in Mercantilist Thought
Chapter 4: Classical Liberalism and the Triumph of Industrial Capitalism
Chapter 41: International Capitalist Trade and Finance
Chapter 42: Economic Underdevelopment: Natural Causes or Imperialism?
From Spiegel's The Growth of Economic Thought
Economic Thought of the Bible
Economic Thought in Ancient Greece
Contributions to International Economics (of J.S. Mill)
From Making Markets
From Ņentral Planning to a Market Economy: Lesson
s from the Transformation ProcessEconomic Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe
Economic Reform in the USSR and Its Successor States
Problems of Planning a Market Economy
From Heilbroner's The Worldly Philosophers
The Inexorable System of Karl Marx
From Rukstad's Macroeconomic Decision Making,
Management of Flexible Exchange Rates
Mexico: Crisis of Confidence
From Srinivasan's Economic Progress and Growth Compared: India and China,
"Overview"
The International Monetary Fund and World Development Policy
Turkish Banking Crisis: Another Indication of Global Turbulance
Comparative Advantage as a Basis for Trade: David Ricardo's Model
On Development and Aid, by Milton Friedman
Rising Expectations Must Be Postponed, by Calvin Hoover
Closed Society, and
Democratic Inexperience Education vs. Massification, by Paulo Freire
Economics of the Environment: An Overview
The Evolution of the European Union