Now in its fourth edition, this best-selling reader in international political economy offers 31 solid articles - 15 new - by renowned scholars in political science and economics.

Introduction: International Politics and International Economics; Part 1 Contending Perspectives on International Political Economy; Chapter 1 State Power and the Structure of International Trade, Stephen D. Krasner; Chapter 2 The Political Economy of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, Barry Eichengreen; Chapter 3 Institutions and Economic Growth: A Historical Introduction, Douglass C. North; Chapter 4 States, Firms, and Diplomacy, Susan Strange; Part 2 Historical Perspectives; Chapter 5 The Rise of Free Trade in Western Europe, Charles P. Kindleberger; Chapter 6 International Trade, Domestic Coalitions, and Liberty: Comparative Responses to the Crisis of 1873-1896, Peter Alexis Gourevitch; Chapter 7 International Investment and Colonial Control: A New Interpretation, Jeffry A. Frieden; Chapter 8 British and American Hegemony Compared: Lessons for the Current Era of Decline, David A. Lake; Part 3 Production; Chapter 9 The Multinational Enterprise as an Economic Organization, Richard E. Caves; Chapter 10 Third World Governments and Multinational Corporations: Dynamics of Host's Bargaining Power, Shah M. Tarzi; Chapter 11 "A New Imperial System"? The Role of the Multinational Corporations Reconsidered, David Fieldhouse; Chapter 12 Strategic Trade and Investment Policies: Implications for the Study of International Political Economy, Jeffrey A. Hart, Aseem Prakash; Part 4 Money and Finance; Chapter 13 The Domestic Politics of International Monetary Order: The Gold Standard, Lawrence Broz; Chapter 14 Hegemonic Stability Theories of the International Monetary System, Barry Eichengreen; Chapter 15 The Triad and the Unholy Trinity: Problems of International Monetary Cooperation, Benjamin J. Cohen; Chapter 16 Exchange Rate Politics, Jeffry A. Frieden; Chapter 17 EMU: Why and How It Might Happen, Charles Wyplosz; Chapter 18 The Obsolescence of Capital Controls? Economic Management in an Age of Global Markets, John B. Goodman, Louis W. Pauly; Part 5 Trade; Chapter 19 Protectionist Trade Policies: A Survey of Theory, Evidence, and Rationale, Cletus C. Coughlin, K. Alec Chrystal, Geoffrey E. Wood; Chapter 20 Commerce and Coalitions: How Trade Affects Domestic Political Alignments, Ronald Rogowski; Chapter 21 The Political Economy of Trading States: Factor Specificity, Collective Action Problems, and Domestic Political Institutions, James E. Alt, Michael Gilligan; Chapter 22 Are Your Wages Set in Beijing?, Richard B. Freeman; Chapter 23 The Political Economy of Nontariff Barriers: A Cross-national Analysis, Edward D. Mansfield, Marc L. Busch; Chapter 24 Explaining Business Support for Regional Trade Agreements, Ronald W. Cox; Part 6 Economies in Development and Transition; Chapter 25 International Development: Is It Possible?, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Lyn Squire; Chapter 26 Development: The Market Is Not Enough, Robin Broad, John Cavanagh, Walden Bello; Chapter 27 Globalization and Inequality, Past and Present, Jeffrey A. Williamson; Chapter 28 Inflation and Stabilization, Stephan Haggard; Part 7 Current Problems in International Political Economy; Chapter 29 Environmental Protection and Free Trade: Are They Mutually Exclusive?, Alison Butler; Chapter 30 Globalization and the Changing Logic of Collective Action, Philip G. Cerny; Chapter 31 Sense and Nonsense in the Globalization Debate, Dani Rodrik;