International Economics: Theory and Policy

Paul Robin Krugman, Maurice Obstfeld

Pearson Addison-Wesley, 2009 - Business & Economics - 706 pages

Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman and renowned researcher Maurice Obstfeld set the standard for international economics courses with the text that remains the market leader in the U.S. and around the world.

International Economics: Theory and Policy is a proven approach in which each half of the book leads with an intuitive introduction to theory and follows with self-contained chapters to cover key policy applications. The Eighth Edition integrates the latest research, data, and policy in hot topics such as outsourcing, economic geography, trade and environment, financial derivatives, the subprime crisis, and China's exchange rate policies.

New for the Eighth Edition, all end-of-chapter problems are integrated into MyEconLab, the online assessment and tutorial system that accompanies the text. Students get instant, targeted feedback, and instructors can encourage practice without needing to grade work by hand. For more information visit MyEconLab.

What people are saying

Review: International Economics: Theory and Policy

User Review  - Rizwanur - Goodreads

A great text on trade - quite popularly used as a text for introductory trade and international economics classes in colleges.

Review: International Economics: Theory and Policy

User Review  - Patrick Trümpi - Goodreads

Brain wash for freetraders....no good facts about how asian countries really became rich. Neoclassics for poverty!

About the author

Nobel Prize winning economist Paul R. Krugman is a professor of economics and international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and is a regular op-ed columnist for the New York Times. He received his BA from Yale University and his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After working on the White House Council of Economic Advisors from 1982 1983, Krugman earned the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal for his work on the "new trade theory" in 1991. In addition to Princeton, Krugman has taught at Yale, MIT, and Stanford. His Nobel Prize, awarded in 2008, recognizes his work in international trade patterns and economic geography.

Maurice Obstfeld is a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also the director of CIDER, the Center for International and Development Economics Research. He is on the advisory board of the Journal of Monetary Economics and the editorial boards of International Economic Review and Review of International Economics. He received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania; his MA from King's College at Cambridge University in Cambridge, UK; and his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition to his current position at UC Berkeley, Obstfeld has taught at Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University.

Bibliographic information

• Title: International Economics: Theory and Policy; Pearson international edition; The Addison-Wesley series in economics
• Authors: Paul Robin Krugman, Maurice Obstfeld
• Edition: 8, illustrated
• Publisher: Pearson Addison-Wesley, 2009
• ISBN: 0321553985, 9780321553980
• Length: 706 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / International / General