Read (as assigned in the syllabus):
- Batra, R.
1993. Chapter 6 or 8
or 9 or 12 in The Myth of Free Trade.
New York: Charles Scribners's Sons. Also published in
paperback, Touchstone Books. [Required reading; available
at University Book Store and on reserve at OUGL]
- Krugman, P.
1996. Chapters 3 and 4
and 8 in Pop Internationalism.
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. [3 chapters required;
available at University Book Store and on reserve at OUGL]
Optionally, you may find it
useful to skim
- Daniels, J.D., L.H. Radebaugh, and D.P. Sullivan.
2007. Chapter 6 in International Business, Environments and
Operations,
11th edition. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. [Optional
reading: available at University Book Store; on reserve at
OUGL]
| Students
who are turning in drafts of Tasks 2 & 3 on Monday 16
October should also undertake and turn in Response paper 2, described
below. Other students should undertake and turn in Response paper
3, described below.
You'll have time in class to exchange the insights that you gained. |
Response paper 2
Read Batra's Chapter 6 and Krugman's Chapter 3 (you'll probably also
make use of the instructor's online notes on trade theory and trade
policy). Select two of
the countries that Batra profiles in Chapter 6. In about 500
words, encapsulate the trade policies, trade and FDI outcomes, and
economic well-being of those two countries. Then, in about 250
words, try to generalize about the impacts of different trade
policies. Finally, in about 250 words, tell me how and why your
empirical generalization supports or does not support neoclassical
trade theory. These word totals are only rough, rough guidelines.
I'll restate the same assignment in different words. Write a
4-5-page double spaced paper in which you compare the trade experiences
of two countries, in each case, relating the trends and effects of
trade to the country's trade policies; then in that same paper,
tell me what you think those two cases show about the effects of
different trade policies; then tell me whether this is consonant
with the basic model of trade, trade
impacts, and trade policy
that we studied over the past several days. This experience will
give you some background for your team's presecriptions for trade
policies for the country your team is studying.
Please bring five
copies of this to class on the 16th, so you can exchange them with your
team mates.
Before the mid-term, please also read Krugman's Chapters 4 and 8, and
make sure you get an understanding of Batra's arguments in Chapters 8,
9, and 12 -- from our class discussions, the papers and comments of
your team members, and/or from reading those chapters yourself.
Response paper 3
Read all three of Krugman's chapters (they're short and
non-technical). Select and read Chapter 8, 9, or 12 from Batra's
book.
| It
will be most helpful for your team if each team member selects a
different chapter -- I think it would most fitting for the person who
led Task 1 to read Chapter 8 (which focuses on trends), the person who
leads Task 4 to read Chapter 12 (which attempts to build a new,
prescriptive theory, relevant to Task 4), and the person who leads the
presentation to read Chapter 9. |
In about 1000 words, respond to Batra's chapter:
- What is Batra's overarching argument in the chapter?
- What data or logic does he use to support the argument?
- Are there any concepts or principles that you don't understand?
- How and why does his argument differ from that of the
neoclassical theory of trade presented by Krugman, in my online notes
on trade,
trade
impacts, and trade policy,
and (optionally) in DRS Chapter 6?
Please
bring five copies of this to class on the 16th, so you can exchange
them with your team mates.
copyright
James W. Harrington, Jr.
revised 5 October 2006