Sumário:
1. State Power and the Structure of International Trade / Stephen D. Krasner, p. 19
2. The Political Economy of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff / Barry Eichengreen, p. 37
3. Institutions and Economic Growth: a Historical Introduction / Douglass C. North, p. 47
4. States, Firms, and Diplomacy / Susan Strange, p. 60
5. The Rise of Free Trade in Western Europe / Charles P. Kindleberger, p. 73
6. International Trade, Domestic Coalitions, and Liberty: Comparative Responses to the Crisis of 1873-1896 90 / Peter Alexis Gourevitch, p. 90
7. International Investment and Colonial Control: a New Interpretation / Jeffry A. Frieden, p. 109
8. British and American Hegemony Compared: Lessons for the Current Era of Decline / David A. Lake, p. 127
9. The Multinational Enterprise as an Economic Organization / Richard E. Caves, p. 145
10. Third World Governments and Multinational Corporations: Dynamics of Host's Bargaining Power / Shah M. Tarzi, p. 156
11. "A New Imperial System"? The Role of the Multinational Corporations Reconsidered / David Fieldhouse, p. 167
12. Strategic Trade and Investment Policies: Implications for the Study of International Political Economy / Jeffrey A. Hart and Aseem Prakash, p. 180
13. The Domestic Politics of International Monetary Order: The Gold Standard / Lawrence Broz, p. 199
14. Hegemonic Stability Theories of the International Monetary System / Barry Eichengreen, p. 220
15. The Triad and the Unholy Trinity: Problems of International Monetary Cooperation / Benjamin J. Cohen, p. 245
16. Exchange Rate Politics / Jeffry A. Frieden, p. 257
17. EMU: Why and How It Might Happen / Charles Wyplosz, p.270
18. The Obsolescence of Capital Controls? Economic Management in an Age of Global Markets / JOHN B. GOODMAN and LOUIS W. PAULY, p. 280
19. Protectionist Trade Policies: a Survey of Theory, Evidence, and Rationale / Cletus C. Coughlin, K. Alec Chrystal, and Geoffrey E. Wood, p. 303
20. Commerce and Coalitions: How Trade Affects Domestic Political Alignments / Ronald Rogowski, p. 318
21. The Political Economy of Trading States: Factor Specificity, Collective Action Problems,
and Domestic Political Institutions / James E. Alt and Michael Gilligan, p. 327
22. Are Your Wages Set in Beijing? / RICHARD B. FREEMAN, p. 343
23. The Political Economy of Nontariff Barriers: a Cross-national Analysis / Edward D. Mansfield and Marc L. Busch, p. 353
24. Explaining Business Support for Regional Trade Agreements / RONALD W. Cox, p. 366
25. International Development: Is It Possible? / JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ AND LYN SQUIRE, p. 383
26. Development: The Market Is Not Enough / ROBIN BROAD, JOHN CAVANAGH, AND WALDEN BELLO, p. 392
27. Globalization and Inequality, Past and Present / JEFFREY A. WILLIAMSON, p. 405
28. Inflation and Stabilization / STEPHAN HAGGARD, p. 417
29. Environmental Protection and Free Trade: Are They Mutually Exclusive? / Alison Butler, p. 433
30. Globalization and the Changing Logic of Collective Action / Philip G. Cerny, p. 446
31. Sense and Nonsense in the Globalization Debate / Dani Rodrik, p. 461

Resumo:
Now in its fourth edition, this best-selling reader in international political economy offers 31 solid articles—IS new—by renowned scholars in political science and economics. Frieden and Lake have edited and introduced each reading with care to ensure its accessibility to students who are new to the subject.
International Political Economy: Perspectives on Global Power and Wealth continues to offer a provocative look at the positive and negative impacts of globalization.