International Economics
Author: Dennis R Appleyard
Appleyard, Field, and Cobb's International Economics 5e text is an International Economics textbook that offers a consistent level of analysis and treatment of the two main subdivisions of international economics—international trade theory and policy and international monetary theory and policy. Comprehensive and clear, the text helps students move beyond recognition toward and understanding of current and future international events. A new co-author, Steven L. Cobb from the University of North Texas, joins the book this edition and brings expertise especially in the fields of economic education and transition economies, particularly those in Eastern Europe.
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A text that is accessible to economics majors; nonmajors, and separate review chapters on micro- and macroeconomic tools make the material useful to a broad audience of students in related subjects. It presents international trade theory and policy and covers the Classical model of trade, the Heckscher-Ohlin model and alternatives, economic integration, the foreign exchange market, and the aggregate demand-aggregate supply framework. Includes biographical boxes, case studies, questions and problems, key terms, and concept checks. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Culture-On-Demand: Communication in a Crisis World
Author: James Lull
This highly original, thought-provoking book – written by a pioneer of communication studies – is the first to analyze the post 9/11 world in terms of global media and popular culture.
- Written in an engaging and candid manner by a leading expert in this field
- Argues that cross-cultural understanding can only be achieved by harnessing the power of global media, popular culture, information technology, and personal communications technologies
- Examines the global trend of using film, video, music, and TV “on-demand” as the framework through which we experience all cultural activity
- Draws inspiration from the work of a range of theorists, from Charles Darwin to Anthony Giddens
- Candidly interrogates the very latest developments in world affairs, especially the roles of fundamentalist religious ideology, media globalization, and individualism, whose complex relationships have yet to be explained by social scientists
Table of Contents:
List of figures.Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
1. All Eyes on the Global Stage.
Media Globalization.
Modern Media Development.
The Global Divides.
China and the Middle East: Responses to Modernity and.
Globalization.
The Communications Revolution.
2. Human Expression.
The Cultural Politics of Expression.
The Need for Expression.
Symbolic Creativity and the Expressive Self.
Emotional Communication.
The fear factor and the pleasure principle.
The Active Pleasures of Expression and Communication.
Mobile expression.
Cultural Open Sourcing.
Symbolic Power to the People.
3. Programming Our Personal Supercultures.
Cultural Experience.
Culture, culture, Superculture.
The “supers”.
Culture in common.
Cultural Technology in the Communication Age.
Cultural Programming.
The Cultural Self and Self Culture.
Encountering Culture.
The Cultural Spheres.
Universal values and concepts.
Transnational cultural media.
Civilizations.
Nations.
Regions and everyday life.
The Cultural Mix in Action.
Superculture Revisited.
4. The Push and Pull of Culture.
The Push of Culture.
Diaspora.
Nation as contested push.
The Pull of Culture.
Individualism.
“A life of one’s own”.
New Cultural Horizons.
5. Globalized Islam.
The Islamic Cultural Body.
The visible visual body.
Gender equality, political democracy, and economic prosperity.
Islam in the West.
The Opinion, and the Other Opinion.
The global TV war.
The New Imagined World of Islam.
Instrumental modernity.
The communications problem.
6. Cultural Transparency.
Reflexive CulturalGlobalization.
The globalization of good and bad ideas.
Loving to hate America.
Open Society: The Guiding Principle for Cultural Development.
The Power of Transparency.
Transparency or surveillance?.
7. The Open Spaces of Global Communication.
Stage 1: Cultural Technology, Industry, Abundance.
Stage 2: Global Visibility and Transparency.
Stage 3: Platforms for Participation.
Stage 4: Global Consciousness and Public Opinion.
Stage 5: Global Wisdom.
Stage 6: Institutional Channels.
Stage 7: Utopian Potential.
8. Fundamentalism and Cosmopolitanism.
The Passion of the Religious Culture.
Fundamentalist America.
The active passivity of Islam.
Other Fundamentalisms.
Nationalism.
Market fundamentalism.
The Democratic Secular Imperative.
One Moral Universe?.
A “modest cosmopolitan” alternative.
9. Communicating the Future.
The Paradox of Tolerance.
The Great Chain of Communication.
References.
Index
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