All Resources: The International Political Economy Since World War II

Joseph M. Grieco

 

Bibliographic Note: Studying IPE through the Internet

Students have a wide range of Internet-based sources available to them to learn about developments in the world economy.

Current News and Analysis

The Financial Times may be the best source for international economic news on a daily basis, while the Economist provides superb in-depth reporting, analysis, and educational supplements on international economic policy matters. The New York Times is also a useful source, as is Bloomberg.com.

Quarterly Journals

There are several excellent academic and policy-oriented journals that emphasize or include essays on the international political economy; most colleges and universities now subscribe to services that provide internet-based access to them, and several are available through CIAO. Three very good policy-oriented journals are Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and the National Interest. International Organization and World Politics often have leading essays in IPE, and while International Security is mainly oriented toward security studies, it nevertheless has published in recent years some of the most interesting and important essays in IPE. Although their mandate goes well beyond IPE, the American Political Science Review and International Studies Quarterly also have interesting IPE essays quite frequently, as do International Affairs, the Review of International Studies, the European Journal of International Relations, the Journal of Peace Research, and the Journal of Conflict Resolution. The Journal of Economic Issues is a particularly helpful source of essays on international economic matters that are written by top-quality technical economists but are intended for a wider audience.

International Institutions

All of the major international economic institutions provide useful and important materials on world economic matters. For example, the IMF provides free access to its biannual World Economic Outlook report, which has very good quantitative material on world economic developments as well as interesting and useful analyses. The World Bank website and the World Trade Organization also have good inventories of statistical information and analytical studies. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an association of twenty-nine market-oriented developed countries, has a good collection of materials available at its website, as do the European Union and the Bank for International Settlements.

U.S. Government Agencies

The United States government publishes a vast amount of web-based material relating to the international economy. A helpful entry-point to these materials is a web-portal maintained by the Louisiana State University. The U.S. Department of State is also a helpful source of information on American foreign economic policy and international economic developments.

Other Sources

As noted in the text, Professor Rouriel Roubini maintains a remarkable website on international financial and macroeconomic policy matters. The National Bureau of Economic Research, a private, non-profit research association, maintains a website that provides access to a wealth of working papers by economists on a wide range of issues relating to the international economy. In addition, a prominent policy research institute in Washington, the Institute of International Economics, provides a great number of its useful, interesting, and accessible analyses of international economic policy issues (including those with a focus on U.S. foreign economic policy) at no charge through its website. Finally, the University of Michigan library maintains a superb inventory of web-based statistical data sets on international economic matters.