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The following is a tentative syllabus, which I plan to finalize before Tuesday of the second week. 

Week #	Theme	Readings It will be immensely useful to understand what the following concepts mean, and how to use them, too.  Wikipedia will be a helpful starting point for these, and will be sufficient for the scope of this class: Comparative advantage Competitive advantage Terms of trade Imports, exports, and balance of trade Tariffs and subsidies Dumping GDP and GNP Just-in-time manufacturing WTO
Week 1 (wk of 3/28)	Introduction, and getting oriented	We will watch the following video in class as a way of getting into the broad ideas of this course
Week 2 (wk of 4/4)	It is global	Globalization with a human face China makes, the world takes Stress test for the global chain
Week 3 (wk of 4/11)	It is local No in-class meeting, because Sriram will be at the annual meeting o the AAG	Why pineapples shouldn't be grown in North Dakota No free locavore lunch Local produce versus global trade Exports support American jobs
Week 4 (wk of 4/18)	Trade and Transport	American railroads and the transformation of the ante-bellum economy Hummels, David. 2007. "Transportation Costs and International Trade in the Second Era of Globalization." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 21(3): 131–154.
Week 5 (wk of 4/25)	But, what about offshoring and developing countries?	Global outsourcing of services Blinder, Alan. 2006. "Offshoring: The next industrial revolution" Foreign Affairs, March/April 2006 Agtmael, A.V. 2007. "Industrial revolution 2.0" Foreign Policy January/February 2007 Outsourced and out of work Free trade isn't helping world poverty
Week 6 (wk of 5/2)	But, people?	Brain Drain Coe, David T. "Jobs on another shore" Finance and Development March 2008 ***plus more to come ...***
Week 7 (wk of 5/9)	Topics of students' choice	I will fill in the blanks here before the end of week 3
Week 8 (wk of 5/16)	WTF WTO!	Statistics on America's trading partners Governing global trade A briefing on Neoliberalism Free trade or protectionism? Blustein, P. "R.I.P., WTO." Foreign Policy January/February 2010
Week 9 (wk of 5/23)	Hey, the environment?	Pollution embodied in trade Trade, transportation and the environment Trade, pollution, and the environment Norwegian consumption, Chinese pollution Arctic shortcut
"Dead week"	No new readings--but, I will have lots of work for you, and I know you will thank me for it :)

 

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