{"product_id":"currencies-and-crises-9780262111652","title":"Currencies and Crises","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaul Krugmans first collection of essays  Rethinking International Trade  mounted a spirited assault on established trade theory and proposed an alternative approach to account for increasing returns and imperfect competition. Less theoretical and more embedded in real-world experience  this new collection revolves around Krugmans work on international monetary economics from the late 1970s to the present in an effort to make sense of a turbulent period that \"involved one surprise after another  most of them unpleasant.\"  The eleven essays cover such key areas as the role of exchange rates in balance-of-payments adjustment policy  the role of speculation in the functioning of exchange rate regimes  Third World debt  and the construction of an international monetary system. They are unified by the same basic methodology and style the construction of a small theoretical model in order to simplify or clarify a puzzling or difficult world monetary problem.  Paul R. Krugman is Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the Group of Thirty.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67930247561269,"sku":"ByrdShop_0262111659","price":59.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780262111652.jpg?v=1794207818","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/currencies-and-crises-9780262111652","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}