棒极了的一本国际经济和金融理论相结合的书，经典英文，高清晰PDF本，总共28章，是我的师兄在英国伦敦城市大学的指定资料之一。内容非常详尽，理论以及方法容易理解，涉及国际经济、金融市场、国际贸易理论及操作，国际贸易模型以及期货市场等。现在将第一章的内容粘贴如下。请笑纳区区2个金钱购买，谢谢.

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In recent years, international economic issues have claimed headlines to an extent rarely seen before. The world's largest economy, the United States, has departed from its long history of relative isolation. Its openness to international commerce has more than doubled over the last twenty years, and it has dipped into international markets to finance a spending spree that has turned it into the world's largest debtor. Many U.S. industries have increased their demands for protection from international competition, yet in 1993 the United States, Canada, and Mexico established the North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA).

The rest of the world has not just been watching. Members of the European Union have continued their integration, committing themselves to monetary union starting in 1999. Three countries -- Austria, Finland, and Sweden - were added recently, and eleven more are waiting to join. The economies in transition are trying, with varying degrees of success, to reorient their economies toward the international goods and financial markets.

Economists see "globalization" -- the increase in the proportion of the world's economic transactions that are between countries -- as good for world welfare. Public attitudes are often less sanguine.

International economic theory can most conveniently be thought of as consisting of two fields: the theory of international trade and the theory of international finance. The latter is also sometimes referred to as open-economy macroeconomics.

International trade theory provides answers to the following types of questions: Why do countries trade? Who trades with whom? Can a country lose by trading? Within a country, who gains and who loses from trade? How is trade affected by government policies such as import tariffs or export subsidies?

Trade theory represents one of the longest traditions in economics of general equilibrium modeling. Rather than investigate one market in isolation (partial equilibrium analysis), all relevant markets and prices and their interconnections are considered. Most trade models are concerned with the international flow of goods, services, and factors of production. The models are usually explicit about consumers' preferences, firms' technologies, and countries' endowments of productive factors.

Trade models are typically static, that is, one-period models, in which trade is balanced every period. In the current context of large, politically controversial trade deficits and surpluses, this may seem an unappealing assumption. It does yield, however, an important insight: A country can run a trade deficit, and thus spend more than its income in a given period, only if another country is willing and able to lend. Borrowing and lending are nothing more than trade in claims on future income, or financial assets. Understanding trade in financial assets is the very essence of international finance, a natural extension of real trade theory.

By analogy to the issues addressed in the theory of trade, the theory of international finance is concerned with patterns of trade in assets (such as money or bonds), the welfare effects of trade in assets, and the scope for using policy to affect asset trade. Much of the work in international finance extends existing macroeconomic theory to open economies, and focuses on important macroeconomic variables such as unemployment, investment, interest rates, exchange rates, and international reserves. Some models assume that prices and wages are flexible, while others assume they are fixed by contractual arrangements between consumers or workers and firms. It is becoming increasingly clear that national markets can no longer be viewed in isolation. An understanding of the linkages between economies is now critical for addressing a broad range of economic issues.

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