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Instructor’s Manual and Testbank

This guide includes teaching tips, outlines, and listings of special features, all organized in a chapter-by-chapter format. There are also tips on how to adapt the book for a one-semester course that covers both trade and finance. Sample examinations are included for reference at the back of the manual.

Pedagogical Devices

To assist the student in learning the material, we have included a variety of pedagogical devices. We like to think of course that the major device in this edition is again clear exposition. Although every author stresses clarity of exposition as a strong point, we continue to be pleased that many reviewers praised this feature. Beyond this general feature, more specific devices are described below.

Boxes

Boxes that are analytical in nature (14 in total) further explore some difficult concepts or relationships for the interested student. We also have included several biographical boxes. These short sketches of well-known economists add a personal dimension to the work being studied, and they discuss not only the professional interests and concerns of the individuals but also some of their less well-known “human” characteristics.

Case Studies

There are 94 case studies contained in International Economics. These case studies serve to illuminate concepts and analyses under discussion, and they give the student an opportunity to see the relevance of the material to events going on in practice. The cases also provide a break from the sometimes heavy dose of theory which permeates this (and virtually any other) international economics text. We have particularly beefed up the number of cases in the policy chapters since those chapters are where we especially want students to see that theory can be very helpful in understanding current events.

Concept Checks

These are short “stopping points” at various intervals within chapters (about two per chapter). The concept checks pose questions that are designed to see if basic points made in the text have been grasped by the student.

End-of-Chapter Questions and Problems

These are standard fare in all texts. The questions and problems are broader and more comprehensive than the questions contained in the concept checks. The major terms in each chapter are boldfaced in the chapters themselves and then are brought together at the end of the chapter in list form. A review of each list can serve as a quick review of the chapter.

References for Further Reading

These lists occur at the end of the book, organized by chapter. We have provided bibliographic sources that we have found useful in our own work as well as entries that are relatively accessible and offer further theoretical and empirical exploration opportunities for interested students.