This course offers a comprehensive overview of the discipline of economic geography and how it sheds light on issues of development and underdevelopment, international trade, and the global economy. In an age of intense globalization, an understanding of these issues is central to both liberal arts and professional educations, including the concerned voter, the informed consumer, and the alert business practitioner. This course has several objectives:
1) to provide students with an understanding of how and why international trade is regulated,
2) to demonstrate to students how particular trade policies affect international trade and international economic welfare, and
to expose students to the economic and political forces that shape international trade policy.
