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Hello my name is Dr Alexandra Dales and I look forward to learning with you this semester.
If you have any questions just email on a.dales@yorksj.ac.uk. My office is room DG/111.

International trade is a ubiquitous feature of contemporary business. It is constantly in the news. It provides strategies for business expansion and success but also poses threats to established businesses and in some cases threats to ways of life. This International Trade & Business module will challenges you to develop both a critical overview and a theoretical grounding in key issues related to international trade. The possible benefits and problems associated with these are critically examined for different stakeholders. The main theoretical perspective is that of economics, but no prior study of economics is assumed. 

Overall this module enables you to gain a critical appreciation of important international forces affecting businesses, governments and individuals. 

Key Learning Outcomes

1. Understand the pattern of international trade and its role in contemporary business

2. Critically review and evaluate a range of models and theories that seek to explain why international trade happens as it does, and the consequences of this

3. Apply theoretical understanding gained in this module to real-world contexts so as to demonstrate a critical appreciation of complex circumstances relating to international trade

Key Module Readings:

Dicken P (2015) Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy, 7th edition. Sage.

Hill CWL (2019) International Business: Competing in the Global Market Place, 12th edition. McGraw Hill.

Krugman P (2018) International Economics: Theory & Policy, 11th edition. Pearson.

Reinert KA (2012) An Introduction to International Economics: New Perspectives On The World Economy.

Cambridge University Press. [core text]

Torelli P (2013) International Economics: Understanding The Forces Of Globalization For Managers. Business Expert Press.

Module Content Plan:

Week Commencing

 

Topic

26/9/22

Module Introduction & Absolute Advantage

 

3/10/22

International Trade & Comparative Advantage

 

10/10/22

Factors Of Production & Patterns Of International Trade

 

17/10/22

Inter-Industry & Intra-Industry Trade

 

24/10/22

Tariffs, Trade Barriers 

 

31/10/22

Preferential Trade Agreements

Brexit

7/11/22

Reading Week

 

17/11/22

Markets

 

21/11/22

Governments and trade

 Case Study: Governmental regulation of transnational retailers and national markets

Essay draft feedback

28/11/22

 Final Week – Module overview

Assignment review and 1-2-1 appointments