Chapter 1

Introduction 

Quizzes 

Watch, Listen, Read, and Explore 

This content includes videos, podcasts, articles, readings, and other resources to help you understand and explore the content covered in the chapter. Most readings are freely available, although anything marked with an asterisk may require institutional log-in (e.g., through your university). Freely available data sources are also included to explore and further research. 

Videos 

• Watch Andy Hira’s lecture on financial tools and instruments, available to stream here: https://stream.sfu.ca/Media/Play/6ce1970130c84237972b5e7c0a0a31171d  
• See Lecture Video

Podcasts 

• AEI PE podcast, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/political-economy-with-jim-pethokoukis/id589914386    
• Feedspot, weekly PE podcast, https://www.feedspot.com/reader/fe/5282793   
• James Morrison, Middlebury College, IPE, https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-podcast-international-poli-31006503/   
• Podcast overview of this textbook: https://blog.milliondollarbookagency.com/anil-hira-author-of-global-political-economy-theory-and-practice/    
• U of Washington, PE podcast, https://sites.uw.edu/uwpoliticaleconomy/podcasts/  
• Zoltan Pogatsa, PE podcast, https://open.spotify.com/show/0xJKwtEX8pv6bvQZxYZXMk 

Theories 

• What is theory: https://users.ssc.wisc.edu/~jpiliavi/357/theory.white.pdf  
• Theories and social science, https://bookdown.org/josiesmith/qrmbook/theories-and-social-science.html  
• Social science vs. Natural science theories: https://www.britannica.com/topic/philosophy-of-social-science/The-nature-of-theory-in-social-science  
• Review of GPE theories: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26986034?seq=17 

Case Study Materials 

• The Economist, https://www.economist.com/  
• Financial Times, https://www.ft.com/  
• The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/international  
• The New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/  
• Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, https://oxfordre.com/economics 

Basic Economic Concepts 

• https://www.econlib.org/cee/ 
• https://www.economist.com/economics-a-to-z 

Free Classic PE Texts 

• https://www.econlib.org/books-by-author/ 

Selected Sources of Free Data 

• Macroeconomic, demographic and development indicators, https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators  
• Official Development Assistance (ODA), https://www.oecd.org/en/topics/policy-issues/official-development-assistance-oda.html 
• Trade and Production Profiles, https://oec.world/en – the Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC) is an online data visualization and distribution platform focused on the geography and dynamics of economic activities. The OEC integrates and distributes data from a variety of sources to empower analysts in the private sector, public sector, and academia.  
• Investment, https://unctad.org/topic/investment/world-investment-report  
• See also FT and The Economist for exchange rate and updated sovereign debt information