International economics / Charles P. kindleberger.

List of illustrations, xv -- List of tables, xix -- Part I. The balance of payments and the foreign-exchange market, 3 -- 1. The study of international economics, 3 -- 2. The balance of payments, 17 -- 3. The foreign-exchange market, 46 -- 4. Elements in the adjustment process, 63 -- Part II. The current account in the balance of payments: trade theory, 87 -- 5. The pure theory of international trade: supply, 87 -- 6. The pure theory of international trade: demand, 106 -- 7. The dynamic basis of trade: changes in tastes, technology, factor endowments, 122 -- 8. Transport costs and location theory, 137 -- 9. The price mechanism in international trade, 152 -- 10. Income changes and international trade, 177 -- 11. Interactions of income and price, 200 -- Part III. The current account in the balance of payments: commercial policy, 217 -- 12. Commercial policy-tariffs, 217 -- 13. Quotas, commodity agreements, state trading, economic warfare, 244 -- 14. Price discrimination and cartels, 266 -- 15. Exchange control, 289 -- 16. The case for free multilateral trade, 310 -- Part IV. The capital account in the balance of payments, 333 -- 17. Short-term capital movements, 333 -- 18. The international movement of long-term capital: the transfer process, 358 -- 19. Bonds, bank loans, government lending, 383 -- 20. Direct investment, 404 -- Part V. Problems of international resource allocation, 425 -- 21. International taxation, 425 -- 22. The international movement of labor, 438 -- 23. International aspects of economic development, 453 -- 24. Intergovernmental economic assistance, 472 -- Part VI. Balance-of-payments disequilibrium and adjustment, 501 -- 25. Balance-of -payments equilibrium, 501 -- 26. Cyclical disturbance to equilibrium, 519 -- 27. The adequacy of reserves in key and non-key currencies, 538 -- 28. Secular disturbance to equilibrium, 554 -- 29. Structural disequilibrium, 578 -- 30. The means to equilibrium, 597 -- 31. International economic equilibrium and international society, 618 -- Appendixes, 635 -- Indexes, 673.