Pt. 1. Lecture 1. The world economy since 1950 ; Lecture 2. The U.S. in the world economy
1960-1995 ; Lecture 3. The U.S. economy resurgent? ; Lecture 4. Europe
from catch-up to jobless growth ; Lecture 5. The single European market ; Lecture 6. The rise of the euro ; Lecture 7. The economy of the Soviet Union ; Lecture 8. Transitions from communism to markets ; Lecture 9. Japan's economic miracle ; Lecture 10. When Japan's bubble economy burst ; Lecture 11. Government versus market in East Asia ; Lecture 12. East Asia's Tigers
Pt. 2. Lecture 13. China's gradualist economic reforms ; Lecture 14. China's challenges for continued growth ; Lecture 15. India and the license Raj ; Lecture 16. India's turn toward market economics ; Lecture 17. Inherited institutions in the Middle East ; Lecture 18. The curse of oil wealth in the Middle East ; Lecture 19. Africa's geography and history ; Lecture 20. Time for optimism on Africa? ; Lecture 21. Latin America and import substitution ; Lecture 22. Markets or populism in Latin America? ; Lecture 23. Globalization in goods and services ; Lecture 24. Globalization of capital flows
Pt. 3. Lecture 25. The foreign exchange market ; Lecture 26. Migration
senders and recipients ; Lecture 27. Global population growth ; Lecture 28. World poverty
growth or redistribution? ; Lecture 29. Global food markets
the supply-demand race ; Lecture 30. An urbanizing world ; Lecture 31. Women in the global economy ; Lecture 32. Improving governance, fighting corruption ; Lecture 33. Foreign aid
promises and limits ; Lecture 34. The multilaterals
World Bank, IMF, WTO ; Lecture 35. The economics of global climate change ; Lecture 36. Globalization and convergence.