International Political Economy Paper

The first 4 images are the instructions for the assignment. Attached is a document that I have said my topic was going to be.

Incorporate the Ricardo finer model and the stapler Samuelson theory. Milner and Rogowski. (Lecture 2/25) TALK A LOT ABOUT RELATIVE GAINS.

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• The 2 attached files from osgood are to better help citrate the 3 memo assignments that I submitted. Try to incorporate the memos into the research topic that i proposed.

This is my topic that I need to write about:

Who Controls the Future? Technology, Power, and Inequality in the Digital Age

If technological progress is supposed to make societies richer and more equal, why has the

digital age instead produced rising inequality, concentrated power, and declining economic

mobility in many advanced democracies?

My argument would be that technology itself isnt the problem the key factor is who controls

and shapes technological development. When innovation is guided by powerful corporations

and elites rather than public institutions and broad social interests, technological change

increases inequality and weakens democracy instead of spreading prosperity.

Inequality is caused by globalization, not technology

Historical cases of past technological revolutions

POSSIBLE SOURCES:

Acemoglu & Johnson Power and Progress

argue that technology only benefits society when power is balanced and workers have

political voice.

Zuboff Surveillance Capitalism

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I also attached photos of the book like war by singer and brookings.

This is the instructions:

In a total of approximately 1,5003,000 words (for UHP students 2,0004,000 words) of writing, please

answer the following question.

Question. Explain trends and patterns in international trade. Why, within a country, are some industries

protected and some not? Why have national trade policies varied over time? Why do some countries have

higher trade barriers than others? Why has the world trading order been more or less open at different

times?

Be sure to offer concrete examples and illustrations to support your arguments wherever possible,

referring to course materials such as the readings, notes you have taken, and the film assigned so far in

this class. In other words, you must make and support your argument with logical explanation and

empirical evidence referring to the readings, lectures, and the film.

There are many ways you can answer this question, but no matter how you answer it, your discussion at

least needs to include the following points:

1. Virtually all economic analysis concludes that free trade is good for all countries all the time. On the

other hand, Krasner argues that states will not embrace free trade all of the time and that the

international trading system will be open only under particular conditions. Which sides arguments do

you find more convincing, and why? What are the conditions for the international trading system to

be open? And how do global value chains matter?

2. To what extent is the openness of the world trading system best explained by international factors

(i.e., hegemonic stability theory) vs. domestic factors (i.e., the Ricardo-Viner model and the Stolper-

Samuelson theorem)? Are these arguments contradictory, or can they be used to complement one

another? And how do global value chains matter for firm-based theories?

3. How are firms made to serve the government in China? Why does China find it difficult to take

economically optimal policy of free trade? How is it related to that Chinas political regime is not

democratic but authoritarian?

While discussing the above points, you should clearly link your discussions to your overall argument on

why free trade is so controversial.

You have to discuss at least FIVE of the following terms and their significances in the study of

international political economy:

Comparative advantage

Hegemonic stability theory

Mercantilism

Optimal tariff theory

Prisoners Dilemma (PD) + Repeated PD

Private firms vs. State-owned enterprises (SOEs)

Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act (RTAA)

Relative gains problem

Ricardo-Viner (R-V) model vs. Stolper-Samuelson (S-S) theorem

State-business relations

Visibility projects

Please underline these terms every time when they appear on your essay.

In writing this essay, you should remember that a good essay has several features:

a) Make sure that your essay has:

a logical structure, including introduction, body, and conclusion,

a summary statement of your argument, which should appear in the introductory paragraph, and

clear, direct sentences and coherent paragraphs.

b) Your essay should make a clear, coherent argument. While you have to discuss several issues and

events, your treatment of each issue and event should support the overall argument. Your argument

should be clearly stated in the first paragraph.

c) When you have to summarize the argument that an author has made in the reading, we do not want a

blow-by-blow (e.g., first he says this, then he says that…) or extensive direct quotations from the

author. Rather, we want you to put the authors main argument in your own words.

d) You should support your claims by evidence. An effective analysis will juxtapose your claims with

passages from relevant readings and lectures. Avoid unsupported assertions.

1. This exam is due on Friday, March 6, 5:30pm on Canvas. Exams submitted after that time will be

subject to penalties. There will be no extensions granted, except in the most serious cases (e.g.,

serious illness, death in the family). Any such extensions must be requested before the due date.

2. You are expected to rely on the readings and the film as well as your notes from lectures. The

most effective answers will combine course material from a variety of sources. There is no need to do

outside reading or to have a bibliography. If you wish to quote directly from a lecture, the citation

should be: (Lecture, Date). When citing from a reading, use short-form citations. For example:

Leng says that SOEs, extensions of the states economic function, have ties with not only a selected

groups of individual state agents, but also with the state as a whole (Leng, p. 22).

The Stolper Samuelson theorem shows who benefit from free trade and who suffer from free trade

(Rogowski, pp. 11221123).

3. Because you have plenty of time to complete this exam, we expect that spelling, grammar and

punctuation will all conform to standard practice. Be sure to proofread your work