本书是一本英文影印删减版图书，原著是极负盛名的国际经济学著作之一。全书通过国际贸易理论、贸易政策、理解外汇、开放条件下的宏观经济政策四个部分系统介绍了国际经济学的基本理论和实践，并提供了大量实例，以便读者深入理解和应用所学知识。
第17版为最新版，保持了原著简明易懂，既注重严谨的经济分析，又强调经济政策导向的特点，并紧跟国际经济学理论与实践的发展动态，进行了增补和更新：补充了对近年来一些重要事件的分析；新增了一些专栏；更新了案例及部分章节的内容。
本书结构清晰，逻辑严密，体系完整，篇幅适中，适合用于高校经管类专业本科生、研究生和专业学位学员的教学，也可作为各类企业中国际商贸从业者的培训用书和参考书。

托马斯·普格尔（Thomas Pugel） 经济学博士，美国纽约大学斯特恩商学院经济学与国际商务教授，主要研究和著作领域为国际产业竞争、政府的国际贸易政策和产业政策。1991年荣获纽约大学杰出教学奖，两次被斯特恩商学院评选为“年度教授”。

目录

1 International Economics Is Different 
2 The Basic Theory Using Demand and Supply
3 Why Everybody Trades: Comparative Advantage 
4 Trade: Factor Availability and Factor Proportions Are Key 
5 Who Gains and Who Loses from Trade? 
6 Scale Economies, Imperfect Competition, and Trade 
7 Growth and Trade 
8 Analysis of a Tariff 
9 Nontariff Barriers to Imports 
10 Arguments for and against Protection 
11 Pushing Exports 
12 Trade Blocs and Trade Blocks 
13 Trade and the Environment 
14 Trade Policies for Developing Countries 
15 Multinationals and Migration: International Factor Movements 
16 Payments among Nations 
17 The Foreign Exchange Market 
18 Forward Exchange and International Financial Investment 
19 What Determines Exchange Rates? 
20 Government Policies toward the Foreign Exchange Market 
21 International Lending and Financial Crises 
22 How Does the Open Macroeconomy Work? 
23 Internal and External Balance with Fixed Exchange Rates 
24 Floating Exchange Rates and Internal Balance 
25 National and Global Choices: Floating Rates and the Alternatives
APPENDIXES
A The Web and the Library: International Numbers and Other Information 
B Deriving Production-Possibility Curves 
C Offer Curves 
D The Nationally Optimal Tariff 
E Accounting for International Payments 
F Many Parities at Once 
G Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply in the Open Economy 
H Devaluation and the Current Account Balance 
SUGGESTED ANSWERS TO ODD-NUMBERED QUESTIONS AND PROBLEMS REFERENCES