IPE of the Asian Crisis

The IPE faculty want our students to understand IPE both in theory and in practice. This year's IPE classes will study the Asia Crisis as a real world example of how the international political economics works (and doesn't work). Here are some helpful links.

• The Human Face of the Asian Crisis
  Professor Nick Kontogeorgopoulos presents eight personal stories of the Asian Crisis.
• Currency Crises for Beginners
  An elementary analysis of the events that set off the Asian crisis.
• PBS Frontline: The Crash Web site
  Interviews and reports from the June 29, 1999 PBS Frontline documentary.
• The PBS Newshour Online Asian Crisis Chronology
  The events of the crisis as they were reported by PBS Newshour.
• A Chronology of the Asian Crisis
  A blow by blow account provided by Professor Karl Fields.
• States, National Interest and Asia's Currency Crisis: The Malaysian Case
  Professor Sunil Kukreja's discussion of economic nationalism as a response to the Asia Crisis.
• "Malaysia Wins its Economic Gamble" 
  Mark Landler,New York Times, September 4, 1999.
  (free access, but you must register)
• Financial Bubbles
  The international financial system is forever blowing bubbles. A brief guide to their causes a cures.
• Corruption and Crony Capitalism
  How corruption, crony capitalism, and moral hazard contributed to the crisis. A study guide by Professor Ross Singleton.
• Financial Instability
  A brief guide to the causes of exchange rate instability, including a discussion of speculative attacks.
• The International Monetary Fund and the Asian Crisis 
  Professor Jan van der Veen
• The Asian Crisis: Hunger, the Environment, Health Issues, and International Finance Institutions
  Professor Dave Balaam