Int'l Econ Media Resources

Due to online teaching, I incorporated most of the media resources below in my undergraduate international economics units for the first time in 2020. I received great feedback from my students regarding these resources, notwithstanding the link between shared media and the material taught is, at times, a stretch. My students’ enthusiasm has motivated me to share this more widely in the hope it might save you some time. Resources appear below according to the following topics:

Globalisation
Trade and Technology
Trade and Resources (short-run)
Trade and Resources (long-run)
International Movement of Labour
Trade Policy
National and International Account
Foreign Exchange Rates

Scroll down if you are interested in one particular topic.

Please note that I sourced most of the content below from the following websites, which you may wish to explore independently:

If you have any feedback or additional media resources to share, please send me an email at laura.puzzello@monash.edu.

GLOBALISATION

I use the resources below in the first week of my unit when I provide an overview of globalisation and its history.

CLIPS

- Avengers: The Story of Globalization (from the MRU Globalisation Curriculum)

Gains from Trade: Click here to watch a funny short video even my kids loved!
Trade creates Value- watch why!

TED (short) Talk: How Containerization Shaped the Modern World

Are we better off if we buy local?

BRIEFINGS

TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY

I use the resources below in the week I cover the Ricardian model of trade.

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- Comparative Advantage and the Tragedy of Tasmania

Fair Trade: Does it help poor workers? (Stresses the relationship between real wages and labor productivity!

Click here to see what (sudden) autarky would look like

BRAIN BREAKS

- Opportunity cost: A Country Take on Opportunity Cost
- Production Possibility Frontier (PPF): A Country Take on the PPF

OTHER RESOURCES

- Ricardo’s difficult Idea by Paul Krugman

- What wage inflation looks like (The Economist, 2011)

TRADE AND RESOURCES (SHORT-RUN)

I use the resources below in the week I cover the specific-factors model of trade.

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- Creative Destruction: Trade and Technology (introduces the idea trade makes some people worse off- from the MRU Globalisation Curriculum)

Globalization who cares?... You do

OTHER RESOURCES

- Click here to Play: Guess the effects of creative destruction on the US agricultural jobs, TV prices, and more (from the MRU Globalisation Curriculum)

TRADE AND RESOURCES (LONG-RUN)

I use the resources below in the week I cover the Heckscher-Ohlin model of trade.

CLIPS

- Are there winners and losers from globalisation?

Labour-abundant countries tend to use more labor-intensive techniques of production (source: Economics Media Library)

BRIEFING

- One of the 6 Biggest Ideas in Economics: the Stolper-Samuelson Theorem

INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT OF LABOR

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- What is the Economic Impact of Immigration?

A crash course in the economics of immigration

The case for immigration (by Giovanni Peri)

BRAIN BREAK

- Ryan Hamilton-Making it in NY

TRADE POLICY

CLIPS

- How Companies Design Products To Avoid Tariffs

Who were the winners and losers of the 2018 trade war?

The Environmental Bias of Trade Policy

China's Panda Diplomacy. One of the coolest examples of international trade is China’s use of pandas as a tool for encouraging international trade. While the pandas (and their eventual cubs) may come with a hefty fee, the majority of these pandas accompany major international trade deals that countries sign with China. This quick explainer video outlines the way China uses pandas to their advantage. (Source: Econ Media Library)

Banana (Free Trade Camila Cabello Havana Parody)

GAMES

- Guess Game: CO2 Emissions Worldwide (1970-2018)- Does trade liberalisation explain some of the patterns? Play here
- To dodge Trump's tariffs click here
- Law & Border: The Brexit Trade Game (Bloomberg)

OTHER RESOURCES