Economics & Trade

Technological innovation is a core aspect of corporate and national competitiveness and it is not only complex-requiring cooperation and coordination among many stakeholders-but it also involves high risk due to uncertainty. Financial markets are a key...

The 'No Logo-ers' need to switch sides. Global business can redistribute wealth, transfer technology and make the world work more effectively - for the benefit of all. The WTO, the IMF and others are the activists' best hope for steering our panicked...

This book analyzes the development of the Israeli economy in its historical context. It shows how the ideology of the dominant group in the Zionist movement led to the development of agriculture, thus meeting the preconditions for successful...

Lecture Notes in International Trade Theory covers classical international trade models (including the Ricardian, Ricardo Viner, and Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson models). The course is designed for M.Sc. and first year PhD students. It relies on both...

This book is about an issue of our times which does not yet get the attention that it deserves - the growing dominance of huge transnational corporations over every aspect of our lives from executive super-pay to private sector pension funds. The authors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949762563Author William I RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Winner of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Robert H. Ferrell Book PrizeFinancial Missionaries to the World establishes the broad scope and significance of "dollar diplomacy"-the use of international lending and advising-to...

The period since the Second World war has been an eventful and often disturbing one in the international monetary field. Economic theories have been propounded and modified both to explain these events and to influence future choices made by economic...

The book is the first monograph on this highly important subject.ReviewsFrom the reviews:"This book contains an introduction to the mathematical theory of financial markets with proportional transaction costs. ... This is the first book that covers this...

While most standard economic models of international trade assume full employment, Carl Davidson and Steven Matusz have argued over the past two decades that this reliance on full-employment modeling is misleading and ill-equipped to tackle many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399825726Author Neil ShearingFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint John Murray BusinessPublisher John Murray Press

The societies of the present world are experiencing many turbulent changes. New forces of change and modernization are driving people, business and cultures across borders. The world has become a home to a new generation of homo sapiens who are curious...

Regional economic arrangements such as free trade areas (FTAs), customs unions, and currency blocs, have become increasingly prevalent in the world economy. Both pervasive and controversial, regionalization has caused some economists to be optimistic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780231043380Author Robert L. RothsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press

Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.

This book analyses and quantifies the environmental impact of two closely related phenomena: economic growth and trade liberalisation. Previous work in this area tends to address only the impact of trade or economic growth on the environment, yet, as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814792452Author Joel WilliamsonFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Pearson Education LimitedPublisher Prentice Hall Europe (a Pearson Education...

America's relationship with Japan recently passed its 140th anniversary. Over that period, hundreds of books and thousands of articles have explored different issues or periods of the relationship. Yet within that vast library, no book has analyzed the...

The great successes of the Japanese economy have often been attributed to differences in the Japanese economic system. Employing an exhaustive investigation of the roles of the government and banks, firms and networks, and workers and managers, Yoshiro...

The World Economy in Transition brings together thoughts, arguments and analyses by some of the world's leading economists on domestic and international monetary issues of foremost current concern.This major book features contributions from outstanding...

Socialist Economies in Transition provides a coherent critique of economic reform in Eastern Europe which, it is argued, will create not prosperity but high levels of unemployment and severe economic dislocation. The authors show how the application of...

The analysis in this book reflects various aspects of financial sector transformation in selected Central European countries that are expected to join the EU in 2004. The authors are Central European financial experts who provide, among other things, a...

This book covers a wide variety of aspects of transition in Central and Southeast Europe and the CIS, including the socialist legacy, privatization and growth, skills, and banking reforms. It also covers the evolution of the global economy beyond...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788474328202Author Jorge Francisco Malem SeenaFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Gedisa EditorialPublisher Gedisa EditorialWeight(grams) 155g

The process of transition in Eastern European countries is one in which ideas of the past and present, both local and Western, meet and conflict. Presenting a wealth of new ethnographic and interview-based research, Critical Management Research in...

Globalization and the growing integration of national markets have had profound effects on the operation of markets, not least labour markets. In this book, a range of leading commentators on globalization and labour markets present original contribution...

The integration of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States international financial system was arguably one of the most profound changes experienced by the world economy in the 1990s. This book examines these...

Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.

This innovative study investigates how Japan grew from an economically limited country to the threshold of industrial power. The author describes Japanese economic development in the 1950s as one of the major achievements of the Eisenhower administration...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780866382465Author Peter a PetriFormat PaperbackImprint East-West CenterPublisher East-West CenterWeight(grams) 141g

The book analyses the evolution of research and innovation policies in the world's leading countries. The last decade has witnessed a radical transformation of the landscape shaped after World War II, as described in the seminal collection edited by...

This book analyzes and assesses corporate restructuring and governance in transition countries focusing on the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Russia. Using original material and publications in local languages, the book addresses the core issues for these...

This book explores the economic challenges involved in managing hydrocarbon wealth in the Caspian region, and looks at how to design an optimal energy policy. The book draws on the Author's experience in dealing with the governments of the region, and...

By combining insights from Europeanization, globalization, varieties of capitalism, and policy transfer literature, this book reconceptualizes the dynamics taking place during the EU enlargement process and makes a major contribution to the understanding...

This book tackles the disagreements that affect those looking to establish the macroeconomic policies needed to halve poverty over the next ten years. It presents a pro-poor macroeconomic policy allowing countries to recapture policy space, help promote...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881321456Author Gary Clyde HufbauerFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Institute for International Economics,U.S.Publisher The Peterson Institute for...

The disintegration of the former Soviet Union, the end of the cold war and the trend of economic developmental "miracles" in disparate regions of the globe have brought a vast transformation to the political, economic, and security...

Rather than describing the various schools of economics or its history, this book aims to present current macroeconomic knowledge, with a few contributions from famous works and authors when absolutely necessary. It is aimed at those with some existing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798990803916Author Kim TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint TgmPublisher TgmWeight(grams) 390g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798990803909Author Kim TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 338Imprint TgmPublisher TgmWeight(grams) 535g