Economics & Trade

What factors determine the success of economic transition, development and growth? Examining the contrast between East German shock-therapy and Hungary's gradualism, the book generates a set of generalisable conditions for economic development which...

Hella Engerer analyses the emergence, evolution and theory of property rights and establishes the limits for privatization of state owned enterprises in the transitional economies of Eastern Europe. She counters the assumption that reduction of the state...

The book asks whether transplanting banks can solve the problems involved in creating a well-functioning market economy from outside, looking especially at the virtually complete takeover of East German banks by their Western counterparts after...

This book explains the political background and describes the decision-making leading to European Monetary Union, as seen by a former central banker who participated in the process during more than two decades. Political rather than economic...

This revised, extended and updated edition of Robert Solomon's well-received The Transformation of the World Economy assesses the remarkable changes in the world economy in recent decades. The impact of marketization, of globalization in both industry...

The book examines the rapid growth and dramatic changes in capital flows globally and to emerging markets. In the context of relevant economic theory, it analyses benefits and costs of large and volatile capital flows to developing countries; the latter...

Privatization, with its ultimate objective of raising economic efficiency, has been central to the transformation of the economies of Eastern Europe and Russia. The perception of foreign direct investment in the privatization process of transitional...

The leading researchers from central banks and universities around the world debate issues central to the performance of Divisia monetary aggregates both in theory and in practice. The overall conclusion is that Divisia monetary aggregates outperform...

The Nordic tax systems have recently undergone dramatic changes. Tax bases have been broadened, marginal tax rates have been cut, and the Nordic countries have abandoned the traditional income tax in favour of a 'dual' income tax combining progressive...

This book examines the recent controversy between international trade and environmental policies. It analyses the use of environmentally-motivated trade policies, national environmental policies, and their relationships with the rules governing trade,...

The process of globalization can be seen in the increase of: trade interdependence, the importance of global multinational corporations, mobility and volatility of capital flows (with dangers demonstrated by the recent Mexican crisis). This globalization...

After Liberalisation is a radical new view of the pressures that Europe faces over the coming decades. It cogently demonstrates how a new world order of market forces is coercing Europe to modernise. Drawing on five years of research, this book shows...

This book is a timely re-examination of the role of trade policy in development strategies. Through insightful analyses and five country studies of semi-industrialized economies, it shows that sustained growth performance is associated with policies...

Provides a introduction to the principal Western financial markets and institutions, particularly those in the USA, Europe and Japan. The book includes: commercial and investment banking, money and insurance, and options and futures. Second edition: "An...

'Commentators often see wide differences between policy as they consider how it should be conducted and how it actually emerges. Those who are involved in making trade policy, for their part, commonly accuse commentators of 'not living in the real world'...

Recent cataclysmic changes in the international economic order are shaping the global policy choices of the 1990s. In his final collection of essays, the late Bela Balasa, a foremost international economist, examines the implications of these recent...

The subject of this book is the kind of economic interaction and interdependence that has arisen among nations in the contemporary world economy, the nature and significance of the pattern of trade balances that have resulted from them, and the question...

The interest of this book is that the aims of the IAE conference of 1958 can now be assessed in light of the development of the last 30 years. The book itself also looks at how the IAE has attempted to promote the development of economics internationally...

This revised edition includes new material on foreign assistance and debt and has updated statistics and the institutional material. The book aims to provide students with an understanding of the theory and practice of economic development.Book...

At the time of Ghana's independence in 1957 it was hoped that the country would be the "show-piece" of African economic development and a model for others to follow. The country was rich in natural resources and human potential but by the late...

This collection of essays represents the proceedings of the conference of the Confederation of European Economic Associations at the University of Kent in 1986. Subjects include international migration, labour mobility and capital flows and movements...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333345252Author Jeffrey A. HartFormat HardbackPage Count 182Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 410g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333327715Author John BlackFormat HardbackPage Count 203Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 435g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333314777Author Graham BirdFormat HardbackPage Count 353Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 616g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333291924Author Roy A. BatchelorFormat HardbackPage Count 243Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 475g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333269992Author Sven GrassmanFormat HardbackPage Count 599Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 923g

This unique reference provides the first book-length bibliography on NAFTA. The scope of the book encompasses NAFTA from the Bush administration through the Clinton administration, up to and including 1995. It provides sources from a wide range of...

As the prime force behind trade throughout the Western Hemisphere, the United States is emerging with two trade projects--the newly-signed North American Free Trade Agreement and the projected New American Community. This volume provides a clear, concise...

According to Chermesh, the Israeli industrial relations system has developed as a state within a state, having, by the mid-1980s, gained a high level of autonomy and detachment from political and economic constraints. At the heart of the system is the...

This work examines the development of the Greek economy during the years 1950-1991. George A. Jouganatos divides that era into five separate political periods and evaluates each one's economic development. He supplies an overview of the political history...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authorxler /f ImanuelBook InformationISBN 9780313240119Author Imanuel WexlerFormat HardbackPage Count 327Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing...

This volume represents a systematic inquiry into various regional and special aspects of Soviet foreign economic policy, particularly Soviet efforts in the underdeveloped countries.Book InformationISBN 9780313235351Author Robert Loring AllenFormat...

Corporate governance, namely the relationship between the ownership and control of firms, takes on new dimensions in the case of international joint ventures operating in the special context of China. The present study contributes a new examination of...

This book brings together two major developments of the past decade: the collapse of the Soviet Union on the political side and "globalization" on the economic side. It shows that both of these drastic changes resulted in an increasing demand for...

Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) will have far-reaching consequences for participating nations. This book contains a unique and editorially neutral collection of key arguments favouring and opposing membership. The economic and policy implications are...

This wide-ranging collection addresses many important issues in China's economy under transition, from grain production to trade, to the development of township enterprises, the restructuring of state-owned enterprises, the emergence of big business,...

A guide to the experiences economic reform since the second world war, and system reform and economic integration across the world in the past decade. The first part of the book examines why only a small number of developing countries have succeeded in...

"Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the twenty-first century."-Vice President Al GoreThis book begins with an eye-opening exploration of the rise of China's economy and an assessment of its potential for further rapid growth. The...

The world spins in economic turmoil, and who can tell what will happen next? Cold numbers and simple statistical projections don't take into account social, financial, or political factors that can dramatically alter the economic course of a nation or a...