International economics

This innovative new text brings together the disciplines of economics and social anthropology to provide a refreshing and unique perspective on international business.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the dynamics underpinning the successful performance of local innovation systems (LIS), that is, spatial concentration of innovation activities in specific geographical areas, characterized by the synergetic co-localization of research centers, innovation-driven enterprises, large corporations and capital providers.

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals through Finance, Technology and Law Reform Achieving the SDGs requires a fundamental rethink from businesses and governments across the globe.

In this revealing book Junie Tong reflects on the role of banking and finance in China.

This book seeks to explore the ethical dimensions of economic governance through an engagement with Adam Smith and a critical analysis of economistic understandings of the Global Financial Crisis.

Why do institutions emerge, change, persist and die?

This book examines the intersection between contemporary International Commercial Arbitration and Shari?

In September 1985, emissaries of the world's five leading industrial nations-the United States, Britain, France, Germany, and Japan-secretly gathered at the Plaza Hotel in New York City and unveiled an unprecedented effort to correct the largest set of current account and exchange rate imbalances that had ever threatened the world economy.

Trade has always been an intensely political activity.

The 21st century is the age of "e;neo-liberalism"e; - a time when the free market is spreading to all areas of economic, political and social life.

It is difficult to overstate the growing importance of China and Asia in the global economy.

This book explores what happened in the transition economies of China, Vietnam and Myanmar from both macro and micro perspectives, and questions whether the governments of these countries are capable of implementing effective reform and transformation.

This book offers a comparative analysis of credit cooperative systemsacross 23 European countries.

Successes and Challenges of Emerging Economy Multinationals investigates a broad variety of cases presenting clear evidence of fast successful internationalization of emerging economy multinationals.

How can Africa, the world's most lagging region, benefit from globalisation and achieve sustained economic growth?

Agriculture seems to be a difficult sector to manage for most governments.

Originally published in 1977, this book concentrates on the period since nationalisation in the history of the coal industry.

Multilateral negotiations on worldwide challenges have grown in importance with rising global interdependence.

Originally published in 1994 this book undertakes a comprehensive study dealing with the effects of machine flexibility, tool magazine capacity, varying production demands and different oeprating policies on the production planning problems.

The book describes Japanese economic links with peripheral regions in Europe.

Entrepreneurship and growth are central concerns of policy makers around the world.

'A historically insightful read'Financial Times 'A wry, rollicking, and provocative history' Michael Taylor, author of The Interest'A thought-provoking analysis of Africa's relationship with economic imperialism' Astrid Madimba and Chinny Ukata, authors of It's A ContinentWe need to think differently about African economics.

Good governance is a prerequisite to development, improving the quality of life, and health and ensuring equity.

This innovative text offers an introduction to money, banking, and financial markets, with a special emphasis on the importance of confidence and trust in the macroeconomic system.

The WTO Analytical Index covers developments in WTO law and practice from January 1995 to September 2011.

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How can the poorer countries of the world be helped to help themselves through freer, fairer trade?

The book gathers together a set of lively, provocative essays by leading voices in International Political Economy to debate the evolution of the field, its current state and its future directions.

There has been much recent celebration of the success of African 'civil society' in forging global connections through an ever-growing diaspora.

This book examines the interface between transnational private governance and domestic politics in South America.

The growth of service and high-tech industries in recent years has dramatically altered the geographical distribution of businesses throughout America.

This book intends to make sense of how Chinese leaders perceive China's rise in the world through the eyes of China's international relations (IR) scholars.

In the last two decades public policies have reflected a drive for accelerated global economic integration ("e;globalization"e;), associated with greater economic liberalization.

Global Competition and Integration offers varied perspectives on the changing international economy.

This book, first published in 1995, analyses both theoretically and empirically the effects of a material injury clause of the type found in the Trade Act of 1979 on the behaviour of the dumping or subsidised foreign and import-competing domestic industries.

In Keynes' General Theory of Interest Fiona Maclachlan rehabilitates the largely discredited liquidity preference theory of interest, providing an original and rigorously reasoned restatement of the theory.

A New Economic History of Colonial India provides a new perspective on Indian economic history.

This book advances the debate on socio-economic development and multinational corporations (MNCs).

This book examines and documents the remarkable development and transformation of suburban form throughout the globe during the twentieth century.

Focusing upon the rich interplay between ongoing institutional and technological changes, the dynamics of national industrial systems and the modifications in policy instruments of the new economic framework of the common market and the single currency, European Economies in Transition addresses key issues for growth and convergence.

Most of the established theories of economics, particularly of international trade, became obsolete in the new world trade and production architecture.

This book is dedicated to examining Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) market in the Asia-Pacific region between 2004 and 2017.

Economists at the Bank of France analyse causes and consequences of French monetary policy and financial deregulation during the 1980s.

Heralded as opening a new chapter in international development, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have led to the use of global goals and quantitative targets as a central instrument for defining global priorities.

This book is the result of recent research by contemporary scientists on topics which were discussed at the conference of the same name in Volgograd, Russia in April 2017.