International economics

This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of monetary policy, banking supervision and financial stability in the euro area.

How did Cuba's long-established sugar trade result in the development of an agriculture that benefited consumers abroad at the dire expense of Cubans at home?

'An interesting and important account.

This book paints a wide canvas of the immense global economic potential of ten most important cash generating crops spread over Asia, Africa and Latin America, namely, Arecanut, Cashew Nut, Coconut, Cinchona, Cocoa, Coffee, Tea, Oil Palm, Rubber and Wattle.

First published in 1998, this collection of essays by eminent microfinance practitioners provides a range of perspectives on contemporary issues in the field.

Financial capital continues to dominate Western economic organisations, despite major financial and economic crises.

This book considers the efficacy of transitional justice mechanisms in response to corporate human rights abuses.

China's remarkable economic transition and capacity for dynamic growth has stunned the world.

The EMU debt crisis thatemerged in 2010 has identified a group of Southern countries, especiallyGreece, Portugal, Spain and Italy, as low performers exhibiting several seriousmacroeconomic imbalances, and it has also highlighted that EU integration experiencedby Eastern European countries (especially the latter-comers to EU) was notaccompanied by a rapid process of real convergence.

In December 1991 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics born in violent revolution and dominated for more than six decades by highly authoritarian rule was dissolved by its constituent republics.

The Politics of Global Supply Chains analyses the changing politics of power and distribution within contemporary global supply chains.

This book analyzes how religious groups talk about the politics surrounding economic life.

Containing ten quality chapters on China's rural reforms and agricultural development, this first volume from the Series on Developing China: Translated Research from China emphasizes the importance of countryside, agriculture and the role of peasants in China's economy.

Alternative Views of the New International Economic Order: A Survey and Analysis of Major Academic Research Reports focuses on research on the principles and objectives of the New International Economic Order, including concerns on nutrition, self-reliance, information technology, global security, and energy resources.

This is the only comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the political economy of the five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden).

Who is afraid of the WTO, the World Trade Organization?

Employment has changed dramatically in the last few decades with the onset of neoliberal globalization.

The main aim of this book is to assess the importance of international rules for foreign direct investment and the major challenges to international harmonization of those rules.

Explores criteria determining the international responsibility of member states for failure to protect human rights in international financial institutions.

This collection of essays draws from over thirty years of work by noted economist Pranab Bardhan to address the inter-related themes of international trade, growth, and rural development.

An analysis of the operation and consequences of exchange rate regimes in an era of increasing international interdependence.

Since China has now become the world's largest energy consumer, its energy sector has understandably huge implications for the global economy.

First Published in 1989.

In this important new book, the authors explore how production was organized in the context of the economic development of modern Japan.

This book argues that intellectual stability causes recurrent market instability, tracing crises from the Great Crash to the Global Financial Crisis.

An up-to-date analysis and assessment of the evolving relationship between Canada and the Commonwealth Caribbean, this volume focuses on three dynamic and important issues.

This book takes stock of and analyses the direct and indirect effects of the war in Ukraine, the policy response to the shock across countries, as well as the potential medium-term economic and social implications and policy challenges.

What Do We Know About Globalization: Issues of Poverty & Income Distribution examines the two fundamental arguments that are often raised against globalization: that it produces inequality and that it increases poverty.

Written by fifteen leading academics from the Japan Society for International Development (JASID), this book undertakes a review of Japan's economic development over the last 150 years, and seeks to clarify Japanese priorities in domestic and foreign policy for the coming decades.

The book introduces a novel approach to international taxation through the lens of heterodox economic and social theories, in particular Marxism.

Economic and financial crises have become perennial features of today's global economy.

The book is motivated by the disruptions introduced by the financial crisis and the many attempts that have followed to propose new ideas and remedies.

The carriage of goods by sea starts off with a contract of carriage, an essentially simple and straightforward contract between two parties, the shipper and the carrier.

Over a quarter of a century after the fall of the Berlin Wall and 10 years after their accession to the European Union (EU), Central and Eastern Europe Countries (CEECs) still show marked differences with the rest of Europe in the fields of labour, work and industrial relations.

This book examines Russia's attempts to tackle the challenges of the new and increasing security threats of rising crime, corruption and terrorism that it has experienced since the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Die Steuerung strategischer Währungsrisiken schien lange Zeit ein nur schwer zu handhabendes Problem für Unternehmen zu sein.

This is a relatively non-technical textbook in macroeconomics designed specifically for emerging economies.

An analysis and exploration into the impact of Japan's 2011 nuclear crisis.

International Natural Resources Law, Investment and Sustainability provides a clear and concise insight into the relationship between the institutions that govern foreign investment, sustainable development and the rules and regulations that administer natural resources.

Blending economic analysis with political drama, EuroTragedy -chosen by both Foreign Affairs and The Financial Times as one of the best books of 2018-is a groundbreaking account of the euro's history and tragic consequences.

Multinationals can impact significantly on the quality of social relations within their communities, partly through corporate citizenship projects.

After a century and a half of efforts at constructing arrangements and rules for international monetary interaction, present-day national authorities do not seem to have come much closer to achieving the aim of enduring exchange rate stability combined with a good macroeconomic performance.

First published in 1987, International Capitalism and Industrial Restructuring counters the idea that industrial restructuring is a relatively problem-free stage in the evolution to a post-industrial society.

This book shows how manufacturers bring new, improved products and production processes to market.

This interdisciplinary edited volume explores the political economy of regionalism in Latin America.