International economics

Dieses Lehrbuch befasst sich eingehend mit den Grundlagen der Wirtschaftspolitik.

The traditional flow of goods from primary production through to manufacturing and consumption has expanded across international borders conterminously with globalization.

This book sheds new light on the role played by European banks in the economic colonization of much of the globe.

Economic Policy provides a unique combination of facts-based analysis, state-of-the art economic theory, and insights from first-hand policy experience at the national and international levels to shed light on current domestic and international policy challenges.

Examines the WTO rules governing industrial subsidies, as established by the SCM Agreement and interpreted by relevant case law.

Susan Gunelius uncovers how a brand about sex survived and thrived despite attacks from every direction, in an increasingly competitive market and jaded consumers.

This book is about accounting in an alternative libertarian socialist economic system.

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 unification.

The service sector occupies a dominant position in the Japanese economy, yet few studies have looked at the way the industry developed.

The economic crisis of 2008-2009 and beyond has provided the greatest challenge to public policy in the developed world since the Second World War, as the use of public monies to support banks and declining tax revenues have resulted in rising government borrowing and national debt.

An examination of how WTO accession negotiations have expanded the reach of the multilateral trading system both geographically and conceptually.

This study documents evidence of a decline trend in the international competitiveness of US industry.

This book provides an assessment of the evolution and dynamics of regional innovation systems (RISs) and the economic and social impact of resulting knowledge spillovers, presenting comparative case studies on the regions of several Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries (Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Lithuania and Estonia).

The United States of America and the Peoples' Republic of China are the world's leading economies.

First published in 1998, this volume analyses Brazil's strategy in the Uruguay Round, focusing on the issue of services.

This book focuses on the frontier issues in climate finance and aims to develop a general framework to understand the financial pathways towards a successful energy transition.

This book puts forward a new perspective on the planned economies of communist Eastern Europe, demonstrating in detail how economic practice in such countries was shaped by the interplay among planners, managers and Party apparatchiks.

This book offers an analytic history of Britannia (first England and Wales and then Great Britain) over eight hundred years of political turmoil, intermingled with economic stagnation, followed by the engine of the industrial revolution.

International business is synonymous with big challenges.

Since the completion of the original writing in 1978, and the publication of this Garland edition in 1987, several important events came to pass which underscored the importance and relevance of the study of the US foreign trade policy toward steel in the late seventies.

This book looks at East Asia's monetary and financial integration from both Asian and European perspectives.

This book examines the potential for regionalisation of intellectual property law and policy as a means of improving pharmaceutical access for least developed countries.

Winner of the 2024 Silver Nautilus Book Award in the Rising To The Moment category.

Following the acquisition of its sovereignty from the Netherlands in 1949, Indonesia experienced serious economic and political problems during the 1950s and 1960s, before entering a three-decade-long period of rapid economic growth.

This book demonstrates the relevance of the historical perspective with respect to national and international payment systems.

Saudi Arabia is one of the most controversial and least known of the Arab nations.

This book bridges the existing gap between the theory and practices related to international finance.

This book assesses the impact of globalization on the US economy from the perspective of international trade, finance, and immigration, with a view to eliminating misinformation in the current public debate about the costs and benefits of globalization.

Lead firms, development organisations, donors and governments view value chains and voluntary standards as vital instruments for achieving millennium development goals through trade and market-related interventions.

The signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was expected to signal the beginning of a new era of close co-operation between Mexico and the United States.

This book explores the transformation of the American-led alliances, as well as of US allies' responses to potential American disengagement from regional security amid the rising Russian and Chinese threats.

Since the 2007 financial crisis, discussion on issues related to the size, spread and frequency of financial crises has captivated a wide variety of audiences.

The year 2023 marked the tenth anniversary of Croatia's membership of the European Union, the last acceding country to the EU, and thus represents a fitting opportunity to explore the political, economic and social dimensions of this tremendous transformation.

This book presents the lifelong and ongoing research of Lawrence H.

The book analyzes different critical attitudes towards European integration from a multidisciplinary perspective.

This book critically investigates the conditions facing the warring parties during the implementation of peace agreements in Mozambique, Angola and Liberia, as successes and failures in these countries highlight incentives for the international community to keep peace processes from faltering.

This book facilitates exchanges between scholars and researchers from around the world on China-Eurasia relations.

Sticky Creativity: Post-It(R) Note Cognition, Computers, and Design presents the interesting history of sticky notes and how they have become the most commonly used design material in brainstorming, business model generation, and design thinking.

A systematic comparison of the institutions and incentive systems governing the processes of technological invention, innovation and diffusion in advanced market and centrally planned economies.

First published in 1999.

The announcement by China that it will implement a national emissions trading scheme confirms the status of this instrument as the pre-eminent policy choice for mitigating climate change.

This book considers the key sectors of China's health care system after its entrance into the WTO, including the pharmaceutical industry, health insurance services, and hospitals in terms of policies, legal framework and market potential.

A Brookings Institution Press, Asia Pacific Press at Australian National University, and Social Sciences Academic Press publicationThe economic growth of China is clearly one of the defining trends of our time.

This book establishes a new, holistic framework for disaster recovery and mitigation, providing a multidisciplinary perspective on the field of risk management strategies and societal and communal resilience.

Focusing on the interconnection of tariff structure, international trade and welfare evaluation, the book investigates the characteristics of tariff structures of China and the U.

The contributors explore four central themes: the locational impacts of the openness of the Canadian economy, Canada's relatively simple economic geography in terms of regional variations in resources and urban development, the problems of keeping pace with rapid advances in technology, and the role of government in maintaining a national market and assisting economic development.

This book focuses on the tremendous shift in both economic growth and development progress taking place towards the Asia-Pacific Region.