International economics

Activists have exposed startling forms of labor exploitation and environmental degradation in global industries, leading many large retailers and brands to adopt standards for fairness and sustainability.

The Decline and Fall of Neoliberalism argues that the neoliberal era - starting after the collapse of the Bretton Woods system - is coming to an end.

The objective of this book is to present an integrated set of original papers from leading authorities in the field related to optimal balance between arms reduction and regional and international security.

The book identifies different national characteristics in terms of the motivation to privatise, the scale of privatization and its consequences.

Explores the ''unexhausted'' potential in current investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms to advance investors'' responsibility for their conduct.

Challenges destabilize the norm and create distresses and disruptions in, for example, the culture, the technology, regulations, the environmental, etc.

What are the social, political and economic consequences of staging sport mega events such as the Olympics and the World Cup?

This contextual analysis of Islamic financial law challenges our understanding of both Islamic law and global financial markets.

This topical and important book identifies the short to medium-term economic, financial and social consequences of Brexit.

First published in 1969, European Advanced Technology expounds a programme of action for Europe to tackle the challenge posed by American technology in the 1960s.

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

For many years, vertical integration characterized the international oil industry, with the same company controlling the entire process from crude exploration and production to the retailing.

Pontus Braunerhjelm and Karolina Ekholm Over recent decades, foreign direct investment (FDI) has become a major force in the global economy.

Convergence, Cohesion and Integration in the European Union tackles the fundamental theoretical and empirical issues underlying the process of European integration.

The unprecedented rise and persistence of large-scale budget deficits in many developed and developing nations during the past three decades has caused great concern.

Silver Medal Winner, Investing Category, Axiom Business Book Awards (2009) Winner: Book Series Cover Design, The Bookbinders Guild of New York/2009 New York Book Show Awards "e;Long a secret weapon for the hedge-fund elite,"e; says Trader Monthly, the DeMark Indicators are now used by more than 35,000 traders.

As companies increasingly look to the global market for capital, cheaper commodities and labor, and lower production costs, the impact on Mexican and American workers and labor unions is significant.

A History of Portuguese Economic Thought offers the first account in English of the development of economic thought in Portugal.

Protectionism has been placed under the media spotlight, with news headlines generated by populist anti-globalization movements and Donald Trump's term as US President.

China's rising status in the global economy alongside recent economic stagnation in Europe and the United States has led to considerable speculation that we are in the early stages of a transition in power relations.

Optimizing Supply Chain Performance takes industrial case studies from SMEs in China to examine the importance of information sharing and coordinated management as essential mechanisms to improve supply chain performance.

This book discusses the issues of integration within food and fibre supply chains and the challenges in managing price risk.

This volume brings together many of the leading international figures in development studies, such as Jose Antonio Ocampo, Paul Krugman, Dani Rodrik, Joseph Stiglitz, Daniel Cohen, Olivier Blanchard, Deepak Nayyar and John Williamson to reconsider and propose alternative development policies to the Washington Consensus.

The European Union (EU) was launched as a response to the economic dominance of the United States and - to a lesser degree - the Soviet Union.

This textbook offers a comprehensive picture of the world economy, the global business environment, and international business.

Based on extensive field work involving the leading figures of the diverse Syrian National Coalition, an umbrella initiative of opposition groups fighting against the Assad regime, this study critically evaluates the challenges ahead as well as the inherent opportunities for the post-conflict era in Syria.

Providing the first comprehensive examination of the key regulatory disciplines included in the new generation of EU free trade agreements (FTAs), this book investigates the EU's supposed deep trade agenda through a legal analysis of these FTAs.

This book covers nine countries of ASEAN and the East Asian area, including major Asian countries, and compares their respective policies to attract Foreign Direct Investments (FDI).

For years, China's rapid economic transformation was hailed as a successful project that lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.

Continuing globalization has meant the increased development and importance of regional and international trade organizations and trade agreements.

This book offers an assessment of new opportunities available for the agricultural sector and provides technical assistance to the Greek authorities with regards to its rural development and fishery sector.

Both parts of Volume 44 of Advances in Econometrics pay tribute to Fabio Canova for his major contributions to economics over the last four decades.

International cartels are powerful organizations that impact our everyday lives, although they are little known.

With billions of dollars generated annually, importing and exporting is a potentially lucrative arena for growthand a bewildering tangle of rules and regulations.

Presents transparency as a key tool for managing trade disputes on regulatory barriers between WTO Members.

Originally published in 1992 and now with an updated Preface this book analyses the development of innovations using a network perspective.

Originally published in 1987 this book presents a comprehensive survey of the global natural gas industry: it looks at the problems of supply, the pattern of demand, the economics of the industrya nd how the industry in the 1980s was being affected by changes in other energy sectors.

Political culture is one of the central, but most difficult, concepts in political science.

This book presents in a concise and accessible way why the EU institutional system exists in its present form, how the EU fits into the world as a system of governance, and who is involved in EU policy processes.

Over the 153-year period since 1870, the phenomenon of globalisation has been shaped and reshaped.

The authorized, paginated WTO Dispute Settlement Reports in English: cases for 2019.

This edited collection provides a thorough historical, statistical, and institutional description of the current Brazilian economy and the previous economic structure from which it is emerging.

Demonstrates that the political institutions of authoritarian regimes and consolidated democracies are better equipped to create attractive policies for investors.

China has achieved remarkable, sustained economic growth under the policies of 'reform and opening up' put into place since the late 1970s.

This volume goes beyond a narrow conceptualization of macroeconomic stability and explores the link between socio-economic policies, structural transformation and inclusive development.

A guide to the increasingly important effects of the interaction between globalisation and various different forms of regional economic integration.