The WTO and developing countries

This book shows how large an impact the WTO has on developing countries. It assesses the subsidies given and shows how they will be affected by trade liberalization. It looks in particular at the TRIPS agreement and assesses the costs and benefits that it will ...

Sources of information value

strategic framing and the transformation of the information industries

This book provides a conceptual framework to understand and analyze the decline of the telecommunications industry and the rise of information industries. This includes information distribution, banking, advertising, computing, etc. and will use a value based perspective to show the industry shaping dynamics. The integrative ...

Work and employment relations in the automobile industry

This text examines the form and character of the internationalization of employee relations in the automobile industry. It goes on to examine the impact of the new forms of regionalization and their impact on employment relations within firms. Case studies are used to examine the ...

International finance and the developing economies

There are many challenges facing the economies of developing countries. Capital volatility, financial crises, aid, debt and the IMF are all issues that have received a great deal of attention over recent years. In International Finance and the Developing Economies, Graham Bird provides an essentially ...

Latin American economic crises

trade and labour

This volume examines issues of economic interest faced by Latin America economies in the late 20th Century. The fifteen chapters deal with macroeconomic problems, financial crises, the development of trade and trade agreements and labour issues. Of particular interest are the chapters dealing with Argentina ...

Spatial econometrics and spatial statistics

The field of spatial econometrics has come to include the methods and models that deal with estimation and testing problems encountered when attempting to implement regional economic models. Those problems are often characterized by the difficulties associated with assessing the importance of spatial dependence and ...

Welfare economics

towards a more complete analysis

Yew Kwang Ng looks to make welfare economics more complete by discussing the recent inframarginal analysis of division of labour and by pushing welfare economics from the level of preference to that of happiness, making a reformulation of the foundation of public policy necessary. A ...

Shaping the New Europe

economic policy challenges of European Union enlargement

This volume brings together contributions on the major economic policy issues which have opened up as a result of the process of European Union enlargement. The issues analysed range from modelling and analysing the costs and benefits of enlargement, to challenges for macroeconomic policy both ...

The economics of sport

An international perspective

This text, by three distinguished authors, applies the theories and techniques of economic analysis to sport and topics related to the business of sport. It builds on a basis of introductory microeconomics and continues the discussion, generally at an intermediate standard. The text has an ...

Liberation ecologies

environment, development , social movements

At the beginning of the 21st century, the environment and the future of development continue to be issues of crucial importance. Most explanations of environmental crisis emphasize the role of population growth, thus focusing their attention on the poor. By comparison, Liberation Ecologies elaborates a ...

Les sens du public

publics politiques, publics médiatiques

Statistics for business and economics

Microeconomics

Written in an informal colloquial style, this student-friendly principles of microeconomics textbook does not sacrifice intellectual depth in its quest for accessibility. The author's primary concern is to instill "economic sensibility" in the student. Colander emphasizes the intellectual and historical context to which the ...

The terminal classic in the Maya lowlands

collapse, transition and transformation

IMF essays from a time of crises

the international financial system,stabilization, and development

Stanley Fischer served as First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund from 1994 to 2001. IMF Essays from a Time of Crisis collects sixteen essays written for the most part during his time at the IMF, each updated with Fischer's later reflections ...

Profiling machines

mapping the personal information economy

In this book Greg Elmer brings the perspectives of cultural and media studies to the subject of consumer profiling and feedback technology in the digital economy. He examines the multiplicity of processes that monitor consumers and automatically collect, store, and cross-reference personal information. When we ...

East Asian economic regionalism

Something new is happening across East Asia. A region notable for its lack of internal economic links is discussing regional cooperation on trade, investment, and exchange rates. Because of negotiations elsewhere around the globe on regional trade#such as those that led to the consolidation ...

Regulation in the States

The book is describing technological developments as well as urban futures in the information age where the development of ICT sets the pace and options. Despite this dynamic development, the book describes how stabile daily travelling still is and highlights the achievable impacts and acceptability ...

Too big to fall

the hazards of bank bailouts

The potential failure of a large bank presents vexing questions for policy-makers. It poses significant risks to other financial institutions; to the financial system as a whole; and possibly to the economic and social order. Because of such fears; policymakers in many countries - developed and ...

The ultimate book of business skills

the 100 most important techniques for being successful in business

Being propelled into a new management or executive position can be a daunting experience. For example, what is your strategy? Whar do yo concentrate on first? Who will give you the honest pros and cons of each strategy? What is the likely success rate? Who ...