Managing the global network corporation

This text considers the increasing importance of changing structures, organization and management, within multi-national corporations. Table of Contents: Part One: Innovation and Knowledge Transfer in International Networks 1. Dynamics of Knowledge Transfer Across Borders 2. Problems in Managing International Innovation Projects 3. The Management of ...

Regional convergence in the European Union

facts, prospects and policies

El comercio del hambre

el precio que pagan los pobres por el libre comercio

The real exchange rate and prices of traded goods in OECD countries

Real exchange rate changes - resulting either from shifts in nominal exchange rates or increases in costs that are asymmetric across countries - are the primary focus of this text. The book shows how exchange rates and local production costs are passed through into import prices. It ...

Social construction and the logic of money

financial predominance and international economic leadership

While other studies of international leadership have looked at a variety of measures to predict behavior, this book demonstrates that the key factor is international finance. J. Samuel Barkin uses an innovative blend of rationalist and constructivist methodologies, approaches to international political economy that normally ...

International economics

INDICE 1. An Introduction to International Trade. 2. Tools of Analysis for International Trade Models. 3. The Classical Model of International Trade. 4. The Heckscher-Ohlin Model. 5. Tests of Trade Models: The Leontief Paradox and Its Aftermath. 6. Tariffs. 7. Nontariff Barriers and Arguments for ...

Global institutions and development

framing the world?

The impact of multilateral institutions such as the World Bank and IMF have on development is hotly debated, but few doubt their power and influence. This study examines the concepts that have powerfully influenced development policy and more broadly looks at the role of ideas ...

Razones para la esperanza

en un futuro imperfecto

La revolución tecnológica y científica, el afianzamiento del sistema capitalista, dirigido al aumento del poder de los mercados en detrimento del de los estados, las guerras armadas y "frías" y el desmoronamiento de los regímenes comunistas, son los hechos que configuraron el siglo XX. Tras ...

Wealth by association

global prosperity through market unification

European monetary unification has produced a $15 trillion windfall to its member nations that is rarely discussed or accounted for in analyses of economic integration. The authors argue persuasively that the reduction in cross-border risks is directly responsible for an explosion in the value of ...

Development planning and poverty reduction

The aim of development is always poverty reduction but the devil is in the detail and planning impacts heavily on the results. This study examines and evaluates macroeconomic strategies and their effectiveness in truly reducing poverty

The new welfare

unemployment and social security in Europe

This volume brings together a group of leading scholars to examine issues relating to unemployment and social security in Europe, focusing on how to promote employment and how to reform social security. The crucial issue of the financing of public pension systems is also addressed ...

Value and the world economy today

production, finance and globalization

Value and the World Economy Today brings together a diverse group of globally renowned scholars of international political economy and critical economics to examine the relevance of value theory for understanding the world economy today. The book is unique in the way that it connects ...

El fracaso del Consenso de Washington

la caída de su mejor alumno: Argentina

Turbulent waters

cross-border finance and international governance

The world economy at the end of the twentieth century was afflicted with financial turbulence. Millions of people in emerging-market nations endured severe recessions, and many residents of wealthy nations also experienced losses. Some scholars describe this instability as a consequence of a progressively integrated ...

Stability and growth in Europe

towards a better pact

Monitoring European Integration was established in 1990 as an annual series of reports on the progress of economic integration in Europe. The objective of the reports is to raise the level of public discussion on European policy issues. Monitoring European Integration combines intellectual rigor with ...

Incoherent empire

In this book noted sociologist Michael Mann argues that the #new American imperialism# is actually a new militarism that will bring disaster to the US and the world. The US is a military giant, better at devastating than pacifying countries. It is politically schizophrenic, split ...

La Unión Europea y sus relaciones intraindustriales con el Mundo en Desarrollo

El despertar de la nueva China

implicaciones del ingresio de China en la Organización Mundial del Comercio

China constituye uno de los focos más dinámicos de crecimiento económico a escala mundial, por lo que la evolución de este país está siendo objeto de atención por la comunidad internacional de forma continuada. El ingreso de China en la Organización Mundial del Comercio(OMC ...

Guía práctica de contratos internacionales

cómo redactar un contrato internacional de ventas

El espacio cultural latinoamericano

bases para una política cultural de integración

Los especialistas que aquí ofrecen sus ensayos definen las nociones de espacio cultural, precisando el posicionamiento latinoamericano en el tema y se abordan diversos ámbitos al respecto, tales como: la identidad, la educación, la ciencia, la tecnología y las industrias culturales. Así como, las dimensiones ...