The dynamics of european integration

why and when EU institutions matter

Making the EMU

the politics of Budgetary surveillance and the enforcement Maastricht

Informe General sobre la Actividad de la Unión Europea 2004

Estudios de economía europea

Flexibles y precarios

la opresión del trabajo en el nuevo capitalismo europeo

The international trading system

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is without doubt one of our main instruments of globalization, the controversy which is whipped up by this organization is arguably mainly caused by the mystery which surrounds it. The International Trade System seeks to remove the clouds of misunderstanding ...

La nueva Unión Europea

(Revista Papeles de Economía Española, Nº 103, año 2005)

Business clusters

an international perspective

Clusters of specialized businesses are being promoted around the world, aided by high-profile examples such as Silicon Valley. Using evidence from high and low income economies and detailed case-studies that show the special conditions behind successful clusters, this book is aimed at students of business ...

Neoliberalism

a critical reader

Bravo! Some of the most incisive students of neoliberalism gather together to present a stunning indictment of the destructiveness of the already discredited right-wing economic regime." Professor Michael Perelman, California State University, Chico / "Across its thirty chapters, covering theoretical, empirical, policy and political aspects for ...

Multinationals and global capitalism

from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century

This book provides an essential historical framework for understanding global business. The author shows how entrepreneurs built a global economy in the nineteenth century by creating firms that pursued resources and markets across borders. It demonstrates how firms shifted strategies as the first global economy ...

The world's banker

a story of failed states, financial crises and the wealth and poverty of nations

Appointed president of the World Bank in 1995, James Wolfensohn struck it like a whirlwind, determined to reinvent the institution founded by Franklin Roosevelt and his world War II allies. Wolfensohn embraced debt relief for the poorest countries, put taboo subjects such as corruption on ...

Globalization, governmentality and global politics

regulation for the rest of us?

Globalization is moving fast, impacting on the life of nations with accelerating force. This book delivers a keen assessment of how it is being handled by specific groups seeking positive outcomes for the people and causes they represent. Transnational social regulation is increasingly becoming the ...

Improving international competition order

an institutional approach

This book offers guidelines for the upcoming discussions on reform, representing an attempt to work out conceptions for a better international competition order on the basis of the scientific approach 'law and economics'. It presents the dominant concepts of competition policy as a basis for ...

Transnational corporations and economic development

from internationalization to globalization

This volume investigates the specific role of transnational corporations in the process of globalisation and economic development. While it draws on a long history of academic research, it also shows new ways forward. It makes headway both in conceptual as well as empirical terms. Topics ...

Trade blocs

economics and politics

Preferential trade blocs are in vogue. Despite the successes achieved in liberalizing trade by multilateral trade negotiations sponsored by the World Trade Organization (WTO), numerous countries have separately negotiated preferential trade treaties with one another. Representing a significant departure from the WTO's central principle ...

The WTO and the regulation of international trade

trade disputes between the European Union and the United States

This book provides a critical overview and assessment of the WTOs dispute settlement procedures in the context of several recent trade-related disputes between the EU and the US. Case studies provide comprehensive insights into the contemporary regulation of international trade and workings of the WTO ...

Japanese multinationals in Europe

a comparison of the automobile and pharmaceutical industries

This book explores the regional strategy and management of Japanese MNEs in Europe. Ken-ichi Ando investigates, using case studies of the auto and pharmaceutical industries, how these companies can, and do, overcome the inherent difficulties and opportunities of trading in Europe, including the problems posed ...

Recent developments in international trade theory

The last decade has seen many important contributions to the field of International Trade Theory. This authoritative volume contains 27 seminal articles that represent the most significant of these recent developments. Topics include multinational firms, trade with heterogeneous firms, general equilibrium with oligopolistic firms, outsourcing ...

Centroamérica encendida

transnacionales españolas y reformas en el sector eléctrico

En América Latina, uno de los mayores fracasos de los organismos financieros internacionales (FMI, BM, OMC-GATT) ha sido establecer políticas de ajuste dirigidas a la privatización de empresas y servicios públicos fundamentalmente con el objetivo de facilitar la entrada de inversión exterior y la consiguiente ...

Las relaciones entre España y Marruecos

perspectivas para el siglo XXI

El Magreb, y especialmente Marruecos, es una de las líneas prioritarias de la política exterior española. Pero ¿cuáles son las coordenadas que rigen esta política con un socio tan complejo como es Marruecos?, ¿se debe reformular el actual modelo de relación entre los dos países ...