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

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 ...

The global economic system since 1945

Economic theory in modern times imagines a giant clockwork of events, with economists attempting to find the perfect mathematical model of a mechanical movement. The real world is manifestly more complex and unpredictable than the internal workings of a machine, and this may be why ...

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 ...

Constructing global civil society

morality and power in International Relations

Global Civil Society is a crucial concept in International Relations today, used as both a description of new mechanisms of non-state actor and NGO engagement in international policy-making and as a normative political project of international change. David Chandler critically investigates the claims made by ...

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 ...

Trade negotiations in agriculture

a future common agenda for Brazil and Canada?

This first book in the new series 'Turning Points: Latin American Studies Occasional Papers' (a joint venture between the Latin American Research Centre and the University of Calgary Press) is the result of a conference immediately following the Cancun World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial meeting ...

Taiwán

el problema de China

Taiwán es un asunto clave de la política china. En buena medida, la reforma en el continente se inspira en el proceso de modernización de Taipei. La economía les acerca, la política les aleja. Beijing insiste en que la unificación de toda China es un ...

Fair trade for all

how trade can promote development

How can the poorer countries of the world be helped to help themselves through freer, fairer trade? In this challenging and controversial book Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and his co-author Andrew Charlton address one of the key issues facing world leaders today. They ...

The future of the global economic organizations

an evaluation of criticisms leveld at the IMF, the multilateral development banks, and the WTO

This book offers a careful and competent arms-length evaluation, from a legal perspective, of the main criticisms that have been leveled recently at the key global economic organisations -- that is, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and its fellow multilateral developmental banks (MDBs ...

The poverty of the State

reconsidering the role of the State in the struggle against global poverty

The specter of poverty has had an enduring within the history of humankind. However, in these times the eradication of extreme poverty may be feasible. The resources to do so in a reasonable period of the time are available. The desire and willingness of international ...

Economia contemporània del'Àsia Oriental

International economics

International Economics, Third Edition, offers a flexible approach to the survey of international economics, with the goal of making economic reasoning accessible to a diverse group of students. Addressing international topics in a non-technical manner, using engaging case studies and focusing on institutions and policy ...