Macroeconomic policies in the world economy

The integration of goods and financial markets has progressed on a global scale in recent years. Thus, the cyclical patterns in the world economy may have changed too. Against this background, experts in international economics analyze the synchronization of business cycles and their volatility in ...

50 Preguntas / 50 Respuestas

sobre la deuda,el FMI y el Banco Mundial

La deuda se ha convertido en un mecanismo muy sutil de dominación y en el medio de una nueva colonización, que impide todo desarrollo humano duradero en el Sur. La iniciativa de aligeramiento de la deuda, lanzado con espectacularidad por el G/7, el FMI ...

Economía internacional

Lo que ha hecho tan exitoso este título en su novena edición es su exposición clara y concisa del comercio internacional y la teoría de las finanzas, apoyado en un cúmulo de temas y casos actualizados que demuestran la relevancia de la teoría en los ...

Growth, trade, & systematic leadership

In Growth, Trade, and Systemic Leadership, Rafael Reuveny and William R. Thompson propose an innovative argument for the existence of world governance. Using a "lead economy" approach, they link questions about the global trade system to debates about hegemonic stability and the balance of power ...

The future of money

Is globalization leading us toward a world of fewer and fewer currencies and, consequently, simplified monetary management? Many specialists believe this is the case, as the territorial monopolies national governments have long claimed over money appears to be eroding. In The Future of Money, Benjamin ...

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 ...

The role of multinational enterprises in globalization

This book offers a framework for analyzing the increased economic integration of countries which is mainly driven by multinational enterprises. They compete with other companies from different countries on many markets and through various channels. The book starts by discussing the stylized facts of the ...

Trade and industrial policy under international oligipoly

The existence of firms with different levels of efficiency within a country plays an important role in this in-depth analysis of industrial and trade policies in a multi-country trade-theoretic framework. Sajal Lahiri and Yoshiyasu Ono examine various industrial policies, R&D subsidies and trade policies ...

International health care reform

a legal, economic and political analysis

"International Health Care Reform" clearly explains the arguments in economics and justice for intervention by governments in health care markets; the structure and dynamics of health care systems; and the features of competition-oriented reform models. The book will appeal to students and researchers involved in ...

The structure of regulatory competition

corporations and public policies in a global economy

In order to understand international economic regulations, it is essential to understand the variation in competing corporations' interests. This book's theoretical findings open a 'black box' in the literature on international political economy and elucidate a source of regulatory differences and similarities. Its counter-intuitive ...

Desglobalización

ideas para una nueva economía mundial

Walden Bello es el más destacado revolucionario de la falta de insensatez en todo el mundo. Con lenguaje accesible y evidencia apreminante expone despiadadamente el oportunismo , el saqueo y la soberbia solapada que caracterizan al capitalismo global. Pero este libro encierra algo más que una ...

Pies de barro

la decadencia de los Estados Unidos de América

Pies de Barro trata de mostras el proceso de deterioro social y económico que están sufriendo en Estados Unidos de América desde la agudización de la Guerra Fría en los años setenta. La Guerra Fría fue como el choque de dos placas tectónicas que produjo ...

Multinational firms' location and the new economic geography

The choice of location for the production plants of multinational firms is an important issue, not least because this decision is accompanied by so many fears brought into public debate. This book analyses how foreign direct investors choose their locations, whilst exploring the forces which ...

World democratic federalism

peace and justice indivisible

Myron J. Frankman provides an interrelated set of initiatives whose components are consistent with the logic of both the process of globalization and the emerging properties of our time: Sustainability, democratization, equal opportunity, diversity and peace. He brings together the case for global public finance ...

Global markets and financial crises in Asia

towards a theory for the 21st century

Khan presents a new theory of financial crises in the age of globalization from an evolutionary perspective and suggests policies that may be necessary for averting or managing new financial crises. Starting with the Asian financial crises, he identifies new types of financial crises that ...

Monopoly capitalism in crisis

The world economy is on the brink of a profound crisis. The threat of global deflation and the emergence of chronic excess global capacity characterizes the contemporary phase of crisis and stagnation. Lucarelli argues that these pathological features of globalization acquire a remorseless logic during ...

Free trade in the Bermuda Triangle

...and other tales of counterglobalization

An alternative approach to mapping the world offers a new way to contest capitalism and globalization. Shangri-La, the Bermuda Triangle, Transylvania, the Golden Triangle#far- flung in popular conception, these anomalous places nonetheless occupy the same mysterious zone, a mythography of unruly cartographic practices. And ...

Privileging industry

the comparative politics of trade and industrial policy

An important contribution to our understanding of how political institutions and political geography shape political outcomes. Fiona McGillivray argues that differences in political institutions or in industrial structures do not have the straightforward effects on political outcomes that are normally attributed to them. Instead, she ...

Global capital markets

integration, crisis, and growth

This book presents an economic survey of international capital mobility from the late nineteenth century to the present. ÍNDICE: Part I. Preamble: 1. Global capital markets: overview and origins: 1.1 Theoretical benefits.1.2 Problems of supernational capital markets in practice.1.3 The ...

Structural adjustment:the SAPRI report

the policy roots of economic crisis, poverty and inequality

Structural adjustment programmes are the largest single cause of increased poverty, inequality and hunger in developing countries. The World Bank and the IMF have compelled country after country to adopt a "one size fits all" economic strategy, so exposing the world's weakest economies to ...