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 ...

La crisis de los veinte años (1919-1939)

una introducción al estudio de las relaciones internacionales

El historiador E. H. Carr, ampliamente conocido por una monumental obra sobre la Revolución rusa y por el libro ¿Qué es la Historia?, editado y reeditado en numerosas lenguas, fue también un teórico de las Relaciones Internacionales. La crisis de los veinte años (1919-1939), escrito ...

Biotech industry

a global, economic, and financing overview

Provides a thorough look at the current state of the biotechnology industry, including where major research is being conducted, where it#s being applied, and where money and intellectual capital are flowing. Written by a renowned business columnist and an entrepreneurial scientist in the biotech ...

Transfer pricing methods

an appications guide

PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING TRANSFER PRICING. Chapter 1. Practical Aspects of Transfer Pricing. Chapter 2. Business Facets of Transfer Pricing. Chapter 3. General Principles and Guidelines. Chapter 4. Transfer Pricing Basics. PART TWO: APPLYING SPECIFIC TRANSFER TECHNIQUES. Chapter 5. Comparable Uncontrolled Price Method, Resale Price Method ...

La reafirmación del Imperio

Estados Unidos y la aventura occidental en Oriente Próximo

Este libro, que fue escrito antes, durante e inmediatamente después de la guerra de Irak, es un alegato contra la actual política exterior estadounidense y la manipulación #tóxica# de los medios de comunicación, que ha alcanzado su máximo exponente en la información y el debate ...

Local players in global games

the strategic constitution of a multinational corporation

What happens when previously autonomous firms from different countries, each with their own identities, routines, and capabilities, come together inside a single multinational corporation? Can a cooperative strategy be established that advances the development of the multinational as a whole, or do mutual misunderstandings and ...

Multinational firms in the world economy

Depending on one's point of view, multinational enterprises are either the heroes or the villains of the globalized economy. Governments compete fiercely for foreign direct investment by such companies, but complain when firms go global and move their activities elsewhere. Multinationals are seen by ...

La OMC y el sistema multilateral de comercio

pasado, presente y futuro

Este libro describe la evolución del sistema multilateral de comercio en los últimos cincuenta años y explora las perspectivas futuras de la Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC), la agencia intergubernamental que forma su base institucional y es responsable de la conducción del comercio mundial. El ...

The globalisation of labour standards

the soft law track

Do core labour standards exist in today s global economy? If so, what are they? And most importantly, how effective are they? In this book two outstanding labour law scholars answer these questions in a definitive manner. In deep and convincing detail they demonstrate that ...

La maldita trinidad

el Fondo Monetario Internacional, el Banco Mundial y la Organización Mundial de Comercio

Se calcula que unos seis millones de niños africanos,asiáticos y latinoamericanos mueren cada año a causa de los efectos del ajuste estructural que el Fondo Monetario Internacional ha impuesto a la mayor parte de los países en desarrollo si quieren seguir recibiendo sus créditos ...

What is international business?

What is international Business? Is the international business research agenda running out of steam? These and other key questions are answered in this influential book which points to a definitive statement on International Business. Bringing together a variety of different perspectives, this book is a ...

Empirical methods in international trade

essays in honor of Mordechai Kreinin

Internationalization of the world economy has made trade a key factor in the growth potential of nearly every nation#s economy. Hence, economists have become increasingly interested in the determinants of international trade and competitiveness. Empirical Methods in International Trade captures the many aspects of ...

Whose trade organisation?

a comprehensive guide to the WTO

This book explores the real record and legacy of the World Trade Organization. In its eight years of being the world's highest authority on global trade, the WTO has extended its reach into the democratic processes of local communities, in determining what local laws ...

Historia de un economista

un consultor se enfrenta al hambre y al Banco Mundial

Es la historia de un economista que durante cuatro meses trabajó para el Banco Mundial en Sierra Leona. Peter Griffiths fue contratado para impedir una hambruna inminente. Escrita como un diario, narra en primera persona la vivencia de un consultor que se verá enfrentado a ...

El nuevo imperialismo

¿Qué naturaleza tienen los dispositivos de poder geopolíticos y geoeconómicos que se están poniendo a punto en la actualidad y que mediante el diseño de un nuevo imperialismo pretenden inaugurar un nuevo orden de dominación? En el presente libro, su autor, David Harvey, trata de ...