Commerce et securite

les exportations sensibles dans la mondialisation

Política de competencia y política comercial

¿hacia un acuerdo multilateral?

Governance in a global economy

political authority in transition

This volume presents 17 papers, each of which explores how global economic integration produces changes in governance. The book concludes that a new and intricate fabric of governance has been created, but one that fails to serve the purpose of beleaguered govenments.

International economics

a European focus

Massive changes took place in the world economy in the last quarter of the twentieth century and the speed with which markets in goods, services, and finance were liberalised has no historical precedent. This brand new international economics text reflects recent developments in the world ...

Economía Internacional

Este libro sirve como texto para cursos superiores de economía internacional y también puede ser de gran ayuda a diversos grupo de estudiosos de ciencias políticas, estudios internacionales y administración. Lo nuevo de esta edición: La introducción al modelo de dumping recíproco y al modelo ...

Commercio internazionale sostenible?

Wto e Unione Europea

La critica al processo di globalizzazione del commercio internazionale e alle istituzioni che lo governano si fa, politicamente, sempre più serrata, ma di rado dispone degli strumenti giuridici necessari ad una completa comprensione del problema. In una serie di lucide analisi gli autori passano in ...

International trade, wage inequality and the developing economy

A general equilibrium approach

This book deals with the impact that international trade is likely to have on the skilled-unskilled wage gap in a typical developing economy. This is the first theoretical monograph on this particular issue which has already generated substantial debate and voluminous work for the developed ...

Global governance

an architecture for the world economy

Globalization deeply affects economic structures and raises the issue of how governments should respond to new challenges. In this book, various ways of improving the institutional setup for global governance are discussed by renowned experts. The discussion focuses on further liberalizing international trade, preventing international ...

Foreign direct investment in the real and financial sector of industrial countries

A collection of papers on the determinants and consequences of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the real and financial sectors of industrial countries. The text sheds new light on the determinants of FDI, in particular the role of governmental incentives. Another main topic is the ...

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 ...

Economic and financial crises in emerging market economies

In the late 1990s, economic and financial crises raged through East Asia, devastating economies that had previously been considered among the strongest in the developing world. The crises eventually spread to Russia, Turkey, and Latin America, and impacted the economies of many industrialized nations as ...

Economic welfare, international business and global institutional change

Global economic progress in the 20th century, while generally encouraging, was neither continuous nor uniform. With the exception of some Asian nations, countries that were more developed at the beginning of the 20th century still rank amongst the wealthiest nations, while countries that were poorer ...

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 ...

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 ...

Trade and the environment

theory and evidence

Nowhere has the divide between advocates and critics of globalization been more striking than in debates over free trade and the environment. And yet the literature on the subject is high on rhetoric and low on results. This book is the first to systematically investigate ...

Obsolescent capitalism

contemporary politics and global disorder

Capitalism is going senile. Its ambition is now restricted to maintaining the wealth of the wealthy in the world, while the poor are demonised as the enemy. In this volume, Samir Amin presents a synoptic view of capitalism's future. He depicts a world in ...

The economist's tale

a consultant encounters hunger and the World Bank

What really happens when the World Bank imposes its policies on a country? This is an insider's view of one aid-made crisis. Peter Griffiths was at the interface between government and the Bank. In this ruthlessly honest, day-by-day account of a mission he undertook ...

Sociología del sistema global

el impacto socioeconómico y político de las corporaciones transnacionales

El poder que decide sobre el bienestar de los ciudadanos en el mundo actual está en medida creciente en manos de las corporaciones transnacionales que operan de manera casi incontrolable en todas las regiones de la Tierra. Como motor de la nueva clase capitalista transnacional ...

Stolen fruit

the tropical commodities disaster

Fifty or more developing countries still depend mainly on the tropical commodities or minerals that they produce. But encouraging so many countries to grow coffee, sugar, cotton and other crops has been a disaster. Small farmers get only a tiny share of the final tag ...

Hungry corporations

transnational biotech companies colonise the food chain

This work provides a detailed account of how huge agrochemical corporations have come to control the food chain, exposing their influence over governments, regulatory bodies and university research. It examines how a handful of companies have: accelerated the industrialization of agriculture and the integration of ...