Veinte años del TLC

su dimensión, política y estratégica

nsayo de Luis Rubio que analiza la historia política alrededor de la firma y puesta en vigor del Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) entre los países de América del Norte. El autor evalúa los objetivos e intereses que permearon las negociaciones previas a este acuerdo ...

The IMF and global financial crises

Phoenix rising?

The IMF's response to the global crisis of 2008-9 marked a significant change from its past policies. The Fund provided relatively large amounts of credit quickly with limited conditions and accepted the use of capital controls. This book traces the evolution of the IMF ...

Quai d'Orsay

crónicas diplomáticas

El Quai d'Orsay es el muelle parisino junto al Sena a su paso por el distrito VII, el mismo lugar donde se encuentra el Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores. A ese edificio accederá el joven Arthur Vlaminck una mañana sin tráfico para convertirse en el ...

Minilateralism

how trade alliances, soft Law and financial engineering are redefining economic statecraft

Economic diplomacy is changing. The multilateral organizations that dominated the last half of the twentieth century no longer monopolize economic affairs. Instead, countries are resorting to more modest 'minilateral' strategies like trade alliances, informal 'soft law' agreements, and financial engineering to manage the global economy ...

The handbook of market intelligence

understand, compete and grown in global markets

An important update to this roadmap for the development of a corporate intelligence program Market intelligence is the distinct discipline by which organisations systematically gather and process information about their external operating environment in order to facilitate accurate and confident decision making that is based ...

L'économie du Japon

À partir de 1868, le Japon bascule du féodalisme à la modernité. Après la défaite de 1945, tendu vers l'objectif du rattrapage de l'Occident, il s'affirme par étapes comme puissance industrielle, commerciale et financière, accédant au statut de « deuxième grand » au début ...

The new Emperors

power and the princelings in China

China has become the powerhouse of the world economy and home to 1 in 5 of the world's population, yet we know almost nothing of the people who lead it. How does one become the leader of the world's newest superpower? And who ...

The economic and social history of Brazil since 1889

This is the first complete economic and social history of Brazil in the modern period in any language. It provides a detailed analysis of the evolution of the Brazilian society and economy from the end of the empire in 1889 to the present day. The ...

American big business in Britain and Germany

a comparative history of two 'special relationships' in the 20th Century

While America's relationship with Britain has often been deemed unique, especially during the two world wars when Germany was a common enemy, the American business sector actually had a greater affinity with Germany for most of the twentieth century. American Big Business in Britain ...

Brazil

Experts believe that Brazil, the world's fifth largest country and its seventh largest economy, will be one of the most important global powers by the year 2030. Yet far more attention has been paid to the other rising behemoths Russia, India and China. Often ...

The japanese economy

Japan remains one of the dominant economic powers. Yet the Japanese economy is one of the most misunderstood phenomena in the modern world. Conventionally, Japan is presented as the exception to mainstream economic theory: an exception to the standard models of modern economics. This book ...

Can China lead?

reaching the limits of power and growth

It's time to rethink the way we think about China. In this thought-provoking book, noted China experts from Harvard Business School and the Wharton School assert that while China has experienced remarkable economic growth in recent decades (nearly 10 percent for more than thirty ...

The contest of the century

the new era of competition with China

By sea and on the airwaves, by dollar and yuan, a contest has begun that will shape the next century. China's rise has now entered a critical new phase, as it begins to translate its considerable economic heft into a bigger role on the ...

By all means necessary

how China's resource quest is changing the world

In the past thirty years, China has transformed from an impoverished country where peasants comprised the largest portion of the populace to an economic power with an expanding middle class and more megacities than anywhere else on earth. This remarkable transformation has required, and will ...

International relations

Today, more than ever, we are buffeted by forces that originate from beyond our shores. Whether it's war, economics, politics, or law, we live in a global world influenced by a complex landscape of international transactions. Esteemed academic Charles Jones ably provides the building ...

Firms in the international economy

firm heterogeneity meets international business

Despite their common roots, international economics (IE) and international business (IB) have developed into two distinct fields of study. Economists have directed their efforts at formalizing the workings of international trade and investment at the macroeconomic level; business scholars have relied more on data-driven conceptual ...

How finance is shaping the economies of China, Japan, and Korea

This volume connects the evolving modern financial systems of China, Japan, and Korea to the development and growth of their economies through the first decade of the twenty-first century. It also identifies the commonalities among all three systems while accounting for their social, political, and ...

Argentina en la posconvertibilidad

¿desarrollo o crecimiento industrial?. Estudios de economía política

Con el abandono de la convertibilidad, en particular con los gobiernos “kirchneristas”, la economía argentina experimentó un crecimiento pronunciado, en el que la industria ocupó un lugar destacado. Ante esa realidad, desde muchos ámbitos se resalta que la reindustrialización habría dado inicio a una etapa ...

Getting by or getting rich?

the formal, informal and criminal economy in a globalised world

The informal economy includes all those forms of economic and social relationships which escape state regulation. The book explores how people make choices and practice informality according to the available opportunities. Using empirical work, authors from across Europe look at different illegal or informal activities ...

China across the divide

the domestic and global in politics and society

Understanding China's world role has become one of the crucial intellectual challenges of the 21st Century. This book explores this topic through the adoption of three conceptual approaches that help to uncover some of the key complex and simultaneous interactions between the global and ...