Guns and butter

the economic causes and consequences of conflict

Ed. Gregory D. Hess. "Guns and Butter" examines the causes and consequences of war from a political economy perspective, taking as its premise that a consideration of the incentives and constraints faced by individuals and groups is paramount in understanding conflict decision making. The chapter ...

The political economy of Germany under Chancellors Kohl and Schröder

decline of the german model?

CONTENTS: List of Tables and Figures Introduction 1 1982: Crisis and Transition 2 The Fall of Helmut Schmidt and the Formation of the Wende Administration 3 The Kohl Era: CDU Supply-sidism in Practice 4 Liberalisation and Monetary Accumulation 5 German Unification and the Unraveling of ...

The shape of the world to come

charting the geopolitics of a new century

Contrary to an optimistic vision of a world "flattened" by the virtues of globalization, the sustainability and positive outcomes of economic and political homogenization are far from guaranteed. For better and for worse, globalization has become the most powerful force shaping the world's geopolitical ...

The miracle

the epic story of Asia's quest for wealth

We all know that China is becoming an economic powerhouse, India is close on China's heels, Korea is a leader of high tech innovations, and Japan has some of the world's most dominant and influential companies. But what we don't know is ...

Rogue economics

capitalim's new reality

What do Eastern Europe's booming sex trade, America's subprime mortgage lending scandal, China's fake goods industry, and celebrity philanthropy in Africa have in common? With biopirates trolling the blood industry, fish-farming bandits ravaging the high seas, pornography developing virtually in Second Life ...

China and India in the age of globalization

The rise of China and India is the story of our times. The unprecedented expansion of their economic and power capabilities raises profound questions for scholars and policymakers. What forces propelled these two Asian giants into global pacesetters, and what does their emergence mean for ...

Confesiones de un gánster económico

la cara oculta del imperialismo americano

John Perkins lo sabe muy bien. Él ha sido un gángster económico. Su misión consistía en persuadir a países estratégicamente importantes para Estados Unidos, desde Indonesia hasta Panamá, para que aceptaran créditos enormes con el objetivo de financiar el desarrollo de sus infraestructuras. Estos lucrativos ...

The new Asian hemisphere

the irresistible shift of global power to the East

One of Asia's leading intellectuals illuminates what will be on the agenda as Western domination ends and the Asian renaissance impacts world politics, markets and history. For centuries the Asians (Chinese, Indians, Muslims and others) have been bystanders in world history. Now, they are ...

Inside the World Bank

exploding the myth of the monolithic

This book argues that the World Bank, far from being a unitary actor, is fundamentally plural, internally fragmented and dispersed, with cascading chains of delegation, authority and controls, and with considerable discretion delegated to the staff.

La China emergente

la transformación del gigante asiático desde dentro

Por vez primera descubrimos las claves internas de la revolución que ha transformado a China en la mayor superpotencia mundial, en el país que liderará el planeta a lo largo del siglo XXI. En La China emergente Wu Xiaobo describe y documenta, desde una óptica ...

Energy and the transformation of international relations

toward a new producer-consumer framework

Eds. Andreas Wenger, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic. With energy security at the top of the global agenda, this book examines the development of a new producer-consumer framework. As the era of cheap energy comes to an end, Asia's demand for energy increases, and concerns ...

Entender China

China, mil millones de consumidores

Este libro, convertido ya en la biblia de los negocios con el gigante asiático, ofrece las claves para navegar por las aguas a menudo imprevisibles de las negociaciones con sus habitantes. Escrito con un lenguaje claro, conciso y directo, el autor nos introduce en la ...

How the Chinese economy works

The revised and updated edition sets out to analyze and compare the operational mechanisms of the Chinese economy between the pre-reform and post-reform periods and through national, regional and local dimensions. It examines the driving forces -- both endogenous and exogenous -- for, and how they have ...

Stephen Roach on the next Asia

opportunities and challenges for a new globalization

Morgan Stanley's Asia Chairman offers his views on investment opportunities in Asia. As Morgan Stanley's chief Asia specialist, getting Asia right is Stephen Roach's personal obsession, and this in- depth compilation represents more than 50 of Roach's key research efforts not ...

OCDE Factbook 2009

estadísticas económicas, medioambientales y sociales

VV.AA.OCDE Factbook 2009 es la quinta edición de un anuario estadístico exhaustivo y dinámico de la OCDE. Contiene más de 100 indicadores que engloban una gran variedad de áreas: economía, agricultura, educación, energía, medioambiente, ayuda exterior, salud y calidad de vida, industria, información ...

The world is curved

hidden dangers to the global economy

Confronting the ever-increasing challenges of globalism and the economic problems plaguing the U.S. from a downward spiraling value of the dollar to the subprime mortgage crisis, Smick argues again and again that the solution to the problem is deregulation and encouraging entrepreneurship. While he ...

India's economic future

education, technology, energy and environmental

Ed. Manmohan Agarwal. The Indian economy continues to grow rapidly, taking in its stride poor harvests and rising oil prices. Industrial output, which had tended to be relatively low, has increased to double-digit levels, accompanied by rising levels of savings and investment. India's healthy ...

Trade, growth, and inequality

Combining the fields of international trade theory, economic development, and economic growth, this text provides an advanced exposition suitable for graduate students as well as researchers at all levels. It combines mathematical rigour with an exceptional breadth of approaches, including institutions, history, and comparative economics ...

African countries in the New Trade Negotiations

interests, options and challenges

Los nuevos países emergentes

(Revista del Instituto de Estudios Económicos, Nº 1, año 2008)