Reviving the Invisible Hand

The Case for Classical Liberalism in the Twenty-First Century

"Reviving the Invisible Hand" is an uncompromising call for a global return to a classical liberal economic order, free of interference from governments and international organizations. Arguing for a revival of the invisible hand of free international trade and global capital, eminent economist Deepak Lal ...

Economic Justice in an Unfair World

Recent years have seen a growing number of activists, scholars, and even policymakers claiming that the global economy is unfair and unjust, particularly to developing countries and the poor within them. But what would a fair or just global economy look like? "Economic Justice in ...

The Three Trillion Dollar War

The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict

The true cost of the Iraq War is $3 trillion--and counting--rather than the $50 billion projected by the White House. Apart from its tragic human toll, the Iraq War will be staggeringly expensive in financial terms. This sobering study by Nobel Prize winner Joseph E ...

The Evolution of the Trade Regime

Politics, Law, and Economics of the Gatt and The WTO

"The Evolution of the Trade Regime" offers a comprehensive political-economic history of the development of the world's multilateral trade institutions, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and its successor, the World Trade Organization (WTO). While other books confine themselves to describing contemporary ...

The writing on the wall

China and the West in the 21st century

The prevailing view of China is of an economic juggernaut set to make the 21st century its own. This provocative and stimulating book warns instead that China is running up against a set of daunting challenges from within that could well derail its rise and ...

Piratas del Caribe

el eje de la esperanza

Basándose en experiencias de primera mano y en sus encuentros con Chávez, Tariq Ali pone de manifiesto cómo América latina se ha visto polarizada por los puntos de vista del líder venezolano y examina la agresividad (y las agresiones) de que ha sido objeto su ...

Nation-States and the multinational corporation

a political economy of foreign direct investment

What makes a country attractive to foreign investors? To what extent do conditions of governance and politics matter? This book provides the most systematic exploration to date of these crucial questions at the nexus of politics and economics. Using quantitative data and interviews with investment ...

En pie contra la deuda externa

campañas, demandas e impactos del movimiento contra el endeudamiento del sur

El movimiento contra la deuda externa ha sido uno de los actores de protesta más importantes contra la globalización neoliberal desde mediados de los años 80 hasta nuestros días. Un movimiento del Sur al Norte que ha puesto en el centro de la agenda política ...

Cultura y comercio en la comunidad internacional

INDICE: Cultura y comercio en el régimen universal. Cultura y comercio en los regímenes regionales. Comercio electrónico, propiedad intelectual y cultura. Algunos aspectos del régimen internacional de la cultura en España.

Futurecast 2020

a global vision of tomorrow

The world is entering an unprecedented age. Rapid technological advances, globalisation, unparalleled demographic changes and the rise of China as a superpower mean that we are entering a unique era of history. Rob Shapiro employs his immense experience in international politics to sketch a blueprint ...

World trade politics

power, principles, and leadership

This book develops a new theoretical approach to understanding the role of leadership in trade negotiations. By examining in detail the key role of leadership in the GATT/WTO system, it offers new insights into trade bargaining from the inception of the GATT through to ...

Games in economics development

Games in Economic Development examines the roots of poverty and prosperity through the lens of elementary game theory, illustrating how patterns of human interaction can lead to vicious cycles of poverty as well as virtuous cycles of prosperity. The book shows how both social norms ...

Rogue economics

Respected economist and syndicated journalist Loretta Napoleoni shows how he world is being reshaped by dark economic forces creating victims out of millions of ordinary people whose lives have become trapped inside a fantasy world of consumerism. The world has become overrun by organizations, both ...

International political economy

an intellectual history

The field of international political economy gained prominence in the early 1970s - when the Arab oil embargo and other crises ended the postwar era of virtually unhindered economic growth in the United States and Europe - and today is an essential part of both political science ...

The Washington consensus reconsidered

towards a new global governance

This volume brings together many of the leading international figures in development studies, such as Jose Antonio Ocampo, Paul Krugman, Dani Rodrik, Joseph Stiglitz, Daniel Cohen, Olivier Blanchard, Deepak Nayyer and John Williamson to reconsider and propose alternative development policies to the Washington Consensus. Covering ...

Asia central y la seguridad energética global

nuevos actores y dinámicas en Euroasia

En el análisis de la actualidad internacional, es recurrente referirse a la emergencia de potencias como China y la India para caracterizar el mundo de hoy. Sin embargo, también se redimensionan y #emergen# otras áreas en Asia por su vinculación con los retos del presente ...

The Penguin history of Modern China

the fall and rise of a great power 1850-2008

In the second half of the 19th century, China appeared as the sick man of Asia, rocked by recurrent revolts and huge natural disasters, ruled by an anachronistic imperial system and humiliated by foreign invasions. Karl Marx saw it as bound to disintegrate, like 'any ...

Capital market liberalization and development

Capital market liberalization has been a key battle in the debate on globalization for much of the previous two decades. Many developing countries, often at the behest of international financial institutions such as the IMF, opened their capital accounts and liberalized their domestic financial markets ...

Perspectivas económicas de América Latina 2009

Elaborado por la OECD. ¿Está aprovechando América Latina el potencial de la política fiscal como herramienta para el desarrollo? Perspectivas Económicas de América Latina 2009 analiza los avances en materia fiscal de los gobiernos latinoamericanos durante la última década, y concluye que aún queda mucho ...

Billions entrepreneurs

how China and India are reshaping their futures and yours

Called "well worth reading" by The Economist and "earnest and entertaining" by the Financial Times, Tarun Khanna's Billions of Entrepreneurs is an elegantly written book that mixes on-the-ground stories with thorough research to show how Chinese and Indian entrepreneurs are creating change through new ...