The role of multinational enterprises in globalization

This book offers a framework for analyzing the increased economic integration of countries which is mainly driven by multinational enterprises. They compete with other companies from different countries on many markets and through various channels. The book starts by discussing the stylized facts of the ...

Trade and industrial policy under international oligipoly

The existence of firms with different levels of efficiency within a country plays an important role in this in-depth analysis of industrial and trade policies in a multi-country trade-theoretic framework. Sajal Lahiri and Yoshiyasu Ono examine various industrial policies, R&D subsidies and trade policies ...

International health care reform

a legal, economic and political analysis

"International Health Care Reform" clearly explains the arguments in economics and justice for intervention by governments in health care markets; the structure and dynamics of health care systems; and the features of competition-oriented reform models. The book will appeal to students and researchers involved in ...

The structure of regulatory competition

corporations and public policies in a global economy

In order to understand international economic regulations, it is essential to understand the variation in competing corporations' interests. This book's theoretical findings open a 'black box' in the literature on international political economy and elucidate a source of regulatory differences and similarities. Its counter-intuitive ...

Desglobalización

ideas para una nueva economía mundial

Walden Bello es el más destacado revolucionario de la falta de insensatez en todo el mundo. Con lenguaje accesible y evidencia apreminante expone despiadadamente el oportunismo , el saqueo y la soberbia solapada que caracterizan al capitalismo global. Pero este libro encierra algo más que una ...

Pies de barro

la decadencia de los Estados Unidos de América

Pies de Barro trata de mostras el proceso de deterioro social y económico que están sufriendo en Estados Unidos de América desde la agudización de la Guerra Fría en los años setenta. La Guerra Fría fue como el choque de dos placas tectónicas que produjo ...

Multinational firms' location and the new economic geography

The choice of location for the production plants of multinational firms is an important issue, not least because this decision is accompanied by so many fears brought into public debate. This book analyses how foreign direct investors choose their locations, whilst exploring the forces which ...

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 ...

Structural adjustment:the SAPRI report

the policy roots of economic crisis, poverty and inequality

Structural adjustment programmes are the largest single cause of increased poverty, inequality and hunger in developing countries. The World Bank and the IMF have compelled country after country to adopt a "one size fits all" economic strategy, so exposing the world's weakest economies to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...