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 ...

The great convergence

Asia, The West, and the logic of one World

Since the 1990s, the world's economies have become ever more globalized and interdependent, but political power has not readjusted. Mahbubani shows why power must shift, reflecting the new global realities, to avoid disunity and conflict in our future. Globalization began in earnest in the ...

El ganador se queda con todo

la fiebre china por el control de los recursos naturales y lo que supone para el mundo

Todos somos conscientes de que los recursos básicos del mundo, las materias primas que sostienen nuestras vidas diarias y nuestras economías, son escasos. Sin embargo, ¿cuántos sabemos lo que eso significa hoy para la economía mundial? El ganador se queda con todo presenta la magnífica ...

Angola

radiografía de un país petrolero

Este libro cubre este vacío y ofrece una visión que, sin obviar la perspectiva de lo que se conoce como “maldición de los recursos” (una discusión que ha cobrado especial relevancia en la actualidad, sobre todo en continentes o regiones como África y Latinoamérica), se ...

Global Business Today

Global Business Today has been developed specifically to meet the needs of international students of business. Written in a refreshing, informative, and accessible style, it has become the most widely used text in the International Business market with its comprehensive and up-to-date contents; focus on ...

The rise of the people's bank of China

the politics of institutional change

With $4.5 trillion in total assets, the People's Bank of China now surpasses the U.S. Federal Reserve as the world's biggest central bank. The Rise of the People's Bank of China investigates how this increasingly authoritative institution grew from a ...