International economics Books

This book provides a detailed overview of Central European urban heritage. It examines the key aspects of urban heritage - tangible/monumental, natural/landscape, world heritage/urban quarter and heritage experience/dark heritage.

Ji draws on policy diffusion and competitive regionalism theories, developing a model of competitive spill-over to shed light on the cascade dynamics between three mega-FTA proposals - the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Regional Comprehensive...

This open access book provides answers to key open questions concerning competition policy in emerging economies, with a focus on South Eastern Europe. The contributions address two major issues. One is the design of competition policy and the national...

From Sainsbury's to Cadbury's, the Fair Trade campaign made sustainability a cornerstone for food conglomerates. Built around the experiences and perspectives the key individuals who kick-started the social movement, this book examines the challenges...

This book is an appraisal of current offshore industrial relations, and safety regulations instituted after the 1988 Alpha disaster in the North Sea. This text discusses the oil industry's attempts to contain subsequent, unwelcome regulatory...

Against the backdrop of demonstrations in Seattle, Porto Alegre and Genoa and within the context of growing resistances to free trade and the current global trends, Global Tensions takes a close look at the challenges posed by the processes of...

The Caspian Basin region has boomed since the late 1990s due to new oil discoveries, new pipelines that have diversified countries' transport options and world oil prices that have risen from below $10 in 1998 to $70 in 2006. This book analyzes the...

This new volume explores two alternative economic theories - the classical theory and the marginalist or neoclassical theory- through a discussion between two eminent economists, Pierangelo Garegnani and Paul Samuelson. The debates are set into context...

During the second half of the twentieth century, development in the Asia-Pacific region has been dominated by industrialization. However, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, services, in particular, finance, information and creative services,...

In globalising economies, particularly those going through a process of economic integration such as those economies within the EU, regions forge an increasing number of linkages with other locations within and across national borders. This is largely...

Plenty has been written about the political and economical aspects of regionalism, but the legal perspective has been neglected. East Asian Regionalism From a Legal Perspective is unique in synthesizing legal, economic and political...

Acharya and Buzan introduce non-Western IR traditions to a Western IR audience, and challenge the dominance of Western theory. An international team of experts reinforce existing criticisms that IR theory is Western-focused and therefore misrepresents...

The widespread move towards more market-driven models of political economy combined with the expanding internationalisation of business and commerce has led to a series of proposals for global competition rules. To date these proposals have been hotly...

International Commercial and Marine Arbitration analyses and compares commercial-martime arbitration in a number of different legal systems including the US, the UK, Greece and Belgium. The book examines the role of the courts in arbitration in each of...

South Asia's developing nations have been enjoying moderate to high growth over the past decade before the global recession began. This new edition provides an up-to-date guide to the growing markets in South Asia. It offers an analysis of the changes...

International trade continues to expand robustly in East Asia and elsewhere, but global trade negotiations have collapsed and globalization is widely criticized. In this book, the participants of the thirtieth Pacific Trade and Development...

This timely book offers the first critical examination of World Bank policy reforms and initiatives during the past decade.

This book critically examines global economic institutions. It presents an accessible fluid history of globalization and explains how global public goods should be defined and how global economic institutions work. It also looks at the effect that major...

The focus of this book is placed on creating and developing knowledge in the world of work. It is premised on the fact that knowledge is not static, but forever evolving and by the realisation that the best way to improve knowledge is to do so as a...

China's Global Reach looks at China's emergence on the globe as a hegemonic power in the recent years.Moving beyond Volume I, this new volume empirically examines the most recent development of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Asian...

Nowadays, human technology had been experiencing improvement rapid stage, such as mobile has been improved to reach smart phone stage. Smart phone invention may let human applies internet channel to send email, read e-books, listen music, watch movie to...

The focus of the book is to help readers understand how certain concepts and values influence the way Germans like to do business. Germany is the strongest economy in Europe, and one of the largest worldwide. The business climate is good, people are...

Es besteht kein Zweifel daran, dass das Unternehmen Royal Dutch Shell des "Komitees der 300" eine der ältesten und größten aller Ölgesellschaften ist, die heute weltweit tätig sind. Ihr Umsatz im Jahr 2005 betrug 306,73 Milliarden US-Dollar. Die...

Import Export - Importing From China can be extremely profitable if you know the insiders secrets. I have personally imported thousands of products from China.Example - I imported a product for under $3 and sold it for $25 (about 700% mark up!)Example 2...

The Economics of Youth Restiveness in the Niger Delta outlines the important issue of restiveness, which has led to kidnapping, hostage taking, and other crimes perpetrated in the region that have resulted in a monumental loss of revenue for Nigeria.This...

The Political Economy of Government Auditing addresses the elusive quest for greater transparency and accountability in the management of public finances in emerging economies; and, more specifically, it examines the contribution of autonomous...

This comprehensive textbook, first published in 1985, on the world economic, written specifically for non-specialists, compares neo-classical, neo-Ricardian and Marxist theories and policies in international economics. This accessible book will be of...

This book examines the contemporary production of economic value in today's financial economies. Examining current projects of international legal regulation, this book questions the regulation of the financial sphere insofar as its excesses are...

This book examines the treatment of culture and development in the discipline of economics, thereby filling a conspicuous gap in current literature. Economics has come a long way to join the 'cultural turn' that has swept the humanities and social...

This book is a comprehensive examination of the Indian textile industry and the various determinants affecting its export performance, trends in labour, and capital productivity in the post-liberalization years. Employing 45 million people, including...

Providing a broad overview of the economics of land-use change, this book is a key contribution to contemporary land-use studies, highlighting the main methodological and public policy issues that will be central to future research.

This detailed volume explores the role and actions of economists in US, Japanese and various European parliaments in the critical period between 1848 and 1920. Featuring chapters written by an international array of contributors from both economics and...

This book examines EU and US bilteral trade and investment relations with China, their attempts to level the economic playing field and to narrow the 'reciprocity gap' in market openness.

The international trade regulatory system is a dynamic system that has been evolving throughout its history. This book examines the evolving dynamics in international trade regulation from the conclusion of GATT in 1947 to the current crisis facing the...

This book examines the risks of epidemic disease posed by the modern era of accelerated global trade. Conversely, it also addresses some of the potential benefits the same globalization can bring to epidemic control through surveillance, diagnostics,...

Contributed to and edited by leading academics, the conceptual and empirical papers included in this significant volume consider how interaction between business associations and government is affected by Europeanization and globalization.

Since the implementation of the European Directive on Takeover Bids, a European common legal framework governs regulation of takeovers in EU Members States. This book studies the European Community Directive on Takeover Bids, first from a British...

The book takes stock of new developments in legislation, case-law and institutions affecting prudential supervision. It also offers an analysis of the difficulties facing banking regulation during the current financial crises, including the issue of...

Design is central to every service or good produced, sold and consumed. Manufacturing and service companies located in high cost locations increasingly find it difficult to compete with producers located in countries such as India and China. Companies in...

This guide provides advice on setting up logistics centers in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) member countries to support trade.A logistics center is a complex specifically designed to accommodate warehouses, transport facilities, and...

Get ready to transform your business and economics strategies with this comprehensive guide. Dive into topics like innovation, entrepreneurship, data analytics, financial strategies, marketing, supply chain management, human resources, and government...

Want to learn how to find, evaluate, and hire the best suppliers for your Amazon FBA Business? Learn how to avoid losing thousands of dollars on a potentially wrong order and a wrong supplier.In this book, we are going to focus our attention on...

Managing technological innovations and related policy and strategy issues havebeen a central focus of the new millennium. This book series presents aninterdisciplinary scholarship and dialogue on the management of innovation andtechnological change in a...