International Economics category: 4483 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Originally published in 1985 by a group of international experts and oil industry officials, this book surveys the dramatic changes which took place in the oil industry in the second half of the twentieth century. It discusses the role of OPEC and the long term impact its decisions had for both producers...
by A. G. Kenwood, A. L. Lougheed
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Published in 1982 this is an introductory study of the international spread of modern industrial technology. The book considers the preconditions necessary for a country to adopt effectively modern industrial technology in the nineteenth century and the mechanisms by which this technology spread from...
Social and Solidarity Economy
The World’s Economy with a Social Face
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
This book aims to provide the reader with an insight into the relevance of a section of the economy, which is often referred to as the ‘social and solidarity economy’ (SSE); and highlight some of the current issues in the field, how they are being addressed and some of their future implications....
The Private Sport Sector in Europe
A Cross-National Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2017
This book outlines the private sport sector in different European countries. Sport in the European countries is organized in three distinct sectors. These are the state/public sector, which provides financial and political support for sport infrastructure; the civic/non-profit sector, which provides...
US-Asia Economic Relations
A political economy of crisis and the rise of new business actors
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
In a world of continuing financial volatility, this book critically evaluates the oft-cited claim that US firms and the US government attempt to open emerging markets in economic distress and acquire valuable industrial and financial assets.
Focusing particularly on Korea and Thailand, the...
Company and Campus Partnership
Supporting Technology Transfer
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Originally published in 1992, this study looks at the ways in which company and campus can co-operate to spread the risk and cost of research. It analyses joint ventures in an international context, focusing particularly on the USA, France and Japan, comparing their management strategies with the...
The Energy Crisis
Ten Years After
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
This book, originally published in 1984 by a group of leading international commentators on the oil market and major corporate figures int eh market, investigates the underlying forces determining the oil market in the 1970s and 80s. It also discusses the important indicators which point to how the energy market was likely to develop with separate chapters on oil, coal and nuclear power.
The British Computer Industry
Crisis and Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Originally published in 1987, this book explores the history and geography of the computer industry in Britain and the evolution of the market leader firms, STC ICL and IBM (UK). It also examines the rising rate of new firm formation in the 1980s and the technology policies adopted by successive governments...
by Jill Hills
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Published in 1984, this book reviews British industrial policy towards information technology within the context of the international trading system. It argues that the incoherence of British policy stems from the clash between its core liberal ideology and its centralised political system and that...
Britannia 1066-1884
From Medieval Absolutism to the Birth of Freedom under Constitutional Monarchy, Limited Suffrage, and the Rule of Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
This book offers an analytic history of Britannia (first England and Wales and then Great Britain) over eight hundred years of political turmoil, intermingled with economic stagnation, followed by the engine of the industrial revolution. The book draws on economics, political science, public choice,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Globalization, Growth and Sustainability focuses on the implications of both regional and global trade liberalization and complementary macroeconomics policy reforms on growth, equity, and sustainability. The volume is organized into three sections: Part One addresses the issue of economic growth...
The Euro and the Crisis
Perspectives for the Eurozone as a Monetary and Budgetary Union
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This book analyzes the effects of the recent crisis and evaluates potential solutions to the gridlock that is currently dominating the Eurozone and the European Union, concerning both the monetary policy and the budgetary and fiscal policy. The timely study highlights the main challenges that European...
Resilient States from a Comparative Regional Perspective
Central and Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Organizations such as ASEAN and EU were formed to promote economic growth, social progress and cultural development among their members. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the transformation which the newest members of ASEAN (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Laos) and the newest members of...
by Helge Berger, Giovanni Dell'Ariccia, Maurice Obstfeld
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
The paper makes an analytical contribution to the revived discussion about the euro area’s institutional setup. After significant progress during the euro crisis, the drive to complete Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) had stalled, and the way forward will benefit from an in-depth look...