International Economics category: 4483 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2006
The channels and mechanisms of knowledge flows define the links that make up production and innovation systems. As such, they relate directly or indirectly to all policies that affect such systems. Knowledge flows are also directly related to intellectual property protection policies and competition...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The chapters in this edited collection, first published in 1990, examine the key aspects of change in the global economy at the end of the twentieth century and the role of national government policies in this. Drawing on material from a wide range of disciplines, including international trade, technology...
Globalization and Development
Rethinking Interventions and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
The key challenge for achieving sustained development in developing countries relates to quality of domestic governance, which in turn is strongly affected by external interventions. Domestic governance includes politics, policy formulation, institution building and policy implementation. It is important...
The Europeanization of Domestic Legislatures
The Empirical Implications of the Delors' Myth in Nine Countries
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2011
In ten years 80 per cent of the legislation related to economics, maybe also to taxes and social aff airs, will be of Community origin.” This declaration has been largely quoted, paraphrased and deformed by different authors, creating a persistent myth according to which 80% of the legislative activity...
Economic Crisis and Structural Reforms in Southern Europe
Policy Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
In recent years the countries of southern Europe have undergone, with varying intensity, a serious and prolonged economic crisis. Most have had to implement comprehensive economic adjustment programmes, including a wide range of structural reforms. Economic Crisis and Structural Reforms in Southern...
Sustainable Development and the Energy Industries
Implementation and Impacts of Environmental Legislation
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Originally published in 1994, this book contains the edited papers of the workshop of the Energy and Environmental Programme at the Royal Institute of Interantional Affairs which examined the interaction between environmental legislation and the energy indusutries. It examines past experience; the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
The failure of the dollar peg to prevent the Asian currency crisis of 1997 to 1998 has highlighted the importance of the exchange rate regime in Asia and provoked much discussion as to what the alternatives are in terms of exchange rate systems.
Bringing together extensive research on Asian...
by Khee Giap Tan, Duy Nguyen, Shida Zhou
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
This book provides a valuable compendium of annual indices and rankings of cost of living for expatriates and cost of living, wages and purchasing power for ordinary residents in 105 world's major cities over the period 2005-2015. Now in its third edition, the ACI's study reflects salient differences...
An Economic Theory of Managerial Firms
Strategic Delegation in Oligopoly
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The separation between ownership and control has become common practice over the last century, in most medium and large firms across the world. Throughout the twentieth century, the theory of the firm and the theory of industrial organization developed parallel and complementary views on managerial...
New Technologies and Work
Capitalist and Socialist Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Originally published in 1989 this book is a valuable contribution to the development of a non-technological approach in the study of technology and work. The studies compare the introduction and implementation of new technology at work in similar enterprises throughout Europe. The contributors share...
The Governance of European Public Goods
Towards a Republican Paradigm of European Integration
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
This edited volume proposes an innovative approach to European Integration by combining economics and political theory in its study of public goods. The contributors review such elements as a neo-medieval governance, the merits of a new European Republic, and, alongside Europe, include South East...
The Primary Sector in Economic Development (Routledge Revivals)
Proceedings of the Seventh Arne Ryde Symposium, Frostavallen, August 29-30 1983
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
It is a major problem for less developed countries to make their primary sectors sufficiently profitable in order to be able to build up their manufacturing and service sectors. This edited collection, first published in 1985, examines the nature of the primary sector and its role in economic development....
The Development of High Technology Industries
An International Survey
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
This book, originally published in 1988, reviews the development of high technology industries at global and selected national and local levels, providing a unique insight into reasons for and consequences of such modern industrial development. It appraises government policies for assisting the development...
Visions for the Global Economy
Economic Growth, Global Economic Governance, and Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Visions for the Global Economy explores a collection of global issues that are vital to every student of world affairs. It addresses key topics on the global stage, focusing on the foundational aspects of these global issues. It gets to the heart of diverse arguments that create roadblocks to progress...