- The Alliance Revolution
- Benjamin Gomes-Casseres
- Alliances among firms are increasingly changing the way business is conducted, particularly in the global, high-technology sector. The reasons are clear: companies must pool their capabilities to succeed in ever more complex and rapidly changing businesses. But the consequences for managers and for the economy have so far been underestimated. In this new book, Benjamin Gomes-Casseres presents the first detailed account of the new world of business alliances and shows how collaboration has become integral to modern competition.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998
- America's China Trade in Historical Perspective
- Edited by Ernest R. May
- Edited by John King Fairbank
- This volume explores commercial relations between the United States and China from the eighteenth century until 1949, fleshing out with facts the romantic and shadowy image of "the China trade." These nine chapters by specialists in the field have developed from papers they presented at a conference supported by the national Committee on American-East Asian Relations.
- Hardcover 1986
- British Mercantile Houses in Buenos Aires, 1810-1880
- Vera Blinn Reber
- British mercantile houses--privately financed commercial enterprises dealing in the import and export of goods--integrated Argentine production into the world economy between 1810 and 1880. Reber evaluates in detail business operations and decision making and analyzes the relationship between business practices and the Argentine economic and political environment.
- Hardcover 1979
- Capital and Credit in British Overseas Trade
- Jacob Price
- Hardcover 1980
- Integrating the Americas
- Edited by Antoni Estevadeordal
- Edited by Dani Rodrik
- Edited by Alan M. Taylor
- Edited by Andrés Velasco
- This work, based on a conference sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, examines how this free trade process is surging ahead, while at the same time taking on a broader set of issues including institutional reform, transparency, the environment, labor, and social cohesion.
- Paperback 2004
- What Price Fame?
- Tyler Cowen
- The separation of fame and merit is one of the central dilemmas Cowen considers in What Price Fame?, an intriguing exploration of the economics of fame. He shows how fame is produced, outlines the principles that govern who becomes famous and why, and discusses whether fame-seeking behavior harmonizes individual and social interests or corrupts social discourse and degrades culture.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002