- 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
- An Introduction to Sustainable Development
- Peter Rogers
- Kazi F. Jalal
- John A. Boyd
- An Introduction to Sustainable Development presents the concept and practice of sustainable development as a process that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. This textbook examines the environmental, economic, and social dimensions of sustainable development by focusing on changing patterns of consumption, production, and distribution of resources.
- Paperback 2006
- Brand New China
- Jing Wang
- One part riveting account of fieldwork and one part rigorous academic study, Brand New China offers a unique perspective on the advertising and marketing culture of China. Wang's experiences in the disparate worlds of Beijing advertising agencies and the U.S. academy allow her to share a unique perspective on China during its accelerated reintegration into the global market system.
- Hardcover 2008
- 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
- The Business of Lobbying in China
- Scott Kennedy
- Based on over 300 in-depth interviews with company executives, business association representatives, and government officials, this study identifies a wide range of national economic policies influenced by lobbying, including taxes, technical standards, and intellectual property rights. These findings have significant implications for how we think about Chinese politics and economics, as well as government-business relations in general.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2008
- Capital Resurgent
- Gérard Duménil
- Dominique Lévy
- Translated by Derek Jeffers
- Economists Duménil and Lévy show that, despite free market platitudes, neoliberalism was a planned effort by financial interests against the postwar Keynesian compromise. The cluster of neoliberal policies--including privatization, liberalization of world trade, and reduction in state welfare benefits--is an expression of the power of finance in the world economy. The authors argue for stabilizing the world economy before we run headlong into economic disaster.
- Hardcover 2004
- Capital Rules
- Rawi Abdelal
- In an intellectual, legal, and political history of financial globalization, Rawi Abdelal shows that global financial markets were not always premised on the idea that capital ought to flow freely across country borders. Contrary to conventional accounts, Abdelal argues that European policy makers promoted the liberal rules that compose the international financial architecture, while U.S. policy makers have tended to embrace unilateral, ad hoc globalization.
- Hardcover 2007
- Chinese Medicine Men
- Sherman Cochran
- In this book, Sherman Cochran reconsiders the nature and role of consumer culture in the spread of cultural globalization. Cochran brings to light enduring features of the Chinese experience with consumer culture. The history of Chinese medicine men in pre-socialist China, he suggests, has relevance for the twenty-first century because they achieved goals that their successors in contemporary China are currently seeking to attain.
- Hardcover 2006
- The Cuban Economy at the Start of the Twenty-First Century
- Edited by Jorge Dominguez
- Edited by Omar Everleny Pérez Villanueva
- Edited by Lorena Barberia
- How can Cuba address the challenges of economic development and transformation that have bedeviled so many Latin American and Eastern European countries? For the Cuban and American social scientists and policy experts writing in this timely and provocative volume, the answer lies in examining Cuba's development trajectory by delving into issues ranging from the political economy of reform to their impact on specific sectors including export development, foreign direct investment, and U.S.-Cuba trade.
- Paperback 2005
- The Emergence of China
- Edited by Robert Devlin
- Edited by Antoni Estevadeordal
- Edited by Andres Rodriguez
- This pioneering volume provides a comprehensive overview of China's economic policy and performance over recent decades and contrasts them with the Latin American experience, opening new avenues for thinking about revitalizing development strategies in Latin America in the face of China's successful development and reduction of poverty. This insightful report is a must-read for analysts, policymakers, and development practitioners, not only in Latin America and the Caribbean, but wherever China's presence is being felt.
- Paperback 2006
- Governing the Global Economy
- Ethan Kapstein
- No area has become more global in its operations, more volatile, and thus more difficult to monitor and control than international banking. In this book, the international banker and political economist Ethan Kapstein explores the actions that governments have taken to cope with the economic and political consequences associated with the globalization of international finance.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover 1998
- In the Hurricane's Eye
- Raymond Vernon
- The world's multinational enterprises face a spell of rough weather, political economist Ray Vernon argues, not only from the host countries in which they have established their subsidiaries, but also from their home countries.The challenge for policy makers, Vernon argues, is to bridge the quite different regimes of the multinational enterprise and the nation-state. Both have a major role to play, and yet must make basic changes in their practices and policies to accommodate each other.
- Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000
- Institutions and Economic Performance
- Edited by Elhanan Helpman
- Explores the question of why income per capita varies so greatly across countries. This book is unique in its melding of economics, political science, history, and sociology to address its central question.
- Hardcover 2008
- 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
- The Mystery of Economic Growth
- Elhanan Helpman
- Far more than an intellectual puzzle for pundits, economists, and policymakers, economic growth--its makings and workings--is a subject that affects the well-being of billions of people around the globe. Helpman discusses the vast research that has revolutionized understanding of this subject in recent years, and summarizes and explains its critical messages in clear, concise, and accessible terms.
- Hardcover 2004
- The New Argonauts
- AnnaLee Saxenian
- A new perspective on globalization, The New Argonauts tells the story of the foreign-born, technically skilled investors and entrepreneurs who return home to start new companies while remaining tied to powerful economic and professional communities in the United States. AnnaLee Saxenian's research brings a fresh perspective to the way that technology entrepreneurs build regional advantage in order to compete in global markets. This pathbreaking book illuminates profound transformations in the global economy.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2007
- The Organization of Firms in a Global Economy
- Edited by Elhanan Helpman
- Edited by Dalia Marin
- Edited by Thierry Verdier
- Presents a new research program that is transforming the study of international trade. Until a few years ago, models of international trade did not recognize the heterogeneity of firms and exporters, and could not provide good explanations of international production networks. Now such models exist and are explored in this volume.
- Hardcover 2008
- The Origins of Europe's New Stock Markets
- Elliot Posner
- Posner explores the causes of Europe’s emergence as a global financial power, addressing classic and new questions about the origins of markets and their relationship to politics and bureaucracy.
- Hardcover 2009
- A Political Explanation of Economic Growth
- Yongping Wu
- Unlike South Korea and Japan, where large firms have been the major exporters, before the late 1980s Taiwan's successful exporters were overwhelmingly small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). What factors account for the success of the SMEs and their benign neglect by the state? The author argues that it was an unintended consequence of the state's policy toward the private sector and its political strategies for managing societal forces.
- Hardcover 2005
- The Rules of Federalism
- R. Daniel Kelemen
- This book examines patterns of environmental regulation in the European Union and four federal polities--the United States, Germany, Australia, and Canada. Kelemen develops a theory of regulatory federalism based on his comparative study, arguing that the greater the fragmentation of power at the federal level, the less discretion is allotted to component states. Kelemen's analysis offers a novel perspective on the EU and demonstrates that the EU already acts as a federal polity in the regulatory arena.
- Hardcover 2004
- Social Partnering in Latin America
- Social Enterprise Knowledge Network Research Team
- James E. Austin
- Ezequiel Reficco
- Gabriel Berger
- Rosa María Fischer
- Roberto Gutierrez
- Mladen Koljatic
- Gerardo Lozano
- Enrique Ogliastri
- An American supermarket and a Mexican food bank, an Argentine newspaper and a solidarity network, and a Chilean pharmacy chain and an elder care home are just a few examples of how businesses are partnering with community organizations in powerful ways throughout Latin America. The authors analyze why and how such social partnering occurs and provide a compelling framework for identifying key levers that maximize value creation for participants and society.
- Paperback 2004
- Taxation and Latin American Integration
- Edited by Vito Tanzi
- Edited by Luiz Villela
- Edited by Alberto Barreix
- In South and Central America, a movement toward further economic integration has begun. In the hope of helping to make the process smoother, and to foster a better understanding of the policy actions required, the Inter-American Development Bank studied the impact of trade integration on taxes. Twelve of these studies are collected here in this book.
- Paperback 2008
- Technology, Institutions, and Economic Growth
- Richard R. Nelson
- This volume mounts a full-blown attack on the standard neo-classical theory of economic growth, which Richard Nelson sees as hopelessly inadequate to explain the phenomenon of economic growth. He presents an alternative theory which highlights that economic growth driven by technological advance involves disequilibrium in a fundamental and continuing way. The broad theory of economic growth Nelson presents sees the process as involving the co-evolution of technologies, institutions, and industry structure.
- Hardcover 2005
- Unfinished Business
- Haruo Iguchi
- Ayukawa Yoshisuke (1880-1967) was the founder of the Nissan conglomerate and the leader of the Manchuria Industrial Development Corporation, one of the linchpins of Imperial Japan's efforts to economically exploit its overseas dependencies. He was also a proponent of free trade and global economic interdependence. In Unfinished Business, through exploring the reasons for Ayukawa's failure, Iguchi illuminates many of the economic problems of today's Japan.
- Hardcover 2003
- Upgrading to Compete
- Edited by Carlo Pietrobelli
- Edited by Roberta Rabellotti
- Can local markets and clusters represent a powerful alternative to global markets? Do transnational corporations and global buyers enhance or undermine local firms' upgrading and learning? Using original empirical evidence from several clusters in Latin America, Upgrading to Compete shows that both local and global dimensions matter at once.
- Paperback 2007