Rappa analyzes the nature of neo-liberalism by raising important theoretical questions about the current relationships between American business structures, political norms, popular culture, and the world of business. The book is refreshing because it focuses on the three themes of "hope," "optimism," and "progress" that constitute what has arguably come to represent the American Dream.
The authors argue that security is a particular type of politics applicable to a wide range of issues. Answering the traditionalist charge that this model makes the subject incoherent, they offer a constructivist operational method for distinguishing the process of securitization from that of politicization. Their approach incorporates the traditionalist agenda and dissolves the artificial boun…
Many individuals proclaim that global capitalism is here to stay. Unfettered markets, they argue, now drive the world, and all countries must adjust, no matter how painful this may be for some. Robert Gilpin, author of the widely acclaimed Political Economy of International Relations (Princeton, 1987), urges us, however, not to take an open and integrated global economy for granted. Rather, we …
Asia Pacific Readings in International Economic Relations describes the main historical, theoretical and policy developments leading to closer economic integration and cooperation in the Asia Pacific region. With an introduction to the issues by Ross Garnaut and Peter Drysdale, this book brings together a representative part of the literature that has emerged from analysis of Asia Pacific regio…
Based on methodological individualism and a public-choice approach to social theory, this book provides an analysis of the interdependence of economic development, social order and interstate conflict.
Prime Minister Hashimoto is visiting Singapore at a time when his administration is seized with the ongoing crisis in Peru. His decision to proceed with the visits to the ASEAN countries is laudable. Both Singapore and ASEAN appreciate this gesture. It has demonstrated the importance that Japan accords to its relations with ASEAN. We hope that the crisis in Peru will be peacefully resolved soon.
The world economy is undergoing a process of global restructuring. It is causing profound social, political, economic and spatial transformations that are futhering the asymmetrical interdependence of countries, regional and economic sectors and it is affecting the role of the state.
Addressing the changing face of economics education, Sawyer and Spinkle's international economics volume is a thoroughly modern approach to the subject. Providing a discussion of international economics that is more accessible to a wider range of readers than is currently available anywhere else, the book incorporates a modern approach to open economy macroeconomics, and shifts the emphasis fro…
This book quickly became a touchstone in the globalization debate. Renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz had a ringside seat for most of the major economic events of the last decade, including stints as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and chief economist at the World Bank. Particularly concerned with the plight of the developing nations, he became increasingl…
In Globalization, authors Bruce Greenwald and Judd Kahn cut through the myths surrounding globalization and look more closely at its real impact, presenting a more accurate picture of the present status of globalization and its future consequences. Page by page, they uncover the real facts about globalization and answer the most important questions it raises, including: Will globalization incre…