This book provides a comprehensive guide to the competition regimes of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Chinese developments are placed in the context of the adoption of competition regimes by developing and transitional states worldwide and also in relation to the influence of trans-national organisations on transitional states to adopt market-based economic strategies. The book adopts an inter-di…
In this succinct, modest, and refreshingly forthright book--now revised and updated for the new century--Starr introduces to the uninitiated reader the background, basic data, and issues at stake in China's crisis-ridden present and future. After ten years, John Bryan Starr has thoroughly revised and updated his classic introduction to the background of, the data about, and the issues at sta…
Hazel Henderson provides a survival guide for our ride on the "tiger of change," offering new directions and expanded contexts for creating patterns of operation based on win-win models and a new planetary culture. She provides numerous examples of the new paradigm and outlines concrete steps toward it, including the use of renewable resources and chaos systems theory, the greening of social po…
In this work, Charles Issawi examines the main reasons for the economic decline of the Middle East. He discusses climate, geography, and religion, with particular emphasis on the military elite, whose contempt for artisans and merchants thwarted positive economic initiatives. The role played by minorities and foreigners throughout the region's history is also examined. Finally, the author compa…
The contents of this book: 1: The U.S.-Japan Semiconductor Trade Conflict 2. The Rise and Fall of Big Steel’s Influence on U.S. Trade Policy 3. Making Sense of the 1981 Automobile VER: Economics, Politics, and the Political Economy of Protection 4. Import Protection for U.S. Textiles and Apparel: Viewed from the Domestic Perspective 5. Do Precedent and Legal Argument Matter in the Lumber…
The role of the state in the economy has always been a controversial issue in public debate, but it has become more so in the last quarter of a century with the rise of neoliberal thinking that preaches the virtues of unregulated markets and recommends de-regulation, opening-up, and privatisation. This push for a minimal, pro-business state, especially in developing countries, has been furth…
This Atlas proposes an unprecedented `reading' of the global situation, supported by socio-economic, geopolitical and environmental data. Topics including access to education, the gulf between living standards in the North and the South, women's civil rights, climate change and international solidarity are presented along with 30 fully updated information sheets and 40 full-colour maps.
Contents: 1. The UN trade and development debates of the 194os 2. The UN recruits economists 3. Michal Kalecki, the world economic report, and McCarthyism 4. From full employment to economic development 5. The early terms-of-trade controversy 6. ECLA, Industralization, and inflation, etc.
Demonstrating the contribution of economics to environmental policy, Mark Sagoff argues that economics is helpful in designing institutions and processes through which people can settle environmental disputes. However, Sagoff also reveals that economic analysis fails completely when it attempts to attach value to environmental goods. He concludes that environmental policy responds to principles…
Contents: Section one : The big future Section two : Building and protecting sustainable communities Section three : Reforming the institutions Section four : Organizing, lobbying, networking, negotiating.