- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Contributions by Alessia Amighini
- Contributions by Ner Artola
- Contributions by Claudio Maggi Campos
- Contributions by Jose Eduardo Cassiolato
- Contributions by Clemente Ruiz Duran
- Contributions by Arlindo Villaschi Filho
- Contributions by Elisa Giuliani
- Contributions by Raquel Gomes
- Contributions by Helena Lastres
- Contributions by Eduardo Zepeda Miramontes
- Contributions by Mario Davide Parrilli
- 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