- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Taxation and Latin American Integration
- Edited by Vito Tanzi
- Edited by Luiz Villela
- Edited by Alberto Barreix
- Contributions by Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
- Contributions by Richard M. Bird
- Contributions by Harry Huizinga
- 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