Bananas are the fifth most widely traded farm product. While the results of monopolization in the banana business, such as environmental contamination and the exploitation of labor, are frequently criticized, Globalized Fruit, Local Entrepreneurs demonstrates that the industry is not globally...

Auf seiner letzten Jahrestagung hat sich der Verein für Socialpolitik mit einem der zentralen Zukunftsthemen der europäischen Wirtschaftspolitik auseinandergesetzt: Die Osterweiterung der Europäischen Union. Der Vorsitzende des Vereins, Hans-Werner Sinn, greift in seiner Eröffnungsrede die...

This volume explores how the governments of the founding members of the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community, acting collectively via the European Communities, assisted in the consolidation of the Franco regime. It explains how the Six (the Nine after 1972)...

This volume has 18 papers on the theoretical and practical aspects of privatization and deregulation in the sectors of public utilities, telecommunications and public transport, and on the implications of these policies for the capital market and industrial relations.

This study is one of three resulting from an international research project on the development of manufacturing in ASEAN and the EC, and the potential for further ASEAN-EC cooperation. The trends and their impact on structural change are analysed in the context of both the economies of ASEAN and...