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and climate change, economics, and politics. Unless we are better able to address these concerns, they will lead to … greater protectionism, xenophobia, nationalism, and, inevitably, deglobalization, rising conflict, and slower growth. The …
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and climate change, economics, and politics. Unless we are better able to address these concerns, they will lead to … greater protectionism, xenophobia, nationalism, and, inevitably, deglobalization, rising conflict, and slower growth. The …
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international production activities is now the key integrating force of global commerce. MNC strategies have changed in a variety of … fundamental ways over the past three decades, Brooks argues, resulting in an increased geographic dispersion of production across … borders. The author shows that the globalization of production has led to a series of shifts in the global security …
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In <i>War, Wine, and Taxes</i>, John Nye debunks the myth that Britain was a free-trade nation during and after the industrial revolution, by revealing how the British used tariffs--notably on French wine--as a mercantilist tool to politically weaken France and to respond to pressure from local brewers...
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and practice of free trade. Roberto Mangabeira Unger does not, however, defend protectionism against free trade. Instead … established forms of economics. One message of the book is that we need not choose between accepting and rejecting globalization … economics. Presenting technical issues in plain language, it appeals to the general reader. It puts a disciplined imagination in …
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is one of the great challenges of international economics. This book provides a new, comprehensive, and in …-depth examination of the standard theories and latest research in exchange-rate economics. Covering a vast swath of theoretical and …, international finance, and finance, and as a go-to reference for researchers in international economics, Exchange-Rate Dynamics …
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economics, but the entirely new field of scientific inquiry it yielded--game theory--has since been widely used to analyze a …
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If "slavery" is defined broadly to include bonded child labor and forced prostitution, there are upward of 25 million slaves in the world today. Individuals and groups are freeing some slaves by buying them from their enslavers. But slave redemption is as controversial today as it was in...
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Commercial banks are among the oldest and most familiar financial institutions. When they work well, we hardly notice; when they do not, we rail against them. What are the historical forces that have shaped the modern banking system? In Unsettled Account, Richard Grossman takes the first truly...
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