Transnational corporations (TNCs) have a central role to play in globalization. At the same time, globalization carries risks for the corporation, and not all of those associated with TNCs may support globalization. While much of the globalization literature suggests that corporations are...

<i>From Communists to Foreign Capitalists</i> explores the intersections of two momentous changes in the late twentieth century: the fall of Communism and the rise of globalization. Delving into the economic change that accompanied these shifts in central and Eastern Europe, Nina Bandelj presents a...

The present essay outlines the defining features of the capitalist system, the evolution of the Western political models during history and the way these have reflected in the business and financial reporting models. The differences between the Anglo-Saxon business model and the continental...

In my book entitled Socialism, Economic Calculation and Entrepreneurship I explain in theoretical terms what socialism is and why it is an intellectual error, a scientific impossibility, why the socialism which still exists, despite the fall of the Berlin Wall, in the form of economic...

This essay provides a game-theoretic, endogenous view of institutions, and then applies the idea to identify the sources of institutional trajectories of economic development in China, Japan, and Korea. It stylizes the Malthusian-phase of East Asian economies as peasant-based economies in which...