Look to Brazil for safe, stable investmentsAs the future of the American economy seems to get bleaker by the day, it is tempting to look abroad for business opportunities. Europe and Asia don't provide much hope, but what about somewhere that's both closer to home and sunny year-round? In Brazil...

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of tables -- Table of abbreviations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I The ambivalent nature of bailouts -- II Bank bailouts and sovereign indebtedness -- III Bailout policy approaches -- Part...

Intro -- Contents -- Contributors and Participants -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Small World of Corporate Governance: An Introduction -- 2 Is There an Anglo-Saxon Model? -- 3 The Small Worlds of Business Groups: Liberalization and Network Dynamics -- 4 Ownership Networks and New Institutional...

Are entrepreneurs essentially the same everywhere? Are the processes of entrepreneurship similar? Or are they shaped by their environments? If so, how? This study brings insights from entrepreneurship to comparative institutions and varieties of capitalism, and vice versa, and draws on two...

This volume explains how economic rights are realized--or violated--in Canada and the United States. Contributors analyze the philosophy, law, and politics of these rights and discuss specific issues such as poverty, health care, and the rights of people with disabilities.

Taxation-both corporate and personal-has been held responsible for the low investment and productivity growth rates experienced in the West during the last decade. This book, a comparative study of the taxation of income from capital in the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and West...

In 1700, Latin America and British North America were roughly equal in economic terms. Yet over the next three centuries, the United States gradually pulled away, and today the gap is huge. Why did this happen? Was it culture? Geography? Economic policies? Natural resources? Differences in...