During the second half of the twentieth century, competition policy has been accorded an increasingly prominent role in the policy portfolios of industrialized nations. Since the late 1940s, when twenty-three nations ratified the first General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), tariff...

The Evolution of the Trade Regime offers a comprehensive political-economic history of the development of the world's multilateral trade institutions, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and its successor, the World Trade Organization (WTO). While other books confine themselves to...

Warum steigt ein Land zur Wirtschaftsmacht auf? Sind Freihandel und Globalisierung Allheilmittel? Was ist die Ursache für die europäische Währungskrise? Bei seiner Reise durch die Wirtschaftsgeschichte von den mächtigen Stadtstaaten der Renaissance bis zum aktuellen Aufstieg Chinas und...

Since recent financial crises in Asia and Latin America, developing countries have been strongly advised to rely primarily on foreign direct investment (FDI) in order to promote economic development on a sustainable basis. Even harsh critics of rash capital account liberalization argue in favor...