Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1 Background and History -- Factors Shaping the Trade Debate -- Free Trade -- Protectionism and Fair Trade -- Trade Surpluses and Deficits -- Trade Patterns -- Trade Politics -- Historical Overview -- American System of High...

In a world in which global trade is at risk, where warehouses and airports, shipping lanes and seaports try to guard against the likes of Al Qaeda and Somali pirates, and natural disaster can disrupt the flow of goods, even our "stuff" has a political life. The high stakes of logistics are not...

Malaysia established the Digital Free Trade Zone (DFTZ) to facilitate the development of e-commerce and the country's small and medium enterprises' (SMEs') exports. The data revealed thus far indicates an increasing number of SMEs coming on board the DFTZ e-commerce platforms.The publicly...

This collection of essays provides a personal, thought-provoking and often humorous documentation of the evolution of the field of consumer research. The book highlights aspects of hotly debated issues that surround this field of inquiry, and presents a picture of how consumer research has grown...

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Part I: Overview -- Overview -- The expansion of GVCs could stall unless policy predictability is restored -- GVCs boost incomes, create better jobs, and reduce poverty -- The gains from GVCs...

Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Contributors -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Purity, Price, and Production: Are Drug Markets Different? -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Motivation -- 2.3 Risks and Prices -- 2.4 Some Puzzles -- 2.5 Participant Characteristics, Market Outcomes, and...

This volume introduces the gender dimension in the empirical analyses on the links between trade and poverty. Gender disparities, an important component of overall inequality, may limit the gains from trade and the potential benefits to poor people. This view is supported by the robust finding...

This text is concerned with the concept of time in the Bible and in later literature, primarily that of the Judaean Desert sect. The work discusses issues of terminology, substance and ideology that arise from the totality of texts dealing with the subject of time.

Are immigrants squeezing Americans out of the work force? Or is competition wth foreign products imported by the United States an even greater danger to those employed in some industries? How do wages and unions fare in foreign-owned firms? And are the media's claims about the number of illegal...

Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century's greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the...