Located only blocks from Tokyo's glittering Ginza, Tsukiji--the world's largest marketplace for seafood--is a prominent landmark, well known but little understood by most Tokyoites: a supplier for countless fishmongers and sushi chefs, and a popular and fascinating destination for foreign tourists

Understanding the complexities of change, generating as clear a picture as possible and providing a common language for discourse about change is vital to balanced and responsible economic growth. Whether from an individual company perspective or from a national or supra national policy...

In the late 1980s and 1990s, the advanced industrial countries considered replacing the existing analog television infrastructure with a new digital one. Hart's book shows how nationalism and regionalism produced incompatible standards in the US, Japan and Europe, and led to missed opportunities...

Written by economists, a political scientist and a practising politician, and offering insights in EU farm policy, this volume demystifies the bond scheme proposal and explores concerns expressed by farmers and policy makers

The current European consensus on competition in communications is based on ashared vision of contemporary market and technological developments. Roughlystated, the position, outlined in the 1994 Bangemann Report and the 1997 EuropeanGreen Paper on Convergence (Marsden and Verhulst 1999,...

The author uses a political science paradigm to explain the growth of emerging equity markets. She departs from conventional economic explanations and examines politics at the micro-level of large issues of emerging market stock. The second half of the book presents case studies dealing with...