The Laws of Globalization and Business Applications employs a variety of empirical methodologies to establish two broad regularities that apply to international activity at the firm, industry, and country levels - the law of semiglobalization and the law of distance - and explores some of their...

1 Introduction -- I: Structure of the World Copper Market -- 2 Production -- 3 Consumption -- 4 Trade and Prices -- 5 Reserves and Resources -- II: Econometric Model of the World Copper Market -- 6 Copper Market Models -- 7 Mine Production and Capacities -- 8 Demand -- 9 Other Equations -- 10...

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Asian Trade in Antiquity -- Trade in the Eastern Islamic Countries in the Early Centuries -- Le marchand musulman -- Commercial Techniques in Early Medieval Islamic Trade -- Archaeology and the Study of Later Islamic Pottery -- China and Islam–The...

Main description: In the global economy, linguistic diversity influences economic and political development as well as public policies in positive and negative ways. It leads to financial costs, communication barriers, divisions in national unity, and, in some extreme cases, conflicts and...

Main description: In the wake of the global financial crisis that began in 2007, faith in the rationality of markets has lost ground to a new faith in their irrationality. The problem, Roman Frydman and Michael Goldberg argue, is that both the rational and behavioral theories of the market rest...