This paper aims to identify the likely winners and losers in the biotechnological revolution by firstly reviewing the history of GM technology and identifies the scientific risks to the consumer and environment, arising from the cultivation of GM crops and the consumers perceptions thereof.

This paper considers a number of hypotheses. Primarily amongst them is the notion that foreign owned plants spend more on pollution abatement than domestically owned plants after controlling for productive efficiency and cognisant of the prevailing regulatory regime. In essence, this study...

Offshore Finance Centres (OFCs) have proliferated since the 1960s and many small jurisdictions and microstates around the world now host OFCs as part of the increasing globalisation of financial capital. This paper argues that microstates are becoming increasing vulnerable to forces outside of...

In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War economic relations between Britain and the Commonwealth were very close, and the Empire was of greater economic importance to Britain than at any previous time. International economic conditions were dominated by the dollar shortage, and...

Indonesian tourism policy has generally been top-down and biased towards attracting international mass tourism and encouraging large, capital intensive projects. However, this paper examines locally owned, bottom-up tourism that developed to service backpackers (budget tourists). Recent...

This article examines union perceptions of multinationals and reviews evidence regarding the extent to which these perceptions were justified. The political and industrial compaigns waged by the union movement against multinational firms are also examined, logether with the success they achieved.

This paper examines the cost-effectiveness of British regional policy during teh 1930s. It takes issues with Correlli Barnett, who has argued that regional policy measures introduced from 1945 were already shown to be inefficient by the failure of similar assistance during the 1930s.