Western hemisphere economies. The US recovery / David Hale ; The Canadian economy: prospects and challenges / Joshua Mendelsohn ; Mexico's interminable transition--2011 and beyond / Timothy Heyman ; Is Latin America changing? / Pedro Pablo Kuczynski -- Europe. The world bets on Europe, but the...

It has become commonplace to think that globalization has produced a race to the bottom in terms of labor standards and quality of life: the cheaper the labor and the lower the benefits afforded workers, the more competitively a country can participate on the global stage. But in this book the...