Capitalism in institutional reconfiguration by globalization : a theoretical framework -- Institutional oligopoly and embedded coordination : concentrative movements of capital -- Human (im)mobility, social poverty, and political inability : "economic man" on the segmented labor market -- The...

Dilemmas of tax policy in a globalized economy -- Global planners and strategic players -- The tax treaties myth -- Costs of multilateral cooperation -- Cooperation and its discontents -- International tax and global justice -- Perfecting the international tax market

This book focuses on the changing gender patterns of work in a global retail environment associated with the rise of contemporary retail and global sourcing. This has affected the working lives of hundreds of millions of workers in high-, middle- and low-income countries. The growth of...

In this book, economist Jean-Philippe Platteau addresses the question: does Islam, the religion of Muslims, bear some responsibility for a lack of economic development in the countries in which it dominates? In his nuanced approach, Platteau challenges the widespread view that the doctrine of...

Globalization has reconfigured both the external institutional framework and the intrinsic operating mechanisms of capitalism. The global triumph of capitalism implies the embracing of the market by the state in all its variants, and that global capitalism is not confined to the shell of...

Bringing a unique voice to international taxation, this book argues against the conventional support of multilateral co-operation in favour of structured competition as a way to promote both justice and efficiency in international tax policy. Tsilly Dagan analyses international taxation as a...

This book focuses on the changing gender patterns of work in a global retail environment associated with the rise of contemporary retail and global sourcing. This has affected the working lives of hundreds of millions of workers in high-, middle- and low-income countries. The growth of...