Features -- Global Governance: New Players, New Rules -- Subprime: Tentacles of a Crisis -- Governing Global Trade -- Financial Crises of the Future -- Governing Global Health -- Point of View: Is the Global Health System Broken? -- Backcasting Latin America -- Africa's Missing Ingredients --...

Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. METHODOLOGY AND DATA -- III. DYNAMIC FACTORS AND EPISODES OF BUSINESS CYCLES -- IV. SOURCES OF BUSINESS CYCLE FLUCTUATIONS: 1960-2005 -- V. GLOBALIZATION AND THE EVOLUTION OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS CYCLES -- VI. SENSITIVITY EXPERIMENTS -- VII. CONCLUSION --...

Sovereignty in the Age of Global Terrorism: The Role of International Organisations -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Context -- 2 Why Sovereignty and Which Sovereignty? -- 3 International Organisations - Conflict of Legal Orders -- 4 Conflict of...

Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Class of 1866 -- 1. Networking the Atlantic -- 2. The Battle for Cable Supremacy -- 3. The Imagined Globe -- 4. Weltcommunication -- 5. The Professionalization of the Telegraph Engineer -- 6. Cable Diplomacy and Imperial Control -- 7. The...

Front -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CHAPTER 1 THE CONTEXTS OF ECONOMICS AND SUSTAINABILITY -- CHAPTER 2 EIGHTEENTH CENTURY IDEAS -- CHAPTER 3 THE WORK OF ADAM SMITH -- CHAPTER 4 DARWIN AND THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHERS -- CHAPTER 5 THE ROMANTICS: AUTHORITARIANS AND...

This ground-breaking ethnography of an export-orientated garment assembly factory in Egypt examines the dynamic relationships between its managers – emergent Mubarak-bizniz (business) elites who are caught in an intensely competitive globalized supply chain – and the local daily-life...

In When Good Jobs Go Bad, Jeffrey Rothstein looks at the impact of globalization on workers in the North American auto industry, revealing that globalization has had a deleterious effect on even the most valued of blue-collar jobs. Rothstein shows how the consolidation of the Mexican and...

Transnational and Immigrant Entrepreneurship in a Globalized World brings together leading international scholars from a cross-disciplinary basis to examine the economic, social, regulatory, technological, and theoretical issues related to the impact of transnational entrepreneurs on business...

Celia Lury considers the interrelated dimensions of the brand: as a creator of space, time and community, as a form of intellectual property and as an increasingly important medium of exchange in a global economy