International Economics

Using a theory of economic and political gravitation, backed up with both quantitative analysis and qualitative description, Mosk explores trade and migration examining market forces and political resistance to diversity...

When this book was first published in 1967, it was one of the first pieces of research to systematically examine the manpower problems associated with rapidly changing technology. It discusses issues such as technological change and unemployment, changes in the structure of employment, the mobility ..

The global financial crisis has provided an important opportunity to revisit debates about post-socialist transition and the relative success of different reform paths. This new volume from a prestigious group of scholars analyzes the resilience of post-communist Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs) t..

This volume examines the role of transnational corporations (TNCs) in the geography of international production, covering both theoretical and empirical aspects...

This fourth edition of Understanding the World Economy will continue to provide the reader with the clearest guide available to the global economic scene. To reflect the enormous changes which have taken place in the world economy in recent years, this text is an almost entirely rewritten version of..

Building on the Varieties of Capitalism framework, this book brings together the tools and perspectives of institutional and agency economics. This has been achieved with historical and contemporary analyses of how institutions such as legal status, ownership transitions from public or collective ow..

In the history of Russian economic ideas, a peculiar mix of anthropocentrism and holism provided fertile breeding ground for patterns of thought that were in potential conflict with the market. _x005F_x000D_ This study offers an ideational explanation of Russia’s relative failure to establish a func..

This book traces the logic behind the decision patterns of female involvement in governance and management. In particular, it identifies the patterns of women's presence on corporate boards, with respect to theoretical and conceptual argumentation, policy and regulatory implication, as well as pract..

This title was first published in 1964..