International Economics

The book examines China’s role in the international division of labor: it analyzes the scale and scope of China’s manufacture; the type and relative sophistication of its exports in the world market; and its position in the global value chain. It shows that China monopolizes industrial production by..

This book examines the political economy of the cotton processing industry, analyzes the process of cotton policy making and looks at how local governments and the former monopolist cope with the changes brought about by marketization...

This is the latest Joint Economic Committee volume on the Chinese economy. With the current state of US-China relations and Hong Kong's accession in 1997, the study should provide policy makers in the USA with a useful tool in guiding economic policy toward China...

This is the latest Joint Economic Committee volume on the Chinese economy. With the current state of US-China relations and Hong Kong's accession in 1997, the study should provide policy makers in the USA with a useful tool in guiding economic policy toward China...

Originally published in 1992, this study looks at the ways in which company and campus can co-operate to spread the risk and cost of research. It analyses joint ventures in an international context, focusing particularly on the USA, France and Japan, comparing their management strategies with the UK..

Comparative Economic Systems: v. 2..

Comparing Post War Japanese and Finnish Economies and Societies..

This book compares two countries with striking parallels in economic and political outcomes, yet with some distinct features in terms of institutional structures, relative size, and culture. Therefore, this book forms a fruitful platform for the study of the similarities and differences in the econo..

When this book was originally published in 1988, this book was the first to include a large number of reports on British and US companies' experience with computers in company training in such areas as banking, finance, insurance, manufacturing, IT, the retail industry, transport, telecommunications..

Originally published in 1973 this book discusses whether managers can exploit the power of computers without being overwhelmed by them. As well as discussing the resources which computers provide, the pitfalls are also discussed: the danger of using computers as a scapegoat for human failure, or of ..

Corruption is increasingly placed on top of the agenda of national governments and supra national institutions, such as the OECD, UN or the World Bank to name a few. A necessary condition for promoting sustainable economic growth is the pre-existence of a stable political system, able to control cor..

In this book, Alessandro Ferrara focuses on the provision of public investment and level of governmental intervention in Europe and the USA with particularly reference to the EU Cohesion Policy and the US Federal Investment Policies...