Sustaining Trade Reform: Institutional Lessons from Argentina and Peru
Factually, the principal finding of this book is that the trade policy reforms introduced by Peru in the 1990s have continued over several changes of president, whereas similar reforms in Argentina...
View ArticleDomestic Regulation and Service Trade Liberalization
Trade in services, far more than trade in goods, is affected by a variety of domestic regulations, ranging from qualification and licensing requirements in professional services to pro-competitive...
View ArticleParadigm Theory & Policy Making: Reconfiguring the Future
This book tracks the development of the dominant capitalist economic paradigm of the United States and examines the decisions and implications faced by many countries which have yet to espouse the...
View ArticleThe Commercial Society: Foundations and Challenges in a Global Age
Guided by the thoughts of Alexis de Tocqueville, Samuel Gregg's The Commercial Society identifies and explores the key foundational elements that must exist within a society for commercial order to...
View ArticleCommercial Due Diligence: The Key to Understanding Value in an Acquisition
Commercial Due Diligence is written by someone with over 25 years' experience of practical strategic analysis who nonetheless has a strong academic grounding. Here is a book that deals with the...
View ArticleThe A-Z Guide to Federal Employment Laws For the Small Business Owner
The recent spike in the number of violations of the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act has resulted in dozens of multimillion- dollar lawsuits from both large and small businesses. Federal employment...
View ArticleThe EU Services Directive: Gains from Further Liberalization
The EU Services Directive was adopted in 2006 to foster competition in services across Europe. However, progress in liberalizing services has fallen short of expectations due to the article 15 of the...
View ArticleTrade Policy and Food Security: Improving Access to Food in Developing...
Based on forecasts of global population growth, food security will remain an important economic development issue over the next several decades. In addition, real food prices have risen in recent years...
View ArticleCorporate Welfare: Crony Capitalism That Enriches the Rich
This book describes how, throughout history, the American government has supported big businesses through kickbacks, incentives, and other financial advantages, and how taxpayers end up paying for...
View ArticleThe Fair Trade Fraud: How Congress Pillages the Consumer and Decimates...
<p><i>The Fair Trade Fraud</i> is a direct attack on US trade policies and on the principle of political control of trade. James Bovard exposed the political and moral core of...
View ArticleThe Age of Access: The New Culture of Hypercapitalism
Visionary activist and author <b>Jeremy Rifkin</b> exposes the real stakes of the new economy, delivering "the clearest summation yet of how the Internet is really changing our lives"...
View ArticleStreamlining Non-Tariff Measures
This toolkit provides a novel approach and a set of tools that allow policymakers and analysts to identify non-tariff measures (NTMs), assess their trade restrictiveness and impact on prices and...
View ArticlePathways to African Export Sustainability
African exporters suffer from low survival rates on international markets. They fail more often than others, incurring time and again the setup costs involved in starting new relationships. This high...
View ArticleFacilitating Collaboration in Public Management
Education, Research, Health, Social Security and other "public goods" are organized by a mix of organizations, partly publicly-funded, partly private enterprises, partly public-private partnerships....
View ArticleThe End of Food
Salmonella-tainted tomatoes, riots, and skyrocketing prices are only the latest in a series of food-related crises that have illuminated the failures of the modern food system. In <I>The End of...
View ArticleThe Dynamic Internet: How Technology, Users, and Businesses are Transforming...
<span><span><span style="font-style:italic;">The Dynamic Internet: How Technology, Users, and Businesses are Changing the Network</span><span> offers a comprehensive...
View ArticleGlobal Perspectives on Technological Innovation
Managing technological innovations and related policy and strategy issues have been a central focus of the new millennium. This book series presents an interdisciplinary scholarship and dialogue on the...
View ArticleThe Dark Side of Technological Innovation
Managing technological innovations and related policy and strategy issues have been a central focus of the new millennium. This book series presents an interdisciplinary scholarship and dialogue on the...
View ArticleAmerican Trade Politics, 3rd Edition
American Trade Politcs is the most influential and widely read analysis of the US trade policymaking system. In the third edition of this winner of the American Political Science Association's Gladys...
View ArticleU.S. V. Microsoft: The Inside Story of the Landmark Case
The United States v. Microsoft is one of the most watched trials of the century. The implications of this battle will affect everything from electronic commerce to network communications. Available...
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