International

In The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Thomas L.Friedman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign affairs columnist for the The New York Times, offers an engrossing look at the new international system that is transforming world affairs today. With vivid stories drawn from his extensive travels, he dramatizes... More

Praise for "THE TRAVELS OF A T-SHIRT IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY" "Engrossing . . . (Rivoli) goes wherever the T-shirt goes, and there are surprises around every corner . . . full of memorable characters and vivid scenes." --"Time" "An engaging and illuminating saga. . . . Rivoli follows her T-shirt alo... More

Porter builds on the ideas of his earlier works to explore what makes a nation's firms and industries competitive in global markets and what propels national economic development.Now beyond its 11th printing and translated into twelve languages, Michael Porter's "The Competitive Advantage of Nations... More

A debate is taking place over what values should define the international order. For global elites, it is a debate about how to rule the world: a conflict between one vision of global order based on U.S. empire and another based on an expanding, corporate-controlled global economy. These visions are... More

This new book analyzes the dramatic importance of the world economy to both the domestic prosperity and overall foreign policy of the United States, describes the new global environment (e.g., the rise of China as a global economic superpower and the completion of European inification) in which US p... More

This second edition of the innovative undergraduate text offers an approach to understand different economic systems which reflect both recent transformations in the world economy and recent changes in the field of Comparative Economic Systems. The book also looks at future trends that will continu... More

International Economics is one of the important branches of the study of economic science. The present book is a result of long years of teaching experience in International Economics at University level in several countries including India Malaysia and the United States and is a definite improveme... More

Introduces the classic and contemporaryideologies of international political economy, especially the ways that affectthe behavior of states and markets. Articles representing contending views ofIPE are followed by selections on the international monetary system, developmentassistance, and internatio... More

New Page 1 In this groundbreaking book, David Korten makes a compelling and well-documented case that capitalism's claims to being the engine of wealth creation, the champion of democracy, and the embodiment of the market economy are unfounded. This is a book of unusual importance and timel... More

The Crisis of Global Capitalism, Soros dissects the current crisis and economic theory in general, revealing how theoretical assumptions have combined with human behavior to lead to today's mess. He shows how unquestioning faith in market forces blinds us to crucial instabilities, and how those inst... More

Why is the World Bank so successful? How has it gained power even at moments in history when it seemed likely to fall? This pathbreaking book is the first close examination of the inner workings of the Bank, the foundations of its achievements, its propensity for intensifying the problems it intends... More

Roughly once a year, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, the U.S. treasury secretary and in some cases the finance ministers of other G-7 countries will get a call from the finance minister of a large emerging market economy. The em... More

In this book an eminent international banking expert grapples with issues that surround the trend towards financial globalisation and its potential impact on financial fragility. Alexandre Lamfalussy analyses four major crises in emerging markets: Latin America in 1982–83, Mexico in 1994–95, Eas... More

In this his first book, Mark Shipman draws on his 20 years’ experience of building a personal fortune to reveal the secrets of successful investing.In a highly readable and engaging style, he takes you step-by-step through every aspect of disciplined and lucrative investing. First he shows you the... More

As most recent international private capital flows have been unlikely to significantly enhance new productive investments in the developing countries, it is necessary to design appropriate mechanisms to ensure they contribute to development. However, recent trends in official development financing o... More