Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • Intellectual Property and Development

    Lessons from Recent Economic Research

    Edited by Keith E. Maskus, Carsten Fink ...
    Series series Trade and Development
    International policies toward protecting intellectual property rights have seen profound changes over the past two decades. Rules on how to protect patents, copyright, trademarks and other forms of intellectual property have become a standard component of international trade agreements. Most significantly, during the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations (1986-94), members of what is ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Economics and Politics of World Sugar Policies

    Series series Studies In International Economics
    Around the world, markets for producing and consuming sugar and related sweeteners are heavily distorted by trade barriers, output controls, price supports, and government subsidies. These policies have significant and identifiable impacts on the economic well-being of different groups in various countries. The net effect of these global distortions is to damage world welfare at the same time that ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • Quiet Pioneering

    Robert M. Stern and His International Economic Legacy

    Series series Studies In International Economics
    New scholarly research in important aspects of international economics is brought together in this volume. The unifying theme is that each chapter is devoted to a fresh analysis of a problem in international economics that had earlier received cogent and prescient attention by Professor Robert Stern of the University of Michigan, one of the major figures in international economic research in the ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • Quantifying the Impact of Technical Barriers to Trade

    Can It Be Done?

    Edited by Keith E. Maskus, John Wilson ...
    Series series Studies In International Economics
    This book provides an up-to-date discussion of economic issues involved in analyzing regulations of product quality and performance in international trade. Among the issues addressed in this collection are restrictions on genetically modified foods and pesticide use and compatibility standards for computers. While such regulations may serve important goals, they may also interfere with ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • International Economics and Policy

    An Introduction to Globalization and Inequality

    Series Book 18 - World Scientific Lecture Notes in Economics and Policy
    Relying on economic theory where necessary, this book emphasizes translating that theory into practical applications that will help students appreciate the clear importance of understanding how countries, businesses, workers, and governments interact with each other. It offers in-depth analysis, empirical evidence, and practical examples arising from all the forms of international exchange: ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Next Convergence

    The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World

    A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011With the British Industrial Revolution, part of the world's population started to experience extraordinary economic growth—leading to enormous gaps in wealth and living standards between the industrialized West and the rest of the world. This pattern of divergence reversed after World War II, and now we are midway through a century of high and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Intellectual Property And Development: Lessons From Recent Economic Research

    International policies towards protecting intellectual property rights have seen profound changes over the past two decades. Rules on how to protect patents, copyright, trademarks and other forms of intellectual property have become a standard component of international trade agreements. Most significantly, during the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations (1986-94), members of what is ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Outsourcing Economics

    Global Value Chains in Capitalist Development

    Outsourcing Economics has a double meaning. First, it is a book about the economics of outsourcing. Second, it examines the way that economists have understood globalization as a pure market phenomenon, and as a result have 'outsourced' the explanation of world economic forces to other disciplines. Markets are embedded in a set of institutions - labor, government, corporate, civil society, and ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Local Content Requirements

    Promises and Pitfalls

    Edited by Lili Yan Ing, Gene Grossman ...
    Series series Routledge-ERIA Studies in Development Economics
    As anti-globalization and geopolitical tensions continue to rise, the use of local content requirements (LCRs) around the world has become more noticeable than ever before.The reasons for adopting LCRs range from ensuring domestic supply availability, job creation, and increasing value added to safeguarding national security. Ing and Grossman examine country-specific as well as firm-product level ... Read more

    Free

  • Catalyzing Green Finance

    A Concept for Leveraging Blended Finance for Green Development

    A large financing need challenges climate-adjusted infrastructure in developing Asia, estimated at $26 trillion till 2030. This necessitates crowding-in private sources to meet financing, efficiency, and technology gaps. However, a lack of bankable projects is a major hurdle. This publication suggests one possible innovative financing approach. The Green Finance Catalyzing Facility (GFCF) proposes ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reacting to the Spending Spree

    Policy Changes We Can Afford

    A team of expert contributors analyze the near- and long-term implications of efforts by both the Obama and Bush administrations to fix the current financial crisis. They examine a range of issues affected by the proposed reforms, including health care, "going green," the Employee Free Choice Act, an open world economy, and more. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Narrowing the Channel

    The Politics of Regulatory Protection in International Trade

    Series series Chicago Series on International and Domestic Institutions
    While large, multinational corporations have supported the removal of tariffs, behind the scenes these firms have fought for protection in the form of product regulations, including testing, labeling, and registration requirements. Unlike tariffs, these regulations can raise fixed costs, excluding smaller firms from the market and shifting profits toward global giants.Narrowing the Channel ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus