Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
About the Book Series
In an increasingly interdependent world, many of the most important issues are driven by economic forces. This series applies newly developed economic techniques to some of the most pressing contemporary problems. The aim of the series is to demonstrate the relevance of modern economic theory to the modern world economy, and to provide key reading for researchers and policy-makers.
Global Economic Institutions
1st Edition
By Willem Molle
October 16, 2003
This book critically examines global economic institutions. It presents an accessible fluid history of globalization and explains how global public goods should be defined and how global economic institutions work. It also looks at the effect that major organizations - including the WTO, IMF and ...
International Health Care Reform: A Legal, Economic and Political Analysis
1st Edition
By Colleen Flood
August 19, 2003
This book analyses the wave of competition-oriented reform by comparing "internal market reform" (proposed in publicly-funded health care systems) with "managed competition reform" (proposed in systems with a mixture of public/private financing) and the role of "managed care" in each of these ...
Before and Beyond EMU: Historical Lessons and Future Prospects
1st Edition
Edited
By Patrick M. Crowley
September 20, 2002
The launch of the Euro has already had profound effects on both European economies and societies - but it is also of huge importance for the international community as a whole. This timely book, from a collection of key names in European Integration Studies, is an authoritative piece of work that ...
Managing Fiscal Decentralization
1st Edition
Edited
By Ehtisham Ahmad, Vito Tanzi
September 13, 2002
The growth of interest in fiscal decentralization has meant that there has been something of a rush to enshrine this in policy - The World Bank has reported that about seventy countries see this as a major part of their development strategy. This book critically examines the case for ...
International Trade and National Welfare
1st Edition
By Murray C. Kemp
October 12, 2001
When can a country be said to benefit from free trade?This question has obsessed economists for more than 200 years, and a definitive answer has never been provided. Continuing the influential work begun in The Gains from Trade and the Gains from Aid, (Routledge 1995), Murray Kemp here presents the...
Global Trading System at the Crossroads: A Post-Seattle Perspective
1st Edition
By Dilip K. Das
September 21, 2001
Beginning with a detailed discussion of the World Trade Organisation and the Uruguay Round and its achievements, this book delves into the causal factors behind the failure to launch the new round of multilateral trade negotiations in Seattle in December 1999. Dilip K. Das tries to determine the ...
Technology, Trade and Growth in OECD Countries: Does Specialisation Matter?
1st Edition
By Valentina Meliciani
June 26, 2001
Presenting new material and a fresh perspective, Technology, Trade and Growth in OECD Countries, provides a unifying framework for the exploration of the role played by specialisation in economic growth and international competitiveness....
Geography of Production and Economic Integration
1st Edition
By Miroslav Jovanovic
May 01, 2001
This book discusses the way in which economic integration and preferential trade agreements reinforce or alter the existing location of industries. Using a conceptual approach with real life examples, the author seeks to clarify and explain the key tendencies of the relationship and influence ...
Culture and Enterprise: The Development, Representation and Morality of Business
1st Edition
By Emily Chamlee-Wright, The late Don Lavoie
February 28, 2001
What is the animating 'spirit' behind what may appear to be the coldly calculating world of markets and business enterprise? Though often mathematically modelled in dry terms, markets can be looked at instead as meaningful domains of human activity. To economists, markets have been seen as nothing ...
Competition Policy Analysis
1st Edition
Edited
By Einar Hope
October 17, 2000
As markets become increasingly integrated and globalised, competition policy is facing new challenges. Contributions from leading international experts explore theoretical and methodological issues of practical relevance for the new competition policy order and give examples of practical policy ...
The Employment Impact of Innovation: Evidence and Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Mario Pianta, Marco Vivarelli
June 05, 2000
The diffusion of information and communication technologies is rapidly changing the structure of advanced economies, raising new problems of technological unemployment. The view that market forces can easily counterbalance the labour-saving impact of innovation is contrasted in this book with ...
Multimedia and Regional Economic Restructuring
1st Edition
Edited
By Hans-Joachim Braczyk, Gerhard Fuchs, Hans-Georg Wolf
December 02, 1999
Since the explosion of multimedia, the creation and promotion of multimedia clusters has become a target for regional development strategies across the globe. This work offers the first inter-regional comparison of the multimedia industry. Analysing thirteen American, European and Asian regions, ...