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Changing Big Business
Edward Elgar Publishing 2009; US$ 40.00Drawing on accounts from practitioners, producers and industry representatives, this book investigates the challenges facing global fair trade movement. It develops several fresh approaches to understanding power, governance and social change covering a broad interdisciplinary field of ideas in development, economics and politics. more...
Vulnerable Places, Vulnerable People
Edward Elgar Publishing 2010; US$ 40.00Drawing on research from six countries around the developing world, this book presents the perspectives of researchers at both the world's largest development organization (The World Bank) and the world's largest conservation organization (World Wildlife Fund) on the debate over trade liberalization and its effects on poverty and the environment. more...
Observations on the Effects of the Corn Laws
Electric Book Company 1998; US$ 4.95Malthus is most famous as the inventor of a simple equation between population and food supply. In this treatise Malthus states the arguments for and against the protection of agriculture, holding the balance between the two opinions, but hinting that the political dependence caused by free trade was a serious evil, and that agriculture was more... more...
Mad About Trade
Cato Institute 2009; US$ 10.99Mad about Trade is the much-needed antidote to a rising tide of protectionist sentiment in the United States. The book explains the benefits of free trade and globalization for middle-class, Main Street Americans exposed to a barrage of negative claims from politicians and commentators such as Lou Dobbs. It offers a spirited defense of free trade and... more...
North American Economic and Financial Integration, Volume 10
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004; US$ 118.00This book contains selected papers first presented at the ''Canada-United States Business Conference'' held at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, on April 11-12, 2003. The set of 18 chapters in this book are grouped into three major sections. more...
Globalisation, Domestic Politics and Regionalism
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 170.00This book examines the relationship between globalisation and regionalism through a detailed analysis of the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) project. It analyses how the interaction between globalisation and domestic politics shaped the evolution of AFTA over the past 10 years, arguing that although AFTA was triggered primarily by the pressures of globalisation,... more...
Trade, Growth and Inequality in the Era of Globalization
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 49.95In recent years, globalization has been the subject of considerable research and comment. A major phenomenon, it is open to a variety of interpretations. In particular, the debate over trade liberalization, growth and inequality has come under close scrutiny as demonstrations against globalization have gathered pace. This volume provides a much... more...
Good Governance in the Era of Global Neoliberalism
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 44.95This new collection critically examines the new global policy of 'good governance'. This catchphrase of aid policy and development thinking has been the subject of too little analysis to date. This book redresses the balance. It places the prefix 'good', and exactly what that means, under the microscope and examines the impact of neoliberal governance... more...
Who Gains from Free Trade
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 200.00The issue of the pros and cons of free trade from the point of view of developing countries refuses to dissipate, and in Latin America, the debate rages most fiercely. Argentina is still licking its wounds after a catastrophic past five years, and Brazil and others have hardened their line ? even going so far as to initiate the influential new G20... more...
Sustainable Development and Free Trade
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95Examining institutions rather than themes, this critical book provides a comprehensive survey of the inter-relationship between trade-induced economic growth and the environment and its impact on the global quest for sustainable development. Focusing in particular on the interests and concerns of developing countries and the skewing of international... more...









