Much has been written about globalization as an economic and political concept. The academic debate looks forward for explanations about the historical roots and development of this emerging phenomenon where the Nation-State’s evolved into a system where nations are ruled by the dynamics of global interdependence. Globalization in the new era is characterized as a process where geographical, political and cultural borders tend to dissolve. The Westphalia notion of sovereignty capitulates against the principle of political subordination as integration of local power ensuring national legitimacy.
Author Razeen Sally explores the spread of protectionist reactions to globalization and their increasingly negative impact on trade and commerce.
The book brings together research conducted by the authors over the past decade—work that has profoundly influenced how economic history is now written and that has found audiences in economics and history, as well as in the popular press ...
In this volume, contributors look at how the destruction of tariff barriers on a world scale opens the weaker economies to the power of the transnational corporations, and often leads...
Among such issues "open for debate" both across America and in this eye-opening series are capital punishment, genetic engineering, gun control, and global warming.
Challenges and Opportunities in the World Economy Lourdes Beneria, Savitri Bisnath. overtaken the secular appeals of ... a half century for the evolution of the twentieth century's economic and social theories to be framed and ...
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 a
In this book, the authors propose a new trade norm - the enablement of global economic opportunity - and a new institution - the Trade Council - to overhaul the global trading order.
24 Through systematic observation and experimentation (including Taylor's notorious time-and-motion studies), management could learn “the one best way” to perform each and every workplace task and coordinate it with all the others.
The length of this book belies its stunning scope, ranging from developed to developing countries, the past to the present, and political science to economics.
As William Freehling has persuasively argued, however, the tariff question and slavery agitation had largely become “intermeshed” by the earlier crisis of nullification. William W. Freehling, Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification ...