The Peace Business

The Peace Business
Author: Markus Bouillon
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2004-02-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0857715593

Markus Bouillon's book makes an important and original contribution to the literature on the Middle East peace process. It is based on extensive and imaginative research and it is packed with new and fascinating material. Bouillon places the behaviour of the elites under an uncompromising lens. His work serves as a useful corrective to the conventional wisdom by highlighting the negative effects of the peace process for all but the elites in Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian territories. Avi Shlaim, Oxford University. "The first full-length, authoritative account of the various dimensions of business in the context of Arab-Israeli “peace”. ... an empirically dense and nuanced analysis" James Piscatori, Oxford University

IFO - Digest

IFO - Digest
Author: Ifo-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Publisher:
Total Pages: 458
Release: 1995
Genre: Economic forecasting
ISBN:

Is MENA a Region? The Scope for Regional Integration

Is MENA a Region? The Scope for Regional Integration
Author: Mr.Stanley Fischer
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 26
Release: 1996-04-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1451980361

The paper analyzes the scope and implications of greater economic integration in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). After reviewing whether MENA satisfies the defining characteristics of a region, it documents the low level of regional economic interaction. It argues that gains from greater regional interactions will depend primarily on implementing domestic reform and external policies that, in any case, are needed for the region to benefit from the broader process of globalization of the world economy. It also discusses measures aimed directly at facilitating regional interaction.

The Vampire Economy

The Vampire Economy
Author: Günter Reimann
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2007
Genre: Germany
ISBN: 1610163109

Here is a study of the actual workings of business under national socialism. Written in 1939, Reimann discusses the effects of heavy regulation, inflation, price controls, trade interference, national economic planning, and attacks on private property, and what consequences they had for human rights and economic development. This is a subject rarely discussed and for reasons that are discomforting,: as much as the left hated the social and cultural agenda of the Nazis, the economic agenda fit straight into a pattern of statism that had emerged in Europe and the United States, and in this area, the world has not be de-Nazified. This books makes for alarming reading, as one discovers the extent to which the Nazi economic agenda of totalitarian control--without finally abolishing private property--has become the norm. The author is by no means an Austrian but his study provides historical understanding and frightening look at the consequences of state economic management.