Transformations in the Global Political Economy

Transformations in the Global Political Economy
Author: Dennis Clark Pirages
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2016-01-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 134910373X

This book brings together a collection of essays that focus on the various dimensions of this transformation and prospects for future changes. The book begins with an analytical essay that offers an overview of causes of change in the global political economy.

International Commodity Control

International Commodity Control
Author: Fiona Gordon-Ashworth
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2024-02-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 100384779X

Originally published in 1984, at a time when international commodity control was brought from the periphery to the centre of international trade policy, this book provided a new and more comprehensive approach to, and an analytical appraisal of, international commodity controls, from their origins in the 1920s to their widespread acceptance as an important element in international trade policy in the 1970s. The first part establishes the economic and institutional background against which controls were introduced and includes sections on a wide range of issues such as the changing structure of world commodity trade and the roles of GATT, UNCTAD and the former EEC. Part 2 considers the principal control mechanisms which have been used at the international level and review the national counterparts and alternatives. Part 3 assesses on a commodity-by-commodity basis how the control worked in practice. It covers all the international commodity agreements to 1982 and also considers examples of raw material cartels.

Grounds for Agreement

Grounds for Agreement
Author: John M. Talbot
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2004-07-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1461637120

As the popularity of coffee and coffee shops has grown worldwide in recent years, so has another trend—globalization, which has greatly affected growers and distributors. This book analyzes changes in the structure of the coffee commodity chain since World War II. It follows the typical consumer dollar spent on coffee in the developed world and shows how this dollar is divided up among the coffee growers, processors, states, and transnational corporations involved in the chain. By tracing how this division of the coffee dollar has changed over time, Grounds for Agreement demonstrates that the politically regulated world market that prevailed from the 1960s through the 1980s was more fair for coffee growers than is the current, globalized market controlled by the corporations. Talbot explains why fair trade and organic coffees, by themselves, are not adequate to ensure fairness for all coffee growers and he argues that a return to a politically regulated market is the best way to solve the current crisis among coffee growers and producers.

Studies in Economics and Political Science

Studies in Economics and Political Science
Author: Various Authors
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 2520
Release: 2022-07-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 100080738X

This 13-volume collection originally published between 1929 and 1982 contains a selection of titles from the fields of economics and political science. Many individual titles focus on Britain and include topics such as democracy; environmental planning; foreign policy; legislation; microeconomics; national income; and the welfare state. The earliest title looks at the nature of nationality, and two further titles look at politics in France. This set will be an insight for those interested in the history of either field.

Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy

Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy
Author: R. J. Barry Jones
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1864
Release: 2002-09-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136927395

This three volume Encyclopedia offers the first comprehensive and authoritative survey of the rapidly developing field of international political economy. Its entries cover the major theoretical issues and analytical approaches within the field. The set also provides detailed discussion of the contributions of key individuals and surveys a wide range of empirical conditions and developments within the global political economy, including its major institutions. The Encyclopedia has been designed to be eclectic in approach and wide-ranging in coverage. Theoretical entries range from discussions of the definition and scope of the field, through core methodological questions such as rationalism and the structure-agent problem, to surveys of the major theories and approaches employed in the study of the international political economy.

Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy: Entries A-F

Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy: Entries A-F
Author: R. J. Barry Jones
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 618
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780415243506

This important new work is the first comprehensive reference to the rapidly developing field of international political economy [IPE]. Featuring over 1200 A-Z entries, the coverage encompasses the full range of issues, concepts, and institutions associated with IPE in its various forms. Comprehensively cross-referenced and indexed, each entry provides suggestions for further reading along with guides to more specialized sources. Selected entries include: * African Development Bank * benign neglect * Black Monday * casino capitalism * debt management * efficiency * floating exchange rates * General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade [GATT] *information society/economy * Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries [OPEC] * Microsoft * multinational corporations, definitions * NATO * patents * rent-seeking * Schellin, Thomas *tax havens * trusts * Value-Added Tax [VAT] * zero-sum games * and many more.

International Institutions in Trade and Finance

International Institutions in Trade and Finance
Author: A. I. MacBean
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2021-11-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000478149

Originally published in 1981, this book provided an up-to-date and critical review of the recent history and current status of the main economic institutions affecting international trade and relations at the time. The authors emphasise the economic effectiveness or otherwise of such bodies as GATT, IMF, EEC, UNCTAD and the World Bank, but take account of the political factors present in both the initial ‘design’ and in the way that the institutions have developed. In particular, the book analyses the changed degree of dominance which the USA had been able to exert on the international community.

Issues and Agents in International Political Economy

Issues and Agents in International Political Economy
Author: Benjamin J. Cohen
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 398
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780262531603

This is the second of two anthologies on international political economy drawn from articles published in the journal International Organization. The book is organized into four sections: Trade, Multinational Firms and Globalization, Money and Finance, and Emerging Issues.