The handbook of globalisation / edited by Jonathan Michie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Michie, Jonathan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International economic relations.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

xiv, 421 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, [2003]

Contents:

Globalisation: introduction and overview / Jonathan Michie 1

Part I Globalisation in Question?

1 The future of globalisation / Paul Hirst, Grahame Thompson 17

2 The scope and implications of globalisation / Jonathan Perraton 37

3 Measures of globalisation and their misinterpretation / Bob Sutcliffe, Andrew Glyn 61

Part II Analysing the Global Economy

4 Systems of innovation in a global economy / Jeremy Howells 81

5 The international debt crisis / Gary A. Dymski 90

6 National inequality in the era of globalisation: what do recent data tell us? / Gabriel Palma 104

Part III Transnational Corporations

7 The role of transnational corporations in the globalisation process / Grazia Ietto-Gillies 139

8 The role and control of multinational corporations in the world economy / Gerald Epstein 150

9 Gender and foreign direct investment / Elissa Braunstein 165

Part IV Labour Standards

10 The minimum wage in a global context / Peter Brosnan 179

11 Globalisation, labour standards and economic development / Ajit Singh, Ann Zammit 191

12 Global labour standards: their impact and implementation / James Heintz 216

Part V Europe and North America

13 Globalisation and productivity / Joseph Plasmans 237

14 European integration and the 'euro project' / Philip Arestis, Malcolm Sawyer 252

15 The North American Free Trade Agreement: context, structure and performance / Jim Stanford 261

16 The low road to competitive failure: immigrant labour and emigrant jobs in the US / Charles Craypo, Frank Wilkinson 283

Part VI Governance

17 An 'ation' not a 'nation': the globalisation of world politics / Richard Woodward 309

18 Global governance / Mathias Koenig-Archibugi 318

19 The political economy of the third way: the relationship between globalisation and national economic policy / Simon Lee 331

Part VII International Economic Institutions

20 The WTO and its GATS / Scott Sinclair 347

21 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) / John Toye 358

22 A new Bretton Woods? / Mica Panic 370

Part VIII Policy Implications and Responses

23 Kicking away the ladder

globalisation and economic development in historical perspective / Ha-Joon Chang 385

24 Time to replace globalisation with localisation / Colin Hines 395

25 Free trade or social tariffs? / George DeMartino 402.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1843762218

1843762749

OCLC:

52334931