Showing papers on "Globalization published in 1976"

International Business: Environments and Operations

Abstract: Preface About the Authors I Background for International Business 1 Globalization and International Business An Atlas II Comparative Environmental Frameworks 2 The Cultural Environments Facing Business 3 The Political and Legal Environments Facing Business 4 The Economic Environments Facing Businesses III Theories and Institutions: Trade and Investment 5 International Trade and Factor-Mobility Theory 6 Governmental Influence on Trade 7 Cross-National Cooperation and Agreements IV World Financial Environment 8 Global Foreign-Exchange Markets 9 The Determination of Exchange Rates 10 Global Capital Markets V Global Strategy, Structure, and Implementation 11 Globalization and Society 12 The Strategy of International Business 13 Country Evaluation and Selection 14 Export and Import 15 Direct Investment and Collaborative Strategies 16 The Organization of International Business VI Managing International Operations 17 Marketing Globally 18 Global Manufacturing and Supply-Chain Management 19 International Accounting and Finance Issues 20 International Human Resource Management

The politics of global economic relations

Abstract: 1. Introduction: Economic Transformations and World Politics. 2. World Trade Dilemmas. 3. The Global Monetary Order: Interdependence and Dominance. 4. The Multinational Corporation: Challenge to the International System. 5. Aid Relations Between Rich and Poor States. 6. Technology and International Relations. 7. Strategies for States in the Periphery of the Global Economy. 8. Foreign Economic Policy Making in the United States. 9. The International Political Economy: Contemporary Trends.

The North-South Dialogue: From Conflict to Compromise

Abstract: THE conflict between the poor developing nations living in the Southern Hemisphere and the rich industrial countries of the North has entered a new phase in recent months. At long last the countries of the world are coming seriously to grips with the growing material inequalities between a handful of affluent nations in North America, Western Europe and Japan (which account for less than 18 percent of the world population but more than 60 percent of world income), and the scores of poor countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America which constitute the bulk of humanity but enjoy very little of the earth's bounty. The North-South struggle, brewing for years, had its first climactic manifestation in the 1971-72 negotiations between the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and the multinational oil com panies for a higher crude oil price. OPEC's success in its first real bargaining with the companies put the geo-economics of petroleum at the very center of world politics. The oil price adjustments of 1973-74, and the consequences of the Arab oil embargo, made the world realize?however reluctantly and painfully?that the inev itable had finally occurred. The blissful era of plentiful and ridic ulously cheap hydrocarbon fuels from the Middle East came to a fateful end.

The economics of macro issues

Abstract: Part One: The Miracle of Economic Growth 1. Rich Nation, Poor Nation (importance of institutions in promoting economic growth) 2. Going Underground (how the underground economy sustains prosperity) 3. Outsourcing and Economic Growth (impact of competition and voluntary exchange on wealth) 4. Poverty, Capitalism, and Growth (does a rising tide lift all boats?) 5. The Threat to Growth (why higher taxes can mean less prosperity) Part Two: The Business Cycle, Unemployment, and Inflation 6. Is GDP What We Want? (is there a better measure than GDP?) 7. What's in a Word? Plenty, If It's the 'R' Word (how is a recession defined and why we care) 8. The Great Recession (why it happened and why it was a big deal) 9. The Case of the Disappearing Workers (misleading measures of unemployment) 10. Poverty, Wealth, and Equality (are the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer?) 11. Will It Be Inflation or Deflation? (why rising prices are more likely than falling prices, and why you should care) 12. Is it Real, or is it Nominal? (why record-high prices aren't always what they seem) Part Three: Fiscal Policy 13. Are You Stimulated Yet? (why stimulus packages do--or don't--work) 14. Health Care Reform (why spending more will get you less) 15. The Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Flimflam (your money at waste) 16. Big Bucks for Bailouts (if it's "too big to fail," it's too big to save) 17. The Pension Crisis (the future is coming and it's going to crush us) 18. Higher Taxes Are in Your Future (why you can expect to pay higher and higher taxes in the future) 19. The Myths of Social Security (it's not what government says it is, nor will it ever be) Part Four: Monetary Policy and Financial Institutions 20. The Fed and Financial Panics (why the Fed was founded, and what it learned from its failures) 21. The Fed Feeding Frenzy (why monetary policy no longer looks like it used to) 22. Deposit Insurance and Financial Markets (economic implications of subsidized deposit insurance) 23. Credit Card Crunch (how Fed rules on credit cards may keep you from getting one) Part Five: Globalization and International Finance 24. The Opposition to Globalization (why people object to globalization) 25. The $750,000 Job (economic consequences of attempts to restrict free trade) 26. The Trade Deficit (it sounds bad and it looks ugly, but it's not necessarily either) 27. The Value of the Dollar (why exchange rates move and what it means for America)

The Law and Business Administration in Canada

Abstract: The Law and Business Administration in Canada, 14/e responds to the needs of today’s business students by streamlining the traditional study of contractual principles, emphasizing current legal topics involving government regulation of business, corporate governance, e-commerce, privacy, and globalization, and adding continuity to the discussion of strategies to manage business’s legal risks by asking students to consider the legal issues facing a single businesses as it evolves through each chapter.

The consequences of free trade in manufactures between Israel and the EEC

Abstract: In 1975 Israel and the EEC signed a preferential trade agreement, which included provision for free trade in manufactured goods between the signatories by 1989 at the latest. The present study examines the economic consequences for Israel of such a free trade area. Although political factors are clearly important in determining the course of EEC-Israel relations, analysis of their economic aspects is facilitated by abstracting from the political issues. Within this framework, the free trade area can be seen as a case of mutual preferences between a large economically developed bloc and a small semi-industrialized country. During the 1960s economists and policy-makers, dissatisfied with the results of industrialization by import substitution, began to advocate the export of manufactures according to comparative advantage as a suitable development strategy for the less-developed countries (LDCs). A major obstacle to the success of this strategy was considered to be the tariff barriers existing in the high-income countries, where the largest markets lay, and the UN Conference on Trade and Development expended much energy between 1964 and 1971 in negotiating a system of preferential tariffs to be offered to LDCs. The intention was that eighteen developed countries would participate in the common system, but lack of agreement led to each country or bloc adopting a separate scheme. The individual preference systems which have emerged have come under a great deal of criticism, because they exclude some manufactured goods (usually the ones in which the LDCs have a comparative advantage) and place ceilings on preferential trade in other goods.

The Distribution of Labor Skills and the Commodity Composition of International Trade

Abstract: T he labor skills theorem of international trade maintains tha t an abundance of skilled labor forms the basis for a country s comparative advantage in skill intensive products. A separate proposition asserts that the skilled-labor content of manufacturing industries is an important determinant of the commodity or industrial composition of a country's international trade. Keesing 1 has verified that the theorem is an explanation of the comparative advantage of the United States by demonstrating that exports embody more skilled labor than do import replacements, while Baldwin z and others have ascertained that skilled labor content is a significant determinant of the industrial composition of United States' trade. Keesing z has measured the labor requirements, by skill classes, of other leading industrial countries' exports and imports. His results were generally in conformity with tile skilled-labor theorem, although