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Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) has long been recognized as a major political and social thinker as well as historian, but his writings also contain a wealth of little-known insights into economic life and its connection to the rest of society. This title shows that Tocqueville had a highly original and suggestive approach to economics.

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This work explores a mix of topics and issues that link to the heritage of political economy work, policy studies, and research and theory about the public sphere. The topics include market structures and media concentration, regulation and policy, and information poverty.

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In the past 15 years, the nations of the Western Hemisphere have staged a remarkable revolution in the way they trade with their neighbors. First, after decades of restrictive import policies, several countries began to liberalize their trade and investment regimes.

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This book provides a comprehensive look at the changes that have occurred in the distributions of both income and wealth in the United States since 1960.

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Bringing degrowth into dialogue with critical social theories, covering previously unexplored geographical contexts and discussing some of the most contested concepts in degrowth, the book hints at informed paths towards socio-ecological transformation.

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Bringing degrowth into dialogue with critical social theories, covering previously unexplored geographical contexts and discussing some of the most contested concepts in degrowth, the book hints at informed paths towards socio-ecological transformation.

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The overall economic performance of Caribbean countries has declined markedly in recent times. Scholars in economic development, Latin America, as well as international financial institutions will find this comprehensive study on the English speaking Caribbean countries of Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Barbados a useful tool.

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This examination of the economic transformation in the Central European nations and the former Soviet states includes: a consideration of the dramatic adjustments in commodity structure and the geographic distribution of trade; and a survey of payment systems and financial markets.

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Nowhere has the divide between advocates and critics of globalization been more striking than in debates over free trade and the environment. This book investigates the subject using both economic theory and empirical analysis. It contains a theoretical framework for examining the impact of international trade on local pollution levels.

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The repeated failures since 2001 of global trade negotiations and continuing uncertainties about the ultimate success of mega-regional trade agreements have raised widespread questions about the future of global trade policy. In Trade in the 21st Century, two distinguished experts argue that not only is trade policy alive and well, but also that there are grounds for optimism.

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After briefly summarizing the concerns in trade liberalization, the authors review the economic and legal literature. Statements by advocates appear alongside discussions of economic or legal analysis of the same issue, highlighting the divergence of views.

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After briefly summarizing the concerns in trade liberalization, the authors review the economic and legal literature. Statements by advocates appear alongside discussions of economic or legal analysis of the same issue, highlighting the divergence of views.

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The author considers the implications of deeper integration in the international economy for developing countries. She traces the reasons for the developing countries' reversals of earlier policies and demonstrates the importance of the open trading system for them.

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In April 1998 negotiations were launched to create a free trade area among thirty-four countries in the Western Hemisphere. The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) will eliminate barriers to trade in goods and services and will remove restrictions on investment among the countries of North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean.

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The book expresses the views of the contributors about the present and future of Central America. Central American countries are accepting the challenge by diversifying their economies and accepting the advice of the world in terms of privatization, freedom of trade, capital, and free movement of labor.

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In an era of increasing global inequality, free trade ideologues and protectionist prophets, Christian Felber sets out visionary new roadmap for making trade good.

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The European economic and monetary union has changed the structure of international monetary relations fundamentally. In this book two experts--one European, the other American--offer transatlantic perspectives on the ramifications of the monetary union and the launch of the euro.

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The economics and history of the closing years of the 20th century may turn out to mark the era of transformation when the nation-states lose most of their ability to maneuver in economics as finance and investment become transnationalized.