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This useful collection of case studies of women in Arizona, Texas, Utah, and California state bureaucracies is a cooperative comparative venture among authors asking similar questions about obstacles to and facilitators of women's career advancement.

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Jean Lescures General and Periodic Crises of Overproduction is a pioneeringstudy of the causes and consequences of industrial crises in capitalisteconomies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was updatedperiodically through five editions, and now appears in English for the firsttime.

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Offers insights into the fundamental policy issues involved in agricultural biotechnology. This book explains the global regulatory polarization and trade conflict in this area. It then evaluates cooperative and unilateral policy tools for coping with trade tensions.

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In Geography and the Wealth of Nations, Sherif Khalifa argues that geography influences the factors that determine economic performance, such as the quality of institutions, the adopted cultural values, the systems of governance, the likelihood of conflict, the historical experiences, and the integration into the global economy.

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In Geography and Trade Paul Krugman provides a stimulating synthesis of ideas in the literature and describes new models for implementing a study of economic geography that could change the nature of the field.

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Geopolitical and Economic Changes in the Balkan Countries is a background work on the history, wars, and invasions of the Balkans.

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With the aid of analysis of companies largely perceived as being German, but which are increasingly transnational, Phillips shows how interdependent business needs may overcome nationalist and institutional conceptions in the transnational integration processes.

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Describes the link between Germany's business success and the sociocultural and psychological factors that will lead to sustained development, and compares the German way of business with that of the United States and Japan.

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"Elegant and deeply researched... a powerful antidote to overly gloomy assessments of development aid...Charles Kenny shines a light on the real successes of aid, and he shows us the benefits that additional smart investment can bring."-Bill Gates, Wall Street Journal

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A leading economist contends that the recent financial crisis was caused not by the failure of mainstream economics but by corrupted monetary data constructed without reference to economics.

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The global development community is teeming with different ideas and interventions to improve the lives of the world's poorest people. This book explores what it takes to expand the reach of development solutions beyond an individual village or pilot program so they serve poor people everywhere.

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For everyone who knows economics is important but doesn't really know why, Gittinomics is the indispensable, plain-speaking, entertaining and highly relevant guide to the economics of our everyday lives.

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Almost everything you need to know about how Australia and the world works. And where it's going.

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An up-to-date and down-to-earth introduction to the key economic issues that shape our world - the essential handbook for anyone who wants to understand how economics impacts on our everyday lives by Ross Gittins, economics editor (and guru) of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

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The honest, robust and intelligent recollections of one of Australia's pre-eminent economic journalists - as insightful and entertaining as the man himself.

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Explores how flexibility and uncertainty in the IT labor market are constructed and sustained through concrete human actions. Drawing on field research in southern India and in Australia, and folding an ethnography into a political economy examination, this book offers an analysis of the India-based global labor management practice.

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Negotiations on an international commodity policy have been the central issue on the North-South agenda for the past three years. They also can be seen as the first major effort to give substantive meaning to the Third World's desire not only for a new regime for the world's raw commodity trade but also for a New International Economic Order. Yet v

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Shows how economic liberalization can be shaped by political considerations just as much as antimarket policies.

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Part I examines the legal issues of commodity trade, investigating the debate over whether international trade agreements create hard law or soft law. Part II discusses the political economy of contemporary global trade issues, including the rise of intraindustry trade and discrimination in international trade.

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A unique, multidisciplinary examination of a crucial international question: Should 185 sovereign nations allow 750 giant corporations to invest corporate profits as they alone see fit

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The fight against global poverty has quickly become one of the hottest tickets on the global agenda with rock stars, world leaders, and multibillionaires calling attention to the plight of the poor at international confabs such as the World Economic Forum and the Clinton Global Initiative.