O'Hara Global Political Economy and the Wealth of Nations

Performance, Institutions, Problems and Policies
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-134-43522-7
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 416 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

This comprehensive collection documents the major processes, performance, institutions, problems and policies associated with global political economy. For the first time in a single volume, the authors present a detailed analysis of the changing distribution and production of wealth throughout the world, different measures of performance, the global technological revolution, long waves in the world economy and a special study of Asia and Eastern Europe in the world system.

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Hara, Phillip

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

List of Tables

Foreword by Amitava Krishna Dutt

Preface

Notes on Contributors

Introduction by Phillip Anthony O'Hara

Part A: GLOBAL PERFORMANCE AND THE WEALTH OF NATIONS

1. A Global Economy, Polycentric World or System of Nation States?

Wil Hout

2. Wealth and Welfare of Nations, Continents and Corporations

Phillip ANthony O'Hara

3. Uneven Development, Convergence and North-South Interaction

Amitava Krishna Dutt

4. Recent Perfomance of the Developing East Asian Economies

Harry Bloch and Sam Tang

5. Transformation to a Market Economy in Eastern Europe, the Former Soviet Union and Asia

John Marangos

Part B: GLOBAL INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS

6. Transnational Corporations: Dynamic Structures, Strategies and Processes

John Davis

7. Transnational Financial Institutions, Global Financial Flows and the International Monetary Fund

Reynold Nesiba and Maureen Burton

8. World Trade Organization, Free Trade Areas and the Distribution of Wealth

Hassan Bougrine

9. The Global Gender Division of Labour

Hella Hoppe and Wilfred Dolfsma

10. Conspicuous Consumption, Fashion and Style in the Global Marketplace

Doug Brown

Part C: CRITICAL GLOBAL AND REGIONAL PROBLEMS

11. Financial Crises, Crashes and Speculative Bubbles: The Regulation Imperative in a Critique of Recent Episodes

Brenda Spotton Visano

12. Environmental Problems of the World: Global Warming and Biodiversity

Andrew John Brennan

13. World Poverty, Hunger and Disease

Edward O'Boyle

14. Ethnic and Religious Tension in the World: A Political-Economic Perspective

Asoka Bandarage

15. The War on Terrorism, Political-Economic Contradictions and Policy Issues

Phillip Anthony O'Hara

Part D: GOVERNANCE ISSUES FOR THE FUTURE

16. Viability of Government Policies in a Globalized Economy

Phillip Anthony O'Hara

17. Viable Policies, Programs and Institutions for the Future

Hassan Bougrine

18. Development Policies for the Twenty-First Century

B.N. Ghosh

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Phillip Anthony O'Hara is Director of the Global Political Economy Research Unit and Associate Professor at Curtin University, Australia. He has written and edited several other books including the Encyclopedia of Political Economy, also published by Routledge.