Cornell Studies in Political Economy – serie
Visar alla böcker i serien Cornell Studies in Political Economy. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
182 produkter
America Inc.?
Innovation and Enterprise in the National Security State
Av Linda Weiss
Häftad, 2014
399 kr
Lägg i varukorg
For more than half a century, the United States has led the world in developing major technologies that drive the modern economy and underpin its prosperity. Linda Weiss attributes the U.S. capacity for transformative innovation to the strength of its national security state, a complex of agencies, …
International Regimes
Inbunden, 1983
1509 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In this volume, fourteen distinguished specialists in international political economy thoroughly explore the concept of international regimes—the implicit and explicit principles, norms, rules, and procedures that guide international behavior. In the first section, the authors develop several …
Governments, Markets, and Growth
Financial Systems and Politics of Industrial Change
Av John Zysman
Inbunden, 1983
732 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The deterioration in the economic performance of the advanced industrial democracies during the 1970s provoked an intense debate about the role of government in economic adjustment and growth. In Governments, Markets, and Growth, John Zysman makes a significant contribution to our understanding of …
Political Economy of the New Asian Industrialism
Inbunden, 1987
1690 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The newly industrializing countries (NICs) of East Asia have undergone rapid economic expansion over the past twenty vears. Unlike NICs elsewhere in the Third World, those in the Pacific basin-South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong-have managed to achieve almost full employment, a relatively …
Politics in Hard Times
Comparative Responses to International Economic Crises
Inbunden, 1986
1641 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In Politics in Hard Times, Peter Gourevitch explores the common political factors that shape economic policy choices. He focuses on three periods of economic crisis—1873–1896, 1929–1949, and 1971 to the present—and compares policy choices made in Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, and the United …
Power, Protection, and Free Trade
International Sources of U.S. Commercial Strategy, 1887–1939
Inbunden, 1988
689 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Why do nations so frequently abandon unrestricted international commerce in favor of trade protectionism? David A. Lake contends that the dominant explanation, interest group theory, does not adequately explain American trade strategy or address the contradictory elements of cooperation and …
Fair Shares
Unions, Pay, and Politics in Sweden and West Germany
Inbunden, 1989
1139 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Conflict between labor and capital reflects the competitive and conflict-laden relations within the working class itself, Peter Swenson maintains. Fair Shares examines the internal conflicts of organized labor regarding distribution of wages in order to explain both union leaders' …
Reasons of State
Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government
Inbunden, 1988
669 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In this lucid and theoretically sophisticated book, G. John Ikenberry focuses on the oil price shocks of 1973–74 and 1979, which placed extraordinary new burdens on governments worldwide and particularly on that of the United States. Reasons of State examines the response of the United States to …
State and American Foreign Economic Policy
Av G. John Ikenberry, David A. Lake m. fl.
Inbunden, 1988
1641 kr
Lägg i varukorg
How has the U.S. government made the nation's foreign economic policy over the last hundred years? Social scientists have traditionally presented the American state as relatively weak, its policies as directly reflecting the domestic balance of strength among interested social groups and economic …
Democracy and Markets
The Politics of Mixed Economies
Inbunden, 1989
1641 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Events of the 1970s and 1980s have provoked intense controversy about the desirability of existing political and economic institutions. On the basis of an analysis of social welfare in varying types of market systems and in certain democratic political systems, Democracy and Markets illuminates …
Industry and Politics in West Germany
Toward the Third Republic
Inbunden, 1989
1690 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Dynamic technological developments in industrial production, the rise of new social movements in national politics, and great changes in the international political economy have left a deep imprint on the Federal Republic. A compelling explanation of West Germany's success in maintaining economic …
Why Syria Goes to War
Thirty Years of Confrontation
Inbunden, 1996
951 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Rejecting conventional explanations for Syrian foreign policy, which emphasize the personalities and attitudes of leaders, cultural factors peculiar to Arab societies, or the machinations of the great powers, Fred H. Lawson describes key shifts in Damascus's response to regional adversaries in …
Cooperation Among Nations
Europe, America, and Non-tariff Barriers to Trade
Inbunden, 1990
1690 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In Cooperation among Nations, Joseph M. Grieco offers a provocative answer to a fundamental question in world politics: How does the anarchical nature of the international system inhibit the willingness of states to work together even when they share common interests?Grieco examines the capacity of …
Fruits of Fascism
Postwar Prosperity in Historical Perspective
Av Simon Reich
Inbunden, 1990
1690 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The West German "economic miracle," Simon Reich suggests, may be best understood as a result of the discriminatory economic policies of the Nazi regime. Reich contends that ideological and institutional characteristics originating under fascism were sustained despite Germany's return to democracy …
Ideas and Institutions
Developmentalism in Brazil and Argentina
Inbunden, 1991
732 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In Ideas and Institutions, Kathryn Sikkink illuminates a key question in contemporary political economy: What power do ideas wield in the world of politics and policy? Sikkink traces the effects of one enormously influential set of ideas, developmentalism, on the two largest economies in Latin …
Pathways from the Periphery
The Politics of Growth in the Newly Industrializing Countries
Inbunden, 1990
1641 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Pathways from the Periphery is an innovative interpretation of the development of the newly industrializing countries (NICs) which now dominate Third World industry and manufacturing trade. While such countries as Brazil and Mexico have achieved industrialization through strategies intended to …
Union of Parts
Labor Politics in Postwar Germany
Inbunden, 1992
1197 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Union of Parts examines one of the central puzzles in the economic and political successes of West Germany (FRG). In the decades between world war and reunification with the East, the FRG provided a model for combining high rates of unionization and substantial labor peace—indeed, for collaboration …
Rival Capitalists
International Competitiveness in the United States, Japan, and Western Europe
Inbunden, 1993
732 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Great Britain, France, Germany, and Japan. Surveying the development of the steel, automobile, and semiconductor industries in each of these countries, Jeffrey A. Hart illuminates the role of national policy in a changing world.Hart describes the global structure of production and consumption in …
Paradox of Continental Production
National Investment Policies in North America
Inbunden, 1993
1182 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Should national governments regulate foreign investment? The question is hotly contested in today's international trade debates. Barbara Jenkins here addresses this complex issue in a timely account of market relationships among North American nations.Jenkins provides up-to-date, detailed analyses …
"Rich Nation, Strong Army"
National Security and the Technological Transformation of Japan
Inbunden, 1994
711 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Since World War II, Japan has become not only a model producer of high-tech consumer goods, but also-despite minimal spending on defense-a leader in innovative technology with both military and civilian uses. In the United States, nearly one in every three scientists and engineers was engaged in …
Hidden Hand of American Hegemony
Petrodollar Recycling and International Markets
Inbunden, 1999
683 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Between 1973 and 1980, the cost of crude oil rose suddenly and dramatically, precipitating convulsions in international politics. Conventional wisdom holds that international capital markets adjusted automatically and remarkably well: enormous amounts of money flowed into oil-rich states, and …
Remaking the Italian Economy
Inbunden, 1995
732 kr
Lägg i varukorg
"Backward," "corrupt," and "clientelistic" are adjectives often used to describe Italy's political economy. In the late 1980s, however, Italy outperformed some neighbor states considered more efficient and stable. Richard M. Locke resolves the apparent contradiction between these contrasting views …
Ideas and Foreign Policy
Beliefs, Institutions, and Political Change
Av Judith Goldstein, Robert O. Keohane
Inbunden, 1993
1641 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Do people's beliefs help to explain foreign policy decisions, or is political activity better understood as the self-interested behavior of key actors? The collaborative effort of a group of distinguished scholars, this volume breaks new ground in demonstrating how ideas can shape policy, even when …
International Governance
Protecting the Environment in a Stateless Society
Inbunden, 1994
1641 kr
Lägg i varukorg
How can the global environment be safeguarded in the absence of a world government? In the vanguard of efforts to address this critical question, Oran R. Young draws on environmental issues to explore the nature of international governance. Young's analysis invokes the distinction between …
Winners and Losers
How Sectors Shape the Developmental Prospects of States
Inbunden, 1994
613 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Nationalism, Liberalism, and Progress
The Rise and Decline of Nationalism
Inbunden, 1997
1162 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Has global liberalism made the nation-state obsolete? Or, on the contrary, are primordial nationalist hatreds overwhelming cosmopolitanism? To assert either theme without serious qualification, according to Ernst B. Haas, is historically simplistic and morally misleading. Haas describes nationalism …
Nationalism, Liberalism, and Progress
The Dismal Fate of New Nations
Inbunden, 2000
1162 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Far from being an inevitably aggressive and destructive force, nationalism is, for Ernst B. Haas, the primary means of bringing coherence to modernizing societies. In the second volume of his magisterial exploration of this topic, Haas emphasizes the benefits of liberal nationalism, which he deems …
Price of Wealth
Economies and Institutions in the Middle East
Inbunden, 1997
1690 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The emerging consensus that institutions shape political and economic outcomes has produced few theories of institutional change and no defensible theory of institutional origination. Kiren Aziz Chaudhry shows how state and market institutions are created and transformed in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, …
Collective Action in East Asia
How Ruling Parties Shape Industrial Policy
Inbunden, 1998
1110 kr
Lägg i varukorg
As one Asian economic crisis follows another, sending shock waves through the global market, questions about the making and conduct of industrial policy in the East take on a special urgency. Observers are sharply divided as to whether the ubiquitous attempts at cooperation among competing firms in …
