San Antonio College Library

"Mastering Global Markets: Strategies for Today's Trade Globalist was written for senior managers and marketing professionals who are either thinking about taking their business or product global or they just want to improve their global strategy. The authors will take you through all aspects of the international marketing process from your first sale across the border to forming a global alliance. Beginning first with an overview of the global business...

Reflecting debates and concerns within academic and policy circles, this work provides wide-ranging and in-depth commentary on contemporary developments in the politics of international trade.

"Many currencies are used outside their 'home' country for transactions either between nations or within foreign states. In this book, Benjamin J. Cohen asks what this new geography of money reveals about financial and political power."--Jacket.

In How Nations Grow Rich, Krauss argues there is no inherent reason why the growth of the welfare state in the Western industrial countries should conflict with free trade - that is, there is no inherent reason for the welfare state to be protectionist. Exposing fallacious "welfare state" arguments for protection, Krauss makes a powerful case for free trade in general, and NAFTA in particular, as mechanisms for raising U.S. living standards. Americans...

An expose of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International's corrupt practices.

"Erudite and topical, this well balanced treatment, with essays from world renowned contributors including the former President of Ireland Mary Robinson, Jagdish Bhagwati and Nobel prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, considers the forces that propel globalization and those that resist it."

"All over the world, green enterprise is growing. This program focuses on the catalyst that is transforming Earth-friendly businesses into paying ventures: a thing that economists call externalities. In Mexico, coffee growers use collective bargaining to create a more secure market. In Tanzania, where malaria is rampant, a mosquito net manufacturer makes good by marketing social change. In Brazil, babassu nut farmers preserve their traditional business...

"Jagdish Bhagwati, the Internationally Renowned economist who uniquely combines a reputation as the leading scholar of international trade with a substantial presence in public policy on the important issues of the day, shines here a critical light on Preferential Trade Agreements, revealing how the rapid spread of PTAs endangers the world trading system." "Numbering by now well over 300, and rapidly increasing, these preferential trade agreements,...