Business & economics / International

Business English

by Rosalia Covello

This Business English Course introduces different aspects of Business English, working on main language points and important vocabulary through a variety of topics.

Family Child Care Record-Keeping Guide, Ninth Edition

by Tom Copeland

The most up-to-date and reliable record-keeping resource for home-based family child care providers

This Changes Everything

by Naomi Klein

The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core “free market” ideology...

The Economics of Geographical Indications

by Daniela Benavente

This book seeks to contribute to an understanding of the role played by international trade law in shaping economic outcomes from a theoretical perspective. The focus is on geographical indications (GI), an...

The Political Economy of Sovereign Default

by Sebastian Hohmann

What do self-interested governments’ needs to maintain loyal groups of supporters imply for sovereign incentives to repay debt? Many sovereign defaults have occurred at relatively low levels of debt, while...

The Negotiations of a Tax Agreement between Switzerland and Germany

by Misha Nagelmackers-Voinov

This ePaper analyses the negotiations of an agreement on tax cooperation between Switzerland and Germany in 2012. The paper looks at the importance of the balance of power and reveals how domestic constraints...

The Invisible Soldiers

by Ann Hagedorn

The urgent truth about the privatization of America’s national security that exposes where this industry came from, how it operates, where it's heading—and why we should be concerned.

Thirty years ago there...

One World Currency: The Globe

by José Rafael Abinader

One World Currency presents a serious study about the need for a single stable currency with timely, historical references and skillful economic analysis by noted economist José Rafael Abinader. This book describes...

Labor, Class Formation, and China's Informationized Policy of Economic Development

by Yu Hong

In Labor, Class Formation, and China's Informationized Policy of Economic Development, Yu Hong examines crucial connections between the evolving political economy of information and communications technology...

Notebooks from China (and much more)

by Alberto Forchielli & Romeo Orlandi

A careful look at what is happening in the vast Asian continent made up from two authoritative observers of that world to give us, in real time, a picture of what is about to happen and what direction is taking...

Offshore Financial Centers and Regulatory Competition

by Andrew P. Morriss, Richard K. Gordon, Anna Manasco Dionne & Craig M. Boise et al.

In Offshore Financial Centers and Regulatory Competition, a group of leading international law and finance experts argues that offshore jurisdictions have become key players in corporate finance and captive...

Help! How to defend yourself against marketing and its strategies

by Andrea Payaro

Versione in lingua inglese e digitale del libro "Si salvi chi può... dal marketing e dalle sue strategie" (Aras Edizioni, 2012). Gli acquisti sono condizionati da strategie di comunicazione occulte? Perché...

The Korean Way in Business: Understanding and Dealing with the South Koreans in Business

by Boye Lafayette De Mente

Learn the ins and outs of conducting business in South Korea

South Korean companies and technology have suddenly conquered the world. Samsung, Hyundai and LG are industry leaders and the global brands. Korean...

Saris on Scooters: How Microcredit Is Changing Village India

by Sheila McLeod Arnopoulos & Mary Ellen Iskenderian

Sheila McLeod Arnopoulos uses her talent for investigative reporting to take us into the poorest villages in India. Women who live there make astute use of microcredit to break the cycle of poverty. After witnessing...

The BRIC Road to Growth

by Jim O'Neill

The idea that Brazil, Russia, India and China (the "BRICs") are the rising stars of the world economy is now widely accepted. However, the "old" developed nations have not adjusted to the new world order as...

Marketing Places

by Philip Kotler

Today's headlines report cities going bankrupt, states running large deficits, and nations stuck in high debt and stagnation. Philip Kotler, Donald Haider, and Irving Rein argue that thousands of "places" --...

Building a Chain of Customers

by Richard J. Schonberger

Richard Schonberger, in his fourth and most important book yet, introduces a powerful new concept: that the many links between and within the four main business functions -- design, operations, accounting, and...

The Shadow Market

by Eric J. Weiner

Acclaimed financial journalist Eric J. Weiner reveals how foreign countries and private investors are increasingly controlling the global economy and secretly wresting power from the United States in ways that...

Superfusion

by Zachary Karabell

Now in paperback, Zachary Karabell argues that the intertwined economic relationship between China and the U.S. will affect our long-term prosperity more than any other contemporary issue. As the world continues...

Historical Dictionary of the World Bank

by Sarah Tenney & Anne C. Salda

This second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the World Bank shows the substantial progress the Bank has made, this mainly through the dictionary section with concise entries on its component institutions,...