Global Political Economy and the Wealth of Nations: Performance, Institutions, Problems and Policies

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Routledge, 2004 M03 25 - 416 pages
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 glob
 

Contents

Introduction
1
PART IV
12
A global economy polycentric world or system
19
Tables
28
Wealth and welfare of nations continents and corporations
56
Uneven development convergence and NorthSouth
63
Recent performance of the developing East Asian
83
currency depreciation
92
The World Trade Organization free trade areas
170
The global gender division of labor
188
Conspicuous consumption fashion and style in
208
Global warming
245
World poverty hunger and disease
267
A political
286
The war on terrorism politicaleconomic
302
Viability of national government policies in a global
327

Transformation to a market economy in Eastern
105
Dynamic structures
129
Transnational financial institutions global financial
147
Viable policies programs and institutions for the future
347
Development policies for the twentyfirst century
368
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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.

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