Global Political Economy and the Wealth of Nations: Performance, Institutions, Problems, and PoliciesPhillip Anthony O'Hara Psychology Press, 2004 - 384 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 global technological revolution, long waves in the world economy and a special study of Asia and Eastern Europe in the world system. |
Contents
PART II | 6 |
PART IV | 12 |
Global performance and the wealth of nations | 17 |
Tables | 28 |
Wealth and welfare of nations continents and corporations | 39 |
3 | 44 |
7 | 50 |
1 | 59 |
Dynamic structures | 129 |
Transnational financial institutions global financial | 147 |
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 |
Uneven development convergence and NorthSouth | 60 |
Recent performance of the developing East Asian | 83 |
3 | 87 |
Transformation to a market economy in Eastern | 105 |
Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union | 109 |
The war on terrorism politicaleconomic | 302 |
Viability of national government policies in a global | 327 |
Viable policies programs and institutions for the future | 347 |
Development policies for the twentyfirst century | 368 |
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