Title | Global Instability [electronic resource] : Uncertainty and new visions in political economy / edited by Stephen McBride, Laurent Dobuzinskis, Marjorie Griffin Cohen, James Busumtwi-Sam |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2002 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0251-6 |
Descript | IX, 239 p. online resource |
1. Global Instability: Uncertainty and New Visions in Political Economy -- I International Pressures -- 2. When Labour and Investment Standards Almost Mattered: A Putative History Lesson in Trade Politics that Ought Not to Be Forgotten -- 3. Monetary Instability: Are National Currencies Becoming Obsolete? -- 4. Reducing Barriers to Investment: Is the NAFTA Investment Regime an Appropriate Model? -- 5. Liberalizing โTrade in Servicesโ: Ideas in International Political Economy -- II Domestic Responses -- 6. Local Industries in a Global Market: A Comparative Study of the Cape Breton and Queensland Coal Industries -- 7. The Future of Industrial Policy in a WTO World -- 8. Turning the Titanic: Policy Making After Neoliberalism -- 9. Re-Invention and Transition of the Mexican State -- III Alternatives (and the need for them) -- 10. Democracy, Complexity and Non-Territorial Publics: The Case for Forest Trusts -- 11. Old Wine in New Bottles? Civic Republicanism and the Challenge of the Global Era -- 12. Dimensions of Globalization. Cultural And Institutional Novelties, Ethical Needs -- 13. Quasi-Democracy