Harry Bloch

Creating an Internationally Competitive Economy

Herausgegeben:Bloch, Harry; Kenyon, Peter

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book contains a set of essays by eminent international scholars from Australia, New Zealand, the U.K. and the U.S. It addresses the issues of globalisation and international competitiveness and includes discussions of market power, competition policy and the effects of foreign trade, globalisation and the labour market. The contributors also examine economic integration and regional policy cooperation, trade and communications, economic growth, including export led growth and foreign direct investment in developing countries, and the diffusion of technology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-333-77277-5
• 2001
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 149mm x 22mm
• ISBN-13: 9780333772775
• ISBN-10: 0333772776
• Artikelnr.: 44374692

Autorenporträt

V.N.BALASUBRAMANYAM Professor of Development Economics, Lancaster University, England PETER DAWKINS Professor and Director, IAESR, University of Melbourne, Australia DONALD FEAVER Senior Lecturer in Economics, Victoria University of Technology, Australia JAMES GAPINSKI Professor of Economics, Florida State University DAVID GREENAWAY Professor and Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Nottingham TIM HAZLEDINE Professor of Economics, University of Auckland, New Zealand DONALD LAMBERTON Visiting Fellow, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University JEFFREY PETCHEY Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Curtin University, Australia DAVID PRENTICE Lecturer in Economics, La Trobe University, Australia MARK ROGERS Research Fellow, IAESR, University of Melbourne Australia MOHAMMED SALISU Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University, England DAVID SAPSFORD Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA PETER SUMMERS Senior Research Fellow, IAESR, University of Melbourne, Australia RICHARD UPWARD Research Fellow, Leverhulme Trust Programme, University of Nottingham, England KENNETH WILSON Professor of Economics, Victoria University of Technology, Australia PETER WRIGHT Lecturer in Economics, University of Nottingham, England

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements List of Contributors PART I: PRELIMINARIES Introduction; H.Bloch & P.Kenyon The Meaning and Measurement of International Competitiveness; H.Bloch & P.Kenyon Developing ICOM: An Index of International Competitiveness; J.H.Gapinski PART II: MARKET INSTITUTIONS IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY The Labour Market and International Competitiveness; P.Dawkins & P.Kenyon Sectoral Mobility in UK and US Labour Markets; D.Greenaway, R.Upward & P.Wright Market Power and Foreign Trade: Implications for Competition Policy; H.Bloch Investment, Imports and Productivity Growth in the US Cement Industry; D.Prentice PART III: GOVERNMENT POLICY IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY Trade and Communication; D.Lamberton Economic Integration and Regional Policy Cooperation; J.Petchey & P.Shapiro Inside Australia's Contingent Protection Black Box; D.Feaver & K.Wilson PART IV: INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON OF ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE Export-Led Growth in Asia: Long-Run Relationships and Structural Change; P.M.Summers Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in LDCs: Some Further Evidence; V.N.Balasubramanyam, M.Salisu & D.Sapsford The International Diffusion of Technology: Technological Catch-up and Economic Growth; M.Rogers Transaction Efficiency in New Zealand and Australia, 1961-96; T.Hazledine Index