n today's global recession, strong management of firms and organizations are of the utmost importance. Best-selling Economics of Strategy focuses on the key economic concepts students must master i…
A consistent presentation style helps readers understand the connections among concepts. Extensive additional material is available on the Web, and chapters in the book include links to important …
By 2015, China may well have the world's largest economy. In The Chinese Century, Oded Shenkar shows how China is restoring its imperial glory by infusing modern technology and market economics int…
Verico discusses the ASEAN economic integration from dual perspectives of time span (trade, investment and finance) and framework (bilateral, sub-regional, regional and regional plus). The work is …
With the collapse of the Bretton Woods system, any pretense of a connection of the world's currencies to any real commodity has been abandoned. Yet since the 1980s, most central banks have abando…
The second edition of this highly successful text begins by explaining exchange rate and balance of payments theory from basics through to the most recent state of the art theoretical developments.…
Market Prophets is an insightful and provocative guide to the financial forecasting business: an analysis of how the pundits succeed and fail in predicting the ups and downs of markets and economie…
The deep currency crisis which erupted in the beginning of July 1997 among the rapidly growing economies of Southeast Asia raises the question: "Have the rapid rates of growth in the late 1980s and…
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To truly understand the current interest in the development of Islamic banking and finance in South-East Asia and how it is different from the conventional banking system, one must first understand…