The book is a remarkable effort to provide an explanation of the current configuration of international business. Namely it tries to answer two key questions: What are the roots of the global corporation? Why did the Nation State accept to enter into a system of integrated markets?
The author chooses an unusual organization of the content, which ends up being successful. The book is divided into three parts: the global, the historical and the comparativeas dubbed in the Introduction. The first part deals with the foundations of international production system and free trade politics, with a continuous back and forth from theoretical arguments to case studies. The prevailing style is that of the review: the reader is put face to face with the theories that try to give an explanation for the existence of multinationals through cost minimization, transaction cost and capabilities; then come the existing political theories for the openness by the State to the activities by transnational companies; then a summing up of the economics of free trade and finally the politics of free trade and closeness and the emergence and end of empires.
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Doctor Xinyue Ye, a RiSE’s academic affiliate, was awarded the Regional Development and Planning (RDPSG) Emerging Scholar by the Association of American Geographers (AAG).
The VI World Conference of the Spatial Econometrics Association (SEA) Conference in Latin America
