International Business and Political Economy

by Miroshnik, Victoria; Basu, Dipak

• ISBN13: 9781137474858
• ISBN10: 1137474858
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-03-30
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

International Business and Political Economy is divided up into several chapters dealing with some of the most important issues of the World economy and its components, and how international business is being affected by the problems of the day. Analysis of the world economy is followed by the analyses regarding the problems affecting the developed countries. In the final part issues on the developing world, particularly in the BRIC countries Brazil, Russia, India and China, were analysed.

Author Biography

Victoria W. Miroshnik is Associate Professor in Management, Tokyo International University, Japan. She was awarded the Adam Smith Research Fellowship from the University of Glasgow, UK and was previously Associate Professor in Management at Keimyung University, South Korea; American University Dubai; Ritsumeikan Asia-Pacific University, Japan; and a psychologist in the Military Academy of USSR in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Dipak Basu is Professor of International Economics, Nagasaki University, Japan. He has been awarded a University Medal, National Scholarship and British Council Scholarship. He was previously a lecturer at Oxford University; Institute of Agricultural Economics; and Research Officer at Cambridge University at the Department of Applied Economics. Dipak was also a Senior Economist in Charge, Standard and Poor, Middle East and Africa Division, and Senior Economist, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Saudi Arabia. He is currently a Member of the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Decision Sciences, Risk and Management, and previously the editor of Middle East and Africa Review 1986-88.

Table of Contents

1. World Issues
2. Issues in the Developed World
3. Issues in the Developing World