BOOK REVIEWSS

Gordon, John S. and Jack R. Arnold, Profitable Exporting: A Complete Guide to Marketing Your Products Abroad, New York: John Wiley &; Sons, 1988, vii + 358 pages.

Haggard, Stephan and Chung-in Moon (Eds.), Pacific Dynamics: The International Politics of Industrial Change, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1989, ix + 389 pages.

Eichengreen, Barry, and Lindert, Peter H. (Eds.), The International Debt Crisis in Historical Perspective, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989, 282 pages.

Cohen, Richard, World Trade and Payments Cycles: The Advance and Retreat of the Postwar Order, New York: Praeger Publishers, 1989, xxiii + 229 pages.

Schaffer, Matt, Winning the Countertrade War: New Export Strategies for America, New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1989, xvii + 226 pages.

Grimwade, Nigel, International Trade: New Patterns of Trade Production and Investment, New York: Routledge, 1989, xv + 459 pages.

Salvatore, Dominick, International Economics, 3rd ed. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1990, xxxii + 695 pages.

Hibbert, Edgar P., The Management of International Trade Promotion, London: Routledge, 1990, x + 287 pages.

United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations, Services and Development: The Role of Foreign Direct Investment and Trade, New York: United Nations, 1989, x + 181 pages.

Friedländer, Michael (Ed.), Foreign Trade in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1990, xiii + 241 pages.

Rollo, J. M. C., The New Eastern Europe: Western Responses, New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1990, 137 pages.

Gill, William J., Trade Wars Against America: A History of United States Trade and Monetary Policy, New York: Praeger, 1990, xvi + 325 pages.

Destler, I. M., and C. Randall Henning, Dollar Politics: Exchange Rate Policy-making in the United States, Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics, 1989, xi + 174 pages.

Schott, Jeffrey J. (Ed.), Completing the Uruguay Round, Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics, 1990, x + 223 pages.     

Book Reviews

Caves, Richard E., and Associates, Industrial Efficiency in Six Nations, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992, xii + 492 pages.

National Research Council, Panel on Foreign Trade Statistics, Behind the Numbers: U.S. Trade in the World Economy, Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1992, xi + 297 pages.

Fischer, Klaus, and George J. Papaioannou (eds.), Business Finance in Less Developed Capital Markets, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992, xi + 391 pages.

Krugman, Paul R., Currencies and Crises, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1992, xix + 219 pages.

Howell, Thomas R., Alan Wm. Wolff, Brent L. Bartlett, and R. Michael Gadbaw, Conflict Among Nations: Trade Policies in the 1990s, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992, xiv + 633 pages.

Starr, Martin K., Global Corporate Alliances and the Competitive Edge: Strategies and Tactics for Management, New York: Quorum Books, 1991, xiii + 236 pages.

Liesch, Peter W., Government Mandated Countertrade, Aldershot, England: Avebury, 1991, xv + 172 pages.

Kotabe, Masaaki, Global Sourcing Strategy: R&D, Manufacturing, and Marketing Interfaces, New York: Quorum Books, 1992, xviii + 237 pages.     

Book review

Thomas, Vinod, John Nash, and associates, Best Practices in Trade Policy Reform, Washington, DC: World Bank Publications, 1991, xiii + 226 pages.

Turner, Charlie G., Japan's Dynamic Efficiency in the Global Market: Trade, Investment, and Economic Growth, New York: Quorum Books, 1991, xiv + 177 pages.

de Melo, Jaime, and David Tarr, A General Equilibrium Analysis of US Foreign Trade Policy, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992, pp. xviii + 289.

McGarry, Michael J., and Andrew Schmitz, The World Grain Trade: Grain Marketing, Institutions, and Policies, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992, xx + 511 pages.

Islam, Shafiqul (ed.), Yen for Development: Japanese Foreign Aid and the Politics of Burden Sharing, New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1991, xii + 243 pages.

Heckscher, Eli, and Bertil Ohlin, Heckscher-Ohlin Trade Theory, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992, x + 222 pages (translated, edited, and introduced by Harry Flam and M. June Flanders).     

Book review

Aliber, Robert Z., The Multinational Paradigm, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993, 282 pages.

Jerome, Robert W. (Ed.), World Trade at the Crossroads, Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1992, 290 pages.

Walters, Robert S. (Ed.), Talking Trade: U.S. Policy in International Perspective, Boulder: Westview Press, 1993, 159 pages.

Murray, Geoffrey, Doing Business in China, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994, 350 pages.

Schutte, Hellmut (Ed.), The Global Competitiveness of the Asian Firm, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994, 379 pages.     

Book Review

Kindleberger, Charles P., The International Economic Order: Essays on Financial Crisis and International Public Goods, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988, xi + 235 pages.

Root, Franklin R., International Trade and Investment (6th ed.), Cincinnati, OH: South-Western Publishing Co., 1990, viii + 696 pages.

Krugman, Paul, Rethinking International Trade, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1990, viii + 282 pages.

Schmiegelow, Michele, and Henrik Schmiegelow, Strategic Pragmatism: Japanese Lessons in the Use of Economic Theory, New York: Praeger, 1989, 212 pages.

Lynn, Leonard H., and Timothy J. McKeown, Organizing Business: Trade Associations in America and Japan, Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1988, xviii +191 pages.

Patterson, Seymour, The Microeconomics of Trade, Kirksville, MO: Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1989, vii + 223 pages.

Whalley, John, The Uruguay Round and Beyond—Final Report from the Ford Foundation Project on Developing Countries and the Global Trading System, Ann Arbor: MI: The University of Michigan Press, 1989, xi + 211 pages.

Baumol, William J., Edward N. Wolff, and Sue Anne Batey Blackman, Productivity and American Leadership: The Long View, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1989, x + 395 pages.

Carter, Barry E., International Economic Sanctions: Improving the Haphazard U.S. Legal Regime, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988, xiv + 290 pages.

Dornbusch, Rudiger, The Road to Economic Recovery: Report of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on International Debt, Background Paper, New York: Priority Press, 1989, vi + 123 pages.

Edwards, Sebastian, Real Exchange Rates, Devaluation and Adjustment, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1989, xi + 371 pages.     

Global business in the Middle East

W. Abdallah. 2001. Managing Multinationals in the Middle East: Accounting and Tax Issues. Westport, CT: Quorum Press. 279 pages. ISBN 1‐56720‐267‐5. M. Kavoossi. 2001. The Globalization of Business in the Middle East: Opportunities and Constraints. Westport, CT: Quorum Press. 161 pages. ISBN 1‐56720‐203‐9.     

China—The new paradox

Ian Rae and Morgan Witzel. 2004. Singular and Different: Business in China, Past, Present and Future. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 173 pages. ISBN: 1‐4039‐1722‐1. Sheila Oakley. 2002. Labor Relations in China's Socialist Market Economy. Westport, CT: Quorum Books. 231 pages. ISBN: 1‐56720‐589‐5. Ilan Alon (Ed.). 2003. Chinese Culture, Organizational Behavior, and International Business Management. Westport, CT: Praeger. 270 pages. ISBN: 1‐56720‐456‐1.     

REVIEWS

Abstract

PRIVATE CAPITAL FLOWS TO EMERGING MARKETS AFTER THE MEXICAN CRISIS. Calvo, Guillermo A., Morris Goldstein, and Eduard Hochreiter (Eds.). Washington, D.C.: Institute for International Economics, September 1996, Tables, Figures, 330 pp. Reviewed by Roberto J. Santillán Salgado.

INDUSTRIALIZATION AND POLITICAL AFFINITY: INDUSTRIAL POLICY IN BRAZIL. Nelson, Roy C. London and New York: Thunderbird/Routledge, 1995, 144 pp. Reviewed by Kurt Weyland.

PRIVATIZING MONOPOLIES: LESSONS FROM THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSPORT SECTORS IN LATIN AMERICA. Ramamurti, Ravi. (Ed.). Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, vii + 401 pp. Reviewed by Alejandro Ibarra Yunez.     

Doing business in China: Culture and practice

Ming‐Jer Chen. 2001. Inside Chinese Business: A Guide for Managers Worldwide. Boston: Harvard Business School Press. 234 pages. John B. Stuttard. 2000. The New Silk Road: Secrets of Business Success in China Today. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 144 pages. Yadong Luo. 2000. Strategy, Structure, and Performance of MNCs in China. Westport, CT: Quorum Books. 302 pages. Maria Lai‐Ling Lam. 2000. Working With Chinese Expatriates in Business Negotiations: Portraits, Issues, and Applications. Westport, CT: Quorum Books. 188 pages.     

Book Reviews

Companion to Contemporary Economic Thought by DAVID GREENAWAY, MICHAEL BLEANEY and IAN M.T. STEWART (eds.), (London, New York: Routledge, 1991, pp xii and 858, ISBN 0 415 02612 1. International Adjustment and Financing. the Lessons of 1985–1991 by C. FRED BERGSTEN, (ed.), (Washington: Institute for International Economics, 1992), pp xiii and 335, US $34.95 hardback, US $24.95 softback, ISBN 0 88132 142 7 and 0 88132 112 5. Financial Instability and the International Debt Problem by GEORGE MCKENZIE and STEPHEN THOMAS (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992), pp ix and 211, $40 hardback, ISBN 0 333 46419 2. Down in The Dumps, Administration of the Unfair Trade Laws by RICHARD BOLTUCK and ROBERT E. LIT AN (eds.), (Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1991). pp xii and 350, US $34.95 hardback, US $15.94 softback, ISBN 0 8157 1020 8, 0 8157 1019 4. Industrial Reform in Socialist Countries, From Restructuring to Revolution by IAN JEFFRIES (Aldershot: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 1992), pp x and 294, $45.00 hardback, ISBN 1 85278 380 X.     

The pleasures,perils, and possibilities of undertaking international business research

Brian Toyne, Zaida L. Martínez, & Richard A. Menger (Eds.). 2001. International Business Scholarship: Mastering Intellectual, Institutional, and Research Challenges. Westport, CT: Quorum Books. ISBN: 1‐56720‐351‐5. Masaaki (Mike) Kotabe & Preet S. Aulakh (Eds.). 2002. Emerging Issues in International Business Research. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar. ISBN: 1‐84064‐836‐8.     

Book Reviews

Trade and Growth: New Dilemmas in Trade Policy by MANUEL R. AGOSIN and DIANA TUSSIE (eds.) (Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1994), pp. xvii & 296, ISBN 0 333 59918 7. Reviving the European Union by RANDALL C. HENNING, EDUARD HOCHREITER and GARY CLYDE HUFBAUER (Washington: Institute of International Economics and The Austrian National Bank, 1994), pp. 176, US $25.00, £14.99 softback, ISBN 0 88132 208 3. Policy Issues in the Operation of Currency Unions by PAUL R. MASON and MARK P. TAYLOR (eds.) (Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. xiv & 310, ISBN 0 521 43455 6. World Without End: Economics, Environment and Sustainable Development by DAVID W. PEARCE and JEREMY J. WARFORD (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), pp. xi & 440, ISBN 0 19 520881 1.     

Book Reviews

Adjusting to Policy Failure in African Economies, DAVID E. SAHN (ed.) (Ithaca, london, Cornell University Press, 1994), pp. xiv and 421, £41.30 hardback, £16.50 softback, ISBN 0 8014 8136 8. Economic Crisis in Africa, Perspectives on Policy Responses, MAGNUS BLOMSTRÖM and MATS LUNDAHL (eds.) (London, New York: Routledge, 1993), pp. xiii and 353, £45.00 hardback, ISBN 0 415 09629 4. Labour and an Integrated Europe, LLOYD ULMAN, BARRY EICHENGREEN and WILLIAM T. DICKENS (eds.), (Washington DC, Brookings Books, 1993), pp. viii and 295, US $36.95 hardback, US $16.95 softback, ISBN 0 8157 8682 4 and 0 9157 8681 6. The Political Economy of Policy Reform, JOHN WILLIAMSON (ed.), (Washington, Institute of International Economics, 1994), pp. 596, £19.99 softback, ISBN 0 88132 195 8. Human Development Report 1994, THE UNITED NATIONS (Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press, 1994), pp. xi and 226, ISBN 0 19 509170.     

Economic malaise in Japan: Changing economic order and the future of the U.S.–Japan economic relationship

B. Gao. 2001. Japan's Economic Dilemma: The Institutional Origins of Prosperity and Stagnation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 300 pages; ISBN 0‐521‐79025‐5. F. Bergsten, T. Ito, & M. Noland. 2001. No More Bashing: Building a New Japan‐United States Economic Relationship. Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics. 328 pages; ISBN 0‐88132‐286‐5.     

Japanese multinationals: How different are they?

Encarnation, D.J. (Ed.). (1999). Japanese Multina‐tionals in Asia, Regional Operations in Comparative Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press, 301 pages, ISBN 0‐19‐512065‐5. Beamish, P.W., Delios, A., & Lecraw, D.J. (Eds.). 1997. Japanese Multinationals in the Global Economy. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 352 pages, ISBN 1‐85898‐720‐2. Beechler, S.L., & Bird, A. (Eds.). (1999). Japanese Multinationals Abroad, Individual and Organizational Learning. New York: Oxford University Press, 283 pages, ISBN 0‐19‐511925‐8.     

Capitalizing on emerging markets

Miller, R. (1998) Selling to Newly Emerging Markets, Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 274 pages, ISBN 1 56720 044 3 Dixon, J. and Newman, D. (1998) Entering the Chinese Market: The Risks and Discounted Rewards, Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 1 56720 137 7 Bullis, D. (1998) Doing Business in Today's India, Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 320 pages, ISBN 1 56720 136 9     

BOOK REVIEWS

Polly Reynolds Allen, The ECU: Birth of a New Currency Michael Davenport. Trade Policy, Protectionism and the Third World R.J. Barry Jones. Conflict and Control in the World Economy Contemporary Economic Realism and Neo-Mercantilism J.S.G. Wilson. Banking Policy and Structure: a Comparative Analysis Silvio Borner, Internationalization of Industry: an Assessment in the Light of a Small Open Economy (Switzerland) Hyman P. Minsky, Stabilizing an Unstable Economy Michael Artis and Sylvia Ostry, International Economic Policy Coordination Joan Pearce and John Sutton, with Roy Batchelor. Protection and Industrial Policy in Europe Kym Anderson and Yujiro Hayami et al., The Political Economy of Agricultural Protection: East Asia in International Perspective R.H. Snape (ed.). Issues in World Trade Policy: GATT at the Crossroads Alan Peacock (ed.), The Regulation Game: How British and West German Companies Bargain with Government Richard J. Whalen et al., Trade Warriors: an Inside Look at Trade Activists in Congress —and How to Reach Them     

Business process offshoring: India and the global services revolution

Kaushik Basu (Ed.). 2004. India's Emerging Economy: Performance and Prospects in the 1990s and Beyond. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 319 pages. ISBN: 0‐262‐02556‐6. Paul Davies. (2004). What's This India Business? Offshoring, Outsourcing, and the Global Services Revolution. London: Nicholas Brealey International. 233 pages. ISBN: 1‐904838‐00‐6. Mark Kobayashi‐Hillary. (2004). Outsourcing to India: The Offshore Advantage. Berlin‐Heidelberg: Springer‐Verlag. 275 pages. ISBN: 3‐540‐20855‐0.     

Europe and the world

Michelle Egan. 2001. Constructing a European Market. Standards, Regulation and Governance. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 362 pages; ISBN 0‐9‐24405‐7. Brigid Gavin. 2001. The European Union and Globalization; Towards Global Democratic Governance. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 242 pages; ISBN 1‐84064‐005‐7. Patrick A. Messerlin. 2001. Measuring the Costs of Protection in Europe: European Commercial Policies in the 2000s. Washington: Institute for International Economics. 370 pages; ISBN 0‐88132‐273‐3.     

BOOK REVIEW

Abstract

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF POST-SOVIET RUSSIA, Vladimir Tikhomirov, New York: St. Martin's Press; London: Macmillan Press, 2000. xii + 360 pp., ISBN 0-312-23086-9, JEL: P2, P3. reviewed by Bruno S. Sergi