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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS LAW AND IT'S ENVIRONMENT, 4th Edition employs a comparative approach that emphasizes private law and facilitates effective managerial decision-making. The authors balance the legal challenges of doing business in developing and non-market-economy countries with the economic and political issues that commonly arise.
Customer Reviews:
It is an excellent book for international lawyers.......1998-09-29
This book contains a concise explanation of every day problems regarding foreign transactions, together with an explanation of the Common law system specially in United States, this book concentrates pertinent cases for each of the subjects explained in it.
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Learn to successfully engage in and conduct international business transactions with INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS LAW! With a focus on transactional business, this business law text provides you with numerous practical tips and applications that will help you succeed in this course and in your career. Studying is made easy with tools such as qualitative and applied problems, internet exercises, excerpted cases, and frequently used forms and documents found throughout the text. With its comparative perspective, this business text also prepares you to do business with other countries by teaching you about business law in other nations and how they differ from U.S. laws.
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Emphasizing practical application and theory of international business law, this book shows how firms doing business between the more than 185 countries of the world are governed and regulated. This book provides full coverage of all the main topics dealing with international business law including foreign investment, financing, banking, environmental regulation, multinational enterprises, sales, service, labor, transportation, intellectual property, and taxation. For practicing international lawyers book who need a complete, easy-to-use, and up-to-date reference.
Customer Reviews:
Avoid this book like the plague!.......2007-01-30
I am currently taking a class that uses this textbook and I am ready to throw this thing into a woodchipper.
It might be okay if each chapter wasn't constantly being interrupted by the case files, but, no, the readability of this book is completely shot because multi-page case files cut right into a chapter section, making it nearly impossible to keep track of what section I'm reading. I hate, hate, HATE this book because of those case files. The case files should have been put at the end of the chapter material!!!
Oh, and a little color would be nice. A book couldn't be more boring than this one.
Its one redeeming value is that it will save you a fortune in prescription sleep aids. Start reading it and you'll be asleep before your head hits the desk.
Globalization and need to know International Law.......2001-08-25
This book is essentially important for every business person dealing in international arena and every student seeking careers in multinational businesses. The author covers almost all aspects of governing laws related to international trade. My personal statement would be that this book is not to just read but to use it in everyday's practices as a desk reference.
Best help for international business law practitioners.......2001-08-08
This is the best book I've ever read about international business law. It is a very good guide to all issues concerning international law since the choice of a applicable law for a contract passing through contract contents, labor and taxes international legislation, ethics and finishing with the very new cyber law. This is a book to be read for specialists in both international law and international business, but also for practitioners of international trade. We have adodpted this book in our course of International Business Law at Universidad del Istmo in Guatemala. The best book I have consulted in the field.
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Compiled by the United States Customs Service, this book is an essential source of information for anyone importing goods--commercial or personal property--into the United States. Topics covered in depth include:
- How the customs service works at ports of entry
- The entry process--and how to guarantee that your goals will pass entry examination
- How to prepare error-free invoices
- How to calculate duty payable and qualify for refunds of duty
- How transaction values are assessed and how currency conversion works
- Regulations on marking imported goods
- Understanding prohibitions, import restrictions, and quotas
- Laws governing civil and criminal fraud
In addition, an extensive appendix provides sample customs forms, certificates, and invoices, along with relevant excerpts from statutes governing importing into the United States. Complete, up-to-date, and easy to use, this book provides all the information needed to import efficiently and profitably into the United States.
Customer Reviews:
Good Reference.......2007-04-20
This is not the most interesting read in the world, but it contains good information. If you have an import business, this is a must have for your reference library.
A Basic Guide to Importing.......2006-01-31
This is like the dictionary not good reading but a must have when you need to look up a word. Only a fraction of the material will be about your specific situation or product. Most if not all this info is available at the customs service website but is good to have it in one place.
Just got to customs website.......2005-01-09
All of the information in this book is available through the US customs website. Don't waste your money.
Not at all written in a user friedly manner either, just lists all sorts of rules.
A little vague, but it's a MUST HAVE.......2002-07-08
It is not a user-friendly book, but it supplies a lot of guidelines fot the beginning importer. I recommend you to buy it, but supplement it with specific info on the article(s) you intend to import (food, clothing, machinery, etc.).
A must-have reference book for international trade........2001-07-07
Wow! What a useful book it is! It is an essential reference that provides concise, accurate, and informative expertise especially on importing. If you are looking for a reliable resource about importing regulations and entry procedures, this is the one that you should consider!!!
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Due to massive media coverage, many people are familiar with the controversy and organized resistance that globalization has generated around the world, yet explaining what globalization actually means in practice is a complicated task. For those wanting to learn more, this book is an excellent place to start. An experienced economist, Joseph Stiglitz had a brilliant career in academia before serving for four years on President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors and then three years as chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank. His book clearly explains the functions and powers of the main institutions that govern globalization--the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization--along with the ramifications, both good and bad, of their policies. He strongly believes that globalization can be a positive force around the world, particularly for the poor, but only if the IMF, World Bank, and WTO dramatically alter the way they operate, beginning with increased transparency and a greater willingness to examine their own actions closely. Of his time at the World Bank, he writes, "Decisions were made on the basis of what seemed a curious blend of ideology and bad economics, dogma that sometimes seemed to be thinly veiling special interests.... Open, frank discussion was discouraged--there was no room for it." The book is not entirely critical, however: "Those who vilify globalization too often overlook its benefits," Stiglitz writes, explaining how globalization, along with foreign aid, has improved the living standards of millions around the world. With this clear and balanced book, Stiglitz has contributed significantly to the debate on this important topic. --Shawn Carkonen
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This powerful, unsettling book gives us a rare glimpse behind the closed doors of global financial institutions by the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics.
When it was first published, this national bestseller quickly became a touchstone in the globalization debate. Renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz had a ringside seat for most of the major economic events of the last decade, including stints as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and chief economist at the World Bank. Particularly concerned with the plight of the developing nations, he became increasingly disillusioned as he saw the International Monetary Fund and other major institutions put the interests of Wall Street and the financial community ahead of the poorer nations.
Those seeking to understand why globalization has engendered the hostility of protesters in Seattle and Genoa will find the reasons here. While this book includes no simple formula on how to make globalization work, Stiglitz provides a reform agenda that will provoke debate for years to come. Rarely do we get such an insider's analysis of the major institutions of globalization as in this penetrating book. With a new foreword for this paperback edition.
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Problems of Globalization spelled out in a lucid way........2007-09-24
This is really a wonderful book on the problems of globalization. Stiglitz points out many of the problems of the IMF and its imposing of conditions on those nations who need its help. Stiglitz points out that free market liberalization without the proper infrastructures such as unemployment insurance and market regulations can cause great harm to developing nations. Unfortunately, the IMF pushes for free market liberalization and very severe austerity plans when it gives out loans. The author does a great job in taking an esoteric subject and making it very understandable to a common reader. The book is really a primer in some ways but he also goes into different examples. He also gives some ideas on what are the solutions to the problems. If anyone wants some background on why there are so many protests at World Trade Organization meetings or other types of economic summits, this book will give you the big picture view of the situations. Stiglitz gives constructive and lucid ideas on what are the remedies to the problems. I took a class on Globalism in MBA school and this was a great book reminding me of the problems in a world economy. Stiglitz shows his ideas that globalization is something that needs to profit the poor and improve lives instead of just backing the interests of the rich. He makes a point several times that institutions like the IMF that play a role in affecting the economic policies of a developing nation need to have transparency, accountability, and approval by the people of that developing nation. He does not advocate throwing out the system; he wants globalization to be a better system for all nations.
World Bank.......2007-06-26
Stiglitz shreds the IMF -- tactfully -- but not tactfully enough to avoid an angry backlash from his peers at the IMF. He highlights what has been wrong and even idiotic about IMF-run globalization and ill-timed structural adjustments, poor sequencing. He thinks democratic leaders should decide HOW they implement global economics, perhaps with some guidance, not just the avaricious Washington Consensus demanding austerity measure and open up for speculative capital flows.
He describes how the World Bank, with himself at the helm, tried to accomplish it's historical purpose -- to spread prosperity and help facilitate trade, not looting. He described some brilliant and compassionate leaders and economists he worked with.
But until recently, it's been Paul Wolfowitz in charge of what Stiglitz used to do. Woe be unto all of us.
what globalization really is.......2007-05-18
a well written ballanced book that takes a deep look at what globalization is and how it effects people, business and government, from the rich to the poor. easy to read for the non-economist, with both sides of the debate being represented equally leaving the reader with a better understanding of the forces behind their changing world.
Ten Things I learned from Globalization and its Discontents.......2007-04-11
1. This book is highly informdative about the effects of the IMF and the World Bank on the world's unequal economy, with a closer focus on the IMF.
2. It describes in detail the muddy mix of false beliefs, borderline corruption and gross incompetence that drive the international financial institutions and inform their ivory tower decisions which have such profound effect on the people of the world.
3. Stiglitz clearly explains economic theories that clearly rebut the policies of the IMF.
4. He gives in-depth case studies that illustrate the inextricable mess these lending institutions can make in attempting to control the macroeconomic processes of poor nations.
5. He is especially informative in his unpacking of the Asian Financial Crisis of 1998, its causes, and how the IMF contributed to large-scale economic disaster. He explains the speculation encouraged by the IMF and the subsequent scares that led investors to flee en masse from the region. Then he discusses how the IMF's policies of structural adjustment and budgetary restraint further harmed nations. Malaysia, who refused to listen to the IMF, suffered the least from the massive economic downturn.
6. He also enlightens the reader about why Russia fell into such disarray after its post-Cold War "freedom." Without a gradual transition to a market economy, as China has been successful in accomplishing, Russia found itself in a crisis where the powerful managed to gain the bulk of the wealth and those with little power descended into poverty without a welfare state to aid them.
7. He explains clearly the conflict between the IMF's Keynsian roots, which aim to support failing economies by extending credit to be able to continue functioning, and its present policies, which force failing economies to reduce its spending, thereby causing nations and people to suffer.
8. As an insider, Stiglitz is able to describe the callousness with which the IMF views - or doesn't view - the people most affected by their policies is part of the organizational structure.
9. The worst part is that we can get all of this information, but lending institutions are not accountable to us or to the people for whom they make such life-altering decisions.
10. Yet only by sharing this information will nations who do have to decide to accept that IMF loan or not be able to understand the consequences of their decision, will individuals be able to stage protest or other forms of dissent, and will change hopefully eventually come in the large institutions that control so much of what happens in the world.
One of the Best.......2007-01-20
A great book which should be read by many to help them have a clearer idea of what is happening around the world. the author gives you what you need to know about the globalization process and what goes on behind the curtain that covers it. however in order to understand it readers should have some essential information of economics. great book never got tired of it.
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This book tells the story of credit cards around the world: why people use them, the effects on the economies of the nations where they prevail, why they are used so differently around the world, and what should be done to respond to the problems they cause. It includes a wealth of data from around the world, fascinating narratives about the differences from country to country, and penetrating analyses of policies that might stem misuse of cards.
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This book presents important new research on applied eco-efficiency concepts throughout Europe. The aim of eco-efficiency is to achieve market-based measures of environmental protection, in order to enhance the prospects for sustainable development and achieve positive economic and ecological benefits.
The distinguished authors discuss a number of themes surrounding eco-efficiency including the necessary conditions for technological dissemination and ecological modernization, and the role of government in enabling businesses and society to participate actively in this process. In particular, they highlight the application of existing European-based policies concerning material flows and energy. The authors also investigate some new concepts of sustainable development and provide a useful introduction to material flows analysis. In further chapters they study the emerging regulatory policies for eco-efficiency, and examine the issues of sustainable business and consumption strategies.
Environmental and ecological economists, policymakers and political scientists will welcome this original and insightful book which translates the theory of sustainable development into practical policy and business-related solutions.
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This book tackles one of the most pressing public policy issues of our time: the reform of regulatory and enforcement practice. Malcolm K. Sparrow shows how prescriptions for reform that are centered on the concepts of customer service and process improvement fail to take account of the distinctive character of regulatory responsibilities—which involve the delivery of obligations rather than just services.
Sparrow identifies a central notion at the heart of a new regulatory craftsmanship: "pick important problems and fix them." This simple approach presents complex implementation challenges with profound consequences for the way regulators organize their work and report their performance. The author explores the underlying nature of the risk-control or problem-solving art, and specifies the organizational infrastructure and managerial practices required to place effective risk control at the heart of routine agency operations.
The Regulatory Craft will be especially valuable for regulatory and law-enforcement practitioners, as well as legislators, students, and others who care about the nature and quality of regulatory practice.
Customer Reviews:
Excelent book.......2006-03-25
A powerful and clear combination of theoretical and practical analysis of the regulatory work, with useful insights and tools to be used and developed.
re-thinking the role of government.......2000-07-14
Author Malcolm Sparrow suggests something so simple about the role of government that it's revolutionary -- agencies should be in the business of finding important problems and fixing them.
Simple -- but difficult.
Anyone who works in government would tell you they solve problems all the time. But most objective looks at government show that government's primary job is to "implement programs." Those programs often deftly solve problems. Yet they leave much undone. It is the undone problems that Sparrow's book deals with.
Sparrow is an old cop, turned top-level educator. He's got a doctorate and teaches at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He is a recognized expert in results-based reform of government. Personally, he is glib and practical.
His experience with policing seems to drive his philosophy. At the crux is this quote from his mentor, Herman Goldstein:
"...policing becomes more effective if police, rather than processing 911 calls one after another and in isolation, could learn to identify underlying patterns and then fashion tailor-made solutions that prevent recurrences." (page 72)
Sparrow shows how identifying patterns and fashioning tailor-made solutions is the crux for most government -- not just police. He ampley cites examples from environmental agencies, customs, OSHA and others to show this. He tells the real-life obstacles to achieving this, too (page 112). Overall, he tells how government could do better and who's doing it.
The book implies a unique slant on deterrence. While getting tough may achieve a deterrence effect, too often it happens after the evil deed. Sparrow suggests that government deter before the deed. How? Analyze patterns of unsolved problems, then tailor interventions to deter BEFORE the problem happens. This is not to rule out enforcement punch -- just to focus it on those against whom it's most effective. He shows that it can be done using case studies.
Sparrow's thinking should appeal to the pragmatist. This book is not pie-in-the-sky theory. It blends top-level thinking and on the ground experience. If you think government could be doing better, you could do worse than picking up a copy of "The Regulatory Craft."
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- Provides practical easy-to-implement advice on how to comply with the latest rules and regulations.
- Shows how to recoup money spent on duty drawbacks.
- Shows how to get around trade barriers in foreign countries.
- Shows how to use the internet and other technologies to reduce the cost of exporting.
- Provides insights into reducing export risk exposures.
Customer Reviews:
Really Saved My Rear End.......2006-05-19
I accidentally became an exporter two weeks ago. And this book REALLY brought me up to speed quickly and saved my rear end in a big way.
Up until two weeks ago, my products had all been sold domestically. I naively decided to accept an order from Japan, and before I knew it, I was an exporter. At first you might think...."Easy, I'll just box it up and give it to the FedEx guy" Ha! If you are shipping a high technology item, double Ha!! As my delivery date loomed, I bought this book, hoping that it could save me and prevent this sale from de-railing. Miracle of miracles, this book really worked.
I started reading the sections that I thought were most relevant, and then oddly found myself becoming fascinated with the entire subject. I started digging deeper into each chapter and learning more and more. Do you know that great feeling when you have added a new skill set to your repertoire? That's how I feel now.
I highly recommend this book. Not only does it contain great information for exports, but it actually helped me discover that this subject is actually quite fascinating and nuanced!
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