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Thomas M. Huber

This innovative work demystifies the Japanese economy by considering it as a strategic system. Exploring its essential structure and dynamics, both domestic and international, Thomas M. Huber offers provocative insights into Japan's postwar economy by comparing it to Western national security and military systems rather than exclusively to Western commercial institutions. The author highlights the remarkable similarity of "Japan, Inc." to some of the structures and policy dynamics of the U.S. military especially, but also shows how other public institutions offer useful analogies for deciphering Japanese economics. Japan's domestic strategies are mirrored in the international realm with MITI, the Export Import Bank of Japan, JETRO, trading companies, and other agencies pursuing national policy goals. The objective of this far-flung activity is international influence, achieved by acquiring production and factors of production.

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Allyn Enderlyn, Oliver C. Dziggel

"You can profit from the economic revolution taking place in Latin America!" "The hottest economic growth is occurring in the southern part of the western hemisphere. For businesses to compete in a global economy they must explore opportunities beyond their own borders, and the biggest boom is occurring in Latin America. There are abundant opportunities throughout the region for marketing products and services, establishing joint ventures and investing. Identifying and comparing opportunities are the key challenges, and Allyn Enderlyn and Oliver C. Dziggel have compiled all the details you'll ever need to carry out successful business ventures. Assembling this information on your own from scratch would cost thousands of dollars and take months to accomplish. Cracking Latin America is the most comprehensive resource available for identifying new markets and investment opportunities in Latin America. Filled with information on developing markets, investment climate, financing, licensing and other practical information, Cracking Latin America is the most complete, authoritative resource on attractive opportunities in the region." "Cracking Latin America offers a step-by-step approach to market entry and positioning for those eager to expand their business horizons."--Jacket.

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Laura E. Huggins

In this innovative book, Laura E. Huggins finds path breaking entrepreneurial solutions to difficult environmental challenges in some of the world's poorest areas. The approaches entrepreneurs are taking to these challenges involve establishing property rights and encouraging market exchange. From beehives to barbed wire, these tools are creating positive incentives and promoting both economic development and environmental improvements. The case studies are from the developing world and reveal where the biggest victories for less poverty and more conservation can be won. The pursuit begins by learning from local people solving local problems. Environmental Entrepreneurship encourages a broad audience to consider secure property rights and free markets as key ingredients to moving out of poverty and improving environmental quality at the same time. It will appeal to academics and students of environmental studies, environmental economics, environmental policy, as well as international development and business. Entrepreneurs and environmental groups such as The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, and The World Resources Institute will also find a wealth of invaluable information in this book.

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Timothy Wittig

Understanding Terrorist Finance provides powerful new insights in the financial and economic realities of terrorist groups.€Dispelling popular myths, the book presents the first unified coherent framework for the systematic analysis of terrorist finance and includes empirical studies of the financing of groups in Europe, Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. Wittig finds that the activities typically represented as 'terrorist finance', such as donations, criminal activities€and€weapons procurement, ought to be understood in terms of how terrorists ₆ as socio-political actors ₆ access and interact with€flows of economic value rather than as elements of an illicit financial edifice supposedly underpinning global terrorism.