Globalization

Abstract: * Preface * Chapter 1 - The Global Food Economy: Contradictions and Crises * Chapter 2 - The Temperate Grain-Livestock Complex * Chapter 3 - From Colonialism to Global Market Integration in the South * Chapter 4 - Entrenching an Uneven Playing Field: The Multilateral Regulation of Agriculture * Chapter 5 - The Battle for the Future of Farming * Bibliography * Notes * Index

Abstract: Part I: Global Environment Chapter 1: Globalization and the Multinational Enterprise Chapter 2: Financial Goals & Governance Chapter 3: The International Monetary System Chapter 4: The Balance of Payments Chapter 5: Current Multinational Financial Challenges: Crisis Part II: Foreign Exchange Theory and Markets Chapter 6: The Foreign Exchange Market Chapter 7: International Parity Conditions Appendix: Algebraic Primer to International Parity Conditions Chapter 8: Foreign Currency Derivatives Appendix: Currency Option Pricing Theory Chapter 9: Interest Rate and Cross Currency Swaps Chapter 10: Foreign Exchange Rate Determination & Forecasting Part III: Foreign Exchange Exposure Chapter 11: Transaction Exposure Appendix: Complex Options Chapter 12: Operating Exposure Chapter 13: Translation Exposure Part IV: Financing the Global Firm Chapter 14: The Global Cost and Availability of Capital Chapter 15: Sourcing Equity Globally Chapter 16: Sourcing Debt Globally Part V: Foreign Investment Decisions Chapter 17: International Portfolio Theory & Investment Chapter 18: Foreign Direct Investment Theory & Strategy Chapter 19: Multinational Capital Budgeting Part VI: Managing Multinational Operations Chapter 20: Multinational Tax Management Chapter 21: Working Capital Management Chapter 22: International Trade Finance

Abstract: As the rational choice model of “policy” proliferates in “policy studies, ” the social sciences, modern governments, organizations, and everyday life, a number of anthropologists are beginning to develop a body of work in the anthropology of public policy that critiques the assumptions of “policy” as a legal-rational way of getting things done. While de-masking the framing of public policy questions, an anthropological approach attempts to uncover the constellations of actors, activities, and influences that shape policy decisions, their implementation, and their results. In a rapidly changing world, anthropologists’ empirical and ethnographic methods can show how policies actively create new categories of individuals to be governed. They also suggest that the long-established frameworks of “state” and “private, ”“local” or “national” and “global, ”“macro” and “micro, ”“top down” and “bottom up, ” and “centralized” and “decentralized” not only fail to capture current dynamics in the world but actually obf...