Policy issues for business : a reader / edited by Vivek Suneja.

Published in association with the Open University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: SECTION 1 Policy: Significance and Rationale -- CHAPTER 1 -- The Insider: What I Learned at the World Economic Crisis -- Joseph Stiglitz -- CHAPTER 2 -- Stiglitz vs. the IMF: Another View -- Rudi Dombusch -- CHAPTER 3 -- Why Do We Need Policy? -- Robert Heilbroner and Lester Thurow -- CHAPTER 4 -- Culture, Social Norms and Economics: Some Implications for Policy -- Mark Casson -- SECTION 2 Competition Policy -- CHAPTER 5 -- Competition Policy -- David Young and Stan Metcaffe -- CHAPTER 6 -- International Competition Policy -- Alan 0. Sykes -- SECTION 3 Science, Technology and Innovation Policy -- CHAPTER 7 -- Science Policy and Technology Policy -- J.S. Metcaffe -- CHAPTER 8 -- National Systems of Innovation -- Chris Freeman -- CHAPTER 9 -- The Competitive Advantage of Nations -- Michael E. Porter -- CHAPTER 10 -- Imperfect Markets and Fallible Governments: The Role of the State in Industrial Development -- Sanjaya Lall -- SECTION 4 International Trade and Investment Policy -- CHAPTER 11 -- Making Sense of the Competitiveness Debate -- Paul R. Krugman -- CHAPTER 12 -- Themes in Trade and Industrialization -- Deepak Nayyar -- CHAPTER 13 -- A Business Analytic Approach to Governments and Globalization -- John H. Dunning -- CHAPTER 14 -- Foreign Direct Investment and the Challenge of Development -- World Investment Report -- CHAPTER 15 -- Information Technology and Global Capitalism -- Manuel Castells -- SECTION 5 Regional Policy -- CHAPTER 16 -- Towards a Competence Theory of the Region -- Clive Lawson -- CHAPTER 17 -- Policies for the Development of Knowledge-Intensive -- Local Production Systems -- Fiorenza Belussi -- SECTION 6 Environmental Policy -- CHAPTER 18 -- Sustainable Development -- Giles Atkinson.