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Things I have posted recently
- The Year of Covid 19: Political Religion and the Culture Wars. Part 2.4. The EU’s legacy: 1789-1914: Science, Nature, Necessity. 29/03/2022
- The year of Covid 19: Political Religion and the Culture Wars. Part 2.3: The EU’s legacy, 1492-1789: Europe enters into the Devil’s Anus. 03/02/2022
- The Year of Covid 19: Political Religion and the Culture Wars: Part 2.2: The EU’s Legacy from the Middle Ages. 30/06/2021
- The Year of Covid 19: Political religion and the culture wars. Part 2. 1. Europe’s legacy: the first fifteen hundred years to AD 410. 26/02/2021
- The year of Covid-19: political religion and the culture wars.Part 1. 16/12/2020
- The UK Internal Market Bill: Supranational v. International law 14/09/2020
- China in the World: Chapter 3 Sino-US relations – a stable instability. 11/07/2020
- China in the World: Chapter 2 China becomes the prime global manufacturing and trading platform. 27/06/2020
- China in the World: Chapter 1. From backwater to world power. 16/05/2020
- China, coronavirus and the politics of paranoia 25/04/2020
- Brexit and the British Constitution: Part V. Modernisation or Vandalism? 09/04/2020
- Brexit and the British Constitution: Part IV. The pre-1945 Roots of British Supranationalism. 10/01/2020
- Brexit and the British Constitution: Part III. Efficiency, Parliamentary Sovereignty, Bureaucracy. 02/12/2019
- The Supreme Court’s judgement on Prime Minister Johnson’s decision to prorogue parliament: Part IV. New law or constitutional aberration? 06/11/2019
- The Supreme Court’s judgement on Prime Minister Johnson’s decision to prorogue Parliament: Part III. Assessment. 06/11/2019
- The Supreme Court’s judgement on Prime Minister Johnson’s decision to prorogue Parliament: Part II. The Arguments for and against. 06/11/2019
- The Supreme Court judgement on Prime Minister Johnson’s decision to prorogue Parliament: Part I: Definitions and timeline. 06/11/2019
- Apocalypse and Guilt: Why Savonarola and Greta differ. 01/10/2019
- Brexit and the British Constitution: Part II. The Whig spirit of the Old Constitution. 21/08/2019
- Brexit and the British Constitution: Part I. The roots of the Old Constitution. 26/07/2019
Tag Archives: business system
Is China’s growth engine slowing?
Here is the url for this webinar: http://youtu.be/cAz4-aDj2g8 My theme is that we have to be very careful in analyzing China. For thirty years, there have been prophecies that China’s growth engine will slow down; that the financial system will … Continue reading
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Tagged Asia, Asia, business context, business system, emerging markets, EU, exchange rates, mercantilism, world politics
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The Euro crisis and German primacy
Abstract: The main lesson from the crisis of the Euro, starting in 2008, is Germany’s assertion of primacy. The intent of the EU integration process was to put an end to what has been termed the “Westphalian” system of self-governing … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, France and Germany
Tagged business system, EU, Euro, European integration, France, Germany, global economy, globalisation, monetary union, UK
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Reaching Across the Market: The global dynamics of business-state relations, with Thomas Lawton, Professor of Strategic Management at Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University, UK.Chapter 4,pp.346-380. The Oxford Handbook of Business and Government, Oxford University Press, 2010. Eds, David Coen, Wyn Grant, Graham Wilson
Business people increasingly ask “how can we make corporate strategy in such a volatile world?” An answer to the question requires us to take a more holistic approach to corporate strategy and company policy than we conventionally do when considering … Continue reading
Turkey: Between Ataturk and Islam: ECCH reference no 211-034-1.
The case, finished in July 2011, is an update of Turkey 2004, which received an ecch prize. It reviews the history, politics, business system, foreign policies of Turkey in a global setting. This case is part of a rolling … Continue reading
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Tagged business system, economic policy, EU, globalisation, Middle East, politics, regime change, Turkey
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“Financial Restructuring in the age of the Euro: Still a Battle of Systems”, extracts from chapter in The State of the European Union Vol.7. With US or against US? European Trends in American perspective. Ed by Nicholas Jabko, Craig Parsons, Oxford University Press, 2005.
On January 1, 2002, eleven countries in the EU adopted Euro-notes and coins for retail use, thereby taking the EU a step closer to business conditions in theUS. Yet implementing corporate strategies acrossEuropeis still heavily conditioned by different national jurisdictions, … Continue reading
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