State subsidies in the global economy Ebook. - Originally published in: 2008 - Zahariadis, Nikolaos 1961- (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
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Protection for Rent * Perspectives on Subsidies and Trade Protection * Globalization and State Aid * Asset Specificity and the Demand for Subsidies * Institutions and the Supply of Subsidies * Objectives and Regions * Sectors and Instruments * National Subsidies in the Global Economy
Using figures from European Union members, the volume highlights the conditional effects of globalization, asset specificity, and domestic institutions. Far from being impotent, democratic states face politically powerful pressures to continue to shield social actors from the vagaries of the global market
Keywords: Political economy; International trade; Economics; Wirtschaft; Political economy / bicssc; International trade / bicssc; Economics / eflch