Understanding and Regulating the Market At A Time of Globalization: The Case of the Cement Industry By Herve Dumez, Alain Jeunemaetre
2000 | 255 Pages | ISBN: 0312226225 | PDF | 13 MB
2000 | 255 Pages | ISBN: 0312226225 | PDF | 13 MB
How does a market globalize? How do antitrust and trade policies speed up or slow down the process? How do firms take part in it? This book offers a comprehensive appraisal of the phenomenon from a thorough study of the cement industry. Considered as a model of spatial competition in economic textbooks and inherently local, the industry globalized in the 1980s. This book deals with this extreme case highlighting the fundamental characteristics of globalization.