Introduction to Food Science or Market Integration Regionalism and the Global Economy

Introduction to Food Science

Author: PhD Rick Parker

This book is an ideal teaching manual for high school agriscience and consumer science programs, as well as for post-secondary food science courses. It is an excellent overview for anyone interested in attaining a basic understanding of food science.

Interesting book: Hot Bodies Cool Styles or Sweet and Natural

Market Integration, Regionalism and the Global Economy

Author: Daniel Cohen

This is a study of the nature and the policy implications of changes in the global economy in relationship to the process of regional integration, using the newest techniques of economic analysis. The principal message drawn from these analytical and policy insights is that in a world characterized by trade distortions and nonlinearities, regional integration may or may not foster global integration, and may or may not advance regional or global convergence. The key is good economic policy based on sound economic analysis.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction Richard Baldwin, Daniel Cohen, Andre Sapir and Anthony Venables;

Part I. Regionalism and the Global Economy L. Alan Winters:
2. Discussion Andre Sapir;
3. Preferential agreements and the multilateral trading system Kyle Bagwell and Robert W. Staiger; Discussion Raquel Fernandez;
4. Politics and trade policy Elhanan Helpman; Discussion Thierry Verdier;
5. Globalisation and labour, or if globalisation is a bowl of cherries, why are there so many glum faces around the table Dani Rodrik; Discussion Alasdair Smith;
6. Openness and wage inequality in developing countries: the Lation American challenge to East Asian conventional wisdom; Discussion Riccardo Faini;

Part II. Market Integration and Regionalism:
7. Operationalising the theory of optimum currency areas Tamim Bayoumi and Barry Eichengreen; Discussion Jean Pisani-Ferry;
8. European Migrants: an endangered species? Riccardo Faini; Discussion Richard Baldwin;
9. Geography and specialisation: industrial belts on a circular plain Anthony J. Venables; Discussion Alisdair Smith;
10. Convergence ... an overview Giuseppe Bertola; Discussion Daniel Cohen;
11. Convergence as distribution dynamics (with or without growth) Danny T. Quah; Discussion Lucrezia Reichlin.