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.
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.

Understanding and Regulating the Market at a Time of Globalization: The Case of the Cement Industry
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Understanding and Regulating the Market at a Time of Globalization: The Case of the Cement Industry
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ISBN-13: | 9780312226220 |
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Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
Publication date: | 12/08/1999 |
Edition description: | 2000 |
Pages: | 238 |
Product dimensions: | 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d) |