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The 21st century marks a watershed in the history of the human economic condition. Income and wealth inequalities are now greater than ever before - and their role in the global financial crisis is one of the burning issues of today. Commodity looks at the great financial crisis from an entirely original perspective - that of the global commodity system as a newly operational totality. In the 19th century, the commodity system as defined by Karl Marx was limited to a few regions and embraced only the labour and capital capacities and their outputs. By the end of the 20th century, it encompassed the entire planet and embraced government capacity as well as private capacities, financial securities and material goods and services. This book shows how the financial crisis and its causes can only properly be understood as a result of this vast, unprecedented extension of the commodity system - a system which benefits the rich. The author makes the watertight case that it is only through the creation of a global tax authority - to coordinate national tax regimes and to implement a tax on global wealth - that we can avoid another crisis and create a fairer and more equitable world. Addressing a broad range of themes, Commodity offers a new perspective which will be of interest to political economists as well as researchers specialising in other related fields of social enquiry. Written in a clear and engaging way, the book's concise nature also makes it accessible for the non-specialist reader, and it will especially appeal to all those who want a more just society.

Some agencies for the extension of our domestic & foreign trade, by G.B. Cortelyou.--Government control of banks & trust companies, by W.B. Ridgely.--Control & supervision of trust companies, by F.D. Kilburn.--The financial reports of national banks as a means of public control, by F.A. Cleveland.--State regulation of insurance, by L.G. Fouse.--The federal power over trusts, by J.M. Beck.--The scope & limits of congressional legislation against the trusts, by C.T. Lewis.--The northern securities case, by J.W. Garner Problems of immigration, by F.P. Sargent.--The diffusion of immigration, by Eliot Norton.--Selection of immigration, by P.F. Hall.--Immigration in its relation to pauperism, by K.H. Claghorn.--Australasian methods of dealing with immigration, by Frank Parsons.--Proposals affecting immigration, by J.J.D. Trenor.--The relation of trust companies to industrial combinations, as illustrated by the United States shipbuilding company. by L.W. Sammis.--Appendix. ; Mode of access: Internet.

The Belgian insurance industry was adversely affected by the global financial crisis and continued to confront challenges related to legacy assets and economic uncertainties in Europe. The Belgian authorities have made significant progress in updating the insurance regulatory regime and supervisory practice. The updated regulatory framework has a high level of observance with the Insurance Core Principles (ICPs), supported by robust prudential supervision. The authorities are advised to review current conduct-of-business (CoB) regulation and supervision to strengthen the protection for policyholders

Der Aufsatz zeigt am Beispiel des Siemens-Konzerns die Strategien und Wirkungen internationaler Monopole auf die politischen und wirtschaftlichen internationalen Beziehungen. Die Fallstudie beschreibt auf der Grundlage von Geschäftsberichten und sonstigem vorliegenden Material die Verbreitung, internationale Produktionsstruktur und die staatliche Förderung durch die BRD und analysiert die Profitstrategien des Konzerns und die sich daraus ergebenden internationalen Konfliktbereiche. Dabei wird deutlich, daß internationale Monopole sowohl objektiv durch das Wirken der sozialökonomischen Gesetzmäßigkeiten des Monopolkapitalismus als auch subjektiv durch ihr aktives Eingreifen in weltwirtschaftliche Prozesse eine Kraft sind, die eine Gefahr für die Souveränität der Staaten und den Entspannungsprozeß darstellt und den Klassenantagonismus verschärft. (MH)

"Are countries capable of reducing economic inequality under conditions of contemporary globalisation without cooperating and coordinating with other countries? While states are far from powerless to effect distributional change within their own sovereign space, Taking a Common Concern Approach to Economic Inequality makes the case that cooperation and coordination is indeed necessary, especially in relation to corporate taxation. It accordingly contemplates the utility of a transnational taxation system that is embedded in cooperative sovereignty through the recognition of rising economic inequality and its deleterious effects, including how increasingly unequal distributions within countries make transnational cooperation and coordination efforts less likely, as a common concern of humankind"--

China's growing economic power has been identified as a major factor in generating profound transformations in the strategic landscape in Asia. Beijing's interest in using its economic power for the pursuit of geopolitical objectives remains strong. Many analysts believe that the ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) represents the continuation and even intensification of that interest. I unpack the role of China's economic power in its external relations by focusing on how Guangxi, a subnational government in China, has facilitated the emergence of the BRI. My study suggests that in-depth knowledge about local governments' activism in socioeconomic engagements with neighboring countries contributes significantly to a more nuanced understanding of China's power, particularly its economic power in Asia. (Asian Perspect/GIGA)