Monthly Archives: September 2014
Trade deals
Articles on trade negotiations are the usual fare of JCA as we have tended to avoid the alphabet soup articles that discuss these trade deals. However, because of the potential significance of the Trans-Pacific Partnership being enthusiastically promoted by the … Continue reading
Korean peace?
In a new review at JCA, Judit Pallos provides some details on a proposal for peace on the Korean Peninsula authored by Shepherd Iverson and titled One Korea – A Proposal for Peace. This proposal Iverson introduces a plan that … Continue reading
Free access on foreign investment in Asia
Routledge have announced that they are making ebooks and journal articles on foreign investment in Asia available for a time, with free access. This free collection coincides with the 2014 Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics Symposium on Economic Development in … Continue reading
Reviewing Fforde on Development Economics
Bill Lucarelli, a recent author at JCA, has also contributed a new book review. This review examines Adam Fforde’s recent Understanding Development Economics, published by Routledge in 2013. Fforde has also been a JCA contributor in the past and is … Continue reading
Freedom of Expression in South Korea
Highly-cited political scientist Stephan Haggard of the University of California at San Diego and Jong-Sung You, soon to join the Australian National University, have completed a Commentary for JCA that assesses the evidence that freedom of expression in South Korea … Continue reading
China and labour law
Tu Lan, John Pickles and Shengjun Zhu, all of the excellent Department of Geography at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have a new article at JCA. Entitled “State Regulation, Economic Reform and Worker Rights: The Contingent Effects … Continue reading
Struggles over sugar
The latest article to be published online is by Patrick V. Oabel of the University of British Columbia in Canada. Entitled “Last of the Labour Aristocrats: Restructuring of the Philippine Sugar Industry and the Exportist Labour Market,” the paper offers … Continue reading
New Geo-Economics of a “Rising” India
Priya Chacko of Adelaide University in Australia has just published an article with JCA that appears online, with the above title. The abstract states: With a focus on India, and drawing on critical scholarship on geo-politics and geo-economics and “relational” … Continue reading
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