Download or read book States Against Markets written by Robert Boyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work challenges the popular view that globalization threatens the role of the nation-state in determining national policy. It examines the fundamental issue of competitiveness and market power in an increasingly borderless and co-dependent world. Despite this increased threat to the nation-state as an effective manager of the national economy, the authors argue that there are a number of options and alternatives open to governments to protect themselves from the global business cycle.