Economic systems and structures

It is now ten years since the former Soviet Union collapses and the countries of Europe and Central Asia abandoned central planning.

In this 37th issue of the Research in Political Economy series, Jan Toporowski and leading experts offer a unique and insightful overview of Polish Marxism after Luxemburg, serving as an introduction to some key themes and the ideas of several Polish political economists.

Security is a social practice, which constitutes different formations of political order.

European integration is focused on improving economic performance and increasing income levels in nations across the European Union.

The capitalist market, progressives bemoan, is a cold monster: it disrupts social bonds, erodes emotional attachments, and imposes an abstract utilitarian rationality.

Transit services in the United States are in trouble.

Understanding economics has never been easier.

Speculative Communities investigates the financial world's influence on the social imagination, unraveling its radical effects on our personal and political lives.

Yugoslavia's twentieth-century bore witness to civil war, sharp ideological struggles and a series of 'partisan ruptures'; revolutionary events that changed the face of Yugoslavian society, politics and culture, which were felt on a global level.

We live in a time of dynamic, but generally regressive regime change-a period in which major political transformations and a rollback of a half-century of legislation are accelerated under conditions of a prolonged and deepening economic crisis and a worldwide offensive against the citizenry and the working class.

In einer zunehmend komplexen globalen Wirtschaft spielt die Rolle des Staates eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Gestaltung von Inflation und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit.

Gambling is everywhere, on our TVs and phones, on billboards on our streets, and emblazoned across the chests of idolised sports stars.

This edited volume is about the Australian difference and how Australia's economic and social policy has diverged from the approach of other countries.

How does one package and sell confidence in the stability of a nation riven by civil strife?

AMIDST THE WRECKAGE OF FINANCIAL RUIN, PEOPLE ARE LEFT PUZZLING ABOUT HOW IT HAPPENED.

These Proceedings consider all aspects of the environmental problems facing the world today - scientific, social, economic, philosophical and historical.

Our quest for prosperity has produced great output but not always great outcomes.

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There are three basic institutional systems for governing the exchange of property.

Every developed country has a public employment service that connects job seekers with employers through information, placement, and training support services.

Creativity is at the vanguard of contemporary capitalism, valorised as a form of capital in its own right.

This second edition updates all chapters and covers the impacts of the global financial crisis and the European Union.

In The Politics of Operations Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson investigate how capital reshapes its relation with politics through operations that enable the extraction and exploitation of mineral resources, labor, data, and cultures.

The decade of the 1980s marked a triumph for market capitalism.

Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology Volume 41B features a selection of papers presented at the First History of Economics Diversity Caucus Conference, new research essays from Roger Sandilands and co-authors Daniel Schiffman and Eli Goldstein, as well as an interview of Francis Wilson conducted by Phil Magness and Micha Gartz.

How the great political thinkers have persistently warned against the dangers of economic inequalityEconomic inequality is one of the most daunting challenges of our time, with public debate often turning to questions of whether it is an inevitable outcome of economic systems and what, if anything, can be done about it.

The forces behind an economic and political crisis in the makingA problem of twelve arises when a small number of institutions acquire the means to exert outsized influence over the politics and economy of a nation.

Countries worldwide are attempting difficult transitions from state-planned to market economies.

Global financial capitalism has eroded the moral economy on which all economic exchanges ultimately depend.

Beteiligen sich zivilgesellschaftliche oder wirtschaftliche Interessenorganisationen intensiver an der Klima- und Bankenpolitik in der Europäischen Union?

The State and Capital in China offers a critical interpretation of Chinese recent history, scrutinizing the political and economic turnaround post-1978.

This pathbreaking book tells the dramatic story of a unique manufacturing complex and the city that it helped to create.

*Winner of the New York Times Book Covers of the Year, 2017* 'Workers of the world, Unite!

Hazard Control Policy in Britain examines the general nature of Britain's hazard control policy and the factors that appeared to influence its formation up to 1973, that is, prior to the implementation of the recommendations of the Robens' Committee on Safety and Health at work.

Czechia has been a member state of the European Union for more than eighteen years.