Economic systems and structures

In what ways are cities central to the evolution of contemporary global capitalism?

An overview of the development of cooperatives over the last fifty years, addressing the major challenges that they face in the future.

What are the most fundamental differences among the political economies of the developed world?

Innovation work is risky, stressful, and emotionally draining, and the only way to span this innovation gap, and address the needs of innovators, is effective leadership.

At the turn of the nineteenth century, when the word "e;capital"e; first found its way into the vocabulary of mid-Hudson Valley residents, the term irrevocably marked the profound change that had transformed the region from an inward-looking, rural community into a participant in an emerging market economy.

The recent collapse of the banking system and instability in the financial markets has dramatically shaken confidence in the global economic order.

This is the first-ever book to provide a comprehensive analysis of Chinese social security reforms with a variety of views.

Hazard Assessment of Chemicals: Current Developments, Volume 4 serves as a forum for the exposition, evaluation, and analysis of methods, techniques, applications, and approaches in the field of chemical hazard assessment.

Enter the world of creativity where children's imaginations soar.

This book provides the analysis on capital markets in China, focusing attention upon (1) the bubble phenomena (whether or not a Chinese bubble really exists and might burst), (2) foreign direct investment and (3) integration, through all of which we could recognize the current situation and the future prospects of Chinese marketization.

Charts the advance of the state in contemporary China through an analysis of state-market relations in the reform era.

Der in der Forschung vernachlässigte "andere" Max Weber – jenseits von Kulturprotestantismus, Rationalismus und Fortschrittsdenken – steht im Mittelpunkt dieser Studie.

John Berger writes: 'The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance.

The transformation of women's lives over the past century is among the most significant and far-reaching of social and economic phenomena, affecting not only women but also their partners, children, and indeed nearly every person on the planet.

Islamist capital accumulation has split the Turkish bourgeoisie and polarized Turkish society into secular and religious social groupings, giving rise to conflicts between the state and political Islam.

Steve Coll's Private Empire is winner of the FT/GOLDMAN SACHS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2012.

There has been little analysis of the constitutional framework for management of the UK economy, either in constitutional law or regulatory studies.

A refreshingly non-doctrinaire collection of writings on the theory, practice, and history of anti-capitalist politics from the most well-versed activists and scholars in the movement.

'A historically insightful read'Financial Times 'A wry, rollicking, and provocative history' Michael Taylor, author of The Interest'A thought-provoking analysis of Africa's relationship with economic imperialism' Astrid Madimba and Chinny Ukata, authors of It's A ContinentWe need to think differently about African economics.

Complementarities between political and economic institutions have kept Brazil in a low-level economic equilibrium since 1985.

Free enterprise is off the leash and chasing new opportunities for profit making across the globe.

This book analyses the evolution of the French model of capitalism in relation to the instability of socio-political compromises.

This book presents a collective attempt to chart the rise and development of the Chicago School during the decades that followed WWII.

"e;Thought provoking and fresh - this book challenges how we think about economics.

The recent, devastating and ongoing economic crisis has exposed the faultlines in the dominant neoliberal economic order, opening debate for the first time in years on alternative visions that do not subscribe to a 'free' market ethic.

Hou offers a ''both/and'' perspective of the state, market, capitalism and communism by examining the local institutional innovation in China.

This book uses economic theory to argue that labor-managed firms are rare due to market failures rather than any inherent organizational defects.

Total Environmental Control: The Economics of Cross-Media Pollution Transfers covers the theoretical basis of cross-media transfers of pollution.

The third edition of EU Customs Law provides a fully updated treatment of legislation, new treaties and cases in the two courts of the EU especially but also in Member States.

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.

In the last twenty years, several periods of turmoil have shaped the financial and economic system.

Following the peaceful dissolution of Czechoslovakia, the Slovak Republic emerged as an independent nation and embarked on a journey of economic transition and reform.

A dive into the origins, management, and uses and misuses of sovereign debt through the ages.

A candid explanation of how the labor market really works and is central to everything-and why it is not as healthy as we thinkRelying on unemployment numbers is a dangerous way to gauge how the labor market is doing.

Case studies that examine how firms coordinate economic activity in the face of asymmetric information-information not equally available to all parties-are the focus of this volume.

What exactly is capitalism, and why do its advocates support it?

The human race created money and finance.

What is the role of trade to both expedite growth and to provide the transformative innovations needed in our post-Pandemic, post-Brexit, unstable world?

Volume 40C of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium on the work of the controversial French economist Francois Perroux, edited by Katia Caldari and Alexandre Mendes Cunha, and a collection of book reviews of David M.

"Wie klar und eindeutig sich doch die Mises'schen Grundgedanken in diesem Buch abzeichnen — jene Ideen über Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, die ihm die Bewunderung seiner Anhänger und die Feindseligkeit seiner Gegner eintrugen.