Economic systems and structures

A deep-dive into the heart of modern financial markets, the authors explore why and how people trade - and the consequences.

Global in scope, but refusing a familiar totalizing theoretical framework, the essays in The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital demonstrate how localized and resistant social practices-including anticolonial and feminist struggles, peasant revolts, labor organizing, and various cultural movements-challenge contemporary capitalism as a highly differentiated mode of production.

"e;Geoff Mann is a new breed of monkey-wrencher.

Can the ethical mission of health care survive among organizations competing for survival in the marketplace?

In today's competitive banking industry, institutional banking is attracting greater interest.

The health care system in Canada receives a great deal of international attention, but it is subject to considerable critique and debate locally.

»Eine beeindruckende Abrechnung mit der kapitalistischen Logik des freien Markts« Naomi KleinDie Rede von »Freiheit« im Kapitalismus ist eine Nebelkerze, die die Reichen und Mächtigen schützt und Bürger entmündigt.

The forgotten history of the liberal radicals, socialist internationalists, feminists, and Christians who envisioned free trade as the necessary prerequisite for anti-imperialism and peaceToday, free trade is often associated with right-wing free marketeers.

Explores the combination of capital''s changing composition and labour''s subjective agency.

This book examines how democracy influences state-building and market-building in 25 post-communist countries from 1990 to 2004.

This study explores an exemplary instance of the close interaction between private and official interests in planning and executing the programs of the Nazi government, namely the acquisition in 1941 of the Rombach steel works by the German industrialist Friedrich Flick.

False profits of ethical capital is a thought-provoking approach to understanding stakeholder capitalism.

An annual review of activities by governmental and non-governmental organizations concerning remedies for global pollution, together with scientific and technical reports containing surveys of pollution in the maritime environment.

Analysing the relationship between economic thought and capitalism from 1750 to the present, Douglas Dowd examines the dynamic interaction of two processes: the historical realities of capitalism and the evolution of economic theory.

What explains the international mobility of workers from developing to advanced societies?

Capitalism Russian-Style provides a progress report on the building of capitalism in Russia.

When it comes to the climate, we don't need more marketing or anxiety.

This book reviews the experience of 14 countries with external liberalization and related policies, based on papers written by national authors following a common 0000oeconomic methodology.

This book examines the decline of central planning in post-Mao China.

Abortion and Sterilization: Medical and Social Aspects investigates the medical and social aspects of abortion and sterilization.

This book examines patterns of economic governance in three specific, contrasting, contexts: machinery-producing districts; declining steel cities; and clusters of high-technology activities.

"e;Makes a reader feel like a time traveler plopped down among men who were by turns vicious and visionary.

The ninth of a new, well-received, and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure and homeland security, Defense Industrial Base Protection and Homeland Security is an eye-opening account and an important reference describing a complex sector.

China's emphasis on infrastructure development has received support from African leaders.

This book describes how and why the Soviet administrative command system operated and failed.

Volcanic Hazards: A Sourcebook on the Effects of Eruptions provides a comprehensive discussion of volcanic eruptions and their effects.

This book fills an important gap in the knowledge about labor market conditions in Egypt in the aftermath of the Arab Spring uprisings, and it analyzes the results of the latest round of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey carried out in early 2012.

From industrialisation to the present day, Overripe Economy is a genealogy of the emergence of a finance-ridden, authoritarian, austerity-plagued American capitalism.

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.

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.

How can we make sense of a world where we have both too many billionaires and too many foodbanks?

Explains how the former communist countries became market economies from 1989 to 2006.

This utterly unique how-to supply chain management work is written as mystery to help engage readers.

An exploration of product certification programs and the factors that explain their varied success in becoming global governors equipped to tackle environmental and social problems effectively Consumers now encounter organic or fair-trade labels on a variety of products, implying such desirable benefits as improved environmental conditions or more equitable market transactions.

New Developments in Islamic Economics: Examples from Southeast Asia investigates the latest developments in a vibrantand fast-moving area of practical financial and economic study.

The twenty-first century workplace compels Americans to be more flexible, often at a cost to their personal well-being.

This book challenges the widespread view that Islam is a reactionary religion defending tradition against modernity and individual freedom.

When the first rumblings of the coming financial crisis were heard in August 2007, three men who were never elected to public office suddenly became the most powerful men in the world.

Growth in a Time of Change: Global and Country Perspectives on a New Agenda is the first of a two-book research project that addresses new issues and challenges for economic growth arising from ongoing significant change in the world economy, focusing especially on technological transformation.

Are Donald Trump's irrationality, cruelty, and bombast symptoms of his personality?

The euro's life, while only slightly more than a decade long, has been riddled by a series of challenges and crises.

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

The preoccupation of financial theory with static, timeless, equilibrium analysis has given rise to an orthodoxy that avoids the problems of uncertainty in the world.

Costing billions of dollars annually, international trade in agricultural products is impactful and influenced by several factors, including climate change, food policy, and government legislation.

It would be easy to cheat someone on eBay.

At no other moment in history have the values of business and the corporation been more nakedly and arrogantly in the ascendant.

Energy and the Environment Cost- Benefit Analysis originates from a conference, the objective of which is to set a global standard to measure the cost and benefit of human's production of energy.