Economic systems and structures

Recent elections in the advanced western democracies have undermined the basic foundations of political systems that had previously beaten back all challenges -- from both the left and the right.

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

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

From 1978 through the turn of the century, China was transformed from a state-owned economy into a predominantly private economy.

From 1978 through the turn of the century, China was transformed from a state-owned economy into a predominantly private economy.

The first book length study of property-owning democracy, Republic of Equals argues that a society in which capital is universally accessible to all citizens is uniquely placed to meet the demands of justice.

China's rise is altering global power relations, reshaping economic debates, and commanding tremendous public attention.

China's rise is altering global power relations, reshaping economic debates, and commanding tremendous public attention.

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.

Global capitalism is affected by the malaises of stagnation, financial fragility, increased income inequality, growing wealth concentration at the top, and a vanishing fair social contract.

Global capitalism is affected by the malaises of stagnation, financial fragility, increased income inequality, growing wealth concentration at the top, and a vanishing fair social contract.

Technology and globalization are uprooting and reshaping daily life.

The first book length study of property-owning democracy, Republic of Equals argues that a society in which capital is universally accessible to all citizens is uniquely placed to meet the demands of justice.

As Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward argued in the early seventies, in a capitalist economy, social welfare policies alternatingly serve political and economic ends as circumstances dictate.

With real case stories, Wells and Ahmed bring to life both the hopes for and the failures of international guarantees of property rights for investors in the developing world.

Over the last decade, market-based incentives have become the regulatory tool of choice when trying to solve difficult environmental problems.

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

In 1945, Japan surrendered unconditionally to the United States and its allies, thereby planting the seed from which would spring one of the world's most successful and stable democracies.

Emotion is one of the defining forces in our lives.

In The Future of the Euro, a group of the world's top political economists analyze the fundamental causes of the euro crisis, determine how it can be fixed, and consider what likely futures lie ahead for the currency.

German economic performance has astonished the world.

German economic performance has astonished the world.

As Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward argued in the early seventies, in a capitalist economy, social welfare policies alternatingly serve political and economic ends as circumstances dictate.

In The Future of the Euro, a group of the world's top political economists analyze the fundamental causes of the euro crisis, determine how it can be fixed, and consider what likely futures lie ahead for the currency.

How has China been able to maintain high-speed economic growth during the last thirty-plus years and successfully transform itself from a poor, backward, and developing country to become the world's second-largest economy?

How has China been able to maintain high-speed economic growth during the last thirty-plus years and successfully transform itself from a poor, backward, and developing country to become the world's second-largest economy?

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

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

'It's often said that books are compulsory reading, but this book really is compulsory.

Two of the UK's leading economists call for an end to extreme individualism as the engine of prosperity 'provocative but thought-provoking and nuanced' TelegraphThroughout history, successful societies have created institutions which channel both competition and co-operation to achieve complex goals of general benefit.

'A witty and timely debunking of some of the biggest myths surrounding the global economy' - ObserverHa-Joon Chang's 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism turns received economic wisdom on its head to show you how the world really works.

Capitalism faltered at the end of the 1990s as corporations were rocked by fraud, the stock-market bubble burst and the American business model unfettered self-interest, privatization and low tax faced a storm of protest.

This Element provides the systematic analysis of how the BRICS''s rise constitutes a contestation of the liberal global financial order.

The unlikely story of how Americans canonized Adam Smith as the patron saint of free marketsOriginally published in 1776, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was lauded by America's founders as a landmark work of Enlightenment thinking about national wealth, statecraft, and moral virtue.

Mainstream economics generally assumes a universalistic market-oriented economic behavior that drives countries to adopt one economic system, with marginal variations.

The deflation of the subprime mortgage bubble in 2006-7 is widely agreed to have been the immediate cause of the collapse of the financial sector in 2008.

Underwriting Services and the New Issues Market integrates practice, theory and evidence from the global underwriting industry to present a comprehensive description and analysis of underwriting practices.

Almost 15 years ago, in The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman popularized the latest wave of globalization as a world of giant corporate supply chains that tripled world trade between 1990 and 2010.

Freemium Economics presents a practical, instructive approach to successfully implementing the freemium model into your software products by building analytics into product design from the earliest stages of development.

Real-life ';wildpreneur' Tamara Jacobi shares her insights on what it takes to successfully make the leap from a safe yet soul-crushing day job to chasing your dreams.

Can the stories of bananas, whales, sea birds, and otters teach us to reconsider the seaport as a place of ecological violence, tied to oil, capital, and trade?

Gerard Comeau, a retiree living in rural New Brunswick, never thought his booze run would turn him into a Canadian hero.

ASan Francisco ChronicleBestseller An NPR Best Book of the YearTheNew York TimessGlobal Economics Correspondent masterfully reveals how billionaires systematic plunder of the worldbrazenly accelerated during the pandemichas transformed 21st-century life and dangerously destabilized democracy.

Until quite recently, the Japanese inspired a kind of puzzled awe.

This authoritative book on China's oil demand and government policies and practices rests on two essential foundations: first and foremost on the author's considerable knowledge of China's oil situation and prospects, together with his access to Chinese energy literature and data; and secondly, on that insight afforded to him and, therefore, his readers from his fluency in Chinese.

This book tells the story of an academic department that underwent rapid, wrenching changes at a time and in a place that one would not have expected them to have occurred.

La marca Mercado Libre se convirtió, en los últimos años, en el faro del liberalismo vernáculo, una suerte de enclave de éxito global en un continente empobrecido.

Already the world's third largest economic power, China presents enormous potential for businesses worldwide.

The Third Millennium presents unprecedented opportunities and challenges to capitalism as a global economic system.

Best execution, market integration, and other major financial market issues have traditionally been dealt with as separate matters requiring individual solutions.