Economic systems and structures

Uncertain Futures considers how economic actors visualize the future and decide how to act in conditions of radical uncertainty.

Offshore outsourcing- the movement of jobs to lower-wage countries- is one of the defining features of globalization.

Italy is a country of recent decline and long-standing idiosyncratic traits.

Italy is a country of recent decline and long-standing idiosyncratic traits.

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

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

After many years in which it appeared to be losing the pre-eminent position it had occupied in the lexicon of the social and human sciences, the term 'capitalism' has once again become a matter of critical concern, both theoretically and substantively, in a range of disciplinary fields.

For a century, economists have driven forward the cause of globalization in financial institutions, labour markets, and trade.

For a century, economists have driven forward the cause of globalization in financial institutions, labour markets, and trade.

The balance of economic power in Europe is shifting eastwards.

In Casino Capitalism Hans-Werner Sinn examines the causes of the banking crisis, points out the flaws in the economic rescue packages, and presents a master plan for the reform of financial markets.

Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so.

In 2008, the world was plunged into a financial and economic crash.

In 2008, the world was plunged into a financial and economic crash.

Developing country debt crises have been a recurrent phenomenon over the past two centuries.

In Casino Capitalism Hans-Werner Sinn examines the causes of the banking crisis, points out the flaws in the economic rescue packages, and presents a master plan for the reform of financial markets.

The financial crisis, which originated in developed country financial markets, quickly spread to developing countries.

Financial markets, processes, and instruments are often difficult to fathom; the credit crisis highlights both their importance and their fragility.

This book considers why institutional forms of modern capitalist economies differ internationally, and proposes a typology of capitalism based on the theory of institutional complementarity.

This volume provides an challenging and controversial explanation of the recent events in Russia.

A classic of early modernism, Capital combines vivid historical detail with economic analysis to produce a bitter denunciation of mid-Victorian capitalist society.

What is capitalism?

The financial crisis, which originated in developed country financial markets, quickly spread to developing countries.

Developing country debt crises have been a recurrent phenomenon over the past two centuries.

Following the eight year rule of Idi Amin, then several years of war and civil war, the Ugandan economy was in ruins by the time peace was restored in 1986.

A volume that takes stock and looks ahead on the development and implementation of competition policy in the European Union fifty years after the Treaty of Rome.

The late twentieth century has witnessed the establishment of new forms of capitalism in East Asia as well as new market economies in Eastern Europe.

Financial markets, processes, and instruments are often difficult to fathom; the credit crisis highlights both their importance and their fragility.

This book provides an assessment of the role of the International Monetary Fund in poor countries.

This book is the result of a research project carried out for the Committee of the Regions and analyses the 'state of play' of democratic practice at the subnational level in all of the European Member states.

What is capitalism?

The emergence of China as a global economic powerhouse, the uncertain path of Russia towards a market economy, and the integration of ten Central and Eastern European countries into the European Union (EU) have occupied the minds and agendas of many policy-makers, business leaders and scholars from around the world at the end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century.

American manufacturing is in obvious crisis: the sector lost three million jobs between 2000 and 2003 as the American trade deficit shot to record highs.

Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so.

Several years before the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, most East Asian economies with the exception of China had engaged in the liberal reform prescriptions of the Washington Consensus.

The growth of rural industry in China since 1978 has been explosive.

In this synthetic, interdisciplinary work, Neil Brenner develops a new interpretation of the transformation of statehood under contemporary globalizing capitalism.

This book presents startling evidence that state monopolies can produce better outcomes than the free market.

This book considers why institutional forms of modern capitalist economies differ internationally, and proposes a typology of capitalism based on the theory of institutional complementarity.

Much of the received wisdom about the world of work emphasizes the marketization of the employment relationship; the decline of class-based forms of inequality, and the individualization of employment relations.

Since the early 1990s, Europe's economies have been facing several new challenges: the single market programme, the collapse of the Berlin wall and eastward enlargement, and monetary unification.

What is the Russian Mafia?

The interventions of crisis management during the 2007 to 2011 financial crisis were not simply responses to a set of given developments in markets, banking or neo-liberal capitalism.

This edition contains generous selections from all five volumes of The Wealth of Nations, and places Smith's inquiry into its historical, intellectual, and cultural context.

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

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

The old discussion of 'Market or State' is obsolete.

The old discussion of 'Market or State' is obsolete.

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.

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.