Political economy

Investigates the implications of the globalization of private security for politics, security, and international relations.

Contrary to common belief, macroeconomics is not merely a theory of aggregates, and cannot be constructed from individual behaviour.

Illustrated by in-depth empirical research from six country studies, Gendered Electoral Financing: Money, Power and Representation in Comparative Perspective is the first cross-regional examination of the nexus between money, gender and political recruitment across the world.

This book considers the issue of biodiversity in developing countries in relation to intellectual-property rights, community rights and human rights.

Though industrialized countries are usually the ones indicted when environmental pollution is discussed, over the few last years the rate of emissions in developing countries has increased by a startling amount.

Originally published in 1931, this book was written at a time when the utility and value of gold was under great scrutiny.

This book advances an ecologically grounded approach to International Political Economy (IPE).

Economic Elites, Crises, and Democracy analyzes critical topics of contemporaneous capitalism.

Drawing on historical cases of the American South before and after the Civil War, Europe - especially Germany - between the world wars, and the United States in Vietnam and its aftermath, this book takes a historical approach to explain the problems of capitalism and democratic leadership in western democracies today.

With contributions from six leading scientific countries of the Global North and from the general European Higher Education Area, this book questions the predominant view on academic freedom and pleads for a holistic approach.

This book merges macro- and micro-level analysis of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to dissect China's aim in creating an integrated Eurasian continent through this single mega-project.

This bold and ambitious handbook is the first systematic overview of the history of development ideas, themes, and actors in the twentieth century.

The growing economic power of government has prompted many studies to seek to establish the optimum size of government and how it might relate to economic growth, productivity and inflation.

By the 1950s the percentage of all economic doctorates awarded to women had dropped to a record low of less than five percent.

Since September 2011, the Occupy movement has captured the world's imagination.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is an important issue in contemporary business, management and politics, especially since the launch of the United Nations Global Compact in 2000 as an initiative to encourage businesses worldwide to adopt sustainable and socially responsible policies, and to report on them.

This title was first published in 1973: Why do some states enact stronger pollution control progammes than others?

This Handbook captures the salient features of Middle Eastern economies and critically examines the public policy responses required to address the challenges and opportunities across the region.

This thought-provoking volume presents essays on the foundations of non-equilibrium economics, i.

Moving beyond abstract economic models and superficial descriptions of the market, Beyond the Developmental State analyses the economic, political and ideological interests which underpin current socio-economic processes.

This book presents the most significant theoretical articles by Bertram Schefold to illuminate the development and the present state of modern classical theory.

With World War II still raging, nations came together to create a new international monetary order, the Bretton Woods system.

This is the second and final volume of a collection of studies on the role of the state in capital accumulation in Latin America.

With a focus on the European labour market, this book seeks to understand how digital transformation affects changes in employee-employer relations.

The Politics of the Eurogroup provides an intriguing look inside the euro crisis and the secretive forum of finance ministers that came to dominate it.

Due to automation, nearly half of the jobs will vanish over the next two decades in the US.

Shih develops a framework with which to analyze the impact of elite politics on both monetary and banking policies.

Since the 1940s, Marxist thought has blossomed in Nigeria.

European Defence Cooperation (1984) considers the varied elements of European defence cooperation and the obstacles to further development of a European pillar within NATO.

The current global financial crisis has raised awareness of the impact the world of finance has on the economy and the future of democracy.

This handbook examines Pakistan's 70-year history from a number of different perspectives.

In the aftermath of the Liberian civil war, groups of ex-combatants seized control of natural resource enclaves in the rubber, diamond, and timber sectors.

Bernard Alford reviews the changing role, and diminishing influence, of Britain within the international economy across the century that saw the apogee and loss of Britain's empire, and her transformation from globe-straddling superpower to off-shore and indecisive member of the European Community.

World-system analyses have recast the study of between- and within-nation country inequality as constituent aspects of a single field of inquiry: the study of inequality and social stratification as processes that always have been global in their very essence.

Climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution of land and water, land-use changes, lack of equality and other problems at local, national and global levels represent a challenge for economics as a social science.

Of all of the lies, fragile alliances, and predatory financial dealings that have been revealed in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, we have yet to come to terms with the ways in which structural inequalities around gender and race factor into (and indeed make possible) the current economic order.

This book analyzes the choices and constraints of management within the Bangladesh garment industry and how management negotiates these challenges to ensure the global garment supply chain is sustainable.

Current systems are failing the poor because these systems are unable to provide the financial inclusion needed for basic subsistence and commerce, which in turn would drive micro- and macro-economic growth.

Since 1960, Canadian industry has lagged behind other advanced capitalist economies in its level of commitment to research and development.

This book is a contribution to the scholarly engagement with the wider problem of governing through risk and the politics of uncertainty.

It is a curious situation that technologies we now take for granted have, when first introduced, so often stoked public controversy and concern for public welfare.

Examines the efforts to reconstruct Iraq''s vital budgetary system after the 2003 invasion as a key element of the American-led Coalition''s state-building and counterinsurgency strategy.

How has the Chinese economy managed to grow at such a remarkable rate - no less than ten per cent per annum - for over three decades?

A century ago, John Maynard Keynes entered the Treasury to serve his country during the First World War, but as is well known, appalled by the terms of the end-of-war Treaty of Versailles, he abandoned the British delegation, outlining the predictable adverse results in the Economic Consequences of the Peace, published in 1919.

While US-centred bilateralism and ASEAN-led multilateralism have largely dominated the post-Cold War regional security architecture in the Indo-Pacific, increasing doubts about their effectiveness have resulted in countries turning to alternative forms of cooperation, such as minilateral arrangements.

The main tide of international relations scholarship on the first years after World War II sweeps toward Cold War accounts.

Britain into Europe (1976) examines how the debate in Britain about EEC membership was conducted between 1961 and 1975.

Economics affects our daily lives in crucial ways.

Despite the rise of 'new' security threats like terrorism, cyber-war and piracy, the terrible destructive power of nuclear weapons still hangs over the world.