Political economy

Originally published in 1998.

The household has traditionally been neglected in studies of Asian political economy.

American manufacturing has been on the decline for at least two generations; that fact is plain to any observer who travels through the Rust Belt of the Midwest, where the closing of steel plants and automobile factories has created ghost towns that dot the landscape.

Drawing on the history of modern finance, as well as the sociology of money and risk, this book examines how cultural understandings of finance have contributed to the increased capitalization of the UK financial system following the Global Financial Crisis.

This book focuses on the geo-economic and geopolitical impact of value chains transformation on the transport-logistic reintegration of continental Eurasian countries, with a specific focus on the members of the Eurasian Economic Union.

Addressing the big questions about how technological change is transforming economies and societiesRapid technological change-likely to accelerate as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic-is reshaping economies and how they grow.

This book examines the links between major contemporary public sector reforms and neoliberal thinking.

This title was first published in 2002.

This book presents insightful perspectives on the invocation, implementation and application of UN-approved financial sanctions and related issues.

Globalization and Entrepreneurship explores the transformative impact of digital technologies on entrepreneurship across three distinct, but interconnected nations.

This book examines the role of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) practitioners in coordinating, creating, and managing regional governance practices in the areas of public health, peace and security, and microfinancial integration.

This study combines lessons drawn from events and experiences of developing countries and examines them in relation to Jan Kregel's ideas on economics and development.

Globalisation has created many opportunities for economic development, but it is also associated with rising income inequality and poverty.

Explains the causes and consequences of democratization within the firm.

Originally published in 1988, this book offers the first comprehensive and critical analysis of the privatisation of public housing in Britain.

The consequences of the global economic crisis which started in the United States in 2007-08 are still being felt in most of the advanced economies, and the mainstream tools of recovery are not having the required results.

This book examines macroeconomic theory from an analytical framework provided by theories of complex systems, in contrast to conventional theories founded on aggregation.

Applying fresh tools from economics to explain puzzling behaviors of religious radicals: Muslim, Christian, and Jewish; violent and benign.

Other books exist that warn of the dangers of empire and war.

Studying paradiplomacy comparatively, this book explains why and how sub-state governments (SSG) conduct their international relations (IR) with external actors, and how federal authorities and local governments coordinate, or not, in the definition and implementation of the national foreign policy.

This book presents a theory to account for the different strategies pursued by rebel groups in civil war.

What did you have for breakfast?

Businesspeople run for office to protect their firms'' interests against competitors and shape government to work for the business community.

Praised for the clarity of its writing, careful research, and distinctive theme - that urban politics in the United States has evolved as a dynamic interaction between governmental power, private actors, and a politics of identity - City Politics remains a classic study of urban politics.

The global race for talent is on, with countries and businesses competing for the best and brightest.

This book is about the way 'governance' has become the new orthodoxy of development, following earlier failed attempts at building working market economies through policy reform in developing countries.

This book provides a novel theory of land reform and tests it using extensive original data dating back to 1900.

Assessing the effectiveness of the North American Agreement on Labour Cooperation (NAALC), this book examines the operation of the core institutions (the Secretariat and National Administrative Offices) over the past seven years.

The theory of spontaneous order conceptualises and explains a number of institutional and social phenomena that are not an intended effect of either individual decisions or a collective consensus but an unplanned outcome of interactions between people pursuing their own aims.

In politics, ideas matter.

Poverty in modern-day Britain looks different to the form it took in Beveridge's day but it has not disappeared.

Why did the economists of the so-called "e;mainstream"e; seem to fail to foresee the global economic crisis that exploded in 2008?

A sharp examination of the looming financial catastrophe of retirement in America.

In Collaborative Development in Northeast Asia , Michio Morishima is concerned with an imaginary world as Joseph A.

This text provides comprehensive coverage of the core elements of economic policy, from both microeconomic and macroeconomic approaches.

At a time of momentous shifts in the balance of world economic forces epitomized by the current oil price boom, the weakening US dollar and the global credit crunch; the meteoric rise of the Arabian peninsula cannot be understated.

The New South African Review revives the tradition of critical, analytical scholarship developed by the South African Review in the 1970s and 1980s.

This book presents ten studies which combine historical narrative with econometrics to analyze the role of credibility in four monetary regimes.

Governments that seek to liberalize trade can find that doing so is often in tension with their desire to achieve the objectives of cultural policy.

Since 1975 the leaders of the major western economies have gathered in annual summit meetings to try to agree a unified response to the main political and economic problems facing them.

How does Britain get its food?

In 1997, the World Bank announced a strategy to help its borrowers combat corruption, despite earlier claims that work of this kin violated the Bank's non-political mandate.

Lee explains development and retrenchment of the welfare states in developing countries through an explanatory model based around ''embedded cohesiveness''.

Cohn's topic of global trade is of enormous and proliferating interest.

This interdisciplinary study offers a comprehensive analysis of the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Emerging market economies (EMEs) have become the darlings of international investors and the focus of enormous attention in academic, media, and policy circles.

Winner of The Deutscher Memorial Prize 2004.