Political economy

This book analyses the making of the Chinese middle class that started in the 1990s using a constructivist approach.

The global financial crisis that reached its peak in late 2008 has brought the importance of financial services regulation and supervision into the spotlight.

This book examines how Russia, the world's most complicated country, is governed.

This book explores the linkages between Amartya Sen's Capability Approach and participatory forms of development - especially those associated with critical pedagogy and empowerment from the bottom-up.

This book tackles the terms under which a knowledge-based society can indefinitely improve while pursuing an eco-economic steady state.

Innovation is the creation of new, technologically feasible, commercially realisable products and processes and, if things go right, it emerges from the ongoing interaction of innovative organisations such as universities, research institutes, firms, government agencies and venture capitalists.

International taxation is a major research topic, and for a field of research at the intersection of so many disciplines there has been surprisingly little done across disciplinary boundaries.

In the new edition of this important contribution to understanding both the Asian economic miracle and the 1997-8 crisis, Richard Stubbs assesses the main explanations to date and updates the analysis to take account of globalization and the remarkable economic rise of China.

This book is a discourse on modelling Man in a social context.

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The political economy landscape has shifted as multinational corporations increase their investment efforts, changing the geographies of extraction.

Social inequality is a worldwide phenomenon.

During the past 30 years, China has undergone extensive economic reform, replacing the government's administration of enterprises with increasing levels of market-oriented enterprise autonomy.

This book contributes new insights into the organization of free/open source (F/OS) software communities by examining the links between learning, division of labour and commercialization, demonstrating the need for a synthesis of work on both community organization and cooperation to understand F/OS community dynamics.

This book provides an introduction to the vision of an economic system based completely on the Holy Qur'an-a system defined as a collection of institutions, representing rules of behavior, prescribed by Allah for humans, and the traditions of the Messenger.

The French philosopher and economist Saint-Simon (1760-1825) propounded a new political, economic and social order in which the quest for economic efficiency and social justice led to putting the workers at the forefront.

This edited volume offers a new and original approach to the study of technological change in retail finance.

City Life from Jakarta to Dakar focuses on the politics incumbent to this process - an "e;anticipatory politics"e; - that encompasses a wide range of practices, calculations and economies.

This book explores the life and work of Austrian-British economist, political economist, and social philosopher, Friedrich Hayek.

Acknowledgement of the ethical dimension of global finance is commonplace in the wake of financial crises.

Many low-income countries and development organizations are calling for greater liberalization of labor immigration policies in high-income countries.

This thematically structured text offers an ideal introduction to the positive and negative effects of globalization on human welfare in industrial and developing societies.

In One Economics, Many Recipes, leading economist Dani Rodrik argues that neither globalizers nor antiglobalizers have got it right.

The story of GDP and why we need a better measurement of growthIn one lifetime, GDP, or Gross Domestic Product, has ballooned from a narrow economic tool into a global article of faith.

In recent years, debate on the state's economic role has too often devolved into diatribes against intervention.

For many, Thomas Carlyle's put-down of economics as "e;the dismal science"e; rings true--especially in the aftermath of the crash of 2008.

Charles Prow has brought together an impressive lineup of businessmen and women, reporters, and experts to show how the United States can be more competitive in the global economy.

This study offers a detailed analysis of U.

How did the once-secretive, isolated People's Republic of China become the factory to the world?

The CSIS Reconnecting Asia Project explores the drivers and implications of Asia's infrastructure push.

This is a 17,300 word essay describing significant events leading toward a decline of Americas social and economic viability and some thoughts related to a reformation of basic institutions and ethics.

This indispensable text reader provides a broad-ranging and thoughtfully organized feminist introduction to the ongoing controversies of development in Latin America and the Caribbean.

This book is the most comprehensive collection available explaining what the military industrial complex (MIC) is, where it comes from, what damage it does, what further destruction it threatens, and what can be done and is being done to chart a different course.

The current literature on consumerism is diverse, scattered, and unsystematic.

This book highlights how resource constraints and client agency impact China's patronage policy in their pursuit of regional geopolitical power.

This book breaks down new ways to use foresight and economic theory to enhance economic planning at a national level.

This book offers the first critical engagement with the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa.

The Dominican Republic has posted impressive economic growth rates over the past thirty years.

This volume explores several aspects of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum's framework for thinking about individual well-being.

The spread of market-oriented reforms has been one of the major political and economic trends of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Increasingly, business leaders are tasked with developing new products, services, and business models that minimize environmental impact while driving economic growth.

For some, automation will usher in a labor-free utopia; for others, it signals a disastrous age-to-come.

Critics of capitalist finance tend to focus on its speculative character.

A favorite icon for cigarette manufacturers across China since the mid-twentieth century has been the panda, with factories from Shanghai to Sichuan using cuddly cliche to market tobacco products.

For much of American history, large numbers of people claimed that money was a public good and asserted the right to shape money creation practices.

Microfinance is the business of giving small, collateral-free loans to poor borrowers that are paid back in frequent intervals with interest.

Mexico City's public markets were integral to the country's economic development, bolstering the expansion of capitalism from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries.

Japan grew explosively and consistently for more than a century, from the Meiji Restoration until the collapse of the economic bubble in the early 1990s.

In Brexit Britain, talk of 'the economy' dominates; however, we know surprisingly little about how people understand this term.

"e;In this informative study, Garsten and Sorbom explore both the inner workings and the communication strategies of the WEF.