Political economy

This ambitious book provides a comprehensive quantitative and qualitative assessment of Jamaica's ties to the International Monetary Fund, focusing on Jamaica's historical relationship with the IMF and reflecting on the domestic and international discourse surrounding the evolution of this relationship.

In recent decades, gold mining has moved into increasingly remote corners of the globe.

This book reviews the social role of universities in their local urban contexts and describes a number of initiatives of major interest in terms of the impact achieved, the range of stakeholders involved, and the significance of the university campus and teachers as agents of change.

This book promotes an in-depth understanding of the key mechanisms that govern the functioning of capitalist economies, pursuing a Classical Political Economics approach to do so.

This book focuses on income inequality, output-inflation trade-off and economic policy uncertainty in South Africa.

This three volume series of intellectual biography considers the life, work and impact on economic, social and political theory of the Italian economist, sociologist and political scientist Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923).

This book is aimed at students in social sciences programs that include some course in quantitative methods.

This book assesses the evolutionary sustainability of liberalism.

This book analyzes key aspects of Marx's Capital with an eye towards its relevance for an understanding of issues confronting us in the 21st Century.

This short book describes the role big banks played in the financial crisis of 2008 while denouncing the financial oligarchy's seizing of power and the dangers it represents for democracy today.

This book explicitly addresses policy options in a democratic society regarding cognitive enhancement drugs and devices.

***Winner of the Political Studies Association Conservatism Studies Group prize 2020***This book provides a detailed analysis of the evolution of the Conservative Right in Great Britain since 1945.

This book highlights various challenges and opportunities for water management and cooperation in South Asia.

Analysing foreign investment promotion at a regional level in the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia, the book applies regional science, international business, and place marketing concepts to explore how Central Eastern European Countries compete for multinational firms.

Acclaimed by Joseph Schumpeter as 'The greatest economist the United States has ever produced', this book examines the life and work of American economist and statistician Irving Fisher (1867-1947).

This book analyses the contribution of the new forms of reporting adopted by Public Sector Organisations in the provision of information on value creation processes to their various stakeholders.

This book examines the impacts of fiscal decentralization reforms on the efficiency of local governments in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries.

This edited volume is focused on Hilferding's major work, Finance Capital.

This book addresses major issues facing postal and delivery services throughout the world.

Firmly rooted in the International Political Economy (IPE) tradition, this book addresses the negative consequences of globalisation, what is termed here the 'dark side of globalisation'.

This book brings a radically new voice to the debate in the field of Chinese politics and labor movement.

This book seeks to diagnose and analyze the social, economic and technological consequences of the 2008 financial crisis, which brought epochal changes to our lives.

Precarity is a key theme in political discourse, in media and academic discussions of employment, and within the labour movement.

This book examines the economic and political rise of China from the perspective of Japan's economic development.

This book explains the best practices of the UNCTAD & WTO for trade analysis to the R users community.

This book examines China's political, economic, and diplomatic engagement in Africa.

This book examines the experiences of seasonal, migrant sugarcane workers in Brazil, analyzing the deep-seated inequalities pervasive in contemporary Brazil.

This volume explores the continuous line from informal and unrecorded practices all the way up to illegal and criminal practices, performed and reproduced by both individuals and organisations.

This is the first volume in a new series on 'Great Minds in Regional Science,' which seeks to present a contemporary view on the scientific relevance of the work done by great thinkers in regional science.

This book builds on the highly successful Geography of Beer: Regions, Environment, and Society (2014) and investigates the geography of beer from two expanded perspectives: culture and economics.

This book provides an overview of factors fostering well-being in Latin America and discusses many threats to well-being in the region.

This book examines rural tourism across three different contexts, acknowledging the complexity of rural places.

This book shares essential insights into the implementation of monetary policy in various East Asian countries.

Political Economy in the Habsburg Monarchy is an important study of the contribution of Austrian Enlightenment economist Ludwig Zinzendorf to the political economy of the Habsburg monarchy in the mid eighteenth century.

Using the basic economic principle of making decisions using a cost-benefit framework-and how changes in one or the other can result in a different decision-this book uncovers how various groups responded to incentives provided by the Prohibition legislation.

This book studies the economic recovery of individual European Union member states more than ten years after the beginning of the global economic crisis.

This book provides substantial background on what Adam Smith did during his stay in Toulouse and the Languedoc region of France during the 18th century.

This book examines the politics of taxation in Ireland between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries.

In the past few decades, and intensified since the global financial crisis of August 2007, heterodox macroeconomics has developed apace and its scope has broadened in a number of directions.

This Palgrave Pivot uses Marxian economic categories and analysis to explore the deeper causes of the 2008 global economic crisis, what the crisis represents for capitalism, and why fiscal and monetary policies pursued in its wake have failed to rejuvenate economies.

This book addresses the factors that have led to the lackluster economic performance of the oil MENA region, despite the wealth of its vast natural resource.

The US QI and FATCA regulations came into being in 2001 and 2010 respectively.

Why do policies and strategies often fail, and what can be done about it?

This book presents a systematic study of the history, theory and policy of investor citizenship and residence programmes.

This  timely biography of the economist  Wynne Godley (1926-2010) charts his long and often crisis-blown route to a new way of understanding  whole economies.

This book explores how the European Union responds to the ongoing challenges to the liberal international order.

This book offers a concise but thorough analysis of the International Monetary Fund reform debate.

This proceedings volume focuses on the importance and power of spatial thinking and planning, especially by applying geospatial technologies in solving the past and current global problems such as environmental degradation, urban pollution, climate change, agricultural management and epidemiology.

This book examines ways in which formerly prosperous regions can renew their economy during and after a period of industrial and economic recession.

Throughout the twentieth century, the Chilean business elite has played a central role in the country, not just as entrepreneurs but also as political and social actors.