Political economy

This book identifies and systematically confirms the various factors that allow dangerous nuclear power projects to proceed without adequate risk assessment, even as society recognizes the magnitude of risks associated with nuclear power generation.

This book is about the behaviour of systems.

The health of American manufacturing has been a cause of real concern during the 1980s.

This book offers a unique analysis of bilateral investment treaties (BITs).

For centuries Japan, although a totalitarian dictatorship, was ruled by figureheads who signed laws formulated 'behind the screen'.

A collection of articles on topics and individuals within the history of heterodox economic thought, approached from a heterodox perspective.

Diccionario Bilingue de Metaforas y Metonimias Cientifico-Tecnicas presents the extensive range of metaphoric and metonymic terms and expressions that are commonly used within the fields of science, engineering, architecture and sports science.

Originally published in 1995, this book explores a number of subjects of significance for labor and economic policy, especially the role of U.

Procedural Politics, first published in 2004, develops a theory of everyday politics with respect to rules.

British Industrial Relations (1983) provides a comprehensive and balanced approach to British industrial relations, an often controversial subject with a variety of academic interpretations which achieved a large significance in national politics.

This volume, incorporating the work of scholars from various parts of the globe, taps the wisdom of the Westphalian (and post-Westphalian) world on the use of federalism and secession as tools for managing regional conflicts.

This book presents a rich collection of research studies on the theory and practice of CSR in Asia.

In this fourth edition of the best-selling core introductory textbook, Pete Alcock and Margaret May provide an essential up-to-date guide on social policy.

This book discusses Nature and Human Communities in the historical and social background of Asia.

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

Leading scholars assess the transformations in energy security policy that flow from recognition of global climate change.

This book addresses the role of social capital in promoting rural and local development.

These essays develop a Marxist response to and approach to aspects of the recent economic past in the United Kingdom.

This volume focuses on nationality's efficacy in much of world affairs, and on the background and current issues surrounding global crisis.

This book develops "e;organizing eating"e; as an organizational-communication centered framework for understanding how communication and power combine to actively shape eating and working in the U.

This book deals with some aspects of the future shape of the socio-economic order which would be founded on sustainability principles and the role of law therein, instead of on the prevailing capitalist economic order.

This latest volume in the Collaborative Biography of Hayek examines the interconnectedness between Hayek's (1944) The Road to Serfdom and George Orwell's Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949); his relationship with Karl Popper and Karl Polanyi; and the work of Wilhelm von Humboldt.

This book draws on case studies of social, economic and political governance policies from Latin America, Africa and Asia to examine the circumstances in which governments and societies produce policies that overcome initial opposition to meet their aims.

This book addresses the complex socioeconomic situation in the Polish-Ukrainian borderland, in the context of the labour market, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

This book focuses on the economic challenges India has been facing since its independence in 1947.

This book provides an indispensable guide to the economic, political and diplomatic process that led to the creation of the European single market and the signing of the Maastricht Treaty.

This book delves into the intricacies of digital assets.

Wrecking Activities at Power Stations in the Soviet Union (1933) is a valuable historical document that presents a verbatim report of the trials of various Soviet and British engineers and workers accused of acts of sabotage against the Soviet energy infrastructure.

This book focuses on the importance of women's entrepreneurship policy in the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

There has never been a better time for the social fabric matrix.

Since the start of reform two decades ago, China's economy has experienced spectacular growth.

Challenging the more conventional approaches to dislocation and resettlement that are the usual focus of discussion on the topic, this book offers a unique theory of dislocation in the form of primitive accumulation.

This book brings together Marxian philosophy and Lacanian psychoanalysis to argue that the hegemonic form of global capital is founded on the foreclosure of class and world of the third.

This book argues that Australia is vital to the US imperial project for global hegemony in the struggle among great powers, and why Australia's deep dependency on the US is incompatible with democracy and the security of the country.

This important reader brings together published articles from Palgrave's journal The European Journal of Development Research on the development between China and Africa as well as emerging national economies in the BRICs group.

Europe's political landscapes are in turmoil, and new radical parties challenge the established political order.

Economic Integration in East and West (1976) explores the logic of economic integration to form free trade areas and common markets, and applies the findings to the European Economic Community and Comecon, and to third countries and the world economic order in general.

This book examines new policies for accelerating India's economic growth.

The book is seventh in the annual Persian Gulf series published by MEI@ND.

This book examines the changing relations between the Asian part of the Middle East and the rest of the continent during the 21st century.

Drawing on original research from social scientists working on twelve countries this book explores the key issues faced by nations and citizens as they struggle to rediscover, reaffirm or reconstruct their sense of national identities in the face of globalizing forces.

With the NASDAQ having lost 70 percent of its value, the giddy, optimistic belief in perpetual growth that accompanied the economic boom of the 1990s had fizzled by 2002.