Political economy

This book critically engages with how formal and informal mechanisms of governance are used across the world.

Interest has always been a part of humans' daily economic life, and the concept of interest has attracted intense attention from economists, philosophers, religious scholars and lawmakers.

This book addresses the question of what socialism is according to fundamental values rather than institutions.

This book presents a detailed and critical discussion about how human wellbeing can be maintained and improved in a postgrowth era.

This book presents novel theoretical and empirical findings on the issue of unrecognized states and secession.

This book offers an extensive review of market-oriented economic reforms since 1970, and considers the question of whether more liberal economic policy yields greater social welfare.

This book takes a broad look at conceptual and practical applications of gender budgeting in Europe.

This book scrutinizes the last 15 years of exceptional growth in the Turkish economy, and presents a model for sustainable ongoing growth that has particular implications for other key emerging economies.

This book examines the interactions between trade policy and foreign and security policy in EU external action as a nexus of practices.

This book presents an international review of the modern geo-economy and a scientific take on the geo-economy of the future.

This book describes and refutes thirteen ideas involving free market principles and the US economic system, arguing that these (mostly familiar) ideas are myths.

The book spans a scientific research program elegantly developed by Roberto Camagni, an eminent regional scientist, who has offered ground-breaking ideas in regional and urban economics throughout his academic career.

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

This book highlights some of the unique aspects of spatio-temporal graph data from the perspectives of modeling and developing scalable algorithms.

Energy policies play a pivotal part in helping countries achieve their sustainable development goals.

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Explaining the determinants of China and India's development cooperation in Africa cannot be achieved in simple terms.

This volume represents a comprehensive state-of-the-art picture of family business and entrepreneurship issues in countries belonging to the Gulf Cooperation Council.

This book, the first of two volumes, examines ancient civilizations to explore the ethical foundations of modern economic systems.

This book comparatively examines the China-South Africa trade relationship over three decades through the prism of four other relationships South Africa has with states that have been China's most contentious neighbours in the Indo-Pacific (India, Japan, Taiwan and the USA).

This book is a unique exploration into the gendered politics of the economic crisis in Europe.

Contemporary trade policy is increasingly framed in geo-strategic terms.

This book highlights the importance of non-wood forest products (NWFPs) and their crucial role in sustaining the livelihood of rural and indigenous communities in Asia.

This book presents a theory of economic integration in developing regions, where the level of intraregional economic interdependence is low and the dependence on extra-regional economic relations is high.

This book focuses on the European Union as an actor involved in the transnational Kurdish issue covering Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria.

This book examines the ways in which colonialism continues to define the political economy of Nigeria sixty years after gaining political independence from the British.

This book studies the rollercoaster first year in office of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), which for many Europeans constituted the hope for a different Europe, beyond austerity and national egocentrism.

Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book evaluates the complex nexus between climate change and regional food security in Asia Pacific.

This volume expands the concept and role of the schema, with three goals in mind:  1) to outline the continuing issues in the schema concept as the legacy of Kant's concept and analysis, 2) to show that Kant's challenges resulted in successful but truncated views of the schema and its functions, 3) to reconstruct Otto Selz's schema concept by proposing an alternative.

How can developing countries become high-income nations?

This book analyses the discourses of economic liberalization reform in six Western European countries - Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Austria.

This book examines the decade from 2004 to 2013 during which people in China witnessed both a skyrocketing number of food safety crises, and aggregating regulatory initiatives attempting to control these crises.

This book sheds light on the dollarization trends of four transitional economies in Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam.

The aging and migration megatrends and their impact on spatial - regional and local  -  labor market performance is the core theme of this book, and thus together define its scope and focus.

This book presents a new intellectual history of neoliberalism through the exploration of the sovereign consumer.

This book deals with important issues related to urban housing in South Asia.

This book provides an assessment of the megatrends that are reshaping the emerging markets landscape.

This edited volume proposes an innovative approach to European Integration by combining economics and political theory in its study of public goods.

This collection critically engages the resource use nexus.

This volume investigates different aspects of monetary policy and prevention of financial crises.

This book asks whether the decision to lock down the world was justified in proportion to the potential harms and risks generated by the Covid-19 virus.

This book discusses the economic and geopolitical effects of globalization from historical and institutional perspectives.

This book conceptualises the ongoing hydropower expansion in Southwest China as a socio-political and transnational project transcending the construction of dams.

This book presents contributions by leading academics and practitioners from central banks to shed light on the function and impact of cash in Asian countries.

This book explains the political origins and evolution of capitalist institutions in developing countries by looking at distinct patterns in the electronics industry in three Southeast Asian countries: Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore.

This book offers an assessment of new opportunities available for the agricultural sector and provides technical assistance to the Greek authorities with regards to its rural development and fishery sector.

This book explores the causes of corruption in the Middle East and North Africa through a systematic cross-national comparative analysis of fifteen countries in the region.

This thought-provoking book, edited by Jing Huang and Alexander Korolev, redefines the complex political and economic landscape of the Asia-Pacific region.

This is a comprehensive regional geography synthesis of the most important physical and human spatial processes that shaped Serbia and led to many interesting regional issues, not only to Serbia but to the Balkans and Europe.