Political economy

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.

This book is the fifteenth volume in the renowned International Papers in Political Economy (IPPE) series which explores the latest developments in political economy.

This collection addresses the path to a new prosperity after the Great Recession.

This volume offers a comprehensive state-of-the-art portrait of entrepreneurship and small business management issues in former Yugoslavian countries.

This book examines the many ways in which the Communist Party in China is still revolutionary by focusing on how, in recent years, it has attempted to mobilize Party members to become ethical subjects.

This book explores the economic and political impact of US aggression and the rise of China.

This book investigates the causes and consequences of crisis in four countries of the Eurozone periphery - Greece, Spain, Portugal and Ireland.

This book explores and substantiates the role of cultural heritage as an engine for local socio-economic development.

This book explores the variations in the transformation of the Asian developmental state in South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan.

This book presents an original empirical investigation of the market structure of airline city pair markets, shedding new light on the workings of competitive processes between firms.

This contributed volume explores and reveals the dynamics, strengths and weaknesses, trends and implications of entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

This book advocates a broad outlook of China-Africa relations and highlights China's soft power in Africa.

This book presents an alternative, critical perspective on the political economy of development and business.

The book brings together an international panel of experts on economic integration and international business to address the essential link between the two fields, namely the impact of integration processes on the business environment.

This book examines the need for greater legal coherence within international trade negotiations between the European Union (EU) and external trade relations.

This volume offers an overview of the critical challenges faced by aspiring African entrepreneurs and their coping strategies to sustain and develop their businesses.

This book explains the place of oil in the economic and political predicaments that now confront the West.

This book addresses how the progress of the Russian aluminium industry, which has developed into an important global actor, has been influenced by the interaction of global market forces and the evolution of the Russian political system.

This book addresses and explains the divergent economic and political outcomes of the financial crisis in the eight European Union member states which needed a bailout program: Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Portugal, Romania and Spain.

This book provides an evaluation of 18 voting procedures in terms of the most important monotonicity-related criteria in fixed and variable electorates.

Applying the principles of Optimal Control Theory to the problem of regional allocation of investment can be a useful tool for demonstrating how the trade-off between regional equity and overall efficiency can be overcome.

This book re-evaluates the regional organizations landscape and discusses how organizations with similar mandates can exercise strikingly different goals.

This book presents selected papers from the 30th Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conferences, held in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia).

This book - the first of two volumes- looks at episodes in American economic history from a public choice perspective.

This book presents selected papers from the 31st Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, which took place as a virtual conference due to the global COVID-19 health crisis.

This book is a reality check of where energy will come from in the future.

This book evaluates the evolution of regulatory policy in advanced countries and discusses how, due to globalization, policy changes in one country have a knock-on effect in others.

This book examines economic policies utilized within Southeast Europe in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book discusses to what extent the precautionary approach to fisheries management is reflected in the MSC Fisheries Standard and in the certification of four clusters of fisheries in polar waters.

This textbook offers a comprehensive guide to the systematic structure of capitalism, while at the same time introducing readers to all three volumes of Marx's Capital.

This book takes a comparative approach to economic history to offer ways to increase our understanding of the divergence between South America and Scandinavia.

This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of monetary policy, banking supervision and financial stability in the euro area.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of environmental and construction engineering, as presented by international researchers at the XXV International Scientific Conference "e;Construction: The Formation of Living Environment"e;, held in Moscow, Russia on April 20-22, 2022.

The Wisdom of the Commons examines the history and philosophy of civic education as the essential political part of liberal education.

This book contributes to the current revival of dependency approaches for the analysis of global capitalism.

This textbook introduces and develops new tools to understand the recent economic crisis and how desirable economic policies can be adopted.

This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the Mauritian economy and its financial system.

This book analyses the economic consequences of the regional government of Catalonia's challenge to democracy and the rule of law in Spain.

This book combines Hartmut Elsenhans' ideas on the laws of motion of capitalism and his approach to world system analysis and rent theory, his thoughts on development theory and finally, international relations and the past, present, and future dynamics of the international system.

This book advances the debate on socio-economic development and multinational corporations (MNCs).

The book is aimed at a wide audience, including academics, economic geography, spatial planning and regional policy researchers, institutional leaders and managers, national and institutional policy makers, practitioners, administrators, master's and senior bachelor's students on related courses, general readers.

This volume of essays examines the ways in which magical practices are found in different aspects of contemporary capitalist societies.