Political economy

The concept of 'Natural Capital' has come to play a central role in current debates about biodiversity and nature conservation.

The essence of this book can be found in a line written by the ancient Roman Stoic Philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca: "e;Fortune is of sluggish growth, but ruin is rapid"e;.

This book explores the topic of proximity and its relations in the design of contemporary urban fabrics and public spaces.

This is the first book that employs economics to develop and apply an analytical framework for assessing progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This book covers the current trends and challenges faced by regulators, policymakers, and researchers in the field of retail electricity market design and regulation.

This book analyses the institutional development that the Peruvian state has undergone in recent years within a context of rapid extractive industry expansion.

This book fills a gap in the literature on economic liberalism in France as it strives to resolve a paradox.

This book applies an approach to study the externalization of cost under capitalism in the production of Argentine yerba mate, an infusion with stimulant properties long used by indigenous peoples.

This edited collection brings together expertise from around the globe to overview and debate key concepts and concerns in the economics of religion.

This book discusses the development of Canadian political economy through the legacy of Stephen Clarkson, who for over 40 years analyzed the challenges that economic changes brought to the economic governance of Canada, North America, and the world.

This book explores Jamaica's contemporary relationship with the International Monetary Fund since 2010.

Perhaps the most extraordinary period in modern British history, the years between the Great Recession and Brexit have often been dubbed 'the lost decade' because of the economic and political turmoil caused by those two great events.

This book is an analysis of the political and philosophical foundations of the development of India's economy, including discussions of what's gone wrong in the past and what can be done to rectify it.

This book, the second of two volumes, continues the authors' ground-breaking re-examination of India's history and political economy.

This book offers an analysis of the causes, development, and likely consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic for global neoliberalism.

This book examines the work of Adam Smith and his interest in the science of the legislator.

This book seeks to explicitly engage Marxist and post-colonial theory to place Marxism in the context of the post-colonial age.

This book presents the latest knowledge on the still under-researched field of academic tourism, which over the past decade has gained in importance at local and national economic levels as a result of increasing international mobility of students and academic staff in higher education.

This book addresses the comparative history of economic thought in Central European countries where there is a notable common historic heritage and political traits.

This book investigates why Austrian economists fail to apply the spontaneous order framework to cooperative relationships - such as a dynamic and evolving public sector - that might complement a thriving market.

This book addresses the role of public policy in regulating the autonomous artificial intelligence and related civil liability for damage caused by the robots (and any form of artificial intelligence).

Brazil is the most populous economy in Latin America with the second highest GDP among the emerging BRIC economies, after China, and the second per capita GDP among the BRIC economies after Russia.

This book explores the role of expectations within the modern capitalist system.

In developing countries, such as Paraguay, informality remains a prevalent and persistent issue.

This book covers a wide range of topics relating to the health and wellbeing of the construction workforce.

Many consultants are forced to learn the basic principles and techniques of consulting on the job.

This book addresses the socioeconomic effects of immigration to Sweden.

This book provides readers with a unique opportunity to explore how the international economic legal order (IELO) may look in a post-WTO world.

This book investigates the existing and possible links between the concept of a Carbon Club and the Paris Agreement.

"e;David Hardwick and Leslie Marsh have assembled a contentious collection of independent thinkers on liberalism's identity and prospects.

This first part of a two-volume series examines in detail the financing of America's major wars from the American Revolution to the Civil War.

This book examines the challenges for the life insurance sector in Europe arising from new technologies, socio-cultural and demographic trends, and the financial crisis.

This book features a selection of the best papers presented at two recent conferences organized by the SIEV (Italian Society of Appraisal and Valuation).

This book sheds new light on if and why, between 2009 and 2015, European governments succeeded or failed in initiating and actually realizing some of the farthest-reaching austerity plans in modern history.

This volume of intellectual biography takes the Italian economist, sociologist, political scientist Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) from his disillusionment with liberal and pacifist activism, to the original development of pure economics and the composition of his Treatise on General Sociology and the test of this latter on the war and post-war events.

As economic populism and protectionism increasingly threatens the global trade order, this book examines the behavior of World Trade Organization (WTO) members at the judicial arm of the WTO-the dispute settlement mechanism (DSM).

This textbook provides a solid introduction to the theoretical and empirical aspects of environmental economics, and their links to environmental policy.

This book presents essential advances in analytical frameworks and tools for modeling the spatial and economic impacts of disasters.

This book has four main objectives: to bring the thus far almost entirely neglected historical case of 'the rise of Japan' into the literature on power shifts in general and 'the rise of China' in particular; to propose a discourse-based conceptualization of identity for the study of economic policy that engages theoretical and methodological debates on how to overcome the dichotomy between 'ideational' (identity) and 'material' (economic) factors; to address the tendency to focus on the 'radical Other' in poststructuralist IR scholarship, by highlighting how heterogeneity disturbs exclusive and binary articulations of identity and difference; and to propose a method for putting political discourse theory (PDT) into practice in empirical research by drawing on rhetorical political analysis (RPA).

This two-volume book provides an important overview to EU economic and policy issues related to the development of the bioeconomy.

This two-volume book provides an important overview to EU economic and policy issues related to the development of the bioeconomy.

This book argues that the macroeconomic policy adjustment models recommended by the IMF and the World Bank for implementation in many Muslim countries, with substantial donor financial support, have not been effective.

This book is the product of three years of empirical research, four years in politics, and a lifetime in a country experiencing three different regimes.

This book examines the political economy of devolution in Britain from the postwar period to the present.

This book focuses on the implementation of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a multi-billion-dollar infrastructure development project intended to connect Asia with Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

This book presents cutting-edge research on urban and regional systems applying modern spatial analytical techniques of Geographic Information Science & Technologies (GIS&T), spatial statistics, and location modeling.

This book revisits the forgotten history of the 'European Dependency School' in the 1970s and 1980s, explores core-periphery relations in the European integration process and the crises of the contemporary European Union from a dependency perspective, and draws lessons for alternative development paths.

There are two ways people coordinate their actions: through cooperation, exercised by economic power, and through control, exercised by political power.

This book provides an in-depth assessment of the modern geopolitics of hydrocarbon resources in the territorial waters of the Eastern Mediterranean, highlighting the current conflicts and disputes in the maritime territories of Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Cyprus, and Turkey.

This two-volume work provides a comprehensive overview of the Belt and Road Initiative, examining its impact on economic growth, trade, financial systems and international relations.