Political economy

Max Weber (1864-1920) has long been considered a founding figure of sociology.

In September 2020, China announced that it would peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and become carbon neutral by 2060.

Economics as Ideology: Keynes, Laski, Hayek and the Creation of Contemporary Politics explores the lives and thought of three powerful theorists who shaped the foundations of the center, left, and right of the political spectrum in the 20th century.

Stephen Krasner's assumption of a distinction between state and society is the root of his argument for the superiority of a statist interpretation of American foreign policy.

Goody Business Book Awards Finalist 2023 Shortlisted in the International Business Book category at the Business Book Awards in partnership with Pathway Group 2024 The first ever guide to oligarchs as a global and historical phenomenon.

A penetrating look into the unrecognized and unregulated links between autocratic regimes in Central Asia and centers of power and wealth throughout the West Weak, corrupt, and politically unstable, the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are dismissed as isolated and irrelevant to the outside world.

A sobering account of a disenfranchised American working class and important policy solutions to the nation's economic inequalities One of the country's leading scholars on economics and social policy, Isabel Sawhill addresses the enormous divisions in American society-economic, cultural, and political-and what might be done to bridge them.

This book examines the geo-racialized order of the Colombian state and its consequences for Afro-descendant territories.

In today's digital era, the significance of standards in modernization and innovation cannot be overstated.

The Decline of Neutrality (1971) examines the impartial, disinterested neutrality as it was codified in the Hague Convention in 1907 and the changes the concept underwent from the beginning of World War I in 1914 up to Pearl Habor, December 1941.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Gesetze der sozialistischen Ökonomie" verfügbar.

Economic and organizational literature has long separated the figure of the capitalist and the manager, but it often continues to assimilate that of the capitalist and the entrepreneur around the notion of risk-bearing.

This book summarizes the quantitative research methods related to the social benefits of high-speed rails.

This book analyses contemporary Mexico-China relations as a complex cultural encounter.

Economics still adheres entirely unreflectively to a mechanistic worldview and machine thinking.

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Since 1978, the end of the Mao era, economic growth in China has outperformed every previous economic expansion in modern history.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) between 12 Pacific Rim countries has generated the most intensive political debate about the role of trade in the United States in a generation.

The story of how the Ohio conference of the American Association of University Professors mobilized its resources and fought alongside Teamsters, firefighters, janitors, and police to defeat Ohio Senate Bill 5 by referendum, restoring collective bargain rights across the state.

Following his timely and well-received A Failure of Capitalism, Richard Posner steps back to take a longer view of the continuing crisis of democratic capitalism as the American and world economies crawl gradually back from the depths to which they had fallen in the autumn of 2008 and the winter of 2009.

Storytelling For Action(TM) is a practical guide to creating clear messaging that is more engaging, memorable, and sharable.

This book analyses actual and potential normative (whether legislative or contractual) conflicts and complex transnational disputes related to state-controlled enterprises (SCEs) operations and how they are interwoven with the problem of foreign direct investment.

The world seems divided to either applaud or fear the rise of China, but this book probes deeper by investigating three aspects of the phenomenon in detail: 1) the institutional dilemmas of the prosperity as it integrates Asian authoritarianism with globalizing capitalism to create economic accomplishments; 2) the political struggles alongside the prosperity as Chinese citizens begin to demand equality, rights, and justice that might be viewed to disturb the continuity of stability and development; and 3) the global implications entailed by the prosperity - not only in power politics, war and peace, or competitions among nations, but especially on global public goods termed "e;human security"e;.

This is the first book to comprehensively analyze key issues regarding innovation, entrepreneurship, and human resource development in the Japanese agricultural sector.

This book offers analysis of Australia's engagement with Africa, as well as the country's rather unique status as a 'new' actor and emerging country in Africa.

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L'auteur appelle les Africains a se lever, a exploiter leurs talents et a s'unir afin d'elaborer un futur pour l'humanite, en alliant technologie, ecologie, solidarite, respect des cultures et croissance economique.

This book is the first of its kind to offer an understanding, analysis, and prediction of the state of civil society in Bangladesh in relation to development and democracy.

The book is a comprehensive study of the strategic position of Yangtze River Economic Belt in the political and economic development of China.

This Handbook presents a broad yet nuanced portrait of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, its socio-political rifts, economic challenges, foreign policy priorities and historical complexities.

As digitalization and social media are increasingly blurring the boundaries between traditional societal, political, and economic institutions, this book provides a cross-disciplinary examination of value co-creation.

The book brings to the reader a set of political and social narratives woven around people's resistance against big dams, mining and industrial projects, in short, displacement and dispossession in Odisha, India.

This book discusses the experiences of cooperative enterprises in India that have been operated by or influenced to a significant extent by trade unions.

Neoliberalism has become the dominant development agenda in Africa.

Recent work on rent and rentierism has offered a distinctive and fresh approach to understanding and explaining contemporary capitalism.

This book analyses the transition of South Asian nations from agrarian to industrialized economies, which is accompanied by a widening gap between agricultural and non-agricultural growth rates and a greater income disparity between farmers and urban residents.

Argentina está en una situación de quiebre político, económico y social que requiere de profundos cambios, impensados consensos y leyes especiales.

Argentina está en una situación de quiebre político, económico y social que requiere de profundos cambios, impensados consensos y leyes especiales.

El análisis de las políticas económicas desde la organización institucional del país hasta 2019, con especial énfasis en los últimos setenta años, es el propósito de este libro.

En un recorrido parabólico de más de dos siglos como nación, que tras superar dolorosos conflictos reconoció un ascenso que se aceleraría en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX y se extendería varias décadas en el XX, Argentina perdió impulso y comenzó a retrasarse relativamente dentro de distintos contextos sociales, internacionales e institucionales.

¿Quiénes mueven la rueda principal de la economía del país?

Desde la conformación del Estado nacional a fines del siglo XIX hasta las noticias de ayer, la élite empresarial ha sido un actor central con un poder de veto determinante en la economía argentina.

En la Argentina, la persistente falta de dólares –y sus consecuencias en el devenir de la política económica y la vida cotidiana de las personas– tiene poco que ver con la lógica de la noticia efímera y mucho con complejos procesos que estructuran la economía del país y, sobre todo, la lista de ganadores y perdedores en cada momento histórico.

Los aportes de las investigaciones que presenta este libro, realizadas en la última década, recuperan la centralidad de la noción de hegemonía empresaria como modo de aprehensión de las tendencias y actuaciones registradas en el cotidiano laboral y extralaboral.