Political economy

This book offers an empirical comparison of Chinese and Indian international strategies across culture, foreign policy, the military and the economy.

International trade must be analysed within the historical context within which it occurs.

What are the most fundamental differences among the political economies of the developed world?

The Making of Modern Finance is a path-breaking study of the construction of liberal financial governance and demonstrates how complex forms of control by the state profoundly transformed the nature of modern finance.

Why do some nations and cities attain high levels of economic and social prosperity?

A survey of the political economy of James Buchanan seeking to explain his theories in detail and evaluate them in depth, covering topics such as the constitution and its failure, democracy, operational rules for the constitution and economics.

This edited collection assesses the level of financial integration in the European Union (EU) and the differences across the countries and segments of the EU financial system.

Recessions are a recurring phenomenon and there are repeated debates about how to combat them when the crisis hits and after the economy begins to grow again.

This book seeks to clarify the positive and negative lessons in the experiences of late development under neoliberal globalization.

Poverty and inequality remain at the top of the global economic agenda, and the methodology of measuring poverty continues to be a key area of research.

As inequalities widen and the effects of austerity deepen, in many countries the wealth of the rich has soared.

Regulating for Decent Work is a response to the dominant deregulatory approaches that have shaped labour market regulation in recent years.

Provides insights into the complexities of the process and growth of industrialisation as it has played out in contemporary India.

Governing the Global Economy explores the dynamic interaction between politics and economics, between states and markets and between international and domestic politics.

This book asks, how would a stable, prosperous economy of the future look if one started with a blank sheet of paper?

By the 1970s the global hegemony established by an American Empire in the post-World War II period faced increasing resistance abroad and contradictions at home.

It is becoming increasingly clear that a new economics is required for investigating modern dynamic economies and the coming social world.

Even before the global economic crisis of 2007-2009, the logic of discipline was under assault.

Growth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment deals with the fundamental economic problems of our time: employment, inequality, the environment, and quality of life.

First published in 1989, Ideology and Rationality in the Soviet Model assumes that since the October Revolution the development of the Soviet Union has essentially been a process of trial and error.

The linkage of development aid to the promotion of human rights, democracy and good governance was a striking departure in the post-cold war foreign policies of Northern 'donor' governments.

The four decades of neoliberalism, globalisation and financialisation have produced crises - financial and pandemic - and rising inequality.

Originally published in 1984 this book focuses principally on the use of foreign aid by the members of OPEC in the 1970s and demonstrates how the divisive elements both within OPEC and between OPEC and the rest of the developing world prevented OPEC from using aid to advance developing world objectives.

The inner workings of the House of Representatives in the post-World War II era.

THE GLOBALIST is the first in-depth biography of an international power-broker who was instrumental in shaping the global economy that we know today.

The 38 selections in the volume include complete texts of all of Veblen's major articles and book reviews from 1882 to 1914, plus key chapters from his books The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), The Theory of Business Enterprise (1904) and The Instinct of Workmanship (1914).

This book addresses whether and how multilateral economic regimes can successfully transition from international institutions-cooperation among states-to global governance-cooperation among states and nonstate actors.

In 2001 Germany and Austria became the last EU states to lift transnational controls restricting access to their labour markets for citizens of ex-communist countries.

This collection brings together leading economists from around the world to explore key issues in economic analysis and the history of economic thought.

Can North America survive as a region in light of the political turbulence provoked by the global economic crisis?

The contributions to this edited collection, first published in 1983, are based on two underlying themes.

The objective of this present volume is to analyse the response to the developments and the consequences for the conduct of monetary policy in five industrial countries.

In rebuilding conflict-affected states, a major portion of foreign aid focuses on reforming public finance management systems and supporting annual budgets.

Objects and materials are on the move like never before, often at astonishing speeds and along hidden routeways.

Providing universal access to social protection and health systems for all members of society, including the poor and vulnerable, is increasingly considered crucial to international development debates.

Drawing on a half-century of scholarship, this book presents a primer on the key themes and principles of conflict economics.

This book takes a look beneath the surface of this "e;miracle growth"e;, to explore the political economy of this process.

This edited collection provides a thorough historical, statistical, and institutional description of the current Brazilian economy and the previous economic structure from which it is emerging.

This volume is about economists, economics, and issues of concern to Indian society.

Explaining the connection between economics and violent extremism, this book argues that American foreign policy must be rebalanced with a greater emphasis on social inclusion and shared prosperity in order to mitigate the root causes of conflict.

Develops a new theory of public regulatory interventions in private sustainability governance based on policymaking in the European Union.

The semiconductor industry is a vital industry for military establishments worldwide, and the control of, or loss of control of, this key industry has enormous strategic implications.

This book provides an introduction to the relationship between economics and ethics, explaining why ethics enters economics, how ethics affects individual economic behaviour and the interactions of individuals, and how ethics is important in evaluating the performance of economies and of economic policies.

The last two decades have witnessed a dramatic expansion and intensification of mineral resource exploitation and development across the global south, especially in Latin America.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is one of the least written about and least understood of our major global institutions.

The choices people make about drinking water reveal deeper lessons about trust in government and civic life.

The field of Bollywood studies has remained predominantly critical, theoretical and historical in focus.

The global 'financial' crisis at the turn of the decade has accelerated changes in the relative standing of major regions.