Political economy

Adam Smith's contribution to economics is well-recognised, but in recent years scholars have been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his works.

This book investigates the relationship between politics and economics in rentier states, with a particular focus on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq from 2003 to 2020.

The Oxford Handbook of the Corporation assesses the contemporary relevance, purpose, and performance of the corporation.

Ghana was one of the first African countries to adopt a comprehensive IMF reform program and the one that has sustained adjustment longest.

Competition policy is an integral and prominent part of economic policy-making in the European Union.

This book gives an in-depth and up-to-date insight into China's economy from a domestic as well an international perspective.

This book explores the psychological and social dynamics of continuous, disruptive and discontinuous change.

This book offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date assessment of China's domestic and international migration.

The Political Economy of Plea Bargaining provides the political, economic, and cultural context for understanding the evolution of plea bargaining as a juridical technology implemented to ensure the efficient administration of violations of criminal law.

This book provides a unique insight into the world of commodity trading companies, often depicted as the hidden companies of the global economy and showcases how they were instrumental in bringing about the economic integration of new commodities and far-flung regions into the first global economy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

This book examines how macro-fiscal policy can lead to gender-aware human development in an emerging economy like India, with special reference to gender budgeting.

This book makes original contributions to the literature on clusters, human capital, and regional development by focusing on the link between entrepreneurship and economic growth, aiming for a better understanding of the dynamics of growth determined by the entrepreneur's action in the regional space.

How do countries create and replicate socio-economic success?

Analysing post-Mao China is not an easy task, but it is essential in order to understand the rationale and scope of the reform process started by the Chinese leadership under the guidance of Deng Xiaoping at the end of the 1970s.

In an era of increasing inequalities, and also of deep anxieties about the consequences of two major economic crises, economists are faced with a major question: can economic growth be achieved without inequalities?

This study clarifies the character of 'political economy' as a distinct and separable intellectual discipline in the generic sense, in the texts of Adam Smith.

This book discusses the latest theoretical advances in regional innovation research, presents empirical cases involving the development of regional innovation systems (RISs), and explores regional innovation policy approaches.

Innovation networks are a major source for acquiring new information and knowledge and thus for supporting innovation processes.

Have you ever puzzled over the causes of the 2007-8 financial crisis and wondered how it will affect all our futures?

Governments all round the world are facing problems with their public finances.

This book contributes to the understanding of environment-economy relations from the perspective of economic geography, grounded in the institutional context of China.

Covid-19 and the Global Political Economy investigates and explores how far and in what ways the Covid-19 pandemic is challenging, restructuring, and perhaps remaking aspects of the global political economy.

China has enjoyed heroic growth rates in the last twenty five years of reform and transition, pulling more people out of poverty more quickly than at any other time in human history.

The global financial crisis, which began in 2007, was probably the biggest shock to hit the UK economy in living memory.

While Latin America accounts for approximately 7 percent of the world economy, easily accessible information on the economies of the region is not always easy to find.

Leading international scholars challenge neoliberalism on its assumptions, way of reasoning and empirical evidence.

The Trump presidency may well be the first phase of a new American political alignment deeply rooted in identity politics.

In response to the global crises in recent decades, many countries - both developed and developing economies - have resorted to populist forms of economic policy instead of undertaking meaningful institutional change.

This book explores the challenges faced by central banks in the aftermath of the global financial crisis and the events that followed.

Drawing on the history of modern finance, as well as the sociology of money and risk, this book examines how cultural understandings of finance have contributed to the increased capitalization of the UK financial system following the Global Financial Crisis.

This book focuses on critical approaches to the state and state theory in the Global South.

Das Buch behandelt die Fragilität der Finanzmärkte, die unterschiedliche Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der Eurostaaten, die Reform- und Sparprogramme, den Wandel vom Steuer- zum Schuldenstaat und die staatlichen Bankenhilfen.

This book discusses the evolution of the third tier of the Indian federal system, with a focus on rural local governance (commonly known as Panchayati Raj) against the backdrop of important theoretical and empirical literature on the relevance and effectiveness of service delivery in the decentralized system.

This innovative Routledge Handbook sheds light on the complex and transformative nature of Global China, prompting a re- evaluation of existing theories on global and regional dynamics.

The Danish Economy in the Twentieth Century (1987) surveys the Danish economy, examining the effects of the rapid industrialisation which occurred in the country in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

This book examines how fiscal policy and management can promote gender equality in developing as well as developed countries.

A keen analysis of the social, political and economic determinants of Turkish politics with an exploration of the different dimensions of the republican model of Turkish citizenship, providing the reader with a comprehensive account of Turkish modernity and democracy.

Markets are usually discussed in abstract terms, as an economic organizing principle, a generalized alternative to government planning, or even as powerful actors in their own right, able to shape local and national economic destinies.

This book investigates the historical, political, and economic circumstances of the world's smallest economies as key determinants influencing their economic growth and development.

The so-called 'Spanish miracle', beginning in the mid-1990s, eventually became a nightmare for the majority of the population, culminating in the present-day economic and political crisis.

The architecture of global economic and financial governance has undergone a deep and pervasive reform in the last ten years, radically transforming international institutions and groups, such as the International Monetary Fund, the G7, and the G20.

The insolvency of states is by no means a rare or new phenomenon.

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