Political economy

This volume explores a variety of forms of transnational private governance where non-state actors cooperate across borders to establish rules and standards accepted as legitimate by other agents.

Offrir des prêts répondant aux besoins de ceux qui n’ont pas accès au crédit bancaire classique, tel est l’objectif du microcrédit.

Privatisation, market choice, outsourcing: these are the watchwords that have shaped policy in numerous democratic states in the last generation.

Black Families and the Recession in the United States goes beyond the massive loss of property among African Americans during the Great Recession of 2007-2009.

Much ink has been spilled in attempts to prove that humans are only animals and are, like other species, only aggressive.

Regionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean has experienced transformations over the last few years.

The first detailed historical account of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations, this book covers the genesis of the project in the early 1990s to its demise in late 2003.

What is the correct concept behind measures of inflation?

In recent years, a great deal of scholarly and popular ink has been spilled on the subject of globalization.

Why is Europe's employment rate almost 10 percent lower than that of the United States?

Dispelling the myth of decline, Stuart Brown argues that the US continues to enjoy the economic, political, cultural and military underpinnings befitting a pre-eminent global power.

The 19 speechs in this volume explain many aspects of China's market-based rural economic reforms.

Fiorenza Belussi, Giorgio Gottardi, and Enzo Rullani This volume collects some papers presented at the Vicenza conference "e;The Future of Districts"e;, held in June 1999, organised by the Department of Technology and Management of Industrial Systems of the Faculty of Engineering of Padua University, with the collaboration of several engineers, industrial economists, and experts in the issue of technology management.

With the economic crisis continuing into the 1980s, the necessity to adapt industrial structures to contemporary requirements became clear.

In recent years, the role of religion in influencing international health policy and health services provision has been seen as increasingly important.

This comprehensive study omits no aspects of Korean life: its chequered history, brilliant success and aspirations for the future.

Recent debt crises and consequent dislocations and distress in the underdeveloped world have shown that the development strategies of the last forty years were misconceived.

This book examines the international causes of hunger and malnutrition and reveals how critical elements of the global economy heighten food insecurity in the developing world.

This book explores the world of international doctoral students in the Chinese higher education system.

This collection analyzes shifting relationships between gender and labour in post-Fordist times.

To convey the image of a responsible power willing to contribute to regional stability and cooperation, China has shifted from a single-minded preference for bilateralism to an active participation in East Asian regionalism in the recent decades.

Policy situations can be understood through a relational lens, seeing policy as emerging from the working and reworking of relationships.

In recent years, there have been a number of new developments in what came to be known as the "e;Capital Theory Debates"e;.

This textbook offers a practical and engaging introduction to spatial econometric modelling, detailing the key models, methodologies and tools required to successfully apply a spatial approach.

The characteristics, nature, determinants, and size of the informal economy differ from country to country.

This book assesses the effects of globalization and neoliberal economic regimes in low- and middle-income countries, primarily on industries, investment and trade; finance and credit; and employment, gender and development.

This study analyses enterprise development and entrepreneurship and their relationship with the state and market building in Russia.

How are men, masculinities and gender power implicated within global institutions?

This volume Struggle, Resistance and Violence examines the fact that all over the world the rights of citizens have come under enormous pressure and addresses the many ways in which people are 'making claims' against both autocratic and democratic authority.

Emerging in the late 1970s, the Amsterdam School's (AS) most distinctive contribution to international political economy was the systematic incorporation of the Marxian concept of capital fractions into the study of international politics.

Bolshevism at a Deadlock was written Karl Kautsky, one of the leading Marxist intellectuals of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, in response to the catastrophic failures of Stalin's first Five Year Plan, which was intended to raise Russian industry and productivity to equal that of Western Europe.

Winner of ASA's 2019 Charles Tilly Distinguished Book AwardTrade was once an esoteric economic issue with little domestic policy resonance.

This book explores the significance of religious resurgence and violence in Nigeria, and how informal local government power-sharing reduces communal Muslim-Christian violence.

From the Global to the Local develops a unique perspective on human rights governance in developing countries, where the state often lacks the required resources, capacities and expertise for implementing rights.

This book is a study of potential, perceived, and real conflicts and similarities between market economics and Jewish social justice.

The debate on the physical limits and constraints to the economic growth of globalized society is now widespread.

Government in West Africa (1968) examines the practical working of modern government and the constitutional history of West Africa.

After an apparent temporary relief, the financial crisis is back full steam.

If we are to believe the media then a war between China and Taiwan is inevitable.

An examination of China's participation in the World Trade Organization, the conflicts it has caused, and how WTO reforms could ease them China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 was rightly hailed as a huge step forward in international cooperation.

How human institutionsmarkets, states, communities, religions, guilds and familieshave helped both to control and to exacerbate epidemics throughout history.

Europe is in a period of transition and there is great uncertainty about its direction.

This book offers an assessment of the different monetary and fiscal policy responses that have been implemented by national governments in major European and Asian countries faced with the Covid-19 crisis since 2020; it also deals with the case of the US experience as a benchmarking example.

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, first published in 1936, addresses the need for a comprehensive study of the development of international control in the field of certain vital commodities and services.

In the 1990s there was a wave of multilateralism in the Asia Pacific, led primarily by ASEAN.

This book combines two strands of international political economy; examining how capitalism and democracy shape and are shaped by each other.

This book is an exploration into the uncharted territory of social reality.