Political economy

Should human organs be bought and sold?

Amartya Sen is one of the world s best-known voices for the poor, the destitute and the downtrodden and an inspiration for policy makers and activists across the globe.

Throughout the Western world, governments and financial elites responded to the financial crisis of 2008 by trying to restore the conditions of business as usual, but the economic, social and human damage inflicted by the crisis has given rise to a reconsideration of the inevitability of unfettered capitalism as a fact of life.

Although economic inequality provokes widespread disquiet, its supposed necessity is rarely questioned.

The economies of the eurozone countries are plagued by multiple crises, which cast major doubts over the future of the euro.

The Great Financial Crash had cataclysmic effects on the global economy, and took conventional economists completely by surprise.

John Maynard Keynes is the 20th century s greatest economist.

What is the connection between the sleaziness of Harvey Weinstein s business meetings and the passionless doctrine of neoclassical economics?

Austerity has dominated the policy agenda in the past decade.

Few economic phenomena provoke as much confusion as money.

The supreme challenge of our time is tackling climate change.

We live in a culture of credit.

Modern societies set limits, on everything from how fast motorists can drive to how much waste factory owners can dump in our rivers.

Today, the European Union is facing a crisis as serious as anything it has experienced since its origins more than half a century ago.

Throughout the Western world, a whole generation is being priced out of the housing market.

Advocated (and attacked) by commentators across the political spectrum, paying every citizen a basic income regardless of their circumstances sounds utopian.

We are living in a time of extreme inequality: America s three richest people now own as much wealth as the bottom half of the population.

Marx's critique of political economy is vital for understanding the crisis of contemporary capitalism.

Governments should spend no more than their tax income.

Increasingly, employees are being falsely treated as self-employed .

The ascendance of austerity policies and the protests they have generated have had a deep impact on the shape of contemporary politics.

The global financial crisis of 2008 ushered in a system of informal decision-making in the grey zone between economics and politics.

This book sets out to unravel and explain the puzzle of the global rise of China: how, in just forty years, China has been quickly transformed from a poor, backward third-world country to one of the world s core economic powerhouses.

Long known as the world's factory, China is the largest manufacturing economy ever seen, accounting for more than 10% of global exports.

What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb?

In this essential exploration of the American heartland, Kayleigh McEnany presents an eye-opening collection of interviews and stories about the powerful grassroots populist movement of frustrated Americans left behind by the government that changed the landscape of political campaigns foreverKayleigh McEnany spent months traveling throughout the United States, conducting interviews with citizens whose powerful and moving stories were forgotten or intentionally ignored by our leaders.

From award-winning author Michael Adams, Could It Happen Here?

Finally, the truth from a Washington insider: An audacious and desperately needed primer on how Americas Ruling Class have upended the Constitution and taken over our countryand how we must unite to regain control of our liberty.

Windfall is the boldest profile of the world's energy resources since Daniel Yergin's The Quest, asserting that the new energy abundancedue to oil and gas resources once deemed too expensiveis transforming the geo-political order and is boosting American power.

'Cottam is the humane revolutionary our turbulent century needs - and this book our roadmap to a better future' JONATHAN FREEDLAND, author of THE ESCAPE ARTIST'Highly recommend - practical and full of human wisdom' FINANCIAL TIMES'Brimming with ideas to transform the future' KATE RAWORTH, author of DOUGHNUT ECONOMICSWork, for decades, has been debated and discussed as a narrow economic category.

Political risk - the probability that a political action could significantly affect an organisation - is changing fast, and it's more widespread than ever before.

This is your go-to guide to politicsAs the UK gears up for a snap general election on the back of a hotly contested and divisive referendum, there has never been a better time to discover more about politics and how it works.

'This book will challenge you to rethink some of your assumptions about democracy, capitalism, and globalization.

How an elite cabal rewrote the American dream for their gain and left the rest of world behind.

'A masterly account.

A gripping and shocking insight into Russia's most influential oligarchs, including Roman Abramovich and Boris Berezovsky, from New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires.

Partygate?

No se descubre nada al decir que la cuestión de la pobreza en el mundo es apremiante.

Agricultural (or "e;green"e;) biotechnology is a source of growing tensions in the global trading system, particularly between the United States and the European Union.

In less than a decade, the Internet went from being a series of loosely connected networks used by universities and the military to the powerful commercial engine it is today.

How apprenticeship shaped the English economy Apprenticeship dominated training and skill formation in early modern Europe.

This fast-paced book by Yale professors Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro unravels the following mystery: How is it that the estate tax, which has been on the books continuously since 1916 and is paid by only the wealthiest two percent of Americans, was repealed in 2001 with broad bipartisan support?

Will Hutton argues that Keynesian revolution has yet to take place.

THE GLOBAL MONEY SYSTEM NO LONGER WORKS IN OUR BEST INTERESTS; WE NEED A SERIOUS OVERHAUL OF MONEY - AND OF OUR ATTITUDE TOWARDS IT.

Capitalism has become the universal social and economic order of our time.

WITH NEW AND UPDATED MATERIALBillionaire Warren Buffet, currently the third wealthiest man in the world, paid the lowest rate of tax among his office staff, including his receptionist.

In THE LOST CONTINENT BBC Europe Editor Gavin Hewitt tells the story of a flawed dream, a noble vision that turned dangerous, and which led Europe into its gravest crisis since World War Two - a crisis for which it was totally unprepared.

Over the last decade, political economy has grown rapidly as a specialist area of research and teaching within communications and media studies and is now established as a core element in university programmes around the world.