Political economy

This book is the first systematic study of how the interdependence of fiscal and monetary policies and the interaction of party governments and central banks affect the fiscal-policy mix in eighteen industrial democracies in North America, Western Europe, Japan and Oceania.

Research for the developing world can generate evidence on the effectiveness of foreign aid, invent new technologies that serve poor people, and strengthen research capabilities in poor countries.

Since the mid-1980s, David F.

The US and international defense industrial sectors have faced many challenges over the last twenty years, including cycles of growth and shrinkage in defense budgets, shifts in strategic defense priorities, and macroeconomic volatility.

This book unpacks the political economy of government subsidised housing programmes in South Africa.

This book argues that governments enter IMF programs for economic and political reasons.

This book examines how China's international political communication of the Belt and Road Initiative comprises narratives about infrastructure and the Silk Road.

Securing the Global Economy explores how and why the G8 and other institutions of global governance deal with increasingly comprehensive and complex economic-security connections.

This 2001 book explains why African countries have remained mired in a disastrous economic crisis since the late 1970s.

Since 1997, the AGS China cokemaking team has been examining the rapidly changing relationships among technology, energy, the environment, and health (TEEH) in one of China's most energy-intensive and highly polluting industries--cokemaking.

America is being Screwed!

A clear and concise history of economic thought, developed from the author''s award-winning book, The Wealth of Ideas.

The Domestic Politics of International Trade considers the issues surrounding intellectual property rights in international trade negotiations in order to examine the challenges posed to domestic policy-makers by the increasingly broad nature of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs).

Frederick Guy's The Global Environment of Business offers a multi-dimensional analysis of the environment in which international business operates.

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This book analyzes recent local government finance reforms in Tanzania, including the introduction of a formula-based system of intergovernmental grants.

The book investigates the contemporary functioning of financial institutions and monetary policies in order to assess their effects in different economic situations.

This volume examines and evaluates the impact of international statebuilding interventions on the political economy of conflict-affected countries over the past 20 years.

Welfare States and Immigrant Rights deals with the impact of welfare states on immigrants' social rights, economic well-being and social inclusion, and it offers the first systematic comparison of immigrants' social rights across welfare states.

This book argues that the international community must share responsibility for contributing to the conditions that resulted in violent conflict in Timor-Leste, four years after it declared independence from Indonesia.

This book examines the effects of high and volatile food prices during 2007-08 on low-income farmers and consumers in developing, transition, and industrialized countries.

"e;How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America is one of those paradigm-shifting, life-changing texts that has not lost its currency or relevance even after three decades.

Economic recessions, social networks, environmental damage in several large countries (eg.

For nearly two decades the U.

This book explores the evolving roles of energy stakeholders and geopolitical considerations, leveraging on the dizzying array of planned and actual projects for solar, wind, hydropower, waste-to-energy, and nuclear power in the region.

Many on the Left see the European Union as a fundamentally benign project with the potential to underpin ever greater cooperation and progress.

This book offers a novel understanding of money by moving away from the dominant lens of economics through which it is usually seen.

An examination of macroeconomic policy, focusing on the relationship between free-market policies and government intervention.

As the World Bank famously put it back in 1989, 'underlying the litany of Africa's development problems is a crisis of governance.

One of the key scientific challenges is the puzzle of human cooperation.

Exploring theoretical foundations for the distribution of shared responsibility, this book provides a basis for the development of international law.

Originally published in 1986, this book evaluated the review of the Australian Overseas Aid Program (the 1984 Jackson Report) and discusses the significance of Australia's contribution to overseas aid for the future.

Sanctions are a persistent - many would argue increasingly central - component of American efforts to shape foreign policy outcomes in the Asia-Pacific.

The Great Recession and the turn towards all forms of protectionism stress the relevance of international trade policy.

This book challenges the conventional wisdom that greater schooling and skill improvement leads to higher wages, that income inequality falls with wider access to schooling, and that the Information Technology revolution will re-ignite worker pay.

The impact of North Sea oil and gas on the British economy is examined thoroughly in this book.

This book is an analytical examination of financing and public service delivery challenges in a decentralized framework.

Provides a comprehensive overview of a broad range of uses of the flow of funds within the central bank community as well as in the academic field, prepared by international experts in the field.

Populism has become a significant feature of mature democracies in the twenty-first century and the rise of populist parties is proving a powerful and disruptive force.

'Rigorous, impassioned and urgent' - Ash SarkarWe are in a moment of profound overlapping crises.

Since 1990, major banking and current crises have occurred in many countries throughout the world - including Mexico and Latin America in 1994-95, East Asia in 1997-98, and Russia and Brazil in 1998 - with large costs both to the individual countries experiencing the crises and to other nations.

The rise of income and wealth inequality and the possibilities of redistribution animate contemporary social and political debates, but much of the scholarship on the issue is limited to the individual level.

A contribution to the history of the institutional evolution of the market that finances the US government in war and peace.

This book argues for a new conceptual framework that analytically distinguishes between North-South monetary co-ordination, which involves an international key currency, and South-South arrangements between economies all marked by external indebtedness and the resulting macroeconomic instabilities ('original sin').

Originally published in 1976, Working Class Radicalism in Mid-Victorian England examines working-class radicalism in the mid-Victorian period and suggests that after the fading of Chartist militancy the radical tradition was preserved in a working-class subculture that enabled working men to resist the full consolidation of middle-class hegemony.

Can twenty-first century global challenges be met through the limited adaptation of existing political institutions and prevailing systemic norms, or is a more fundamental reconstitution of governing authority unavoidable?

African Affairs is the top journal in African Studies and has been for some time.