Political economy

The book examines an integrated approach for addressing decisions about the location of healthcare facilities.

This book addresses major issues facing postal and delivery services throughout the world.

Food security is a pressing concern in the Caribbean.

International Relations (IR), as a discipline, is a western dominated enterprise.

This book presents in its first part the financial determinants of innovation processes considered in a macro-economic perspective, which are limited by short-term constraints, and studies in its second part the linkages existing between the necessity to innovate in order to survive and the constant attention given to financial results.

South Africa's struggle in balancing its domestic needs while playing a dynamic developmental role in the African region and global context exposes a complex web of relations shaped by its geostrategic location on the continent, and the world, and the staggering legacies of colonialism and apartheid.

This book explores institutional change and economic behaviour by examining the transition process in the former socialist countries that joined the EU in 2004, looking at the growth occurring in China, offering a historical perspective on economic underdevelopment in the Middle East, and discussing the neo-classical paradigm.

Modern economic theory has marginalised the figure of the entrepreneur, despite their significance in economic activity.

Employing law and philosophy of economics, this book explores how copyright shapes ownership of ideas in the social media age.

This book systematically analyzes the economic dynamics of large emerging economies from an extended Comparative Capitalisms perspective.

Progress in European market integration over the past two decades has come at the expense of growing flexibility, or differentiation, in the laws that govern the Single Market (SM) as well as the way that these laws are implemented.

This book is designed for those scholars, students, policy-makers - or just curious readers- who are looking for heterodox thinking on the issue of environmental economics and policy.

The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally altered the global economic landscape, with the smallest and most vulnerable economies particularly hard hit.

The industrialisation of China prompted the biggest commodity boom of modern times.

This book takes stock of the major economic and political challenges advanced capitalist democracies face today.

This book tackles political, social, and behavioural aspects of public finance and fiscal exchange.

Now in its fourth edition, this highly regarded and critically acclaimed textbook offers an authoritative introduction to international political economy.

First published in 1998, this volume analyses Brazil's strategy in the Uruguay Round, focusing on the issue of services.

We live in a time of great social, political and economic crisis that many date to the collapse of the global banking system in 2008.

The authors examine various aspects of Japanese financial markets.

Economic reform - the introduction of elements of the market into a planned economy - has been the central political problem for socialist states for at least three decades.

New Labour was outwardly hostile to trade unions and their concerns.

This book comprehensively examines the financial and economic aspects of the 'sustainability transitions' demanded by the primary components of the European Green Deal.

In this unique contribution to economic sociology, Jeffrey Hass examines the impact of culture, norms and political authority on Russia's post-socialist transition.

South Korea is often cited as a case of miraculous transformation from poverty to prosperity.

First published in 1975, this book traces the origins of our modern economy, showing the routes by which nations have either achieved wealth or have been impoverished.

Takes stock of current challenges to the world trading system and develops scenarios for the future.

This book examines the political economy of the states of Pacific Asia, stretching from Japan to Burma since the end of WWII.

Winner of the IAJS Book Award 2023 for 'Best Edited Book'Winner of the 2023 Gradiva Award for 'Best Edited Book'This volume explores Jung's theories in relation to the concept of Other and in conjunction with the lived experience of it, while examining current events and cultural phenomena through the lens of Jungian and post-Jungian psychology, sociology, literature, film and philosophy.

The book provides an in-depth analysis of the governance of Africa's natural resource sectors (oil, biofuels, forestry, fisheries, minerals) and new insights for readers as they navigate the burgeoning research on global governance initiatives and regional/national strategies that seek to improve the governance of the continent's natural resources.

USING DISCRETE CHOICE EXPERIMENTS TO VALUE HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the development and application of discrete choice experiments (DCEs) within health economics.

This book makes the case for recasting current theories of democracy, democratization and de-democratization.

While geopolitics has captured global attention, geoeconomics is the often hidden force that governs countries' relationships.

This book conceptualizes the economic relations between China and Latin America in different national cases from the perspectives of international political economy-based structuralism theory, the core-periphery model and the world system theory.

Burron provides a critical analysis of Canadian and US democracy promotion in the Americas.

This book discusses the 1918 European socialization debate, its consequences, and its relevance a century later.

Essentials of Economics in Context is specifically designed to meet the requirements of a one-semester introductory economics course that provides coverage of both microeconomic and macroeconomic foundations.

This book brings together for the first time studies on all aspects of the Malaysian economy.

In just two decades, the number of states that have adopted external voting policies has boomed.

This volume contributes to the growing debate surrounding the impact that the rising powers may or may not be having on contemporary global political and economic governance.

This book examines contemporary militarism in international politics, employing a variety of different theoretical viewpoints and international case studies.

American manufacturing has been on the decline for at least two generations; that fact is plain to any observer who travels through the Rust Belt of the Midwest, where the closing of steel plants and automobile factories has created ghost towns that dot the landscape.

This book advances the international debate on the development of e-commerce with focus on emerging ASEAN economies.

Occupy Wall Street burst onto the stage of history in the fall of 2011.

This book examines how cross-border mobility across the eastern border of Poland with Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, driven by external shocks, influences different territorial units.

Inner city slums, migrant settlements, construction workers, highlight informal work as underpinning urban poverty and marginalization.

Inequalities in incomes and wealth have increased in advanced countries, making our economies less dynamic, our societies more unjust and our political processes less democratic.

Since its independence in 1951, Libya has experienced rapid economic and social change.

The persistence of poverty hurts us all, and attacking poverty is a major policy objective everywhere.