Political economy

This book explains how the introduction of rural private property rights in Ukraine and Russia generated poverty.

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the biggest event of worldwide proportion was the 2008 global financial crisis, which was caused primarily by ineffective governance, failed surveillance systems, and implementation flaws.

Various strains of heterodox economics have sought, and largely failed, to dismount orthodoxy from its dominant position.

This book provides a thematic case-study analysis of the wide-ranging public sector reforms introduced in one of the states most deeply affected by the global financial crisis: the Republic of Ireland.

Although the Arab states of the Persian Gulf are leaders in many of the measures of absolute wealth that have traditionally defined success in the global economy, they have had a much harder time becoming accepted in the equally fractured and hierarchal realm of the cultural economy, where practices, signs, and perceptions of propriety matter.

The aim of the book is to stimulate the realignment of political, theoretical and philosophical thinking that is now beginning in response to global warming.

The US housing bubble and the ensuing financial crisis and recession, as well as the ongoing slow recovery, have prompted a renewal of interest in the business cycle theory associated with the Austrian school of economics.

Through an examination of the work of great scholars from fields including philosophy, literature, philology, semiology, quantum physics, history, and anthropology, this book argues that building on the contribution of non-economists can open new areas of reflection in economics beyond the usual schools of thought.

Jonathan Ping's volume establishes a unifying theory for the concept of middle power (MP).

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of infrastructure insecurity issues in the historic Niger Delta, drawing on empirical fieldwork involving host communities, regulators, and multinational oil and gas operators.

This book argues that the right-wing revolution in the United States has created deepening inequality and will lead to economic catastrophe.

This book examines the economic reforms and material progress made since the Central Asian republics became independent from the Soviet Union in 1991.

The Uses of Social Investment provides the first study of the welfare state, under the new post-crisis austerity context and associated crisis management politics, to take stock of the limits and potential of social investment.

Recognition is a fundamental aspect of all social interactions; between individuals, groups, local communities and sovereign states.

First published in 1944 (Sir Halley Stewart Lectures 1938), the original blurb reads: "e;In Rich Man, Poor Man, Professor John Hilton examines the facts as to the distribution of wealth in this country.

China's increasing power in the global economy is destabilizing the established system.

A new and incisive analysis of the political viability of human rights, with an in-depth investigation of its largest violation: world hunger.

This book is about the economy rather than economics.

This book addresses 'global social economy' which addresses the relation of capitalism to human flourishing, the role of international governance in the world economy, the transformation of work and use of time in internationalizing economies, cross-country developments in gender, poverty, and ageing, and ethics economic policy issues in the international economy.

State and Society in Post-Socialist Economies focuses on the reform economies of post-socialist Europe.

This book introduces a radically spatialised approach to knowledge creation and innovation.

"Die Sozial-Ökologie bringt eine großartige Hoffnungsbotschaft mit sich: Unsere Gesellschaften werden gerechter sein, wenn sie nachhaltiger sind, und nachhaltiger, wenn sie gerechter sind.

China's rise as a major trading power has prompted debate about the nature of that country's involvement in the liberal international economic order.

The full impact of austerity policies across Europe is still being assessed, but it is clear that their gendered impacts have been consistently severe, structural and manifold.

Insurance is the world's largest economic industry, providing a form of security that more than triples global defence expenditure.

This book presents a positive account of Aristotle's theory of political economy, arguing that it contains elements that may help us better understand and resolve contemporary social and economic problems.

This book elucidates fundamental governance features and issues in contemporary China.

Local Tax Policy: A Primer provides the definitive discussion of how local governments raise revenue.

Political and Socio-Economic Change in the Middle East and North Africa examines the shortcomings of the economic development policies in the region before and after the Arab uprisings.

International contributors provide the first examination of the growing subject of regional knowledge-economy development.

The book begins with an editors' introduction that provides a conceptual setting for a comparative study of the role of policy in the development of the postwar Japanese and West German economies.

China's growing economic involvement in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America has been a source of major controversy.

This book explores the restructuring of the labour market and the opportunities that have resulted from economic globalization.

This book analyses actual and potential normative (whether legislative or contractual) conflicts and complex transnational disputes related to state-controlled enterprises (SCEs) operations and how they are interwoven with the problem of foreign direct investment.

This book, a third edition, has been significantly expanded and updated.

Developing countries have joined the rapidly growing global system of regional trade agreements (RTAs) over the past years.

The Great Recession, including the preceding events and the subsequent recovery period, has been the dominant feature of US capitalism in the 21st century.

This book discusses the ideological and historical relevance of the term 'Eurasia' as a concept in the global geopolitical and ethno-cultural discourse.

In this wide-ranging and often controversial book, Robert Drews examines the question of the origins of man's relations with the horse.