Political economy

Many East Asian states have undergone profound economic transformations over the last two decades.

Explains the compatibility of economic development and democracy in the United States during industrialization.

The first decade of the 2000s was a period of radical change in Turkish society and politics, marked by the major economic crisis of 2001 and the coming to power of ex-Islamist cadres organised under the Justice and Development Party (AKP).

An assessment of the impact of the post-Mao market-orientated reforms in China on the Chinese state and its relations with economy and society.

The global political economy is inescapably cultural.

Gathers leading scholars in law and international relations to address the current challenges of international economic dispute settlement.

This book examines China's creative economy-and how television, animation, advertising, design, publishing and digital games are reshaping traditional understanding of culture.

This book examines local zoning policies and suggests reforms that states and the federal government might adopt to counter the negative effects of exclusionary zoningIn this book, Robert Ellickson asserts that local zoning policies are the most consequential regulatory program in the United States.

Indigenous people constitute a large portion of Latin America's population and suffer from widespread poverty.

This book explores the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities shaping the business, hospitality, and tourism sectors, with a special focus on Eastern Europe.

Shows how domestic politics creates incentives for political actors to surrender sovereignty to outside powers.

Capitalism has made rationality into a pervasive feature of human action and yet, far from heralding a loss of emotionality, capitalist culture has been accompanied with an unprecedented intensification of emotional life.

This title was first published in 2003.

This book argues that Marxist theory is essential for understanding the contemporary industrialization of the form of artificial intelligence (AI) called machine learning.

How should Europe cope with the negative and still unfolding economic consequences of the current economic crisis?

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Joan Robinson (1903-1983) was one of the greatest economists of the twentieth century and a fearless critic of free-market capitalism.

This comprehensive collection documents the major processes, performance, institutions, problems and policies associated with global political economy.

Neoliberalism has had a major impact on schooling and education in the Developing World, with social repercussions that have affected the salaries of teachers, the number and type of potential students, the availability of education, the cost of education, and more.

'Standard' employment relationships, with permanent contracts, regular hours, and decent pay, are under assault.

Recent developments in the global economy, such as the Greek budget crisis, have led to new focus on the role of Europe, and in particular on the countries in Europe's south-eastern region.

Politicians default on international debts to please key political supporters, depending on their capacity for voting or revolt.

Originally published in 1991, Urban Planning Under Thatcherism links theory and practice to assess the changes to the planning system since 1979.

Originally published in 1940, this book remains an illuminating and forceful survey of the economic development of modern Germany.

Following his timely and well-received A Failure of Capitalism, Richard Posner steps back to take a longer view of the continuing crisis of democratic capitalism as the American and world economies crawl gradually back from the depths to which they had fallen in the autumn of 2008 and the winter of 2009.

This book assesses the impact of globalization on the US economy from the perspective of international trade, finance, and immigration, with a view to eliminating misinformation in the current public debate about the costs and benefits of globalization.

This book examines monetary policy, central banking and exchange rate regimes in the Middle East and North Africa.

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and other statistics based on national income accounting are ubiquitous but rarely understood today.

This book explores the political and social dynamics of the bilateral relations between Germany and Poland at the national and subnational levels, taking into account the supranational dynamics, across such different policy areas as trade, foreign and security policy, energy, fiscal issues, health and social policy, migration and local governance.

This collection brings together Watkins' most important scholarly articles.

The economic and geopolitical implications of China's rise have been the subject of vast commentary.

This book provides insights into the emotional dimensions of human mobility.

This book investigates the impact of commercial banks in Kenya right through from their origins, to their role during the colonial period, the process of adaptation following independence, and up to their responses to new challenges and economic policies in the twenty-first century.

This challenging book argues convincingly that research on European integration has lagged behind important theoretical developments in the fields of international relations, international political economy, and international organization.

This book examines the politics of taxation in Ireland between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries.

A study which challenges the dominant understanding of Singapore as a case where "e;correct"e; policies have made rapid industrialization possible and which raises questions about the possibility and appropriateness of its emulation.

This book provides an analysis of the global trading system and its implications.

Technologies such as artificial intelligence have led to significant advances in science and medicine, but have also facilitated new forms of repression, policing and surveillance.

Business Journalism: A Critical Political Economy Approach critically explores the failures of business journalists in striking the balance between the bottom line business model and their role in defending the public interest.

The study of literature and economics is by no means a new one, but since the financial crash of 2008, the field has grown considerably with a broad range of both fiction and criticism.

This book presents a new perspective on the link between economic growth and environmental change.

This book develops a new theoretical approach to understanding the role of leadership in trade negotiations.

Critically examining economic developments within the last sixty years, this book argues that a crisis in global social reproduction is altering existing understandings of work, labour and the economy.

The book delineates the possible barriers to India''s enhanced involvement in the G20, and in global governance in general.

Provides a systematic theory and evidence-based answers to the question of how effective public managers are in shaping policy results.

Political Economy in the Modern State is Harold Innis's transitional and, in some respects, his most transformative book.

A critical analysis of Australia's neoliberal state and role in the American imperial project in Asia.

This book shows how environmentalists have shaped the world's largest multilateral development lender, investment financier and political risk insurer to take up sustainable development.

This book addresses one of the fundamental problems in Russian society, and in Russia's relations with the rest of the world.