Political economy

This book analyzes the World Social Forum (WSF) in a context of crisis and transition in the history of Western capitalist modernity.

How can an environment be created in Cuba in which safety is not sacrificed for more open markets and politics?

'Liquidity', or rather lack of it, lies at the heart of the ongoing global financial crisis.

A novel, interdisciplinary account of the global politics of producing, financing, governing and mobilising energy system transformation.

Since the financial crisis of 2008, ordoliberalism emerged from relative obscurity to become one of the crucial terms of analysis across a wide range of academic literatures and public discussion.

Political Economy Goes to the Movies provides an introduction to political economy using a wide range of popular films and documentaries as the objects of analysis.

Transportation contributes to roughly a fifth of greenhouse gas emissions, and as a growing sector of the economy, its contribution to climate change, if remained unchanged, could even grow.

A deep and unresolved tension exists within American trade politics between the nation's promotion of an open world trading system and the operations of its democratic domestic political regime.

What are the most fundamental differences among the political economies of the developed world?

A circular economy is an alternative to a traditional linear economy (make, use, dispose) in which we keep resources in use for as long as possible, extract the maximum value from them whilst in use, then recover and regenerate products and materials at the end of each service life.

This book addresses the role of public policy in regulating the autonomous artificial intelligence and related civil liability for damage caused by the robots (and any form of artificial intelligence).

The Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union and the Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries have drastically restructured Europe's trade architecture towards the third world.

The global financial and economic crisis struck the European Union and its member states with particular force from 2009 onwards.

This book delves into the pressing issue of energy justice as it relates to SDG 7 and its far-reaching implications for society.

The papers brought together in this volume represent a decade of advances in the historical political economy of defence, dictatorship, and warfare.

Africa, which was not long ago discarded as a hopeless and irrelevant region, has become a new 'frontier' for global trade, investment and the conduct of international relations.

The financial crisis that began in 2008 and its lingering aftermath have caused many intellectuals and politicians to question the virtues of capitalist systems.

This student-friendly textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to globalization studies and the European Union within a multipolar world.

Oil Companies in the International System (1978) provides an original and wide-ranging examination of the impact that the leading oil companies have had on international relations.

This book explores how to manage complexity in a highly interconnected world.

Once held up as a 'poster child' for untrammeled capitalist globalisation, the Irish Republic has more recently come to represent a cautionary tale for those tempted to tread the same neoliberal path.

Economic theory and a growing body of empirical research support the idea that economic freedom is an important ingredient to long-run economic prosperity.

The Evolution of Contemporary Arts Markets looks at the historical evolution of the art market from the 15th century to the present day.

This book explores the political economy of Palestine through critical, interdisciplinary, and decolonial perspectives, underscoring that an approach to economics that does not consider the political-a de-politicized economics-is inadequate to understanding the situation in occupied Palestine.

This book sets the experiences of former communist countries as they head towards capitalism against the 'varieties of capitalism' paradigm, and provides a framework for comparing transformation processes, demonstrating how differing heritages of communist and pre-communist pasts are leading to different kinds of capitalist economies.

This volume is a compendium of papers presented during the second TRlennal Symposium on Transportation ANalysis (TRISTAN II) that took place in Capri, Italy on June 23-28, 1994.

In the wake of the outbreak of the global crisis in 2008, many observers expected the state to assume command over a faltering neoliberal finance-led model of capitalism.

'The European Union and Interregionalism' is the most comprehensive study of interregionalism to date, providing a vigorous analysis of its role and functions in the architecture of global governance, and of the place of qualitative differences between regional actors in shaping interregional relationships.

A discussion of the anthropological roots of the market, tracing its development using the history of ideas and cultures as well as simple game theory.

Known as the "e;economist's economist"e; for his work on creating a synthetic economic theory, Swedish economist Knut Wicksell was a controversial, but highly influential figure in modern economic thought.

This book presents state-of-the-art research in political economy dealing with the decision making process under different political institutions.

This edited volume presents chapters on the dynamics of global climate change and global warming in the Middle East.

This handbook-style edited volume discusses historical, but predominantly current political, economic, and societal trends in Central Asia comprising Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan.

This is the first book to fully introduce a newly developed distance friction minimization (DFM) model, which is one of the new efficiency improvement projection approaches in data envelopment analysis (DEA).

There is a broad and long-standing debate on possible solutions to the regional vulnerabilities of globalisation.

This is a study of Northern Norway and Atlantic Canada, two regions experiencing a severe crisis due to overexploitation of fisheries resources.

The book presents a historical account of the colonial foundation of African economy and diplomacy.

This book explores the pivotal role of think tanks in the democratization and economic reform movements by evaluating their overall effect on the transformation process in developing and transitional countries around the world.

China's growth miracle over the past 30 years has propelled it to become the world's second largest economy and potentially the largest in the following years.

The focus of this volume is on the role of the developmental state in a situation in which a series of major crises affects the (semi-) periphery of the global economy.

The Persian Gulf 2018 is sixth in the series published by MEI@ND and examines India's bilateral relations with the countries along the Persian Gulf, namely, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Yemen.

This reissued work, originally published in 1985, is a uniquely broad and original survey of theories and beliefs about the growth, behaviour, performance and reform of the governments of modern Western democracies.

The present volume contains the proceedings of an international conference on the economic history of the seaports of Antwerp and Rotterdam (1870-2000).