Political economy

In Peace and Rural Development in Colombia Andres Garcia Trujillo investigates whether peace agreements geared toward terminating internal armed conflicts trigger rural distributive changes.

Five years after Ronald Ross discovered the link between malaria and mosquitos, American entomologist Leland Howard wrote of the "e;mosquito evil"e; that occurs when "e;everybody's business is nobody's business.

That some cities are vibrant while others are in decline is starkly apparent.

This innovative handbook provides a comprehensive, and truly global, overview of the main approaches and themes within law and society scholarship or social-legal studies.

Our world is changing fast.

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While some have argued that we live in a 'postfeminist' era that renders feminism irrelevant to people's contemporary lives this book takes 'feminism', the source of eternal debate, contestation and ambivalence, and situates the term within the popular, cultural practices of everyday life.

This edited collection investigates the role of Italy in pursuing the EU five targets by 2020: R&D/innovation expenditures; the energetic measures for climate change; migration; the counter actions against poverty and social exclusion.

When one thinks about how collective decisions are made, voting is the method that comes naturally to mind.

This book analyses Europe's COVID-19 response provided by governments and societies, to assess its influence on the economy from both a short- and long-term perspective.

Comparative regional integration has met with increasing interest over the last twenty years with the emergence or reinforcing of new regional dynamics in the EU, NAFTA, MERCOSUR and ASEAN.

From his early economic works on, Marx conceived the labour of any kind of society as a set of production activities and analysed the historical modes of production as specific ways of distributing and exchanging these activities.

The second half of the twentieth century saw the emergence of international economic law as a major force in the international legal system.

Craig Calhoun, one of the most respected social scientists in the world, re-examines nationalism in light of post-1989 enthusiasm for globalization and the new anxieties of the twenty-first century.

More than 15 years have passed since the end of the Cold War, but uncertainty persists in the political-economic shaping of the world economy and state system.

This book is an analysis of the political and philosophical foundations of the development of India's economy, including discussions of what's gone wrong in the past and what can be done to rectify it.

One of the German-speaking world's leading young sociologists lays out modern Germany's social and political crisis and its implications for the future of the European hegemon.

Globalization: Causes and Effects is the culmination of an eleven volume series that defines and explains the scholarly field of International Relations.

This book analyses the dynamics of Indian stock market with a special emphasis during the period following emergence of Covid-19.

This book provides a theory and evidence explaining the initial decision of governments to adopt a conditional cash transfer program.

The transition from a catching-up style economy to an innovation-driven economy poses a major challenge for China.

This book is about bounded rationality and public policy.

This book deals with a variety of issues of history, of national security, and of political economy, and focuses on the need for a dynamic perspective.

This book presents a coherent framework for assessing economic policy making in developing countries, with special reference to those in Africa.

The negotiation of the Free Trade Area between the US and Israel was, at the time, a remarkable political accomplishment, and is a useful case study because it includes all of the industrial and agricultural sectors, thus spanning the full spectrum of issues that would be dealt with in negotiations.

This book examines both the need for sustainable economics and the financial practices that will underpin it.

If Ontario is the land that is ours to discover then surely Randall White has written a book of discovery.

This comparative book analyses the development of regional integration parliaments in three different continents of the world.

States of Crisis and Post-Capitalist Scenarios engages with the crisis of our capitalist world, with a view to explaining its origins, unravelling its symptoms, and demystifying the anodyne corrective solutions so far proposed.

A report on development economics in action, by a crucial player in Nigeria''s recent reforms.

Eine funktionierende leitungsgebundene Energieversorgung ist Voraussetzung für die industrielle Entwicklung eines Landes.

An in-depth analysis of one of the most important and complex issues of the post-Soviet era, namely the (re-)integration of this highly interconnected region.

This book examines the relationship between state fragility and corruption.

This book aims to define comparative economics and to illustrate the breadth and depth of its contribution.

This book is a compendium of case studies illustrating how economic tools and techniques can be used to address a wide range of problems in the management and conservation of marine and coastal ecosystems in a developing country context.

When Britain left the European Union in January 2021, it set out on a new journey.

The Libyan Oil Industry (1980) gives a narrative and analysis of the economic consequences of the discovery and production of oil in Libya, from the searches for oil by the major oil companies to the establishment of Libya as one of the main exporters in the world.

Henry George (1839-1897) rose to fame as a social reformer and economist amid the industrial and intellectual turbulence of the late nineteenth century.

In short, the 24 selected and representative articles written in English by the author over the past 30-odd years, mainly published in international leading journals and now collected and compiled in this monograph, could be deemed the products of international academic debates.

The first phase of transition to a market economy in Central and Eastern Europe was characterized by a sharp output decline.

This book discusses the international right to water and the liberalization of water services.

This book is about China's economy transformation.

Elinor Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in economics and her achievement has generated renewed interest in the Bloomington School research program in institutional economics and political economy.

Back in 1972, German political sociologist Claus Offe published a book on the Structural Problems of Late Capitalism which, for almost two decades, inspired and stimulated an international and transdisciplinary debate on the role of the state in contemporary capitalism.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Russia's difficult economic transition from a command economy since the early 1990s.