Political economy

Responsiveness to societal demands entails policy accumulation, which undermines the ability of democracies to communicate, implement and evaluate public policy.

This book, the second of two volumes, is inspired by the famous philosopher of India, Kautilya, author of the first book on economics in the world, Arthashashtra.

Climate change, nuclear proliferation, and the threat of a global pandemic have the potential to impact each of our lives.

According to the standard position of the economic mainstream, the efficient production of so-called public goods, including law and defense, requires the use of territorial monopolies of coercive force.

This title was first published in 1977.

Slovakia has a rich and complex history, but until now there has not been a comprehensive analysis of the nation's economic thought.

How can we best analyse contemporary welfare state change?

There is evidence that economic fraud has, in recent years, become routine activity in the economies of both high- and low-income countries.

This book provides an in-depth assessment of the modern geopolitics of hydrocarbon resources in the territorial waters of the Eastern Mediterranean, highlighting the current conflicts and disputes in the maritime territories of Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Cyprus, and Turkey.

The world trading envionment changed dramatically in the 1980s.

Friesen demonstrates how transnational CSOs and NGOs can influence the context in which international political decisions are made.

Drawing on the rich resources of the ten-volume series of The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science, this one-volume distillation provides a comprehensive overview of all the main branches of contemporary political science: political theory; political institutions; political behavior; comparative politics; international relations; political economy; law and politics; public policy; contextual political analysis; and political methodology.

The financial crisis of 2007 required the economics discipline to thoroughly re-evaluate its prevailing theories about economic cycles and economic growth.

This title was first published in 2001.

Egypt is a country of its people.

In the face of the continuing national tragedy of the inequality, poverty and unemployment which have triggered rising working-class discontent around the country, the ANC announced a 'second phase' of the 'national democratic revolution' to deal with the challenges.

This collection of papers from the NIESR conference at the British Academy identifies the channels through which inward investment can affect host economies, and provides quantitative evidence on the extent to which inward investment has acted to shape the size and structure of industrialised economies over the last decade.

The United States of Europe (1994) is a sequel to Wistrich's acclaimed After 1992 (also reissued as a Routledge Revival), a book that made a significant contribution to the debate on European integration.

This book puts forward a new perspective on the planned economies of communist Eastern Europe, demonstrating in detail how economic practice in such countries was shaped by the interplay among planners, managers and Party apparatchiks.

A practical guide for scientists, politicians and citizens to the relationship between science and politics.

In this chapter the topic of this book is introduced.

With the resurgence of 'new Protectionism', international trade and trade relations are once again prime topics for study.

Classical Economics, Keynes and Money casts new light on an approach to economic theory and policy that combines the modern classical theory of prices and income distribution with a Keynesian analysis of money and finance.

Economics and political economy lack the analytical tools to explain the differing impact of the recent international financial crisis that erupted in 2007 on developed economies.

This book represents the first of three volumes offering a complete reinterpretation and restructuring of Keynesian macroeconomics and a detailed investigation of the disequilibrium adjustment processes characterizing the financial, the goods and the labour markets and their interaction.

This study of the impact of poverty alleviation programmes considers the state of research on evaluation including the social dimension and the methodology; illustrates the evolution of evaluation in the field of development co-operation; and shows successful and inadequate analyzing methods.

Time is of the essence.

The large-scale extraction of natural resources for sale in capitalist markets is not a new phenomenon, but in recent years global demand for resources has increased, leading to greater attention to the role of resource extraction in the development of the exporting countries.

This edited collection uses a history of economic thought perspective to explore the evolving role of Latin America within the context of globalization.

In The Turn of the Tortoise, T N Ninan explores the paradox of a "e;premature superpower"e; (as Martin Wolf once described India in the Financial Times).

In 2010, Haiti was ravaged by a brutal earthquake that affected the lives of millions.

This book explains why governments respond differently to macroeconomic problems and why necessary reforms are sometimes delayed until a serious financial crisis erupts.

First published in 2008 and based on an innovative framework for analysing the EU's external politics, this paperback edition provides a historical overview of and theoretical conclusions about the EU's global role.

This book puts in place the groundwork for an alternative theory of money in a sociological perspective, proceeding by way of a critique of existing theories.

We know from the cost of the 2007-09 crisis that transnational finance does not operate in a realm removed from our everyday lives.

This study examines the crucial role of merchants in the rise and decline of New Orleans during the nineteenth century.

Shows that economic concerns about jobs, costs, and consumption, rather than climate change, are likely to drive energy transition in developing countries.

Surveys the contributions that economic theory has made to the debate over the government''s use of power of eminent domain.

How differences in national financial regulatory systems emerged from divergent beliefs about economic order and prosperityThe global financial crisis of the late 2000s was marked by the failure of regulators to rein in risk-taking by banks.

The current coronavirus pandemic fundamentally reshapes existing debates and processes in international development.

Discover how blockchain will facilitate a new currency that will transcend space and time Largely inspired by The Denationalization of Money by Fredrich Hayek, Money Without Boundaries ideological foundation is also inspired by economists and thought leaders like Milton Friedman and Irving Fisher, advancements in capital markets over the past 50 years, and the convergence of old and new technologies.

This book presents a substantial collection of essays from a wide range of well respected scholars addressing several aspects of Piero Sraffa's economics in light of continuing controversies over the interpretation that should be placed on his work.

A study of how industrial policy and targeting accelerated Japanese economic development and affected the rest of the world.

This book provides a much-needed classroom text in international studies that is genuinely interdisciplinary in its approach.

On January 27-28, 1999, the NRC Commission on Life Sciences organized "e;Finding the Path: Issues of Access to Research Resources"e;, a conference to explore the breadth of problems and opportunities related to obtaining and transferring research resources.

This book provides a blueprint for those interested in teaching from a pluralist perspective, regardless of ideology.