Political economy

What makes people lose faith in democratic statecraft?

This book is an analysis of how oil has affected governance and human, political, and economic development in the countries of the Persian Gulf and shaped these countries' relations with the rest of the world.

Theories of the classical and English systems, reviewed in relation to the question of what part government should play in the competitive order.

The Economics and Politics of European Integration offers a comprehensive history of European integration, from the conceptualization of a United States of Europe, to the present day.

This book analyzes the origins and the impacts of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on diplomacy, economy (trade, investment, finance), and security among selected host countries and regions in Asia, Africa, and the European Union.

Banks of all sorts are troubled institutions.

This book examines a rapidly emerging new topic in urban settlement patterns: the role of shrinking cities.

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"e;Dowding and Taylor offer student and scholar alike a clear and compelling perspective on the foundations of political economy.

Regulatory change is typically understood as a response to significant crises like the Great Depression, or salient events that focus public attention, like Earth Day 1970.

It is a long-held perception that America is a nation where the government typically stays out of day-to-day business activities.

Michael Kalecki was a Polish economist who independently discovered many of the key concepts of what is now identified as Keynesian theory.

China's role in global events today cannot be overestimated.

Society, ecological systems, and technological combinations are sets of ongoing processes that are organized as integrated systems and networks.

Beginning with the key changes brought about in the economy by advanced technology and organisational and institutional innovations, the author elucidates their impact on industrial systems, accumulation, firms and the processes of European integration.

Starting in the mid 1990s, the United States economy experienced an unprecedented upsurge in economic productivity.

This book provides insight into the emerging global knowledge village dialectic.

This book analyses the role of emerging powers as a development assistance providers and the nature of their development cooperation, their behaviour, motives and markedly their changing identities in international relations.

The life sciences is an industrial sector that covers the development of biological products and the use of biological processes in the production of goods, services and energy.

The first comprehensive study evaluating the comparative performance of national environmental policies.

The European Union and the US are currently negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), with potentially enormous economic gains for both partners.

When Government Helped systematically evaluates some parallels between The Great Depression and the 2007-2008 global economic meltdown, not only in terms of their economic causes and consequences, but also in terms of their political and cultural contexts and the environmental crises that afflict both periods.

The promise, embraced by governments around the world, is that the knowledge economy will provide knowledge workers with a degree of autonomy and permission to think which enables them to be creative and to attract high incomes.

Walter Bagehot noticed once that "e;John Bull can stand many things, but he cannot stand two per cent.

This study offers a close examination of Marx's dialectical method of analysis through the lens of current debates in cultural studies, political economy, and critical sociology.

Devolution in Context (2002) is a work of comparative law that studies Western Europe's revolution in regional governance.

Countries in the Middle East have very different economies, even if they are often grouped together.

Any consideration of global migration in relation to work and citizenship must necessarily be situated in the context of the Great Recession.

In the early 1960s the Middle East suffered from political instability, inefficiency of government, widespread poverty and inequality, low productivity, and a mounting population pressure on the region's resources.

Over the last decade, the United States' position as the world's most powerful state has appeared increasingly unstable.

The book explores how, to what extent and with what consequences the international crisis of 2007-2008 and the recession which followed have affected European SMEs (small and medium enterprises) in both the well established market economies of the old member countries and in the post-transformation new member countries, and what can be done at the institutional and political level to uphold them.

Encoding the Olympics assembles a uniquely representative international team of media experts to provide a comprehensive review of the global impact of media and cultural communications associated with the Beijing 2008 Olympics.

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Why do so few countries achieve development success?

This book investigates the process and mechanism of the capability development of East Asian local manufacturers, which has underpinned their phenomenal rise in the world's competitive landscape of industrial production during the last few decades.

Following its foundation in 1957, the European Economic Community set about establishing itself as a major player on the world stage.

This book examines the dynamics of neoliberal urban governance through a comparative analysis of Buenos Aires and Chicago, with a special focus on gentrification processes in both cities from 2011 to 2021.

Modern macroeconomics is in a stalemate, with seven schools of thought attempting to explain the workings of a monetary economy and to derive policies that promote economic growth with price-level stability.

American manufacturing is in obvious crisis: the sector lost three million jobs between 2000 and 2003 as the American trade deficit shot to record highs.

As the centres of world capitalism struggle to overcome long-term stagnation and existential crisis, this book aims to recover the legacy of revolutions against capitalism and imperialism.

Die moderne Ökonomie befindet sich in einem tiefgreifenden Wandel.

Why has global tax governance been politicized and how can we explain the varying intensity and content of public debates?

The supposed link between immigration and crime is a highly contentious issue.

Policy debates are often grounded within the conceptual confines of a state-market dichotomy, as though the two existed in complete isolation.

Brings together a collection of papers from academia, government, and policy think tanks on US energy tax policy.

Many important economic and political debates today refer to the nature and the role of the State: should governments intervene in the economy and interfere with the operation of markets?

Throughout the Western world, a whole generation is being priced out of the housing market.

The privatization revolution, profit or revenue sharing, and employee participation in enterprise decision making are some of the major characteristics of modern capitalism.