Political economy

This Element analyses real-world trial courts data with state-of-the-art machine learning and causal inference methods.

China has become deeply integrated into the world economy.

In his latest book, Patrick Brantlinger probes the state of contemporary America.

Charts the advance of the state in contemporary China through an analysis of state-market relations in the reform era.

Analysts generally agree that, in the long term, the biggest challenge to American hegemony is not military, but rather China's economic rise.

This book examines the contemporary state of the capitalist economyand its future trajectory in a world characterized by multiple crises from population growth to ecological damage.

The United States is standing at a critical juncture in its fiscal outlook.

Reevaluates the concept of accountability from a range of cultural, social, and political viewpoints.

Despite regionalism having developed into a global phenomenon, the European Union (EU) is still more often than not presented as the 'role-model of regionalism' whose institutional designs and norms are adopted by other regional actors and organizations as part of a rather passive 'downloading process'.

First published in 2001.

This volume probes the interactions between domestic and international political economies, and inquires about their effects in different regional and national contexts.

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This book examines the complex and connected past, present, and future of Northeast India and Japan.

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Recent years have seen renewed interest in elites around the world, and their interconnection with power, privilege, social stratification, and social change.

Adam Smith's contribution to economics is well recognised, yet scholars have recently been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his works.

Introduced in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has had a significant impact within Asia and across other regions.

This volume analyzes the barriers to, as well as new drivers for, entrepreneurial development in post-communist countries.

Karl Marx was not only the great theorist of capitalism, he was also a superb journalist, politician and historian.

This book examines the ways in which cricket has reflected and reproduced some of the social and political tensions of the twenty-first century.

Prior to the 1970s, few serious efforts were made to bridge the gap between economics and political science in the study of international relations.

Wie wandlungsfähig ist gewerkschaftliches Handeln?

Lean is about building and improving stable and predictable systems and processes to deliver to customers high-quality products/services on time by engaging everyone in the organization.

As governments are major buyers of goods and services, foreign companies are keen to be able to participate in procurement opportunities on an equal footing with national firms.

This book explores the end of the era of low inflation and stable price increases, known as "e;The Great Moderation"e;, and the impact this will have on monetary policy.

Using a comparative framework, this volume presents case studies of issues of public procurement and discusses how procurement professionals and policy makers in different regions are responding to these challenges.

This book explains the links between past and present oil crises, financial crises, and geopolitical conflicts.

This book takes a radical approach to ecological economics, proposing a new paradigm based on earth systems science.

Dieser Sammelband gibt einen Überblick über die Sozial- und Solidarwirtschaft, die nicht nur in Frankreich an Bedeutung gewinnt.

This book is an exploration into the uncharted territory of social reality.

Comparative International Management is a classic textbook for International Business that teaches the core concepts of International Business through a systematic comparison of management practice in countries across the world.

This compilation first details the ways the Plan for the Alliance for Prosperity in Honduras sought to generate sources of employment, develop human capital, improve citizen security and access to justice, and strengthen institutions.

Achieving sustainable agricultural development is at the forefront of the poverty reduction objective of the Central Asian republics - Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

War, depression, secularization, urbanization, and the rise of industry - between 1900 and 1945 Canada struggled with all these developments, and from them was born the modern welfare state.

This book problematises the statist underpinnings of the concept of the 'developmental state,' in terms of both state-society and national-global relations, challenging the notion that the state is the agent of national development qua being autonomous from the domestic and global economies.

Comprehensive tax reform must address issues of process as well as the structure of the tax system.

In the current period of globalization, Governing Interests presents new research on the impact of internationalization on the organization and representation of business interests through trade and employer associations.

This book gives a comprehensive overview of Ghana's hydrocarbon economy using actor network and assemblage theories to contest the methodological nationalism of mainstream accounts of the resource curse in resource-rich countries.

Entering the shady world of what he calls "e;violent entrepreneurship,"e; Vadim Volkov explores the economic uses of violence and coercion in Russia in the 1990s.

Access to energy is essential for our daily lives, economic growth, environment, and sustainability.

This book explores the role of entrepreneurship in economic and social integration of post-Soviet immigrants in the European Union, and the ways in which national institutions influence these processes.

The term "e;human economics"e; is sometimes used within economic theory with the hope of repositioning economic discipline as a human and social science, but with scarce success.