Political economy

This book investigates the economic organization of ancient societies from a comparative perspective.

Even in the face of neoliberal globalization, nationalism remains a significant political force.

The financialization, globalization and industrialization of our food systems make it increasingly difficult to access quality fresh food.

The Panic of 1893 and the depression it triggered mark one of the decisive crises in American history.

The literature surveys presented in this edited volume provide readers with up-to-date reviews on eleven contemporary topics in finance.

Examining globalization in the Middle East, this book provides a much needed assessment of the impact of globalization in the 'greater' Middle East, including North Africa, in the context of the powerful geopolitical forces at work in shaping the region today.

This book undertakes the first systematic, multi-country investigation into how regimes of place equality, consisting of multilevel policies, institutions and governance at multiple scales, influence spatial inequality in metropolitan regions.

Issues relating to employment and labour have once again come to the fore of global policy debates in the wake of the widespread unemployment that has accompanied the current financial crisis.

The business of cruise tourism in recent years has commanded news media attention especially on issues of environmental pollution, passenger safety and worker rights, yet consumer interest in cruise vacations has not been adversely affected by negative publicity and it continues to grow at an average of 8-9% per annum.

This book is a concept we use to explain the invasive and pervasive role of sport in global society and in each country around the world.

Alexis de Tocqueville's work touched upon an exceptionally broad range of social scientific disciplines, from economics to religion, and from education to international affairs.

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 examines Latin America''s distinctive, enduring form of hierarchical capitalism, characterized by multinational corporations, diversified business groups, low skills and segmented labor markets.

Economics originated as a branch of the humane studies that was concerned with trying to understand how some societies flourish while others stagnate, and also how once-flourishing societies could come to stagnate.

In TheDiaspora Strikes Back the eminent ethnic and cultural studies scholar Juan Flores flips the process on its head: what happens to the home country when it is being constantly fed by emigrants returning from abroad?

Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, this book examines whether qualified foreign institutional investors (QFIIs), through their shareholder activism, have a meaningful positive impact on the corporate governance of firms listed on the mainland Chinese stock market.

The Caspian Sea region has hitherto largely been investigated from a `New Great Game' perspective that depicts the region as a geopolitical battle-ground between regional and external great powers, where tensions have been exacerbated by the sea's rich natural resources, strategic location, and legal disagreements over its status.

This book brings together, for the first time, philosophers of pragmatism and economists interested in methodological questions.

In this new volume it is argued that network effects are much more common than usually assumed, and that they have a profound impact on many aspects of economic systems, especially technological change and economic growth.

This book focuses on the interrelationship between nature and the human economy.

This book is the first comprehensive study of foreign direct investment (FDI) liberalization.

A study of class and inequality from an anthropological perspective, bringing together an international team of researchers.

The Routledge Handbook of Law and the Anthropocene provides a critical survey into the function of law and governance during a time when humans have the power to impact the Earth system.

This book answers the important question - how does China maintain authoritarian rule while it is committed to market-oriented economic reforms?

Human Trafficking provides a critical engagement with the key debates on human trade.

China's historic accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in November 2001 not only represents an important milestone in the country's transition to a market economy and integration into the global economy, but is also among the most important events in the history of the WTO and the multilateral trading system.

This book develops a new political economy, enabling us to see, understand and advocate a diverse economy beyond capitalism and socialism.

This book, originally published in 1985, examines the development of the car industry in Coventry within both its local context and the wider economic environment.

This book provides the first comprehensive account of post-crisis international regulation of derivatives by bringing together the international relations literature on regime complexity and the international political economy literature on financial regulation.

An incisive history of the changing relationship between democracy and capitalismThe twentieth century witnessed the triumph of democratic capitalism in the industrialized West, with widespread popular support for both free markets and representative elections.

Modernity promised control over nature through science, material abundance through technology and effective government through rational, social organization.

The last two decades of the twentieth century saw the most fundamental changes in British social policy since the creation of the welfare state in the 1940s.

In the economic debate, power is defined and studied mainly as an interpersonal relation occurring out of perfect competition.

The world is at the crossroads of social change, in the vortex of forces that are bringing about a different world, a post-neoliberal state.

Examines how states pigeon-hole people within categories of race, ethnicity and language.

Were oil supplies everlasting and the demand for oil strong and continuous, economic diversification in the Gulf would be pointless.

Malaysia's 40-year strategy of 'poverty eradication' has met with a great deal of success, yet has caused controversy for its links to ethnically-oriented social restructuring.

This volume focuses on the hyper-mediatization of Latin America from the citizen's perspective, considering the social impact and how people embrace information technologies to improve their living conditions, engage in political issues and the role of digital journalism in promoting democratic values in Latin America.

The Progressive Era was among the most volatile times for the economy and labor in American History.

The different approach taken by China and the West towards finance and the real economy rests upon philosophical foundations that have diverged fundamentally since the Ancient World.

Drawing on a range of data from across disciplines, this book explores a series of fundamental questions surrounding the nature, working and effects of democracy, considering the reasons for the emergence and spread of democratic government, the conditions under which it endures or collapses - and the role of wealth in this process - and the peaceful nature of dealings between democracies.

Over the last few decades behavioral economics has revolutionized the discipline.

Over the last few decades, politics in India has moved steadily in a pro-business direction.

Thorstein Veblen and Hyman Minsky are seminal thinkers who place great importance on the interaction between processes that link finance and financial markets with economic and social evolution.

For too long radical political economy has suffered for lack of a coherent alternative to formal Marxian economic theory.

Backsliding shows how democratically elected rulers can weaken checks on executive power, curtail political rights, and undermine electoral systems.

This book provides a broad and comprehensive survey of the development of capitalism in Russia from the collapse of the Soviet economic system to the present, and includes the results of substantial new research on the current state of a wide range of Russian enterprises.