Political economy

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.

Marx claims that unselfishness is a child of (workplace) culture, whereas the gene is selfish.

In 2007, for the first time in human history, a majority of the world's population lived in cities.

The world economy is currently in the throes of a global economic crisis reminiscent of the great depressions of the 1930s and the 1870s.

This book studies the politics surrounding Indian emigration from the 19th century to the present day.

Over the past decades, many different kinds of models have been developed that have been of use to policy makers, but until now the different approaches have not been brought together with a view to enhancing the systematic unification and evaluation of these models.

Greece's economy symbolizes in many ways the Eurozone's economic problems and divergent interests as it amasses most of the economic disadvantages characterizing the Eurozone's economy itself.

An analysis of the causes and processes of revolution, drawing on the stories of Iran, Nicaragua, and the Philippines.

The digital economy is growing, with producers increasingly using digital technology to revolutionise their production processes, and with new business models being created based on the digital transformation.

The American national debt stands at $20.

This book explores the interdisciplinary arena of peace studies and shows how the field has evolved and continues to grow and change.

This book is a case-study collection examining the influences and functions of British Columbia's (BC) borders in the 21st century.

This book argues for the increasing importance of the arts as a major resource in fuelling growth through the experiential dimension of today's economy.

This study explores the prospect of the application of the basic principles of ICL into many other potential areas of social and economic policy.

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

This book explores India-US relations and addresses the questions: Did India-US relations strengthen under Trump 1.

This imaginative and ambitious book rethinks the nature of capitalism.

This book examines the role of institutions and law on the economic performance of the Ottoman Empire between 1500 and 1800.

In The Future of the Euro, a group of the world's top political economists analyze the fundamental causes of the euro crisis, determine how it can be fixed, and consider what likely futures lie ahead for the currency.

Understanding the drivers and inhibitors of economic growth is critical for promoting development in less developed countries, including India.

How remittances-money sent by workers back to their home countries-support democratic expansionIn the growing body of work on democracy, little attention has been paid to its links with migration.

The book presents state of the art research on women's current position in European labour markets.

This book examines the role that the IMF has played in the management of financial crises in developed nations.

We have forgotten how to think about limits.

This book traces the evolution of Chilean political and legal institutions by looking at the process of democratization.

The core of the book consists of a selection of papers presented at an international workshop where researchers from a variety of fields and countries discussed the connections between inherited wealth, justice and equality.

This book discusses the origins of wealth inequality and explains how societies can reform to avoid the catastrophe of inequality-induced social breakdown.

The essays in this collection address specific themes in Volume I of Marx's Capital .

The Saudi Arabian Economy (1986) is a comprehensive analysis of the late-twentieth century Saudi Arabian economy.

Schedule-Based Dynamic Transit Modeling: Theory and Applications outlines the new schedule-based dynamic approach to mass transit modeling.

There is no doubt that behavioral economics is becoming a dominant lens through which we think about economics.

This book provides an analysis of the global trading system and its implications.

In the world's developing countries, foreign investment in natural resources brings into contact competing interests that are often characterised by unequal balances of negotiating power - from multinational corporations and host governments, through to the local people affected by the influx of foreign investment.

This collection explores the current economic and political crisis in Greece and more widely in Europe.

This book provides a complete and self-contained discussion of Japan''s economic and political institutions from 1980 up to 2007.

Various strains of heterodox economics have sought, and largely failed, to dismount orthodoxy from its dominant position.

This book analyses an increasingly important phenomenon in contemporary regional development, namely 'traveling expertise' and policy ideas.

The industrial revolution and the creation of the modern (national) state are two of the most important historical processes to have occurred in Europe during the 19th century.

Das Handbuch präsentiert den „state of the art“ zu den Themen Armut und soziale Ausgrenzung.

Published in 1997, this postmodern critique provides a discourse on internal dynamics of the economics world view, suggesting for future societal wellbeing that we simply do not criticize economics but dispense it altogether.

This book examines South-South development aid and cooperation amongst BRICS and other developing countries from the angle of New Structural Economics.

This interdisciplinary study offers a comprehensive analysis of the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

This book presents a novel theoretical and methodological approach to understanding the emerging "e;glocal"e; realities of (sub)urban space.

This book looks at how internationalization has transformed political institutions and styles of governing.

Heinz Kurz is recognised internationally as a leading economic theorist and a foremost historian of economic thought.

This work compares IT parks in China, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Hawaii, in search of strategies that policy makers can employ to reduce the Global Digital Divide, advance distributional equity, and soften some of the negative effects of economic globalization.

This book takes a Marxist approach to the study of media piracy - the production, distribution, and consumption of media texts in violation of intellectual property laws - to examine its place as an endemic feature of the cultural economy since the rise of the Internet.