Political economy

The so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution has prompted companies to adapt to a new business paradigm based on digital interconnection and the ability to respond quickly to the needs of consumers and users.

What factors determine the success of economic transition, development and growth?

This book argues that the reason states become prosperous is more or less effective states.

This book stems from a simple 'feminist curiosity' that can be succinctly summed up into a single question: what happens to combatant women after the war?

This volume explores the continuous line from informal and unrecorded practices all the way up to illegal and criminal practices, performed and reproduced by both individuals and organisations.

This book revisits the debate over the new international division of labour (NIDL) that dominated discussions in international political economy and development studies until the early 1990s.

This study offers a comparative analysis of Latin American and Middle Eastern corporatism by looking at Egypt and Mexico's differing experiences with privatization and showing that how the working class was attached to the regime during the period of state-building shapes leaders institutional options and capabilities for market reform.

The term "e;degrowth"e; has emerged within ecological and other heterodox schools of economics as a critique of the idea (and ideology) of economic growth.

This book examines the relationship between development economics, social protection and democratization in the specific context of Sub-Saharan Africa.

Latin America is attracting increasing interest due to the strong economic performance of the last decade and to the political changes that are taking place.

The theory of costs is a cornerstone of economic thinking, and figures crucially in the study of human action and society.

Agriculture is a major contributor to Africa's GDP, the region's biggest source of employment and its largest food producer.

Planning Theory has a history of common debates about ideas and practices and is rooted in a critical concern for the 'improvement' of human and environmental well-being, particularly as pursued through interventions which seek to shape environmental conditions and place qualities.

The debate on whether or not the International Monetary Fund and World Bank and their intervention strategies are a positive force for change in the developing world continues to rage.

Foucault's thoughts on governmentality have made a significant impact on the studies of power and governance in modern societies.

Markets, Politics and the Environment answers three groups of question: What is planning?

Political and economic liberalism has generally been considered to be of marginal import in France, but at an intellectual level, it is a different story.

China's relationship with the developing world is a fundamental part of its larger foreign policy strategy.

The primary aim for this book is to gather and collate articles which represent the best and latest thinking in the domain of technology transfer, from research, academia and practice around the world.

This thoughtful and challenging book affords an alternative vision of India''s rise in the world.

This book contains original essays on various aspect of the Han's political economy and its legacy, written by leading Chinese and Western scholars whose collective expertise spans Economic History, History of Economic Thought and Sinology.

Insurance is the world's largest economic industry, providing a form of security that more than triples global defence expenditure.

Explores how labour struggles in the post-1977 period in Sri Lanka provided important resistance to capitalist processes.

The system for allocating public expenditure to the nations and regions of the UK has broken down.

This book moves away from the orthodox neoliberal paradigm to suggest a new framework linking social policy with citizenship and transformation.

State-owned enterprises make up roughly 10 percent of the world economy, yet they are woefully understudied.

Frontier Assemblages offers a new framework for thinking about resource frontiers in Asia Presents an empirical understanding of resource frontiers and provides tools for broader engagements and linkages Filled with rich ethnographic and historical case studies and contains contributions from noted scholars in the field Explores the political ecology of extraction, expansion and production in marginal spaces in Asia Maps the flows, frictions, interests and imaginations that accumulate in Asia to transformative effect Brings together noted anthropologists, geographers and sociologists

Foreign Direct Investment in Transitional Economies presents a detailed investigation into the recent changes in the patterns and determinants in inflows of FDI to transitional economies.

This book provides, for the first time, a systematic and comprehensive narrative of the history of one central idea in economics, namely the division of labour, over the past two and a half millennia, with special focus on that having occurred in the most recent two and a half centuries.

In today's neoliberal times, thinking about fitness and health is dominated by the media's narratives of "e;fit bodies,"e; which are presented and circulated in society as "e;valued bodies.

'This is the second book of a two-volume set that continues Adam Smith's work, using the tools mathematical, experimental, and behavioural economists have developed since 1776.

This book seeks to make an intervention into the ongoing debate about the scope and intensity of global copyright laws.

This book describes the relationship between political authoritarianism and people's welfare in modern China.

Drawing on economic theory and several historical cases, this Element explains why reforms in weak states frequently provoke rebellion.

When we start to perceive that there is a problem in the market (such as monopoly, fraud or speculation), the legislature passes a law to correct it, a bureaucracy is created to interpret and enforce the new law, firms and other market participants comply, and the problem is solved.

The Economics of Producing Defense: Illustrated by the Israeli Case begins with an overview of the development of defense economics as a sub-discipline of the general theory of economics, and points at the new challenges it is facing in the post-Cold War era.

Economic inequality has recently gained considerable academic attention.

First published in 1921, Industrial Fatigue and Efficiency aims to provide a fairly complete overview of industrial fatigue and its influence on efficiency.

This book explains why oil prices rose so spectacularly in the past and examines how they will be suppressed in the future.

What has gone wrong with economics?

Westra explores a nuanced literature on post-capitalism which claims that instead of constituting the end of history or ending in its supplanting by socialism, capitalism has transmuted into something else.

Focusing on both Polar Regions, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of political processes related to the rapidly changing Arctic and Antarctic, where the environmental impacts of human activities are extremely visible.

Muslim minorities in China and India form only a small fraction of their respective populations, yet as they principally live in troubled border states, they are of key strategic importance in the war on terror.

The substantial prosperity that characterizes market economies at the beginning of the twenty-first century is relatively recent in human history.

Mainstream economists explain the Federal Reserve's behavior over its one hundred years of existence as (usually failed) attempts to stabilize the economy on a non-inflationary growth path.

To properly understand the nature of the digital economy we need to investigate the phenomenon of a "e;ubiquitous computing system"e; (UCS).

Germany is a central case for research on comparative political economy, which has inspired theorizing on national differences and historical trajectories.

The renowned economist and New York Times-bestselling author presents a "e;succinct and sophisticated"e; account of Western economic decline (Paul Collier, The Observer).