Political economy

This volume explores the challenges to diversification in Gulf countries, which can no longer rely on profits from hydrocarbons to fund national expenditures.

Europe Undivided analyzes how an enlarging EU has facilitated a convergence toward liberal democracy among credible future members of the EU in Central and Eastern Europe.

This book is a textual criticism of modern ideas about the work of Adam Smith that offers a new perspective on many of his famous contributions to economic thought.

This revised and updated book provides unique insight into cross-border labor mobility, from the ancient forms of slavery to the present day.

This book is a contribution to the scholarly engagement with the wider problem of governing through risk and the politics of uncertainty.

A century of union growth ended in the 1980s.

This book unveils the political economy of land squatting in a third world city, Montevideo, in Uruguay.

Despite the large number of regional and global summits there is very little known about the functioning and impact of this particular type of diplomatic practice.

This edited collection examines various facets of governance - the organization and steering of political processes within society - for a better understanding of the complexities of contemporary policy making.

Assessing the effectiveness of the North American Agreement on Labour Cooperation (NAALC), this book examines the operation of the core institutions (the Secretariat and National Administrative Offices) over the past seven years.

This book explores the innovative workplaces, namely coworking spaces and makerspaces, that are emerging as a consequence of digital innovations and the related development of the knowledge economy and society in the wake of deindustrialization.

The largest and most systematic analysis of national oil companies to date.

Tajikistan is one of the lesser-known and least-researched former Soviet Central Asian republics.

The development of European unification has reached a critical stage.

This book breaks new ground, taking business history where it has only reluctantly gone in the past.

This book represents the second of three volumes offering a complete reinterpretation and restructuring of Keynesian macroeconomics and a detailed investigation of the disequilibrium adjustment processes characterizing the financial, the goods and the labour markets and their interaction.

This book explores two recent crises in British political economy: the crisis of 1976-9, for which the trade unions were impugned, and the 2007 economic crisis, for which bankers were (at least initially) blamed.

A comprehensive overview of the president's policy-making role and the way this role structures the president's interaction with other institutions of government.

This book investigates recent changes in Japan's financial system and looks at the implications for Japan's particularistic model of political economy.

This book addresses major issues facing postal and delivery services throughout the world.

The growing wealth gap is best viewed as a proxy for how for how effectively elites have constructed institutions that extract value from the rest of society.

Policy scientists have long been concerned with understanding the basic tools, or instruments, that governments can use to accomplish their goals.

Despite decades of efforts to promote gender equality, most leadership positions in business, politics, education, and even NGOs are occupied by men, and most people still work in occupations dominated by one sex.

Contesting Global Order traces dominant values and patterns on a world level over the last half century.

The transition from a catching-up style economy to an innovation-driven economy poses a major challenge for China.

New Economic Democracy establishes a self-governing civil society, unifying the private sphere of production and the public sphere of citizenship within a non-statist scheme of communal ownership.

German industry in particular is a central focus for studying technical and organizational changes in industry due to its pivotal position in international markets, its technological sophistication and its well-established training systems.

This is a study of British agricultural policy since the war -- during a period which has seen the adoption of a comprehensive system of agricultural support which has seen the adoption of a comprehensive system of agricultural support which stands in marked contrast to the free trade policy adhered to for so long in the past.

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This book examines the status of trade unions in contemporary China, exploring the degree to which trade unions have been reformed as China is increasingly integrated into the global economy, and discussing the key question of how autonomous China's trade unions are.

This book offers the first critical engagement with the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa.

Presents a fresh conceptualization of self-governance as a response to the cutting-edge challenges of populism, paternalism and authoritarianism.

Using historical and ethnographic analyses, this book shows how Indian markets are embedded in society and politically contested.

Es bedarf einer Rechtfertigung, wenn der Vertreter einer empirischen Wissenschaft, dessen Aufgabe es ist, das Wesen und den Wert der Länder im irdischen Wirkungs gefüge zu erforschen und darzustellen, sich an­ schickt, über einen Gegenstand zu sprechen, den es noch nicht gibt und von dem im Augenblick nicht mit Sicherheit zu sagen ist, ob es ihn in einem überschaubaren Zeitraum geben wird, und ob die Parlamente von Frank­ reich und dem Vereinigten Königreich den Vorlagen ihrer Regierungen zustimmen werden, die sie zur positiven Entscheidung vorbereitet haben: einen Tunnel zwischen Dover und Calais zu bauen.

This timely and well-written collection explores the impact of economic reforms in developing and transitional economies across the world.

China's rise as a major trading power has prompted debate about the nature of that country's involvement in the liberal international economic order.

Much ink has been spilled in attempts to prove that humans are only animals and are, like other species, only aggressive.

For the last three decades, Uganda has been one of the fastest growing economies in Africa.

Islamist capital accumulation has split the Turkish bourgeoisie and polarized Turkish society into secular and religious social groupings, giving rise to conflicts between the state and political Islam.

This title was first published in 2001.

This book provides a detailed examination of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) after closer integration in the European Union.

Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development demonstrates the importance of one of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics winners Elinor Ostrom's research program.