Political economy

'There is no alternative' has been the unofficial mantra of the neoliberal order since its utterance by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.

The economies of the eurozone countries are plagued by multiple crises, which cast major doubts over the future of the euro.

During the chaos of the eurozone crisis, few mainstream commentators have stopped to question the purpose of the European Union itself, and whose interests it serves.

What are the key foreign economic policy issues facing the United States in the second half of this decade?

Have you ever felt totalled?

For a century, economists have driven forward the cause of globalization in financial institutions, labour markets, and trade.

The Global Financial Crisis overturned decades of received wisdom on how financial markets work, and how best to keep them in check.

Hezbollah provides a new, grounded analysis of the controversial and misunderstood Lebanese party.

Extrait : "Sous ce titre, obstine comme le choc d'un marteau-pilon, M.

Known around the world for challenging mainstream economics, economist Mariana Mazzucato believes, as the Financial Times writes, that ';the public sector can and should be a cocreator of wealth that actively steers growth to meet its goals.

The Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 was devastating for the region, but policymakers at least believed that they gained a great deal of knowledge on how to prevent, mitigate, and resolve crises in the future.

Modern societies set limits, on everything from how fast motorists can drive to how much waste factory owners can dump in our rivers.

This is the story of how a small island on the edge of Europe became one of the world's major tax havens.

The Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories since 1967 has many important economic aspects that are often overlooked.

It is generally accepted that Social Security must be reformed, but there is little agreement on what should be done to reform the program.

'A brilliant expose' - Danny DorlingCovid-19 has exposed the limits of a neoliberal public health orthodoxy.

The global economy is a mess.

In the international political economy of the last two millennia, there tends to be one state leading the world as the foremost producer of energy and new technology.

The enhanced edition of the fully updated, number-one bestselling memoir of one of New Labour's three founding architects allows unprecedented access to video footage, audio commentary and primary source materials, from Mandelson's own diary entries to spirited exchanges between Labour's most powerful figures.

Finance is the evil we cannot live without.

Finance is the evil we cannot live without.

This book is the most comprehensive collection available explaining what the military industrial complex (MIC) is, where it comes from, what damage it does, what further destruction it threatens, and what can be done and is being done to chart a different course.

Terrorism is one of the driving geopolitical trends of our era.

Corruption regularly makes front page headlines: public officials embezzling government monies, selling public offices, and trading bribes for favors to private companies generate public indignation and calls for reform.

Este libro analiza la relación entre el paramilitarismo y diferentes formas de conflictividad agraria en Colombia.

The Federal Reserve System--the central bank of the United States, better known as The Fed--has never been more controversial.

The Federal Reserve System--the central bank of the United States, better known as The Fed--has never been more controversial.

"El capitalismo entró triunfante en el si­glo XXI y su rival comunista quedó re­legado al pasado.

Arguments about taxation are among the most heated- no other topic is as influential to the role of government and the distribution of costs and benefits in America.

Over the past thirty years, the issue of economic inequality has emerged from the backwaters of economics to claim center stage in the political discourse of America and beyond---a change prompted by a troubling fact: numerous measures of income inequality, especially in the United States in the last quarter of the twentieth century, have risen sharply in recent years.

Arguments about taxation are among the most heated- no other topic is as influential to the role of government and the distribution of costs and benefits in America.

Corruption regularly makes front page headlines: public officials embezzling government monies, selling public offices, and trading bribes for favors to private companies generate public indignation and calls for reform.

Over the past thirty years, the issue of economic inequality has emerged from the backwaters of economics to claim center stage in the political discourse of America and beyond---a change prompted by a troubling fact: numerous measures of income inequality, especially in the United States in the last quarter of the twentieth century, have risen sharply in recent years.

Financial journalist Riva Froymovich has good reason to be anxious about the financial turmoil facing Generation Y.

Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so.

Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so.

The story of how your NHS was sold off and why you will have to buy private health insurance soon.

This book, The State of the American Mind: Stupor and Pathetic Docility Volume One begins to unravel some of the most obvious, perplexing, embarrassingand enduring problems and contradictions of American history and sociology, viz.

Most people have a bias toward seeing the world as they would like it to be.