Political economy

To what extent has the process of European integration re-drawn the boundaries of national welfare states?

Entrepreneurship is among the most vibrant and important parts of the economy.

The Principle of Large Numbers indicates that macro fluctuations have weak microfoundations; persistent business cycles and interrupted technologies can be better characterized by macro vitality and meso foundations.

Economists' role in society has always been an uneasy one, and in recent years the ethicality of the profession and its practitioners has been questioned more than ever.

In the last three decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, there has been a vast amount of study looking at transforming the planned economy to a market economy from both theoretical and empirical aspects.

This book traces the impact of the global financial crisis on East Asia, and the way that key regional states responded to the crisis.

This book argues for the abolition of the employment system in favor of workplace democracy and thus escapes the usual capitalism-versus-socialism binary choice by reframing the basic issue as the employment contract, not private property or a market economy.

This Palgrave Pivot reviews the history of the UK's Retail Prices Index (RPI) from its origins just after the Second World War to its controversial position today.

This book provides a compelling exploration into the distinctive approaches East Asian scholars employ to articulate the peculiarities of Asia's modernity.

Brexit means Brexit and other meaningless mantras have simply confirmed that confusion and uncertainty have dominated the early stages of this era defining event.

While other industrialized and developing countries look towards Japan as an economic model, the political, cultural, and social arrangements that have so far allowed Japan to succeed are eroding.

This 2005 book traces the history of economic thought from its prehistory to the present day.

This book examines the ways in which new information and communication technologies (ICTs) are being used by civil society organizations (CSOs) to achieve their aims through activities and networks that cross national borders.

This volume takes a fresh look at the land question in India.

This book investigates the increasing circulation and transfer of public policy ideas between the UK, US and Australia since the 1990s.

In Normalized Financial Wrongdoing, Harland Prechel examines how social structural arrangements that extended corporate property rights and increased managerial control opened the door for misconduct and, ultimately, the 2008 financial crisis.

Explores the local politics of mining in Africa, explaining when communities benefit, and when conflict and repression occur.

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Since 1949, Chinese capitalists have experienced some dramatic shifts in their political and economic life.

The concept of hyper-active Governance shows how politicians govern complex networks, in light of the politicisation of expertise.

Economic development is full of discontinuities.

The economic crisis is also a crisis for economic theory.

This book critically examines key features of the contemporary organizational landscape by focusing on major beneficiaries of recent historical politicalcultural transformations involving the embrace of market fundamentalism and a market society: corporations, those who direct them, and those who use them for their own benefit.

Provides a view of the different types of capitalist economic systems based on an empirical analysis of twenty-one OECD nations.

China's rise within global society and politics has brought it into the spotlight - for social scientists, the country's long and dramatic transformations in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries make it an ideal case study for research on political and economic development and social changes.

Explores the different choices made by donor governments when delivering foreign aid projects around the world.

This semiannual journal from the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) provides a forum for influential economists and policymakers from the region to share high-quality research directly applied to policy issues within and among those countries.

Three trends have dominated the political economy of integration during the last two decades: globalization, economic nationalism, and regionalization.

So far there has been only praise for globalization.

This volume seeks to add to our understanding of how language is constructed in late capitalist societies.

Latin America's recent development performance calls for a multidisciplinary analytical tool kit.

This book investigates the fundamental role that tropical bioproductivity - or more specifically net primary productivity - has played in shaping the global geographies of food, finance, governance and people.

There is a standard belief that the modern theory of marginal utility originated in the UK with Jevons, Germany with Gossen, Austria with Menger and France with Walras.

This book develops a creative theoretical framework for understanding the welfare state: the theory of the state and the idea of welfare connected to autonomy.

This collection of essays examines the promise and limits of social rights in Europe in a time of austerity.

The theme of this book is that economic growth is key, but institutions and other national and subnational attributes matter as well.

Billionaires are an ultra-elite social class whose numbers are growing alongside their obscene wealth while others struggle, suffer or even die.

This book addresses the art historical category of "e;contemporary art"e; from a transregional perspective, but unlike other volumes of its kind, it focuses in on non-Western instantiations of "e;the contemporary.

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

This book critically examines the new issues and new politics regarding migration in the era of globalisation from a majority world perspective.

This book examines the historical and contemporary influence of private power in the global economy.

Unfree labor has not disappeared from advanced capitalist economies.

This volume analyzes changing patterns of authority in the global political economy with an in-depth look at the new roles played by state and non-state actors, and addresses key themes including the provision of global public goods, new modes of regulation and the potential of new institutions for global governance.

The world is in turmoil, the dynamics of political economy seem to have entered a phase where a 'return to normal' cannot be expected.

Today, by many accounts, China is the world's foremost purveyor of foreign aid and foreign investment to developing countries.

Anthony de Jasay's work has been enormously influential, describing both a theoretical philosophical model for a stateless, liberal, free market order and offering analysis of and solutions to many of the technical economic problems associated with such a vision of society - most notably his work on the free rider and his return.

Kim offers an accessible, interdisciplinary textbook using systems theory as a framework to stimulate discussion about how the social sciences develop understanding of society and its evolution.