Political economy

Since the first edition there have been fundamental changes in the Irish growth model.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of how the developmental goals of Asian states are reflected in large-scale projects and how various actors both realize and challenge these goals.

This book discusses the requirements and preconditions for transforming the economy in order to achieve defined goals while maintaining and utilizing the efficiency of markets.

The wave of neoliberal economic reforms in the developing world since the 1980s has been regarded as the result of both severe economic crises and policy pressures from global financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

The book provides an estimate of the size of the shadow economy in Poland.

This volume provides up-to-date information on what has happened in the African 'land rush', providing national case studies for countries that were heavily impacted.

Our current social security system operates on a pay-as-you-go basis; benefits are paid almost entirely out of current revenues.

Ever since the inception of economics over two hundred years ago, the tools at the discipline's disposal have grown more and more more sophisticated.

In light of the deflationary trends following the 2008/2009 financial crisis, as well as the return of inflation triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, this book offers insights into price stability issues in various East Asian countries.

Science and technology have long been regarded as important determinants of economic growth.

Globalization: A Key Idea for Business and Society analyzes today's process of global integration.

This book presents ten studies which combine historical narrative with econometrics to analyze the role of credibility in four monetary regimes.

Verwandeln sich Über- und Unterordnungsverhältnisse in Herrschafts- und Beherrschungsbeziehungen, entsteht strukturelle Gewalt.

Over the past few years, Marx's Capital has received renewed academic and popular attention.

Precariousness has become a defining experience in contemporary society, as an inescapable condition and state of being.

Robert LaJeunesse looks beyond the 20th century arguments for shortening the work week.

In the years leading up the global financial crisis, the European Union (EU) had emerged as a central actor in global financial governance, almost rivalling the United States in influence.

This book analyzes the revenues from the creation of currency by a central government.

From the mid-1980s, investors in the US increasingly directed capital towards the financial sector at the expense of non-financial sectors, lured by the perception of higher profits.

Following the end of the Cold War, the economic reforms in the early 1990s, and ensuing impressive growth rates, India has emerged as a leading voice in global affairs, particularly on international economic issues.

With the growing challenges of economic globalization and national welfare state retrenchment, the development and future of EU social policy has become increasingly important.

AIDS and the Ecology of Poverty combines the insights of economics and biology to explain the spread of HIV/AIDS and deliver a telling critique of AIDS policy.

This book explores the way in which the financial crisis that began in the US spread to the economy of the European Union.

This important book discusses the political economy of world order and the basic ideological and ontological grounds upon which the emergent global order is based.

Policy ownership of development agenda emerged as an important aspect in international development cooperation during the 1990s in the wake of evident failures of reform initiatives in developing countries steered by donor agencies, particularly the international financial institutions (IFIs), the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Deportation has again taken a prominent place within the immigration policies of nation-states.

Dieses Lehrbuch richtet sich an Studierende der Wirtschaftswissenschaften und verwandter Fächer an Universitäten und Fachhochschulen, die über Grundkenntnisse der Mikroökonomik und der Makroökonomik verfügen.

A concise exploration of globalization and its role in the contemporary era Driven by technological advancements and global corporations, more and more people are swept up by globalizing processes, creating new winners and losers.

First published in 1987, Alfred Marshall: Progress and Politics provides an enlightening insight into Marshall's thoughts on social improvement, adaptive upgrading, policy and polity.

Hou offers a ''both/and'' perspective of the state, market, capitalism and communism by examining the local institutional innovation in China.

This comprehensive study traces the transnationalization of activist networks, analyzing their changing compositions and characters and examining the roles played by the World Social Forum in this process.

The novelist Paul Morand described the Exposition of 1900 in Paris: .

This excellent book, newly available in paperback, addresses the growing dissatisfaction with the neo-liberal post-Washington consensus.

In this book a presentation of a phenomenological theory of elec- trochemistry is given.

Drawing on a half-century of scholarship, this book presents a primer on the key themes and principles of conflict economics.

First published in 1988, The Mexican Economy presents a comprehensive survey of the Mexican economy and its problems and argues that the crisis has more complex roots within the Mexican economy.

Social pacts - policy agreements between governments, labor unions and sometimes employer organizations - began to emerge in many countries in the 1980s.

This is a succint and well-written book introducing a truly interdisciplinary approach to the study of copyright and related issues in contemporary popular culture in relation to the current development of Asian cinema, and questions how copyright is appropriated to regulate culture.

The For-Purpose Enterprise with its powershifted operating system is a complete replacement for the conventional management hierarchy as well as for conventional management approaches including predict-and-control.

The financial crisis of 2008 has revived interest in economic scholarship from a historical perspective.

A book that rewrites the history of American prosperity and inequalityUnequal Gains offers a radically new understanding of the economic evolution of the United States, providing a complete picture of the uneven progress of America from colonial times to today.