Political economy

Neoliberal economic reforms over the last four decades have altered the economic cartography of emerging market economies such as India, particularly in the context of international trade, investment and finance, and in terms of their effects on the real economy.

The last two hundred years have seen a massive increase in the size of the world economy and equally massive inequalities of wealth and power between different parts of the world.

Our education system is chained to the hold of a sinking capitalist ship.

The 2008 international crisis has revived the interest in Keynes's theories and, in particular, on Minsky's models of financial fragility.

This groundbreaking collection surveys current research on Marx and Marxism from a variety of perspectives.

This book addresses the question of what socialism is according to fundamental values rather than institutions.

This book develops an argument for the power of collective identity as an impetus for state prioritization of social welfare.

In the wake of the outbreak of the global crisis in 2008, many observers expected the state to assume command over a faltering neoliberal finance-led model of capitalism.

Nearly two hundred years have passed since the birth of Karl Marx and continuing to this day the influence of his economic views, insights and theories can still be felt.

Korea was the first non-G7 member and Asian country to host the recent G20 Summit, acting as a bridge between advanced and developing nations.

With World War II still raging, nations came together to create a new international monetary order, the Bretton Woods system.

The financialization, globalization and industrialization of our food systems make it increasingly difficult to access quality fresh food.

Zur Bewaltigung der geookonomischen Herausforderungen der Gegenwart hat die Europaische Union das Konzept der Offenen Strategischen Autonomie entwickelt, welches insbesondere auf eine starkere Widerstands- und Durchsetzungsfahigkeit der Europaischen Union in der internationalen Gemeinschaft zielt.

Winner of the European Association of Agricultural Economists Book AwardFood and agriculture have been subject to heavy-handed government interventions throughout much of history and across the globe, both in developing and in developed countries.

China faces significant hurdles in implementing its Belt and Road Initiative.

Originally published in 1984.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of three key areas: heterodox macroeconomics, development economics and classical political economy.

Alternative ways of thinking, analysing and performing economic geographies have become increasingly significant in recent years, partly due to the recent financial crisis, which has had social and political consequences throughout the world.

Gehlbach challenges the conventional wisdom about the relationship between politicians and organized interests.

As firms from East Asia gain global market share they are stirring trade disputes with import-competing firms in the West.

Global business tends to be perceived as a number of individual but powerful multinational corporations, capable of controlling markets and influencing political decisions; in fact, global business is highly organized through a plethora of associations that bring together competing companies and conflicting national businesses.

Social theory can usefully be conceived in terms of four key paradigms: functionalist, interpretive, radical humanist and radical structuralist.

The postcommunist transitions to a market economy raised doubts about the political sustainability of an economic reform under democracy.

This title was first published in 2001.

"e;Geoff Mann is a new breed of monkey-wrencher.

Originally published in 1985, in the deteriorating climate of East-West relations technology transfer became vitally important.

Dynamic Modeling of Monetary and Fiscal Cooperation Among Nations analyzes coordination of monetary and fiscal stabilization policies between countries and currency areas using a dynamic game approach.

Now in its fourth edition, this highly regarded and critically acclaimed textbook offers an authoritative introduction to international political economy.

Constructivist Theories of Ethnic Politics rebuilds theories of the relationship between ethnicity, politics and economics on a constructivist foundation, according to which ethnic identities can change over time, often in response to the very phenomena they are used to explain.

This book is about how the three most important countries in South America have responded to the challenges of globalization since the mid-1960s, the first OPEC price hike, the Third World debt crisis leading to the 'lost-decade' for the continent, and finally bold, but often ill-planned, neo-liberal reforms of the 1990s.

Health professionals are often confronted with situations that demand change, including a community's inability to access adequate health care, lack of disease-specific prevention programs, or legislators who do not understand economic and noneconomic impacts of a particular disease or prevention.

The countries of Central Asia are increasingly the focus of intense international attention due to their geopolitical and economic importance as well as their unsettled transition processes.

This book presents an analytic history of American energy policy, examining policy failures and how the policy process itself leads to failure.

Over the past two decades, the banking industry has expanded and consolidated at a stunningly unprecedented speed.

The Franchising Code of Conduct (the Code) is a mandatory obligation for all systems operating in Australia, and takes a comprehensive approach to disclosure, relationship laws and dispute issues.

This book provides a detailed picture of the equity and efficiency of economic restructuring, focusing on the two most important successor states to the Soviet Union.

A comparative and historical analysis of foreign direct investment liberalization in China and India, explaining how the return of these countries'' diasporas affects such liberalization.

This comprehensive volume explores debt dynamics and the intensification of debt crises across the globe, bringing together several recent but underexplored debt crises from different regional and socioeconomic contexts.

The first book-length treatment to conclusively demonstrate the link between income inequality and the 2008 financial crisis and Great Recession Prevailing economic theory attributes the 2008 crash and the Great Recession that followed to low interest rates, relaxed borrowing standards, and the housing price bubble.

Explores the sustainable farming movement through reference to three detailed case studies of organisations operating in rural India.

This book presents a study of perceptions of food insecurity in East Asia, and explores how individual countries are developing strategies to deal with the situation.

The book sets out to examine Sino-Japanese relations, especially since the re-establishment of diplomatic ties between China and Japan in 1972.

This book scrutinizes the series of food riots in Argentina in December 2001.

This study offers a detailed analysis of U.

The global economic system is experiencing a profound period of rapid change.

Democratization in the Third World addresses many current issues of development, democratization and civil society in countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America against the background of theoretical introductions and comparisons with the Swedish historical experience of democratisations.

Asserts that legitimate governance requires explanations for trade-offs between conflicting goals and demonstrates that such explanations can always be found.

This book offers ways to overcome problems that arise because voters, politicians and bureaucrats pursue selfish interests rather than the general interest in their political behaviour.