Political economy

This book demonstrates how human rights instruments and values have brought different movements together in the struggle against free trade.

This book examines how developing countries often sign up to highly potent rules underwriting economic globalisation without even realising it.

In den westlichen Medien wird viel über Putin geschrieben.

Inclusion in the American Dream brings together leading scholars and policy experts on the topic of asset building, particularly as this relates to public policy.

This book presents the Balanced Development Index (BDI), measuring socioeconomic development in twenty-two European OECD member countries in a period 1999-2017.

This book offers an essential guide to Public Finance and National Accounts in the context of the European Union.

Macroeconomic Principles and Problems: A Pluralist Introduction offers a comprehensive overview of the major topics in modern macroeconomics, from mainstream and heterodox perspectives.

First published in 1975, this book provides a straightforward examination of regional differences and regional development in the countries of Western Europe.

This book analyses the economic history of the nuclear program in Spain, from its inception in the 1950s to the nuclear moratorium in the early 1980s, and investigates the economic, financial and business origins of atomic energy in Spain.

This book focuses on how discourse and various narratives contribute to the construction of the European Union as a political actor, thus seeking to challenge the more established approaches to the study of the Union.

This book provides unique insight into Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) in Africa.

In the 1980s a large number of Latin American countries undertook stabilization and structural adjustment programmes similar, though smaller in magnitude, to the ones that Eastern Europe is now undergoing.

Europeans use 'social models' to refer to the combination of welfare state, industrial relations, and educational institutions jointly structuring what we can think of as the supply-side of the labor market.

In order to fully understand the evolution and future growth of economic systems, we must draw on the lessons of economic history.

When and how do great and middle powers moderately challenge the status quo?

This pioneering volume argues for the inclusion of children, and the structure known as 'childhood', as a permanent social category worthy of continued study within the discipline of international political economy (IPE).

This book, the second of two volumes, explores the impact of Jesus Huerta de Soto and his role in the modern revival of the Austrian School of Economics.

Bridging African and Arab histories, this book examines the relationship between Islam, nationalism and the evolution of identity politics from late 19th Century to World War II.

The 1930s, characterised by repercussions from World War I and the Great Depression, was an era of populism, nationalism, protectionism, government intervention and attempts to create planned economies.

These proceedings from the 2013 symposium on "e;Chaos, complexity and leadership"e; reflect current research results from all branches of Chaos, Complex Systems and their applications in Management.

This book offers a sociological analysis of globalised capitalist markets, advancing the notion of 'disembedded markets' to challenge the idea of 'social embeddedness' common in economic sociology.

This three volume series of intellectual biography considers the life, work and impact on economic, social and political theory of the Italian economist, sociologist and political scientist Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923).

This book, the first of two volumes, comes to life through the transcription of captivating classroom lectures spanning several years, providing a comprehensive overview of the core topics within Austrian economics.

This book is the first collection of scholarly writings on science and technology parks (STPs) that has an international perspective.

This book presents the results of a collective and original empirical investigation of the institutional systems underlying the capitalisms that are coming to the fore in developing nations.

The book follows a first edition published in 1989, which focused on the severe economic crisis Ghana faced during the late 1970s and the early 1980s.

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

Economic systems driven by monetary interests have enabled individuals, international institutions, and governments to prioritize financial gain and budget constraints over people.

Grundlegende technologische und regulatorische Veränderungen haben zur Jahrtausendwende die Telekommunikationsmärkte mit erheblichem Anpassungsdruck konfrontiert.

This collection of papers from the NIESR conference at the British Academy identifies the channels through which inward investment can affect host economies, and provides quantitative evidence on the extent to which inward investment has acted to shape the size and structure of industrialised economies over the last decade.

The crisis caused by COVID-19 poses a major challenge for the global economy and business.

This book reviews the global dilemma and tensions over whether to intervene or not to intervene in severe civil conflicts which test the validity of the new doctrine of Responsibility to Protect or R2P.

The third edition of EU Customs Law provides a fully updated treatment of legislation, new treaties and cases in the two courts of the EU especially but also in Member States.

Severe poverty is one of the greatest moral challenges of our times.

Megaprojects, also referred to in the literature as Large Engineering Projects or Major Projects, are generally defined as large-scale investment initiatives worth 1b /$ or more and, facing similar problems independent of the country where they are implemented and the industry they belong to.

Drawing together the experiences of individuals, households and businesses, this book offers an international perspective on the on how and the extent to which the experiential nature of being rural, whether as an business manager in an SME (or micro-enterprise), a non-business person, a retired inhabitant or a housewife is changing as Information