Political economy

The idea of 'social capital' is increasingly influencing international, national, and local policy making and work within the social sciences.

Business is one of the major power centres in modern society.

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2020, is one of the most recognizable acronyms in international politics.

From the "e;Facebook"e; revolutions in the Arab world to the use of social networking in the aftermath of disasters in Japan and Haiti, to the spread of mobile telephony throughout the developing world: all of these developments are part of how information and communication technologies are altering global affairs.

This book provides a comparative analysis of how judgments from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) affect political participation and electoral justice at the national level.

Estevez-Abe explores the egalitarian capitalism of postwar Japan and the political mechanisms that sustained it.

This handbook constitutes a specialist single compendium that analyses African political economy in its theoretical, historical and policy dimensions.

This book seeks to identify the forces which explain how and why some parts of the world have grown rich and others have lagged behind.

In the mid-2000s it seemed that the global carbon market would take off and spark the worldwide transition to a profitable low carbon economy.

This book brings together new studies on regional disparities in the provision and maintenance of health in Asia.

In feudal society, it was the few at the top who laid the ground for what was produced, how it was produced and how it was distributed.

This book looks at the main factors which have contributed to the strikingly strong growth of Asian economies in the last twenty-five years.

One of the most brilliant and influential international relations scholars of his generation, Joseph S.

Private online digital currency systems offer people accessible, convenient, and inexpensive everyday financial tools outside of traditional bank-owned and operated platforms.

This book seeks to counter the recent trend of speculation about the impact of globalization upon welfare states.

The power of capital is the power to target our attention, mould market-ready identities, and reduce the public realm to an endless series of choices.

This book analyzes contemporary dispossessions in Brazil, drawing on the Marxian concept of primitive accumulation to show how processes of proletarianization, capitalization, and commodification each relate in distinct ways to capitalist accumulation.

A Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) is the unconditional government-ensured guarantee that all citizens will have enough income to meet their basic needs without a work requirement.

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Employment Relations is widely taught in business schools around the world.

This book discusses policy strategies for the effective management of natural resources in Africa within the context of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

This book gives an account of a full spectrum of property rights and their relationship to individual liberty.

Globalization is usually said to be about markets, power, and culture.

Poverty and Austerity amid Prosperity puts a sharp focus on rising levels of poverty and homelessness in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

The Role of Crises in Shaping Financial Systems: From the Global Financial Crisis to COVID-19 underscores the role of crises as turning points for the financial sector and its interactions with the real economy.

Projecting win-win situations, new economic opportunities, green growth and innovative partnerships, the green economy discourse has quickly gained centre stage in international environmental governance and policymaking.

The main contention of this book, first published in 1978, is that international trade policy must fit the economic structure of the trading countries.

East Asia is one of the world's most dynamic and diverse regions and is also becoming an increasingly coherent region through the inter-play of various integrative economic, political and socio-cultural processes.

This volume investigates the policies and politics of extreme austerity, setting the crisis in Greece in its global context.

For more than half a century, the dollar has been not just America's currency but the world's.

In 2007/8 world food prices spiked and global economic crisis set in, leaving hundreds of millions of people unable to access adequate food.

Economists in the post-Cold War era are increasingly circumspect about universal, one-size-fits-all conceptions of human behaviour and economic institutions.

Bringing together informed analyses on the challenges of critical skill shortages (CSS) in the Asia-Pacific region, this book provides 14 country reports to discuss the critical jobs and skills to achieve long-term policies and approaches towards realising the United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs).

This handbook explores the political economy and governance of the Americas, placing particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences.

Winner of the THESEUS promising award for Research on European Integration 2011.

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

Traditional game theory requires at least two individuals.

The European economic crisis has been ongoing since 2008 and while austerity has spread over the continent, it has failed to revive economies.

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This new book, under the impressive editorship of Thomas Boylan and Paschal O'Gorman, explores a number of major themes central to the work of Karl Popper.

How do aspiring and established rising global powers respond to conflict?

Governments need to know how much revenue their tax systems will raise, who will pay tax and what the effects on the incentives to save, work and invest will be.

Drawing on the middle chapters from the first edition of J.

Industrial trade policy analysis of multi-country trade-theoretic framework within a Cournot oligopolistic interdependence in production.

This book seeks to explore the ethical dimensions of economic governance through an engagement with Adam Smith and a critical analysis of economistic understandings of the Global Financial Crisis.

Explores the nature of institutions and institutional change.

This book systematically explains why some countries are democracies while others are not.

This book summarizes how globalizing capitalism-the economic system now presumed to dominate the global economy-can be understood from a geographical perspective.