Political economy

An up-to-date, comparative, examination of the developing economy of Tanzania and its grass roots progress out of poverty, with pointers to its wider implications for policymakers, NGOS and practitioners.

Managing the Digital Workplace in the Post-Pandemic provides a cutting-edge survey of digital organizational behaviour in the post-pandemic workplace, drawing from an international range of expertise.

Several contemporary economic theories revolve around different concepts: market failures, institutions, transaction costs, information asymmetries, motivational diversity, cognitive limitations, strategic behaviors and evolutionary stability.

The relationship between government and business has become a central issue in East Asia since the financial crisis of 1997.

This book mainly focuses on the status, trends and countermeasures of carrying capacity in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei metropolitan region.

How relevant are the classic theories of agrarian change in the contemporary context?

This first part of a two-volume series examines in detail the financing of America's major wars from the American Revolution to the Civil War.

What is the magic formula for turning a place into a high-tech capital?

This study, first published in 1986, provides a systematic account of the processes and structure of class formation in the major advanced capitalist societies.

This book uncovers how banks, individuals, and companies worked as economic accomplices to the oppressive Argentinian dictatorship.

In the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis, there have been many criticisms weighed against private credit rating agencies.

The great inter-war depression has long been seen as an unprecedented economic disaster for the peoples of the non-European world.

America's international economic decisions rest to a large degree on the information available to policymakers.

In the new edition of this important contribution to understanding both the Asian economic miracle and the 1997-8 crisis, Richard Stubbs assesses the main explanations to date and updates the analysis to take account of globalization and the remarkable economic rise of China.

Political conservatives have long believed that the best government is a small government.

One of the major architects of comprehensive tax reform has revised his widely acclaimed book on tax policy to reflect the changes brought about by the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and all other major changes in tax laws since 1983.

During the Second World War British intelligence provided politicians and soldiers with invaluable knowledge.

This book uses the structure of Machiavelli's The Prince to show how governance has changed over the last 500 years.

Key metaphors in world-system analysis are profoundly spatial, but there have been few attempts to understand how space, location, and topography affect world-system organization and process.

Public debt has become a severe problem for a great many economies.

The purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive account and reconsideration of the contribution to political economy of Thomas Tooke (1774-1858), classical economist and influential monetary theorist.

In a world of continuing financial volatility, this book critically evaluates the oft-cited claim that US firms and the US government attempt to open emerging markets in economic distress and acquire valuable industrial and financial assets.

This book comprehensively investigates the position of China's working class between the 1980s and 2010s and considers the consequences of economic reforms in historical perspective.

Malaysia's economy is doing well, but social and governance challenges must be addressed.

A Region of Regimes traces the relationship between politics and economics-power and prosperity-in the Asia-Pacific in the decades since the Second World War.

This book explores the precarious margins of contemporary labour markets.

The Persian Gulf has come to represent one of the most strategically significant waterways of the world.

Explains the basic ideas in economics, and how you can argue with them.

This book analyses the making of the Chinese middle class that started in the 1990s using a constructivist approach.

This selection of studies discusses potentials and barriers to social and industrial change in Central and Eastern Europe.

The first serious academic study of obituaries, this book focuses on how societies remember.

Today's world is crowded with international laws and institutions that govern the global economy.

In January 2006, the Dutch Association of Industry-wide Pension Funds (VB) told us about their plan to prepare a book on solidarity in collective pension systems.

The process of judicial control over institutions is often described as growing socio-legal trend which impacts the development of modern societies.

Climate Crisis Economics: A Race of Tipping Points draws on economics, political economy, scientific literature, and data to gauge the extent to which our various communities - political, economic, and business - are making the essential leap to a new narrative and policy approach that will accelerate us towards the necessary transition to a decarbonised economy and sustainable future.

Comprising Wage-Fixing (first published 1982), and Demand Management (first published 1983) this two volume reissued set is a vital and stimulating analysis of the causes and consequences of stagflation - a paralysing combination of mass unemployment and rapid inflation which affected a variety of economies across the developed world in the 1970s and early 1980s.

This book illustrates how the strategic placement of 'error-proofing' devices, which is refered in this book as Success Every Time (SET), drives up industries' profits and throughput.

This unique book explores a very broad range of ideas and institutions and provides thorough and detailed case studies in the context of broader theoretical analysis.

This is the essential student's guide to Design - its practice, its theory and its history.