Political economy

A dive into the origins, management, and uses and misuses of sovereign debt through the ages.

This important two-volume set unapologetically documents how capitalism results in the oppression of animals ranging from fish and chickens to dogs, elephants, and kangaroos as well as in environmental destruction, vital resource depletion, and climate change.

Technological advances and the drive to digitalize business processes in aviation, tourism, and hospitality have forced the industries to go along with the digital movement.

For whom and why are borders drawn?

This volume aims to explore the long-term evolution of different varieties of large enterprises in today's developed economies.

This edited volume examines global power-rivalry in and around South Asia through Bangladeshi lenses using imperfect and overlapping interest concentric-circles as a template.

Today, the word "e;neoliberal"e; is used to describe an epochal shift toward market-oriented governance begun in the 1970s.

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.

Inequalities in incomes and wealth have increased in advanced countries, making our economies less dynamic, our societies more unjust and our political processes less democratic.

This book analyzes the political economy of higher education finance across a range of OECD countries, exploring why some students pay extortionate tuition fees whilst for others their education is free.

Services markets remain highly regulated and international trade and investment is restricted.

Explores the role of export restrictions in the context of the global supply chain and national security.

This book highlights the social, economic and environmental importance of the mutual relations between industries in the same and in different regions and nations, and demonstrates how to model these relations using regional, interregional and international input-output (IO) models.

This book analyses one of the most controversial areas in the political economy of international trade, namely the issues surrounding the creation of newtrade rules.

At the time in which this book was first published in 1992, there was a major concern with the macro-economic implications of fiscal imbalance.

Analysing the relationship between economic thought and capitalism from 1750 to the present, Douglas Dowd examines the dynamic interaction of two processes: the historical realities of capitalism and the evolution of economic theory.

The second half of the twentieth century saw the emergence of international economic law as a major force in the international legal system.

Marking the 25th anniversary of Ukraine as a sovereign nation, this book traces its economic transformation since 1991.

First published in 1980, Public Spending Decisions attempts to answer some important questions regarding public spending and its relationship with economic and financial stringency.

In recent years, the Green New Deal has moved from relative obscurity to front and centre of policy discussions and public debates about how to respond to the climate crisis.

Growth and Welfare in Advanced Capitalist Economies takes stock of the major economic challenges that advanced industrial democracies have faced since the early 1990s and the responses by governments to them.

How has globalization impacted on development?

We need a new theory of money.

Deregulation has been at the top of Japan's economic policy agenda for many years.

The book examines the correlation between Intellectual Property Law - notably copyright - on the one hand and social and economic development on the other.

Meta-analysis is a formal synthesis of results and findings of scientific studies, which can assist in gaining new insights, explaining differences between results of similar studies, or determine useful directions of research.

Bolshevism at a Deadlock was written Karl Kautsky, one of the leading Marxist intellectuals of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, in response to the catastrophic failures of Stalin's first Five Year Plan, which was intended to raise Russian industry and productivity to equal that of Western Europe.

Economy, Work and Education: Critical Connections addresses effects of neoliberal capitalism in particular regard to work and education.

In recent years new political actors, drawing on innovative sources of power and legitimacy, have become increasingly influential in world politics.

For a very large part of the world's population, poverty and war are still part of everyday life.

In this fascinating and challenging work, the author analyses the way water for drinking is produced, distributed, owned, acquired, and consumed in contrasting ways in different settings.

First published in 1970, Economics of Socialism covers all aspects of socialist economics: planning, profit, production and growth, investment, consumption, labor and land.

International Partnership in Russia provides a unique insight into the joint ventures formed by international oil companies in Russia during the post-Soviet era.

This is the second and final volume of a collection of studies on the role of the state in capital accumulation in Latin America.

"e;Grounded in the urban politics of the 21st Century world-wide, this thoughtful volume hooks urban food - and especially its production - to social justice in a realistic and manageable way.

Drawing on a novel blend of moral philosophy, social science, psychoanalytic theory and continental philosophy, this book offers up a diagnosis of contemporary liberal capitalist society and the increasingly febrile culture we occupy when it comes to matters of harm.

In this history of US-based direct broadcast satellite developments, the United States and other nation-states are shown to be the ultimate arbiters of their ongoing histories.

Emerging market economies (EMEs) have become the darlings of international investors and the focus of enormous attention in academic, media, and policy circles.

Economic, social, political, and cultural institutions, and institutional change reflect shared journeys of humanity throughout history.

Immigration integral to globalization, creating connections and mobilizing investments in human and financial capital across countries.

This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the United States, the Middle East, and North Africa, to discuss and critically analyze the intersection of gender and human rights laws as applied to individuals of Arab descent.

To date, research into urban economics, regional science and economic geography has predominantly focused on the firm and industry as the key units of analysis in order to understand economic development; however, the past few decades have seen a growing interest in the role played by talent in the knowledge economy.

For the millions of citizens in the Arab World who came together in 2010-2011 to discover their common yearning for dignity and liberty, the real revolutions only began after the wave of protests.