Political economy

In the 1830s, the French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville warned that "e;insufferable despotism"e; would prevail if America ever acquired a national administrative state.

What do China's scholars make of the nature of China's global rise?

This book offers an in-depth analysis of Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia for membership in NATO.

Arguing that Americans should turn to private entrepreneurs rather than the federal government to guarantee the protection and improvement of environmental quality, the authors document numerous examples of how entrepreneurs have satisfied the growing demand for environmental quality.

This book examines the life and work of John Kenneth Galbraith, a truly iconic figure in progressive modern liberalism and a seminal influence in the rise of heterodox political economy.

This book offers a selection of the best papers presented at the 13th International Symposium on Location Based Services (LBS 2016), which was held in Vienna (Austria) from November 14 to 16, 2016.

The result of twenty-five years of research with different tribal groups in the Arabian peninsula, this study focuses on ethnographic descriptions of Arab tribal societies in five regions of the peninsula, with comparative material from others.

Theoretical and policy perspectives on the taxation of pension, viewed in an international context.

Business practices in Japan inspire fierce and even acrimonious debate, especially when they are compared to American practices.

The Nature and Method of Economic Sciences: Evidence, Causality, and Ends argues that economic phenomena can be examined from five analytical levels: a statistical descriptive approach, a causal explanatory approach, a teleological explicative approach, a normative approach and, finally, the level of application.

Critical theorists of economy tend to understand the history of market society as a succession of distinct stages.

This book offers an eyewitness account of China's twenty years of rural reform.

This book assesses the resilience of enterprises and their abilities to adapt to changing circumstances and new business environments in the time of crises.

To be a Muslim is to be a part of a culture with distinct beliefs, ideas, institutional forms and prescriptive roles.

This book adopts a novel analytical approach to understanding how Russia's stalled democratisation is related to the incomplete liberalisation of the economy.

This book brings together original research on the role of networks in regional economic development and innovation.

Healthcare continues to be one of the defining political issues in the United States.

The new EU Cohesion Policy is one of the largest integrated development policies in the Western world, and one of the largest of such programmes anywhere in the world.

The integration of post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe into the EU is one of the success stories of European development.

Neoliberal policy approaches have swept over the American political economy in recent decades.

This book evaluates the strength of the rule of law in the South Caucasus, a volatile and strategically important region of the former Soviet Union.

This book addresses a conundrum for the international development community: The law of development cooperation poses major constraints on delivering aid where it is needed most.

This book offers a critical analysis on employing a universal understanding of poverty and suggests ways forward for poverty reduction for developing countries in a post-2015 era.

This handbook presents a collection of high-quality, authoritative scientific contributions on cross-border migration, written by a carefully selected group of recognized migration experts from around the globe.

This book proposes a new way of thinking about the Eurozone, exploring the overlap between its economic and political interdependencies.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) between 12 Pacific Rim countries has generated the most intensive political debate about the role of trade in the United States in a generation.

Technological progress and globalization have generated indisputable benefits, but also relevant costs, such as growing economic inequality, economic fluctuations, and financial instability.

The New South African Review revives the tradition of critical, analytical scholarship developed by the South African Review in the 1970s and 1980s.

This edited volume presents new means of quantifying the behavioral and consequential differences between technology-based and non-technology-based nascent entrepreneurs in varied economies.

Within the context of regional integration, comparative regionalism, organizational change, and regional security literatures, this book investigates three cases wherein regional economic organizations were confronted with conventional security threats: the 1978-91 Association of Southeast Asian Nations-Vietnam Standoff, the 1990 Economic Community of West Africa-Liberian Civil War Challenge, and the 1990-91 European Communities-Balkans Crisis.

This fascinating study considers the fate of 35 million workers laid off from the state-owned sector in China.

The world of finance is again undergoing crisis and transformation.

This book comes at a time when the intrinsic and self-evident value of queer rights and protections, from gay marriage to hate crimes, is increasingly put in question.

This guide questions conventional thinking about wealth and povertyis the opposite of poverty really wealth, or is it safety and sufficiency?

*The Sunday Times Bestseller *AFinancial Times Book of the Year*A Forbes Book of the Year*Winner of the Transmission Prize 2018*Longlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2017*Porchlight "e;Best Business Book of 2017: Current Events & Public Affairs"e;The book that redefines economics for a world in crisis.

Historically, the Atlantic Ocean has served to define the relationship between the so-called worlds of the 'Old' and the 'New'.

Geocomputation may be viewed as the application of a computational science paradigm to study a wide range of problems in geographical systems contexts.

This book is aimed at students in social sciences programs that include some course in quantitative methods.

Have you ever wondered what libertarians think about vaccine mandates?

Railways presented nineteenth century governments with political as well as economic problems: their inherently monopolistic tendencies were recognized almost from the start.

The book investigates the relation between technology and institutions and their mutual influence during processes of development and change and illustrates this on the development process in Argentina after 1946.

This edited book provides a comprehensive and integrated understanding of the public sector's role in building economic and social resilience.