Political economy

This second volume of essays on nineteenth and twentieth century economic thought, complements the first and continues the high standards of scholarship and academic rigour.

Macroeconomic policies matter for sustainable long-term growth.

McCall contests assumptions that Americans care little about income inequality, believe opportunities abound, admire the rich, and dislike redistributive policies.

This book focuses on Albania, North Macedonia and Kosovo; it explores the industrial policies currently in place in these economies and compares their effects with the situation in Slovenia, which is used as a reference country.

This volume examines the influences of technology and international trade policies on the troubled U.

This book explores the impact of finance on urban spaces as well as cities' role in the social constitution and dissemination of financial logistics and techniques.

Europe's sovereign debt crisis and the accompanying national bank crises in the European Union brought bank regulation and supervision to the top of the EU policy agenda.

This book explores the pivotal role of think tanks in the democratization and economic reform movements by evaluating their overall effect on the transformation process in developing and transitional countries around the world.

We live in a world that has become a resource, a world conditioned by the progressive domination of a monetary scale applied across the board.

Despite the transition from apartheid to democracy, South Africa is the most unequal country in the world.

This book offers an interdisciplinary overview of the role of law in modern capitalism in the context of financial crisis.

Cuban Economists on the Cuban Economy was written, in part, to reveal the rigorous research conducted within the country and to clarify the different factors that Cubans emphasize in examining their place on the world economic stage.

Consumption used to be a disease.

Rising Fascism in America: It Can Happen Here explores how rising fascism has infiltrated U.

This book examines commodity consumption both as an ongoing problem for capital and a complex mediator of the post-Cold War political economy.

This book deals with the main challenges of sustainable development and the role of sustainable business and corporate social responsibility in implementing these challenges through sustainable leadership and innovations.

In 1994 South Africa saw the end of apartheid.

Since the beginning of the 2000s, emerging market economies, or middle-income countries, have embarked on major changes in their domestic financial systems.

This textbook introduces and develops new tools to understand the recent economic crisis and how desirable economic policies can be adopted.

This book combines two strands of international political economy; examining how capitalism and democracy shape and are shaped by each other.

Where the Waves Fall (1984) centres the stories of the Pacific Islanders and how they were affected by European explorers and colonisers in this unique account of human settlement and cultural interchange in the Pacific islands.

Centred on Javier Milei's recent ascent, this book explores the cyclical nature of Argentina's economic crises and the corresponding rise of populist leaders.

This book argues that the period from World War I to the Great Depression was an incubating era when innovative and lasting policy paradigms emerged.

Originally published in 1994 this book undertakes a comprehensive study dealing with the effects of machine flexibility, tool magazine capacity, varying production demands and different oeprating policies on the production planning problems.

Occupy Wall Street burst onto the stage of history in the fall of 2011.

The author examines the indirect macroeconomic roots of the global financial crisis and Eurozone debt crisis: the escalation of global trade imbalances between the US and China and regional trade imbalances in the Eurozone.

This book offers an in-depth exploration of all dimensions of geoeconomics, including the internal and international forces which explain why most countries remain mired in poverty; the conflicts between the poor on the rich countries; and the global environmental crises threatening the future of humanity.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the energy transformation process ongoing in Germany, now commonly referred to as energiewende, in the European context, with a focus on the electricity sector.

This volume represents a comprehensive state-of-the-art picture of family business and entrepreneurship issues in countries belonging to the Gulf Cooperation Council.

Foucault's thoughts on governmentality have made a significant impact on the studies of power and governance in modern societies.

Smaller, technically-oriented companies often assume types of risk (and an amount of risk) that is not often tolerated by large companies.

The business cycle is a complex phenomenon.

Does democracy control business, or does business control democracy?

Kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMUs) sind für das Wachstum einer Wirtschaft und die soziale Gleichheit innerhalb jeder Gesellschaft von überragender Bedeutung.

Protests of neoliberal globalization have proliferated in recent years, not least in response to the financial crisis, austerity and increasing inequality.

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This book questions the reasons why presidential democracies more likely to break down than parliamentary ones.

As inequalities widen and the effects of austerity deepen, in many countries the wealth of the rich has soared.

How central banks and independent regulators can support rather than challenge constitutional democracyUnelected Power lays out the principles needed to ensure that central bankers and other independent regulators act as stewards of the common good.

Examines how the emergence of North Korea''s political economy was fundamentally shaped by broader processes of geopolitical contestation.

This edited volume presents the key unresolved debates in monetary macroeconomics, covering the five topics of budget, trade, taxes, exchange rates and monetary policy.