Political economy

Discusses how G20, IMF and OECD have addressed climate finance and fossil fuel subsidies, including consequences for climate politics.

This book offers readers a spatial understanding of happiness and subjective well-being.

Many low-income countries and development organizations are calling for greater liberalization of labor immigration policies in high-income countries.

Liquor has become a "e;party"e; in East Asia - a beverage phenomenon popular among countries throughout the region.

Prolific munitions production keyed America's triumph in World War II but so did the complex economic controls needed to sustain that production.

The politics of the Third Way reflects an attempt by many contemporary social democracies to forge a new political settlement which is fitted to the conditions of a modern society and new global economy, but which retains the goals of social cohesion and egalitarianism.

First published in 1981, this edited collection reviews the operations of state-owned enterprises, examining the actual performance of such organisations in the advanced industrialised countries.

This book, the second of two volumes, provides a comprehensive overview of the core topics within Austrian economics.

This book analyzes collective protests and contentious politics in Chile over a span of 13 years.

This handbook offers an analysis of Asian diaspora and development, and explores the role that immigrants living within diasporic and transnational communities play in the development of their host countries and their homeland.

Economists have moved in recent years beyond analyzing the manner in which the macroeconomies of different countries function and prescribing appropriate policies for dealing with domestic and external imbalances.

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This book continues the discussion from Volume I and Volume II on economic, fiscal and financial crises in world history that have had a great impact on the entire world and the fiscal measures taken by governments to combat each crisis.

A collection of essays which develop Professor Nell's economic theory of transformational growth.

'This is a desperately needed book.

Encoding the Olympics assembles a uniquely representative international team of media experts to provide a comprehensive review of the global impact of media and cultural communications associated with the Beijing 2008 Olympics.

Mounting evidence suggests that GDP growth is damaging the natural environment and unlikely to be ecologically sustainable in the long-run.

Global Governance Futures addresses the crucial importance of thinking through the future of global governance arrangements.

Gender, Development, and Globalization is the leading primer on global feminist economics and development.

Economics is too important to be left to the economists.

In an era when rapid social change, the disappearance of traditional communities, the rise of political populism and the threat posed by radical religious movements makes it appear that 'all that is solid melts into air', the classical sociological problem of how peaceable societies can be created and maintained assumes renewed urgency.

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

This book highlights how resource constraints and client agency impact China's patronage policy in their pursuit of regional geopolitical power.

UN Global Compacts is a concise introduction to the key concepts, issues, and actors in global migration governance and presents a comprehensive analysis of the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, the Global Compact on Refugees, and the Global Compact for Migration.

The first detailed historical account of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations, this book covers the genesis of the project in the early 1990s to its demise in late 2003.

This interdisciplinary volume points the way toward the modernization of regulatory theory.

First Published in 1960, Nationalized Industry and Public Ownership is concerned with the state of nationalized industries in Britain in the context of the wider sphere of public enterprise in the world.

The recent occurrences of famine in Ethiopia and Southern Africa have propelled this key issue back into the public arena for the first time since 1984, as once again it becomes a priority - not only for lesser developed countries but also for the international community.

The Routledge Handbook of Heterodox Economics presents a comprehensive overview of the latest work on economic theory and policy from a 'pluralistic' heterodox perspective.

Governing Complexity in the 21st Century surveys the ways in which social systems are becoming more complex.

Takahashi reconstructs the key blocks of one of the founders of the institutional school, John R.

In this comprehensive work, Armando Navarro delivers a timely analysis of the global capitalist crisis that has arisen in the United States.

This book identifies and systematically confirms the various factors that allow dangerous nuclear power projects to proceed without adequate risk assessment, even as society recognizes the magnitude of risks associated with nuclear power generation.

Winner of the European Association of Agricultural Economists Book AwardFood and agriculture have been subject to heavy-handed government interventions throughout much of history and across the globe, both in developing and in developed countries.

Based on bank and official archives, this book focuses on Japan's financial activities abroad - in particular, Japan's borrowings.

Multifaceted social problems like disaster relief, homelessness, health care, and academic achievement gaps cannot be adequately addressed with isolated and disconnected public service agencies.

All human beings develop a certain view on the world.

This book is a visual guide to the territorial dynamics operating within a territory.