Political economy

Despite the remarkable achievements of free marketstheir rapid spread around the world and success at generating economic growththey tend to elicit anxiety.

In the past China's capital market featured prevalent state ownership and a weak legal environment.

At the onset of the Great Recession, as house prices sank and joblessness soared, many commentators thought that neoliberalism itself was in its death throes.

In Discipline in the Global Economy, Jakob Vestergaard investigates the currently prevailing regulation of international finance, launched in response to the financial crises of the 1990's.

Lobbying is not only the subject of ongoing, heated debates in politics and the public sphere but has also been a focus of the social sciences for decades.

Stephen Krasner has been one of the most influential theorists within international relations and international political economy over the past few decades.

This book explores, theoretically and empirically, the consequences of ''Big Data'' for the politics of social protection.

By focusing on the construction and practice of democracy aid, this book shows how democracy aid can reinforce, rather than challenge authoritarian regimes.

This book explains how to bring about institutional change and foster new institutional structures (institution building) by resolving power inequities in a rural ecosystem in India, and advocates the identification of an appropriate institutional champion to make this happen.

This book offers insights into important trends and future scenarios in the global tourism and travel industry.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has a complex position in international relations, being the guardian of international humanitarian law but often acting discretely to advance human dignity.

This book offers a socio-historical analysis of migration and the possibilities of regional integration in Southern Africa.

Hegemony and World Order explores a key question for our tumultuous times of multiple global crises.

This book captures the critical role of taxation in shaping government responsiveness and accountability in developing countries.

It is now twenty years since the concept of rent-seeking was first devised by Gordon Tullock, though he was not responsible for coining the phrase itself.

In recent years, the digitalisation of retail financial services - retail payments, current/savings accounts, consumer/housing credit, car insurance, property insurance and health insurance - has accelerated significantly.

The climate is changing, bringing with it increasing natural disasters around the world.

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Since the 1980s, the language used around market-based government has muddied its meaning and polarized its proponents and critics, making the topic politicized and controversial.

A study of major trends in public finance and fiscal justice in developed capitalist countries since the 1970s.

This book was written in honour of Professor Kalyan K.

Corruption is increasingly placed on top of the agenda of national governments and supra national institutions, such as the OECD, UN or the World Bank.

All of the GCC countries-Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates-are undergoing historic socio-economic transitions.

This book showcases nine possible scenarios for future cities, based on different aspects and characteristics of the term "e;proximity"e;.

This collection of speeches delivered by Michael Debabrata Patra, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), captures the dilemmas and trepidations of conducting monetary policy in India.

This book traces how the student loan system has created insurmountable student debt traps for millions of student borrowers contrary to its original purpose of promoting social mobility.

The worst chemical disaster ever could be happening right now.

Asia has undergone rapid economic transformation over the past two decades.

The United States spends more on programs for the elderly than it does on programs that enhance child development and improve child welfare.

Capitalism and Colonial Production (1982) examines the ways in which capitalism has transformed the societies it came to dominate, and the link between colonialism and capitalism.

The present study is a preliminary draft on nonlinear economic dynamics, with which the author has been concerned the last years.

Colonialism and Underdevelopment in Ghana (1978) examines Ghana's integration into the world economic system, and the effects which such integration had on its development.

This interdisciplinary book examines the impact of the commercialisation of space and the changing outlook of the space sector.

As the residential buildings sector accounts for around 30 percent of the final energy demand in Germany, this sector is increasingly becoming the focus of public attention with regard to climate change.

This book offers a new concept of inclusion of the marginalised in India - the Broad-basing Process.

This book, first published in 1999, compares the strategies of France and Japan in trying to win economic and political influence in the newly emerging Vietnam, which opened to the international community only after the Vietnamese Communist Party had started economic reforms in 1986.

This volume is devoted to three key themes central to studies in regional science: the sub-national labor market, migration, and mobility, and their analysis.

In the past decade, China was able to carry out economic reform without political reform, while the Soviet Union attempted the opposite strategy.

This volume analyzes the rising inclusion of new and emerging technologies in business.

Bridging African and Arab histories, this book examines the relationship between Islam, nationalism and the evolution of identity politics from late 19th Century to World War II.

Contemporary, thoughtful and extensively illustrated, Modern Diplomacy examines a broad range of current diplomatic practice.