Political economy

The rise of digital technology, particularly artificial intelligence (AI), has transformedsocieties and international politics.

How did the once-secretive, isolated People's Republic of China become the factory to the world?

This thought-provoking book, edited by Jing Huang and Alexander Korolev, redefines the complex political and economic landscape of the Asia-Pacific region.

Using field experiments and case studies, this book investigates the institutions and beliefs within Catholicism and Islam that prompt generosity.

Since the onset of the Global Financial Crisis the ideas of Karl Marx have once again become prominent in social and political thought.

This book covers various facets of entrepreneurial opportunities in processing sector.

The Korean Economy: From Growth to Maturity takes an in-depth, amalgamated look at the evolution of Korea's globalization drive from the early 2000s (Kim Dae-jung regime, 1998-2003) to the present period (Park Geun-hye, 2013-2017).

Sports betting has become a truly global phenomenon, facilitated by new communication technologies.

This book provides a unique historical perspective on expectations in economic theory, and applications of expectations models in economic history.

This book, first published in 1992, sets out the belief that the placement element of courses should be designed from the start as a genuine educational experience.

First published in 1989, this book examines seven different localities, ranging from the outer suburbs of large northern cities to small freestanding town, which were prospering in the 1980s or struggling against the negative employment effects of restructuring.

In his new book, Hanna Samir Kassab examines changes and trends in international politics and the competition between great powers for control of the international system.

Diversity drives better business results; however, despite decades of effort, women make up only 15% of engineers.

"e;Once-in-a-lifetime"e; financial crises have been a recurrent part of life in the last three decades.

Prior to 1979, China had a bifurcated and geographically-dispersed industrial structure made up of a relatively small number of large-scale, state-owned enterprises in various industries alongside numerous small-scale, energy-intensive and polluting enterprises.

This highly anticipated addition to the "e;Great Questions in Politics"e; series offers a provocative argument about the persistence of bad ideas in shaping American economic policy.

This book explores the bilateral relationship between Brazil and China in modern history, environment, economics, and contemporary Brazilian politics.

This book focuses on the two intra-regional initiatives created for the development and integration of energy markets: the Energy Community and MedReg.

This fifth volume in the New South African Review series takes as its starting point the shock wave emanating from the events at Marikana on 16 August 2012 and how it has reverberated throughout politics and society.

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

Japan and Italy encountered severe economic problems in the early 1990s, and the governments had to deal with those issues effectively under the increasing neoliberal pressures of globalisation.

Capitalist growth is widely heralded as the only answer to the crisis still sweeping the global economy.

Kommunikationsinfrastrukturen sind eine wichtige Voraussetzung für die wirtschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Entwicklung.

Social pacts - policy agreements between governments, labor unions and sometimes employer organizations - began to emerge in many countries in the 1980s.

This volume examines the range of Non-Trade Concerns (NTCs) that may conflict with international economic rules and proposes ways to protect them within international law and international economic law.

Samuel Pufendorf's work on natural law and political economy was extensive and has been cited by several important figures in the history of economic thought.

In the twenty-first century, Africa has become an important source of US energy imports and the world's natural resources.

Recently, the issue of inequality has regained attention in the economic and political debate.

This book presents Ulrich Beck, one of the world's leading sociologists and social thinkers, as a Pioneer in Cosmopolitan Sociology and Risk Society.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the most salient features of contemporary financial systems and clarifies the major strategic issues facing the development of digital finance.

This book examines the behavior of individuals at risk and insurance industry policy makers involved in selling, buying and regulation.

First published in 1999, this volume recognised how widespread attention has been given to charting how the global rise in investment flows has caused numerous changes in the operation of economies - such as the globalisation of production and increasing international economic interdependency.

Stigma is a corrosive social force by which individuals and communities throughout history have been systematically dehumanised, scapegoated and oppressed.

This book collates a number of case studies by former students from the Master of Arts (Social Work) programme whose stream of study was Social Services Administration.

COVID-19 has stressed the condition of radical uncertainty that increasingly characterises our times and compels cities to learn new ways to cope with unexpected global urban challenges.

Recent evidence suggests that macroeconomic outcomes are inferior in countries operating under presidential regimes compared with those with parliaments, with lower levels of economic growth, higher rates of inflation, and higher levels of income inequality in countries with presidential governments.

This book delves into the public character of public theology from the sites of subalternity, the excluded Dalit (non) public in the Indian public sphere.

It has always been an important task of economics to assess individual and social welfare.

This book discusses African migration and the refugee crisis.

This book explores the political economy of Hungary from the mid-1970s to the present.

Since the 1970s, the degrowth idea has been proposed by scholars, public intellectuals and activists as a powerful call to reject the obsession of neoliberal capitalism with economic growth, an obsession which continues apace despite the global ecological crisis and rising inequalities.

Providing a 'short take' on the long history of political economy, this book examines both the stories about and those within economics.

This book argues that sustainable energy development represents a new frontier for many transitional economies, including those countries that are well endowed with traditional energy resources, as exemplified by the case of Uzbekistan in Central Asia.

Explores how labour struggles in the post-1977 period in Sri Lanka provided important resistance to capitalist processes.

Venezuela's Oil (1978) explains the years of social injustice faced by oil-producing countries that led to the founding of OPEC.

This volume examines the range of Non-Trade Concerns (NTCs) that may conflict with international economic rules and proposes ways to protect them within international law and international economic law.

This book addresses the key challenges of balancing economic growth, poverty alleviation, and environmental protection in the development of major physical infrastructure, ranging from transport to energy.