Political economy

Liquidate: How Money is Dissolving the World examines the emergence of money and its social and ecological repercussions.

This book studies the sources of inequality in contemporary South Korea and the social and political contention this engenders.

Mapping Mainstream Economics: Genealogical Foundations of Alternativity seeks to establish a definition of the mainstream economics, and by extension the alternatives to it, by adopting a genealogical approach: tracing the methodological development of the economic mainstream through its ancestry, which allows for a definition of the mainstream that is separate from politically charged categories or gridlocked academic arguments between received schools of thought.

Amongst intellectuals and activists, neoliberalism has become a potent signifier for the kind of free-market thinking that has dominated politics for the past three decades.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the Chinese-Russian bilateral relationship, grounded in a historical perspective, and discusses the implications of the burgeoning 'strategic partnership' between these two major powers for world order and global geopolitics.

This book examines the decline of central planning in post-Mao China.

With the concept of the Imperial Mode of Living, Brand and Wissen highlight the fact that capitalism implies uneven development as well as a constant and accelerating universalisation of a Western mode of production and living.

Provides a view of the different types of capitalist economic systems based on an empirical analysis of twenty-one OECD nations.

This book provides an evaluation of 18 voting procedures in terms of the most important monotonicity-related criteria in fixed and variable electorates.

The regional trade governance architecture is in flux.

The book presents the history of water supply to Cape Town, leading up to the worst ever drought recorded, through political turmoil impacting on drought interventions and resulting in the adoption of an integrated water strategy.

There is a clear overlap between securing socio-economic human rights for all persons and arranging adequate access to essential public services across society.

A prominent British conservative warns Americans to stop President Obama from leading their country down the path to European-style socialism.

Why do some nations and cities attain high levels of economic and social prosperity?

The European and American economies are closely interlinked as mutually important investment and trading partners.

This brief explores two of the main challenges of spatial network data analysis: the many connected components in the spatial network and the many candidates that have to be processed.

This book is a work that focuses on the forest environmental tax.

This study, sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation and the London School of Economics and Political Science, analyzes the ethnopolitical situation in Russia and the other republics of the former Soviet Union, particularly the southern tier states.

In the decades since it was identified in 1981, HIV/AIDS has devastated African American communities.

This volume provides an in-depth review of major economic developments in those economies which are in some stage of transition, following the collapse of communism in the Eastern block.

This volume demonstrates how Bolivia is part of a regional border system and intends to contribute to public policies, related to violence and distortions stemming from global illegal markets, specifically for vulnerable populations.

The authors of this book argue that post-war fiscal and monetary policies in the U.

Eminent physicist and economist, Robert Ayres, examines the history of technology as a change agent in society, focusing on societal roots rather than technology as an autonomous, self-perpetuating phenomenon.

'Dr Kuznetsov's analysis is insightful and important.

Europe's trade policies matter in global politics.

This book examines the evolution of trade and trade patterns in Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC) and assesses the implications of these patterns on structural change and economic development within transition economies.

This book examines the politics of Banking Union and EMU reform in the EU, and draws lessons for what it means for international politics, both in Europe, and for international relations more broadly.

Based on fieldwork in four African countries, this study reveals how African businesses can be key responders to wider social and political crises.

Die Wirtschaftswissenschaften im Spannungsfeld zwischen Wirtschaft und Kultur.

This book analyses the arrival of emerging and traditional information and technology for public and economic use in Latin America.

This volume seeks to add to our understanding of how language is constructed in late capitalist societies.

Crises have been studied in many disciplines and from diverse perspectives for at least 150 years.

Sound machinery of government is at the core of a well-functioning state.

In a single decade, AIDS has grown to pandemic proportions.

A History of the Georgian People (1971) begins with an account of the early history and ethnographic background of Georgia, and goes on to cover the country's political history from 1000 to 1800 and Russian conquest.

This book focuses on the political economy behind innovation in China's new industrial sectors, particularly the effects of policies and government regulation in the absence of the rule of law.

The history of bourgeois modernity is a history of the Enemy.

This volume is a very interesting research project that includes the most careful work on constitutional power and limits to authority of which I am aware.

This ambitious book provides a comprehensive quantitative and qualitative assessment of Jamaica's ties to the International Monetary Fund, focusing on Jamaica's historical relationship with the IMF and reflecting on the domestic and international discourse surrounding the evolution of this relationship.