Political economy

Human Trafficking provides a critical engagement with the key debates on human trade.

This book reflects critically on issues of diversity, access, and the expansion of digital technologies in audio-visual industries, particularly in terms of economics and policies.

One aspect of the new economy is a transition to a networked society, and the emergence of a highly interconnected, interdependent and complex system of networks to move people, goods and information.

This book investigates the socioeconomic factors that triggered Tunisia's "e;revolution for dignity"e; and the current issues and challenges facing its economy while suggesting mechanisms and instruments for their resolution.

Over the last few decades, politics in India has moved steadily in a pro-business direction.

The book uses an innovative theoretical framework to explain how the EU social dimension has taken its present form.

John Maynard Keynes once observed that the "e;ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood.

'Jha is the right scholar and economist to take readers through the development of the Indian economy.

There is a growing concern among Chinese researchers and policymakers about China's industrial development being unsustainable and the irreversible depletion of natural resources and deterioration of the ecological environment.

This sequel to the author's earlier well-received Euro On Trial, shows how European Monetary Union became a main engine of the global credit bubble and puts forward a set of remedies which would reduce the danger of further economic debacle emanating from serious flaws in the present policy-making framework of the European Central Bank.

Susanne Michalik analyzes why authoritarian regimes allow for multiparty elections and how they affect political outcomes.

Moving Difference demonstrates how differences between migrants who share the same nationality travel with them and can impact on every aspect of their 'mobile lives'.

Modern institutional economics was created to study the institutions of pre-digital economies and is based on reductionist approaches.

Lean Manufacturing concepts are being applied to a variety of industries.

Twenty years after NAFTA, the consensus seems to be that the regional project in North America is dead.

Uses the tools of modern political science to analyse the factors which determine the fortunes of Cabinet ministers.

Bilderberg People explores the hidden mechanisms of influence at work in the private world, and personal interactions, of the transnational power elite.

Debt and Development in Small Island Developing States draws on the expertise of established researchers and public officials from within the SIDS community to answer the following pressing questions related to sustainability, debt accumulation, and prospects for future growth.

This comprehensive book examines the impact of smart technologies in consumer's behaviour from a contemporary perspective, blending marketing and retailing along with other disciplines such as psychology, media studies and sociology.

The Rise of Green Extractivism tackles the understudied interconnections between extractivism and climate-smart policies and their implications for rural livelihoods, both theoretically and empirically.

In The Habitation Society, leading economic and political sociologist Fred Block argues that we are at a time of "e;blocked transition"e; from one mode of economic and social organization to another.

This book is a collection of essays that capture the artistic voices at play during a staging process.

This book reveals how a privatization of fish resources has paved the way for a wide-reaching concentration and change in ownership.

Once treated as the absence of knowledge, ignorance has now become a highly influential and rapidly growing topic in its own right.

Orthodox international relations theory considers foreign affairs to be the exclusive purview of national governments.

China, Trust and Digital Supply Chains presents a critical reflection on blockchain technologies in the context of their adoption in China and the world that China is engaged in and shaping.

This book is a volume of essays celebrating the life and work of Yoshiro Higano, professor of Environmental Policy, Doctoral Program in Sustainable Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan.

By the 1950s the percentage of all economic doctorates awarded to women had dropped to a record low of less than five percent.

For many observers, the European Union is mired in a deep crisis.

The Thatcher administration of 1979 to 1990 had a profound and apparently lasting effect on British theatre and drama.

This book opens a window into how two ambitious countries - India and Brazil - are seeking to become knowledge powers in the 21st century.

This volume focuses on the hyper-mediatization of Latin America from the citizen's perspective, considering the social impact and how people embrace information technologies to improve their living conditions, engage in political issues and the role of digital journalism in promoting democratic values in Latin America.

A must-read for all those who care about the fate of the world''s youngest democratic states.

This book describes the Obama administration''s plan to partner with the private sector to produce public goods.

This book gives a complex description and discussion of today's populist attacks against the European Union (EU) following the financial crisis of 2008, which opened the floodgates of dissatisfaction, and the migration crisis which destabilized the traditional solidarity basis of the EU.

There is a striking scarcity of work conducted on rural labour markets in the developing world, particularly in Africa.

Learning, Policy Making, and Market Reforms is the first study that tests the impact of policy learning on economic policy choices across time and space.

This book provides a non-technical, accessible primer on sustainable agricultural development and its relationship to sustainable development based on three analytical pillars.

China's economic growth has transformed the country from one of the poorest in the world to its second largest economy.

The information age technology revolution promises enormous benefits to the U.

This work explores essential debates on globalization and world-systems analysis.

Since the 1970s early exit from work has become a major challenge in modern welfare states.

This volume discusses the application of causal inference techniques in the study of American political development (APD).

This book addresses the role of public policy in regulating the autonomous artificial intelligence and related civil liability for damage caused by the robots (and any form of artificial intelligence).

This collection of essays weaves together the histories of European integration and the transatlantic alliance in the 1980s.

Foreign direct investment is an important part of an increasingly global political economy.

An interdisciplinary survey of the issues surrounding the governance of the Internet.

This book offers new insights into the wider socioeconomic impacts of high-speed rail (HSR).