Political economy

Productive transformation requires seizing the opportunities available and opening new ones in a competitive world.

This is a clear and concise introduction to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and an overview of its debates and controversies.

The Enduring Legacies of the Global Financial Crisis in East Asia challenges the assumption that the global financial crisis had a limited structural impact on East Asian political economies, arguing that the crisis has led to a significant, if uneven, reorganization of major national political economies within the region where, in response to the crisis, states have promoted domestic processes of financialization as a means of stimulating their economies.

Holger Janusch wirft einen detaillierten Blick auf alle bilateralen Verhandlungen der Vereinigten Staaten über Freihandelsabkommen seit Gründung der Welthandelsorganisation, um eine Lücke in der aktuellen Forschung zur US-Handelspolitik zu schließen.

This book reflects on the nature of business management to contribute to the development of a philosophy and ethics of management.

This volume focuses on interpreting the changing domestic and regional dynamics in the Arab world and Iran.

Deliberate ignorance has been known as the 'Ostrich Instruction' in law courts since the 1860s.

From refugees fleeing wars or natural disasters to economic migrants pursuing better paid jobs abroad, international migration is an inescapable part of the modern world.

The Political Economy of Africa addresses the real possibilities for African development in the coming decades when seen in the light of the continent's economic performance over the last half-century.

Contemporary trade policy is increasingly framed in geo-strategic terms.

This book aims to address the issue of the effects that the contemporary environmental, technological, social and economic global challenges produce on settlement systems, communities, institutions and enterprises.

Henryk Grossmann's influential work provides the key to a fuller understanding of Marx's theory of crisis.

An excellent primer on key insights and questions in ecological economics from a celebrated pioneer of the field.

An examination of how state-led social engineering in the United Arab Emirates is reshaping citizens for globalization and a post-petroleum future.

Using a variety of theoretical frameworks drawn from the social sciences, the contributions in this edited collection offer a critical perspective on the dominant paradigms used in contemporary financial activities.

Media Ownership and Agenda Control offers a detailed examination of media ownership amidst the complexities of the information age, from the resurgence of press barons to the new influence wielded by internet giants.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist delivers “[a] sobering account of the struggle for world economic supremacy” in this New York Times bestseller (Library Journal).

Financialization is one of the most innovative concepts to emerge in the field of political economy in the last three decades, although there is no agreement on what exactly it is.

The wave of protests and populist uprisings in the Middle East has heightened the focus on a volatile region.

Using the basic economic principle of making decisions using a cost-benefit framework-and how changes in one or the other can result in a different decision-this book uncovers how various groups responded to incentives provided by the Prohibition legislation.

On the manufacturing shop floor, the principle of "e;value comes from the production of parts rather than charts"e; crucially applies when using practical statistical process control (SPC).

This book explores the relationship between economic thought, proposals for reform of political institutions, and civil society in the period between the rise to power of Napoleon and the eve of the First World War in Italy and France - two countries with a similar cultural and political tradition and with personal mobility of the intellectual class.

The papers in this volume explore various issues relating to theories of individual and collective choice, and theories of social welfare.

This book reviews China's strategic pathway over the last 1000 years and considers its prospects for ascending to high-income status by the end of the 21st century.

Moving beyond abstract economic models and superficial descriptions of the market, Beyond the Developmental State analyses the economic, political and ideological interests which underpin current socio-economic processes.

Japan Inc was once used to describe the powerful political and economic system that delivers Japan's transformation to an industrial power.

A fully comprehensive resource for those wanting to know about the world of business management.

The question of how to allocate scarce medical resources has become an important public policy issue in recent decades.

Current and historical examples in the labour movement worldwide have helped to debunk the myth that workers cannot run production.

The political project of extending democracy to the global level is seen as the next major challenge for proponents of democracy.

Ever since the French Revolution, Madame de Pompadour's comment, "e;Apres moi, le deluge"e; (after me, the deluge), has looked like a callous if accurate prophecy of the political cataclysms that began in 1789.

This book examines entrenched gender bias and the economic, political, and social systems that sustain patriarchy.

This book analyses the historical context and progression of "e;significant innovations"e; beginning with the industrial revolution, starting around 1750 to the present.

Both the exponents and critics of neoliberalism assert the dominance of market forces in western nations.

This book is a concise treatise of the alternative paradigms used in BRICS countries to tackle urban housing shortages.

The volume brings together cutting-edge political economy analyses of the Palestinian people: those living in the occupied territory of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, those living within Israel, and refugees in Arab states.

Despite regionalism having developed into a global phenomenon, the European Union (EU) is still more often than not presented as the 'role-model of regionalism' whose institutional designs and norms are adopted by other regional actors and organizations as part of a rather passive 'downloading process'.

Although interest in spatial growth regressions has been growing in recent years, formal theoretical approaches that acknowledge the role of space in economic growth have been sparse.

Financial regulation has dramatically evolved and strengthened since the crisis on both sides of the Atlantic, with enhanced international coordination through the G-20 and the Financial Stability Board and, at the regional level, a definite contribution from the European Union.

This book examines how privatization has transformed cities, particularly through the role of Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) in the revitalization of America's downtown.

Personal consumption accounts for two thirds of GDP, yet recent economic events have emphasised our limited ability to translate consumption patterns into policy.

In this study on the Japanese economy, the author focuses on three problems related to economic policy and presents their answers.