Political economy

The plethora of literature produced over the past decade in response to the perceived failure of the human rights project to deliver results for billions of people living in 'adverse' environments has usually focused on international legal standards and mechanisms, with little regard for the root structural realities that constrain their implementation.

How ought scholars and students to approach the rapidly expanding and highly multidisciplinary study of international economic law?

This collection of documents contextualizes the ways in which Americans have addressed the evolving challenges of poverty throughout U.

Analyzes the dialectic between legal and constitutional innovations which enhance the power of capital, and the alternatives to create a more just world order.

The aim of this book is to understand why despite a considerable increase in average income in Mexico during the 1984-1992 period of economic liberalization, the conditions of the poorest of the poor deteriorated and income inequality increased.

The development of economics changed dramatically during the twentieth century with the emergence of econometrics, macroeconomics and a more scientific approach in general.

This book delivers crucial historical background in these times, as bloc-building returns to the global economy and China and Russia massively intensify their economic cooperation.

20 Jahre nach der Wiedervereinigung gibt es immer noch kein einheitliches Rentenrecht.

This book explores the alternative futures of political community and moves beyond the critique of what is wrong with existing, state-based forms of political community.

This punchy book unites mainline mathematical economics and sometimes idiosyncratic political economy.

Social capital is a concept which has only recently been incorporated into the social sciences.

This book presents a historical account of plantations in India in the context of the modern world economy.

This book is a coherent and unique collection of chapters exploring the reception and diffusion of David Ricardo's writings in different languages.

In diesem ersten Band der „Allgemeinen Wirtschaftspolitik“ vermittelt Herbert Giersch ein bis heute essenzielles Stück staatsbürgerlichen Wissens.

Over the past thirty years, urban economic theory has been one of the most active areas of urban and regional economic research.

Originally published in 1987 this book argues that South African politics reflect the changing ways in which the region has been incorporated into the world economy.

As the transition from socialism to a market economy gathered speed in the early 1990s, many people proclaimed the final success of capitalism as a practice and neoliberal economics as its accompanying science.

Empirical studies and theoretical analyses examine the causes and consequences of disruptions in cross-border economic relationships, including political conflict, economic sanctions, and institutional collapse.

This book explores the thirty-year trajectory of the Free Patriotic Movement that aimed to achieve the freedom, sovereignty and independence of Lebanon from the Lebanese political elite and Syrian hegemony.

It is a little over seventy years since John Maynard Keynes produced his magnum opus, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money.

First Nations people know that a tribe must have control over its resources and sustain its identity as a distinct civilization for economic development to make sense.

For small-scale fisheries around the world, the Blue Growth and Blue Economy initiatives may provide sustainable development, but only insofar as they align with the global consensus enshrined in the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication.

New Dimensions of World Politics (1975) examines the changes to world politics as bankers, industrialists and scientists have taken more influence over world affairs from diplomats and soldiers.

In the last decade, disputes between developers and local commu- nities over proposed construction projects have led to increasing litiga- tion.

As the Chinese economy has moved to a 'New Normal' of slower growth and changed model of development, its income distribution is being affected in a number of ways.

Geography is a discipline with a profound interdisciplinary character focusing on studying the complex interactions between nature and society.

Around the world, there are concerns that many tax codes are biased against women, and that contemporary tax reforms tend to increase the incidence of taxation on the poorest women while failing to generate enough revenue to fund the programs needed to improve these women's lives.

Offering an examination of the diplomatic and economic regional power structures in Africa and their relationships with each other, Dawn Nagar discusses the potential and future of pan-Africanism.

An internationally renowned scholar of law and economics, Michael J.

Amb el precedent d'haver estat un fenomen de vendes mundial en castellà, de romandre durant anys entre els més venuts, de ser traduït a diversos idiomes i de tenir centenars de milers de lectors al món, Diari emprenedor celebra el seu desè aniversari amb l'edició en català, que inclou una Masterclass per crear startups amb èxit.

Assesses central bank policies towards capitalist money creation and war finance against inflationary and deflationary class strengths in specific democracies.

The last four decades have seen major changes in the global economy, with the collapse of communism and the spread of capitalism into parts of the world from which it had previously been excluded.

The choices people make about drinking water reveal deeper lessons about trust in government and civic life.

With original archival documents and interviews from the US and Europe, Michelle Frasher brings the reader into the negotiating room with American, German, and French officials as they confronted the collapse of the Bretton Woods monetary system and made decisions that affected the course of European integration and the contemporary neoliberal order.

This book critically examines key features of the contemporary organizational landscape by focusing on major beneficiaries of recent historical politicalcultural transformations involving the embrace of market fundamentalism and a market society: corporations, those who direct them, and those who use them for their own benefit.

Drawing on Tarde's and Deleuze's monadology, this book investigates the affective turn of contemporary capitalism.

The first ever global survey of tax systems and their social and political contexts in premodern world history.

High-growth and innovative firms are the drivers of tomorrow's jobs and our future prosperity.

The academic literature on political economy includes many models and theories.

First published in 1990, A Guide to the Socialist Economies explores the evolution of a variety of economic systems in the socialist world and highlights major problems facing fourteen countries - Albania, Bulgaria, China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, the GDR, Hungary, North Korea, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union, Vietnam and Yugoslavia -against a background of continuous change, characterized by such events as the Berlin blockade, the Korean war, the Hungarian revolution and the invasion of Czechoslovakia.

Die Gemeinwohl-Ökonomie verfolgt das Ziel eines ethischen und nachhaltigen Wirtschaftsmodells.