Political economy

This two-volume set explores in-depth the economic origins and repercussions of the Arab Spring revolts.

Marxist discourse around automation has recently become waylaid with breathless techno-pessimist dystopias and fanciful imaginations of automated luxury communism.

This book covers a wide range of the issues in development studies.

This book explores Eurasia's growing embrace of its maritime geography from the Indian Ocean to Pacific Asia and the Arctic.

This is an edited collection of items on unionism worldwide, recognising the crisis that an informatised and globalised capitalism implies for work, workers and the trade-union movement.

This book first provides a comprehensive guideline for future disaster-resistant city planning in large cities in disaster-prone countries such as Japan.

Originally published in 1965 and written by a noted economist and leader in the field of conflict resolution, this book traces the forces which have brought the 20th century 'post-civilisation' into being: the ever-increasing power of science and the scientific attitude, the global communication network, the high efficiency of industrial societies.

Argues that Western militaries must reform in order to become viable businesses that address relevant security issues within realistic budgets.

This book deals with the basic question of what money can and cannot buy and offers an analysis of the limitations of the market mechanism.

This book analyses the present global financial and economic crisis, the most severe in nearly a century, and a wider set of multiple and converging crises with aspects and repercussions that go well beyond the current economic climate.

Tanzania in the 1970s was at the forefront of policy innovation.

Showcasing an original, interdisciplinary approach, this text examines the effect of migration on the domestic politics of individual states and how they are eroding the distinctions between the domestic and foreign policy, the 'inside' and 'outside' components of politics and law.

Economic and organizational literature has long separated the figure of the capitalist and the manager, but it often continues to assimilate that of the capitalist and the entrepreneur around the notion of risk-bearing.

The concept of 'Natural Capital' has come to play a central role in current debates about biodiversity and nature conservation.

Preface-Introduction 1 Dietmar Scholich The various regions within the European Union are marked by a high degree of disparity with regard to economic performance and productivity, and with respect to their labour markets.

Liberal democracy is in trouble.

This book studies the impact of China's outward foreign direct investment on the world economy.

Globalization and Money explores how men and women, particularly the poor and the unbanked in the global South, use money in ways that empower themselves and their families.

Advanced countries in all parts of the world are concerned with the geographical unevenness of their development.

Motor vehicle accidents are still a leading cause of death, even if the trend has somewhat declined over the past 20 years.

In this sixth volume contributors examine Hayek's neoliberal economics and politics in the 20th century, and the demise of the socialist system.

The transformation of the Vietnamese economy from socialist planning to a market economy has led to Vietnam having one of the fastest economic growth rates in the world; and to also to Vietnam engaging much more with the international economy, joining the World Trade Organisation in 2006.

This edited book provides a contemporary, critical and thought-provoking analysis of the internal and external threats to Western multilateral development finance in the twenty-first century.

Was Japan's economic miracle generated primarily by the Japanese state or by the nation's dynamic private sector?

'This is a desperately needed book.

Political economy - the original name for economics in its entirety - has in recent years witnessed a semantic broadening to include some of the preoccupations of classical economics.

Influenced most notably by Emile Durkheim and Zygmunt Bauman, Dawson outlines how this long neglected stream of socialist theory can help us more fully understand, and possibly move beyond, the problems of neoliberalism and our conceptions of political individualism.

In FBI terms, leaders who pick up their own brass casings at the firing range are more effective than those who expect someone else to do it for them.

This book seeks to understand why almost all commentators on the Irish economy were unprepared for the scale of the recent economic crisis.

Kim Leonie Kellermann analyzes the impact of sectoral minimum wages in Germany on the willingness of youths to undergo apprenticeship training.

This book develops new perspectives on the cultural politics of climate change and its implications for responding to this challenge.

This text explains how economic growth spread through entrepreneurship in the United States in the 1990s.

Important and celebrated economist Leland Yeager is one of the architects of the 'Virginia School' of political economy that has produced two Nobel laureates (James Buchanan and Ronald Coase) and the Public Choice movement.

Prominent economists present detailed analyses of the conditions that made Greece vulnerable to economic crisis and offer policy recommendations for comprehensive and radical change.

This collection examines the difficult task of reforming governments worldwide to meet citizens' needs and aspirations.

This book covers advancements across business domains in knowledge and information management.

The role of the state in modern capitalism has gone beyond fixing market failures.

Is small still beautiful?

This book sets out political economy explanations for higher education policy reform in Europe in the initial decades of the 21st century.