Political economy

This book, combining history and reality, theory and practice,  is devoted to establishing a theoretical system on the Belt and Road Initiative by analyzing 24 related major questions ,  such as a community with a shared future for mankind, Green Silk Road, Digital Belt and Road, the Arctic Channel,  Geographic Space, financial innovation, energy cooperation, language planning and discourse power of think tanks.

Objects and materials are on the move like never before, often at astonishing speeds and along hidden routeways.

This book investigates the EU's regional growth dynamics and, in particular, the reasons why peripheral and socio-economically disadvantaged areas have persistently failed to catch up with the rest of the Union.

This book explores relations between states in the Africa-European Union in view of the African Continental Free Trade Area, both at a regional level and as a series of informal processes of socioeconomic and political interactions between state and non-state actors.

39 One of the main challenges facing the member states of the European Union (EU) is 40 the fundamental need to accept the strategic importance of entrepreneurship as a force 41 for regional development and economic growth.

Sound health management and supportive policies helped Korea emerge swiftly from the pandemic.

European economies have been plagued by successive crises, from the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) to the COVID-19 pandemic, through to the economic and geopolitical instability in Ukraine.

This book provides a holistic approach to understand the challenges and opportunities related to the planning and management of sustainable development in tourism.

This anthology examines the effects of economic orthodoxy on the French left.

This book examines the role of normative economics in the writings of Karl Marx, Ludwig von Mises, Milton Friedman and Karl Popper.

In education, politics and religion, there are strong indications that discourse is becoming marketized.

This volume discusses the concept of The Spatial University as part of the broad growth of spatial science and the need for spatial infrastructure in colleges and universities.

This title was first published in 2003.

History and Heritage (1985) offers the first comprehensive exploration and assessment of the historical developments that form Britain's industrial relations system - its institutions, texture and place in wider society.

Taxation and Inequality in Latin America takes a heterodox political economy approach, focusing on Latin America, where current problems of taxation have existed for a century and great wealth contrasts with abject poverty.

This book analyses ancient Greek federalism by focusing on one of the most organised and advanced Greek federal states, the Achaean Federation Sympoliteia.

This book contributes fresh theoretical and empirical evidence on patterns of regional production structures, specialization, regional disparities, convergence and divergence processes and evaluation of cohesion policies in both current and future European Union (EU) member states in the context of increased integration.

This book tackles the disconnect between social perceptions and expert knowledge regarding trade policy decisions.

Since the completion of the original writing in 1978, and the publication of this Garland edition in 1987, several important events came to pass which underscored the importance and relevance of the study of the US foreign trade policy toward steel in the late seventies.

In Pursuit of English traces how the English language became an object of heated pursuit amid South Korea's rapid neoliberalization, creating the so-called "e;English fever"e; of the 1990s and 2000s.

This book examines the role of institutions and law on the economic performance of the Ottoman Empire between 1500 and 1800.

The Oxford Handbook on the World Trade Organization provides an authoritative and cutting-edge account of the World Trade Organization.

How the UK's immigration detention and deportation system turns people into monetized, measurable units on a supply chain In the UK's fully outsourced ';immigration detainee escorting system,' private sector security employees detain, circulate and deport foreign national citizens.

This book presents the findings of new empirical research regarding shifts in public discourses and attitudes in Greek society as a result of the crisis.

This study examines fundamental theoretical and conceptual issues of social change in Latin America in the context of detailed empirical analysis.

This book provides substantial background on what Adam Smith did during his stay in Toulouse and the Languedoc region of France during the 18th century.

Corporate capitalism is usually examined from a sociological or economic viewpoint, and this book breaks new ground in providing a thorough account of the mechanisms which define it from a philosophical perspective, revealing how these processes determine the way we live today.

The aim of this book is to tackle the question of what the European territory will look like over the next fifteen years by providing quali-quantitative territorial scenarios for the enlarged Europe, under different assumptions on future globalisation strategies of BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) and East and West European countries.

Understanding the drivers and inhibitors of economic growth is critical for promoting development in less developed countries, including India.

This book analyses the effects of technological development, innovation, entrepreneurship and governance in middle income countries, such as Turkey, in detail.

War, Power and the Economy contains a comparative history of Great Britain, France and Spain, the three rival empires of the 1700s.

This volume brings together work by international scholars to provide a unique analysis of the past, present and possible future trajectory of Korea's political economy from a distinctly Marxist perspective.

How can we engage in a market relationship when the quality of the goods we want to acquire is unknown, invisible, or uncertain?

It is widely accepted that natural resource wealth, especially in the form of oil and minerals, can be a key factor in inhibiting economic development.

"e;Partnership"e; is a key concept in contemporary international peace operations.

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.

The current growth of incidents of public disorder around the world can be seen as symptomatic of major transformations in globalized society, government, and technology.

For some, automation will usher in a labor-free utopia; for others, it signals a disastrous age-to-come.

Economists have often paid visits to the field of criminology, examining the rational logic of offending.

This book examines the American industrial strategy, from the late 70s to the present day, in what is now known as the 'neoliberal era'.

This title was first published in 2001.

This book discusses current trends, challenges, and opportunities in the fields of business, hospitality, and tourism, particularly in Eastern Europe.

America is being Screwed!

Part 1.

In this book world-renowned experts present a timely investigation of the prospects for reformed market-regulation after the financial crisis.

Disputes and dispossession of property rights in the mining sector are causes of injustice, violence, and forced resettlement around the world.