Political economy

Originally published in 1930, the essays in this book discuss some of the leading financial controversies of the early 1930s in non-technical language.

This book focuses on the current tension between China and the US on trade imbalance and discusses China's opening-up strategy in the context of this trade conflict.

Political and Institutional Issues of the New International Economic Order covers various issues concerning New International Economic Order (NIEO), specifically those of political and institutional in nature.

Based on official Chinese sources as well as intensive interviews with Hong Kong residents formerly employed in mainland factories, Andrew Walder's neo-traditional image of communist society in China will be of interest not only to those concerned with China and other communist countries, but also to students of industrial relations and comparative social science.

Why hasn't the emergence of capitalism led China's citizenry to press for liberal democratic change?

This book explains how and why the state-socialist regime in Hungary used technology and propaganda to foster industrialization and the conservation of natural resources simultaneously.

There can be no doubt, writes economist Melvyn Krauss, that the prosperity of the industrial nations since the Second World War has been due largely to global specialization and interdependence.

Dieses Lehrbuch führt ein in die politikwissenschaftliche Debatte über Global Governance.

On January 27-28, 1999, the NRC Commission on Life Sciences organized "e;Finding the Path: Issues of Access to Research Resources"e;, a conference to explore the breadth of problems and opportunities related to obtaining and transferring research resources.

The Oxford Handbook of Public Choice provides a comprehensive overview of the research in economics, political science, law, and sociology that has generated considerable insight into the politics of democratic and authoritarian systems as well as the influence of different institutional frameworks on incentives and outcomes.

This book is based on the Regional Section of the Development Plan 2000-2006, prepared by the Regional Development Institute according to the Greek Ministry of National Economy's directions and available data.

This book makes an innovative link between classical liberalism and questions of international economic order.

The status of economic liberties remains a serious lacuna in the theory and practice of human rights.

This book continues the discussion from Volume I and Volume II on economic, fiscal and financial crises in world history that have had a great impact on the entire world and the fiscal measures taken by governments to combat each crisis.

This book examines India's Northeast borderland - strategically positioned at the confluence of South Asia, East and Southeast Asia - from the perspective of international relations.

This book contains at least three main highlights: breaking through the limitations of the mainstream Western economics system and the market theory framework, correctly explaining the successful experience of China's reform and opening up over the past 40 years from an economic perspective, and developing a new economics system and market theory.

This book provides a much-needed classroom text in international studies that is genuinely interdisciplinary in its approach.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to the on-going Greek debt crisis.

Throughout the Western world, a whole generation is being priced out of the housing market.

Most capital markets that have been established in developing economies like Africa have struggled to make progress over two decades down the line.

The blueprint for an inspiring regenerative economy that avoids collapse and works for people and the planet.

This volume surveys and combines the different dimensions of globalization so as to propose a general diagnosis of the way they interact to explain growing inequality in advanced economies.

This scholarly book provides a timely examination of China's growing influence in the Mediterranean region.

Growth and Welfare in Advanced Capitalist Economies takes stock of the major economic challenges that advanced industrial democracies have faced since the early 1990s and the responses by governments to them.

John Ruggie introduced the concept of embedded liberalism in a 1982 article that has become one of the most frequently cited sources in the study of international political economy.

This volume seeks to re-energise the paradigm of the New International Labour Studies by detailing how struggles over the construction, reproduction, utilisation and restructuring of labour forces are the contested social foundations upon which the global economy stands.

This book argues that despite the hype within many policy circles, there is actually very little evidence to support the presumed benefits of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in reducing poverty and addressing inequalities in the provision of and access to public services.

The economic crisis has brought about a watershed in institutional, political, and social relations, reshaping the labour market and the class structure in southern Europe.

Nobody has to tell you that when things go bad, they go bad quickly and seemingly in bunches.

'The direction of travel in the global energy system seems clear: a historic shift away from fossil fuels is under way.

Increasing economic transparency benefits democracy: it helps elections work.

This monograph explores the economic consequences of the Cold War, a polarised world order which politicised technology and shaped industrial development.

This book places the 2010 elections in Florida in historical context and offers insight into and an explanation for the substantial gains made by the Republicans that year.

In the first edition (2010), Zhiqun Zhu examined the rationale and strategies of China's new multi-directional diplomacy since the early 1990s and assessed its impact on international political economy as well as responses from the international community.

The present crisis of capitalism has a history.

This collection juxtaposes a variety of approaches about China and Africa, and their interrelations seeking to go beyond early, simplistic formulations.

This book provides evaluations of American presidents over the course of 66 years of U.

This book takes a fresh approach to the puzzle of sub-Saharan Africa's resource curse.

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), officially unveiled in 2013, is Chinese President Xi Jinping's signature foreign and economic policy initiative to achieve improved connectivity, regional cooperation, and economic development on a trans-continental scale.

Economic transformation in traditional development economics refers to the transition from an agricultural society to an industrial one.

This book covers the contemporary politics and economic development of the four countries of North Africa - Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya.

This edited volume proposes an innovative approach to European Integration by combining economics and political theory in its study of public goods.