Political economy

Winner of the Rik Davidson/Studies in Political Economy 2022 Book PrizeA key text, Capitalist Political Economy: Thinkers and Theories analyses the field-forming theoretical contributions to political economy that have defined, debated, critiqued, and defended capitalism for more than three centuries.

This book takes a Marxist approach to the study of media piracy - the production, distribution, and consumption of media texts in violation of intellectual property laws - to examine its place as an endemic feature of the cultural economy since the rise of the Internet.

Drawing on over four decades of research and writing on the political economy of the UK and United States, David Coates offers a masterly account of the Anglo-American condition and the social and economic crisis besetting both countries.

Institutional Investors in Global Market provides you with a comprehensive overview about what institutional investors do, how they do it, and when and where they do it; it is about the production of investment returns in the global economy.

Originally published in 1954.

First published in 1998, this book analyses and reconsiders one of the great economic dramas of Western history, the march to capitalism in Russia, Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic.

False profits of ethical capital is a thought-provoking approach to understanding stakeholder capitalism.

What is the relationship between globalization and economic security?

The Report on the State of the European Union examines the progress of European integration and focuses on economic aspects of the process.

CARlA BODO Board Member of the Cultural Information and Research Centres liaison in Europe (CIRCLE) and Director of the Observatory for the Performing Arts at the Department of the Performing Arts of the Italian Prime Minister's Office, Roma The relation between the public and the private sector in the field of culture, the central theme of this publication, was thoroughly debated during the 1997 CIRCLE Round Table in Amsterdam.

This book's concern is with visible inequalities in housing, health, and education, and policy initiatives to address them.

This edited volume analyses how EU membership influenced the convergence process of member countries in the Baltics, Central-Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.

This book is about China's economy transformation.

Despite the accelerating pace of globalization, it is impossible to ignore the marginalization of the developing world, as billions of people continue to slip deeper into poverty.

A groundbreaking new historical analysis of how global capitalism and advanced democracies mutually support each otherIt is a widespread view that democracy and the advanced nation-state are in crisis, weakened by globalization and undermined by global capitalism, in turn explaining rising inequality and mounting populism.

In this book, ten substantive chapters examine how collisions between technological developments (globalizing forces) and thickening populist pressures (localizing dynamics) constantly keep reinventing the state in unforeseen and unpredictable ways.

Since the Roman Empire, leaders have used ideology to organize the masses and instil amongst them a common consciousness, and equally to conquer, assimilate, or repel alternative ideologies.

This is a study of Malaysia's new political economy, with a focus on ownership and control of the corporate sector.

Today, the word "e;neoliberal"e; is used to describe an epochal shift toward market-oriented governance begun in the 1970s.

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.

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.

When states' survival is at stake, do states behave according to norms, do states refrain from using certain weapons based on norms against their use?

The 2008 financial crisis and its subsequent economic impacts generated a challenge for national and regional governments across the world.

The March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan plunged the country into a state of crisis.

The first of the UN Millennium Goals was to reduce extreme poverty and in 2014 it was halved compared to 1990, and now the goal is to eradicate poverty and hunger by 2030.

Across Europe, radical right-wing parties are winning increasing electoral support.

'Kennard reports with devastating precision.

This challenging book argues convincingly that research on European integration has lagged behind important theoretical developments in the fields of international relations, international political economy, and international organization.

At a time increasingly dominated by globalization, migration, and the clash between supranational and ultranational ideologies, the relationship between language and borders has become more complicated and, in many ways, more consequential than ever.

Establishing strategic partnerships is a key objective for the European Union.

This book argues that larger flaws in the global supply chain must first be addressed to change the way business is conducted to prevent factory owners from taking deadly risks to meet clients' demands in the garment industry in Bangladesh.

Science is made of facts just as a house is made of bricks, but a collection of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house.

In the post-World War II era, the emergence of 'area studies' marked a signal development in the social sciences.

Regional Intelligence is an emerging field that leverages the lessons learned through decades of regional science.

In contemporary global capitalism, the most powerful corporations are innovation or intellectual monopolies.

East Asia is a powerhouse of automobile production.

Rooted in an international political economy theoretical framework, this book provides unique insights into the global forces and local responses that are shaping education systems in Central America and the Latin Caribbean (CALC).

The book provides a detailed historically-based analysis of the origin, evolution and potential resolution of the civil conflict in Sri Lanka over the struggle to establish a separate state in its Northern and Eastern provinces.

This book explores how new communication and information technologies combine with transportation to modify human spatial and temporal relationships in everyday life.

How do you make taxpayers comply?

This volume explores the usefulness of the Asian model of agricultural development for Africa, where, even before the recent world food crisis, half the population lived on less than on dollar a day, and a staggering one in three people and one third of all children were undernourished.