Political economy

Regionalism has been a key feature of contemporary international relations.

A New York Times technology and business reporter charts the dramatic rise of Bitcoin and the fascinating personalities who are striving to create a new global money for the Internet age.

This book traces the historical emergence of modern consumer lending in America and France.

Explores the deep roots of modern democracy, focusing on geography and long-term patterns of global diffusion.

This book sheds new light on the relationship between economy and the environment by approaching the issue from evolutionary and institutional economics.

This book presents paths developing countries can pursue in order to reclaim their ability to take action and improve people's living conditions in the long term.

Although it is obvious that politics, money, and economic conditions were closely interrelated in the twenty years before the Revolution, this is the first account to bring together these strands of early American experience.

Why does a huge income gap still exist between developed and developing countries?

This book investigates how the predictability of legislators'' behavior and vote buying affect chief executives'' ability to rule by statute.

China's relationship with the developing world is a fundamental part of its larger foreign policy strategy.

The book, written by experts in their respective areas of official responsibility in Vietnam, provides a well researched, comprehensive, and concisely presented assessment and forecasts on opportunities for trade, investment, business, and cooperation in Vietnam for use by foreign companies, individuals, and institutions.

The balance of economic power in Europe is shifting eastwards.

The four-volume set LNCS 10513-10516 constitutes the proceedings of the 16th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2017, held in Mumbai, India, in September 2017.

Korea's twin transitions - agrarian to industrial and industrial to post-industrial - transformed the country's political economy.

Globalization processes are propelling a transformation of governance.

The book contains perspectives on the way new informationtechnology might reorient the spatial organization ofactivity.

This book is an introduction to the history of - and current measurement practice of - inflation for the United Kingdom.

In recent decades, there has been many attempts to describe, explore, and explain the new 'post-modern' capitalism of the twenty-first century.

Richard Layard is one of Britain's foremost applied economists, whose work has had a profound impact on the policy debate in Britain and abroad.

With catchphrases like "e;smart economics"e; and "e;the business case for gender equality,"e; global corporations are increasingly involved in gender and development politics in the Global South.

Examines the role of social networks in the efficient running of democratic market economies.

We Are Better Than This fundamentally reframes budget debates in the United States.

How has the Chinese economy managed to grow at such a remarkable rate - no less than ten per cent per annum - for over three decades?

Why has the Eurozone ended up with an unemployment rate more than twice that of the United States more than six years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers?

The inauguration of the National Assembly of Wales creates a new opportunity to consider the economic agenda for Wales.

This volume broadens the scope of 'comparative capitalism' within the Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) tradition.

The international financial system is not only economic, but political.

Will technological improvement and growth in the rest of the world cause a decline in American living standards?

People want more from the government.

The solutions and tools generally offered to policymakers on environmental issues - such as carbon pricing and environmental taxation - most often emanate from neoclassical economists.

This book comprehensively explores the intricate relationship between banking reforms, economic well-being, and poverty reduction across the African continent.

This authoritative handbook offers insights into the complexities of post-war reconstruction and development economics in Ukraine.

This book explores the disastrous economic consequences of pseudo lending for pseudo reforms that occurred when the IMF, as a representative of the West, pretended to aid the transition economy of post-communist Russia through stabilization while the Russian government promised reforms.

This book presents an extensive study on the effectiveness of recent regulations on pharmaceutical prices in India, exploring the weaknesses in the design and implementation of pharmaceutical price controls and investigating what can be done to fix the broken system.

This book examines the everyday lives of ordinary Zimbabweans in the context of national crises in post-2000 Zimbabwe.

Written by a leading expert in the field, this book provides a clear and incisive analysis of the different perspectives of the global response to HIV/AIDS, and the role of the different global institutions involved.

This timely book will explain, via a number of thematic and case studies, that international economics is not an independent terrain of economic activity reproducing itself throughout history, but a complex articulation of social, political and culturally determined actions that are inextricably linked.

This book intends to renovate the view of social sciences in the German-speaking world.

Ownership, Control and Ideology (1969) looks at the debate surrounding issues of ownership and control.

At the beginning of the transition process, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe faced the task of creating a functioning financial system where none had existed before.

The purpose of this volume, first published in 1925, is to provide the historical account of the regime whereby the State, in different countries, has sought to control economic life in the interests of political and national strength and independence.

This book seeks to explain the political and religious factors leading to the economic reversal of fortunes between Europe and the Middle East.

Understanding the governance of nations is a key challenge in contemporaneous political economy.

Falling or stagnant agricultural growth, increasing dependence on groundwater, climate variability, swift industrialization, and unplanned and unregulated urbanization in South Asia have spawned a variety of challenges for water resources governance, management and use: groundwater overdraft; insufficient, ill-managed and poor-quality freshwater supply vis-a-vis escalating demand; and water pollution.

Globalization has become one of the most important topics within politics and economics.

Covering the period from the 1920s, when international tax policy was solely about avoiding double taxation, to the present era of international tax competition, Rixen investigates the fate of 'the power to tax' in an era of globalization, illustrating that tax sovereignty is both shaped and constrained by an international tax regime.

Transformation from Wall Street to Well-being: Joining up the dots through Participatory democracy and governance to mitigate the causes and adapt to the effects of climate change addresses accountable leadership, supports collective interests, ethical governance and fairness to future generations in order to develop systemic approaches relevant to these issues.