Political economy

Thought-provoking and clearly explained, the new edition provides students of international economics and international business with a rigorous explanation of global economic theory and policy, both current trends and historic developments.

This book was first published in 1977.

The power of the commons as a free, fair system of provisioning and governance beyond capitalism, socialism, and other -isms.

This book examines the theme of privatised violence in different political settings by focusing on the Indonesian case.

The global community confronts a comprehensive and interconnected array of compelling economic, development and security challenges which require effective global governance.

The crisis of the current global financial order is challenging us to critically reflect on how this order has been driven, and the development outcomes produced by its central political and economic actors.

A noted Chinese economist examines the mechanisms behind China''s economic reforms, arguing that universal principles and specific implementations are equally important.

Whether the nation would be better served by an income tax or by a consumption tax has been debated by tax experts for decades.

Individual foreign investment in Western nation states is a long-standing geopolitical issue.

The Political Economy of International Financial Instability (1986) discusses international financial problems as a global issue, concentrating on systemic interactions.

This book is intended as an introduction to a versatile model for temporal data.

This book sheds light on the dollarization trends of four transitional economies in Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam.

This book introduces a new and original analytic approach to defining, understanding, and explaining financialization.

The book speaks to the widespread quest for concrete alternative ways forward 'beyond capitalism' in the face of the prevailing corporatocracy and a capitalist system in crisis.

Co-creation, a strategy inspired by product and service design, would stimulate public innovation, improve governance and reinvigorate our democracy.

This collection of essays provides a comprehensive view of the economic thought of the Scottish Enlightenment.

This intermediate-level undergraduate textbook in environmental economics builds on the microeconomics courses students take in their first year.

White-Collar Proletariat (1980) explores the major changes in the industrial and political behaviour of British civil servants in the 1970s.

Richard Titmuss, Professor at the London School of Economics, adviser to governments, prolific author, was instrumental in shaping the new disciplines of Social Policy and Administration.

The most prominent aspect of the current financial crisis is its systemic character which manifests itself in high levels of inequality, rampant unemployment, economic and social insecurity and environmental decay.

This title was first published in 2003.

Lead firms, development organisations, donors and governments view value chains and voluntary standards as vital instruments for achieving millennium development goals through trade and market-related interventions.

Drawing on her extensive teaching experience, Lorna Cork explores the day-to-day needs and expectations of black parents and their children in education.

Funding infrastructure has always been a challenging issue in any country and at any time, yet the topic is still largely unexplored.

Lea Shih gibt neue Einsichten in die „black box“ der politischen Gestaltungsprozesse von Chinas Industriepolitik.

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography presents students and researchers with a comprehensive overview of the field, put together by a prestigious editorial team, with contributions from an international cast of prominent scholars.

Modern advertising was created in the US between 1870 and 1920 when advertisers and the increasingly specialized advertising industry that served them crafted means of reliable access to and knowledge of audiences.

This book shows that liberalizing governments across Ibero-America often forge alliances with protected actors such as unions and domestic business.

This book envisages a different form of our economies where care work and care-full relationships are central to social and cultural life.

This book includes many cases that provide new perspectives in developing agent-based modeling and simulation.

Economics of Urban Highway Congestion and Pricing offers the most extensive examination to date of the relationship between congestion tolls and highway capacity in the long run.

This book is a volume in honor of Zvi Drezner's 75th birthday.

While South Asia's economic reform initiatives of the last two decades were often born in crisis, this alone does not account for their occurrence.

This book presents most recent research studies on mapping and spatial analysis of socio-economic and environmental indicators used by various national and international contributors to regional development projects.

Market process theory is crucial to our knowledge and expectations of actors working toward economic coordination and cooperation.

This volume offers new perspectives on the evolution of the trade-development nexus in the European Union against dramatic changes in the international context.

The mythical ''demographic timebomb'' can be defused through policies that reduce inequalities between and within generations.

New economic thinking is in demand in the light of the recent economic crisis.

Until the end of the early 1970s, from a history of economic thought perspective, the mainstream in economics was pluralist, but once neoclassical economics became totally dominant it claimed the mainstream as its own.

More than thirty years have passed since Latin America began the arduous task of transitioning from military-led rule to democracy.

This book presents the latest knowledge on the still under-researched field of academic tourism, which over the past decade has gained in importance at local and national economic levels as a result of increasing international mobility of students and academic staff in higher education.

Ayse Kaya analyses the relationship between states'' economic power and their political power in key multilateral economic institutions.

This book develops a measure of Autonomy Freedom and sheds light on its consequences for policy and political design.

This collection provides exceptional descriptive and analytical insights into changes in corporate governance settings in ten Eastern and Western European countries.

In the history of Russian economic ideas, a peculiar mix of anthropocentrism and holism provided fertile breeding ground for patterns of thought that were in potential conflict with the market.

If evolutionary economics is to compete with neoclassical economics as a general-purpose economic theory, it needs to incorporate new aspects of socioeconomic reality, such as institutions of all types, including technical, scientific, and political.

This book acquaints readers with a range of techniques to help them effectively identify, record, map, analyze and report on patterns in various dimensions of human development (HD) with spatial scales down to the village level.