The book gathers together a set of lively, provocative essays by leading voices in International Political Economy to debate the evolution of the field, its current state and its future directions.
Throughout the Western world, governments and financial elites responded to the financial crisis of 2008 by trying to restore the conditions of business as usual, but the economic, social and human damage inflicted by the crisis has given rise to a reconsideration of the inevitability of unfettered capitalism as a fact of life.
In the Beginning (1957) represents a series of lectures given by the author at Cornell University, examining the views of the Ancient Greeks on the central foundation myths of their civilisation.
The federal government is the largest buyer of goods and services in the world, spending hundreds of billions of dollars per year, employing hundreds of thousands of people as civil servants or contractors.
In Normalized Financial Wrongdoing, Harland Prechel examines how social structural arrangements that extended corporate property rights and increased managerial control opened the door for misconduct and, ultimately, the 2008 financial crisis.
Die Versorgung der Menschen mit wirtschaftlich verfügbarer und zugleich umweltverträglicher Energie in ausreichendem Umfang ist eine entscheidende Frage der Zukunft.
This textbook provides a solid introduction to the theoretical and empirical aspects of environmental economics, and their links to environmental policy.
This book explores trends of inequality and poverty in China, identifies their causes and assesses their consequences, analyzing in detail the regional/personal variation in incomes, measures of human wellbeing, the gap between the coastal regions and the interior regions, and urban-rural disparity.
This book belongs to the Port Economics and Global Supply Chain Management strand of the Palgrave Studies in Maritime Economics book series, commissioned by Hercules Haralambides.
This volume documents recent efforts to track the transformation and trajectory of silver during the early modern period, from its origins in ores located on either side of the Atlantic to its use as currency in the financial centres of continental Europe.
This book discusses the regulatory and trade challenges facing the global adoption of biotechnological products and offers strategies for overcoming these obstacles and moving towards greater global food security.
Pushed by the Covid-19 crisis, the UK government has borrowed massively to save jobs, businesses and the economy from collapse, making a mockery of the austerity policies that it had championed for a decade.
Die dänische Konsensdemokratie, die fortschrittliche Wirtschafts- und Arbeitsmarktpolitik und der umfassende dänische Wohlfahrtsstaat werden von vielen als Vorbild gesehen.
Drawing on the work of Allan Schnaiberg, this book returns political economy to green criminology and examines how the expansion of capitalism shapes environmental law, crime and justice.
Critical of the economic and political power relations in contemporary India, this book is written from the vantagepoint of the working masses whose basic economic and democratic rights remain unmet.
The design and use of federal grants-in-aid to state and local governments have posed policy choices for every presidential administration since that of Lyndon B.
This book brings together original cutting edge work that deals with global environmental harm from a wide variety of geographical and critical perspectives.
Germany is a central case for research on comparative political economy, which has inspired theorizing on national differences and historical trajectories.
Hayek thought that all economic behavior (and by implication other human behavior) is based on fallible interpretations of what information is important and of its implications for the future.
This book explores the transformation of the American-led alliances, as well as of US allies' responses to potential American disengagement from regional security amid the rising Russian and Chinese threats.
