Political economy

The manifestation of the colonial nation-state as a legal-bureaucratic-police structure - an exploitation tool - undermined customary modes of governance in colonies.

Privatization was the fundamental pillar of transition from plan to market in former socialist countries.

This is the first fully annotated edition of Social Problems (1883) and The Condition of Labor (1891), two important works by one of America's most popular social economists.

This book offers a political economy analysis of the development and degradation of freedom of the press in Taiwan since 1949, exploring how state-business elites and foreign hegemons interacted to shape the evolution of Taiwan's media.

Prior to the 1970s, few serious efforts were made to bridge the gap between economics and political science in the study of international relations.

Diving into an original and unusually positive case study from India, Patching Development shows how development programs can be designed to work.

This book explores tensions in global trade by examining the role of experts in generating, disseminating and legitimating knowledge about the possibilities of trade to work for global development.

This book analyses and compares the unofficial economies and their control in ten marxist states: the USSR, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, Cuba, Nicaragua, China, Angola and Tanzania.

Originally published in 1990 this book provides an authoritative and detailed account of the initiatives of US state governments with science and technology programs designed to foster economic growth.

In this title, first published in 1978, Sir Arthur Lewis considers the development of the international economy in the forty years leading up to the First World War, with the adoption of the gold standard, a rapid growth in world trade, the opening up of the continents by the railways, vast emigration from Europe, India and China, and large-scale international investment.

A unique examination of why the quest for global free trade often forgets that trade liberalization is organized regionally rather than multilaterally.

The notion that there is no alternative to capitalism emerged after the fall of the Berlin Wall and made rapid headway due to increasing economic globalisation.

Combining the disciplines of international political economy, public sector economics and comparative politics, this stimulating book debates whether federalism obstructs institutional adjustment under conditions of a globalized economy, or whether this depends upon the extent to which a given political system is centralized.

Methods used for regional development analysis are employed mainly to make forecasts and comparisons.

The privatization of the utilities by the Conservative governments of the 1980s and 1990s was a major shift in public policy.

This book traces changes in the social and political orientations of the publics of Britain, France, Italy, Spain, West Germany, Ireland, Denmark, Portugal, Belgium, The Netherlands, Greece and Luxembourg from 1970 to 1988.

Technischer Wandel und fortschreitende Digitalisierung sind auch in der Fitness- und Gesundheitsbranche nicht mehr wegzudenken.

This book fills a gap in the literature by presenting a comprehensive overview of the key issues relating to law and development in Asia.

Islamic Macroeconomics proposes an Islamic model that offers significant prospects for economic growth and durable macroeconomic stability, and which is immune to the defects of the economic models prevailing both in developed and developing countries.

This collection brings together international experts from different continents to examine creativity and innovation in the cultural economy.

A blueprint for the nation after the boom.

Originally published in 1987, this book brings together leading authorities from Germany and the USA who analyze how the East German economy actually operated - planning and management, pricing, investment and innovation, the financial system, agriculture and foreign trade (including the special concessions granted by the then Federal Republic of Germany).

In Canada one of the most important means by which the government regulates business is the Combines Investigation Act.

The Brexit vote; the election of Trump; the upsurge of European nationalism; the devolution of the Arab Spring; global violence; Chinese expansionism; disruptive climate change; the riotous instabilities of the world capitalist system.

How can local experiences and the social transformation generated by modernity help to enrich our understanding of the international?

Luigi Einaudi made an outstanding contribution to economics during his long career as economist, historian and policy-maker.

Despite the growing consensus that the rise of China is transforming international relations, policy makers and scholars have not sufficiently addressed the geopolitical and geoeconomic implications of a new paradigm, especially since the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russo-Ukrainian war.

The reemergence of China as a political force has triggered sharp reassessments of its future role in the Asia-Pacific region.

This book is an extension of the author's last book (Crisis and Sustainability: The Delusion of Free Markets, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and sheds light on the evolution of the financial system after the 2007/08 crisis and on changes and developments in the regulatory framework that have taken place concurrently over the last ten years.

This title discusses the phenomenon of smoking as a behavioural disease and the associated costs.

This book addresses the challenge of securing high-paying jobs for American workers.

This volume offers a new dimension to realist theories about world politics.

A theoretical and empirically spirited defence of democratic governance.

Japanese foreign direct investment has played a leading role in Asian economies for more than two decades.

First published in 1988, Peculiar Language is now established as one of the most important discussions of the language of literature.

Employing law and philosophy of economics, this book explores how copyright shapes ownership of ideas in the social media age.

Originally published in 1919, A primer of National Finance discusses elements of financial principles with reference to facts and figures of British National Finance, Britain's financial position and general outline of where finances stood at the time of publication.

As the 15-year Millennium Development Goals approach their conclusion, we can now measure their larger successes and failures in more than 'snapshot fashion; and we can begin to consider how best to shape the international development agenda for the coming decades based on what we have learned.

Shows that in a predatory regime localized property rights protection is possible due to elite cleavage within the regime.

The industrial revolution and the creation of the modern (national) state are two of the most important historical processes to have occurred in Europe during the 19th century.

This book examines the use, principally in economics, of the concept of the invisible hand, centering on Adam Smith.

This thesis explores the physics of non-equilibrium quantum dynamics in homogeneous two-dimensional (2D) quantum gases.

The book presents the proceedings of the 5th EAI International Conference on Management of Manufacturing Systems (MMS 2020), which took place online on October 27-29, 2020.

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.