Political economy

A quarter of a century has now passed since the historic popular uprising that led to the overthrow of the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines.

First published in 1957, this study traces the development of the national policy as it affected the growth of the Canadian trade and discusses the grain marketing problems of Western Canada in the decades that followed, with detailed attention to legislation and moves by various growers' groups in an attempt to meet these problems.

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Drawing on recent debates in critical International Political Economy, this book mobilizes the idea that the economy does not exist separately from society and politics to develop a detailed intellectual history of how the economy came to be seen as an independent domain.

Using a "e;power struggles"e; theme to examine the dynamics of budgeting, The Politics of Public Budgeting shines a bright light on the political jockeying between interest groups, parties, officials, policymakers, and the public.

This book is Karl Widerquist's first statement of the "e;indepentarian"e; theory of property, called, "e;Justice as the Pursuit of Accord"e; (JPA).

Commerce in Culture is an innovative study of how states have responded to the globalization of the film sector.

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Previously published as a special issue of Globalizations, this collection of essays addresses what is arguably the most pressing and urgent issue of our day - the continuing development of global environmental crises and the need for new and urgent responses to them by the world community.

The contributors examine the conduct and consequences of national macroeconomic policy in a world of economically independent countries.

The core of the book consists of a selection of papers presented at an international workshop where researchers from a variety of fields and countries discussed the connections between inherited wealth, justice and equality.

The tropics is an area of enormous opportunity and potential.

Human rights and economics are the concepts that have contributed the most to free human kind, the former from fear and the latter from need.

Hume's Political Discourses (1752) won immediate acclaim and positioned him as an authoritative figure on the subject of political economy.

This edited volume highlights cascading effects of the pandemic and lockdown on informal economies of varied countries in the Global South.

Miller examines Britain and Japan's involvement in the Middle East peace process after the October War of 1973 and how it contributed to the resolution of the oil crisis of 1973-74.

This book investigates how China has used Taiwanese investment and treated Taiwanese investors to pursue political reunification.

In December 2001, Taiwan held an election that many observers said, in addition to the 2000 election that resulted in opposition party leader Chen Shui-bian winning the presidency, consolidated its democracy.

This book is a timely exploration of an unprecedented, cataclysmic pandemic episode.

Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in an agricultural cooperative running a training programme for aspiring farmers, this book explores the possibilities of agrarian and land-based modes of livelihood in contemporary Japan.

Cooperatives the world over are successfully developing alternative models of decision-making, employment and operation without the existence of managers, executives and hierarchies.

American cities continue to experience profound fiscal crises.

For more than half a century, the dollar has been not just America's currency but the world's.

This book, first published in 1987, is a study of the political processes that underlie the determination of taxation - and much else - in the centuries-old government of Britain.

This book stems from a four-year experience of a Training Programme addressing members of several Chinese governmental Institutions which, given the moment of extremely intense and fast development of their country, consider the issues of environment and sustainable growth among the foremost priorities.

Over the past 50 years the global labour market is transforming from reliable employment to low-wage and unstable informal and precarious jobs.

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Much has been written about the economic and political problems of countries that are in the process of changing from centrally planned systems to market systems.

Across Europe, market mechanisms are spreading into areas where they did not exist before.

Political and economic liberalism has generally been considered to be of marginal import in France, but at an intellectual level, it is a different story.

This is the first comprehensive book on Military Cost-Benefit Analysis and provides novel approaches to structuring cost-benefit and affordability analysis amidst an uncertain defense environment and cloudy fiscal prospects.

One feature of this book is the clarification of the development mechanism of Asia as a regional economy for over half a century, based on an "e;Asian Economy Within the Global Economy"e; approach that goes beyond the single-country analytical framework.

Dieses innovative Buch untersucht zwei supranationale Energieregionen: ECOWAS und die EU.

Paul Collier's contributions to development economics,and in regard to Africa in particular, have marked him out as one of the most influential commentators of recent times.

This edited book introduces new research on informal markets and trade in Central Asia and the Caucasus.

This book discusses the unprecedented impact of the financial and economic crisis on government finances and economic performance across Europe, which has raised skepticism on the ability of the current course of integration to promote prosperity.

Why our economy is cheating the future-and what we can do about itThe world's leading economies are facing not just one but many crises.

The recent occurrences of famine in Ethiopia and Southern Africa have propelled this key issue back into the public arena for the first time since 1984, as once again it becomes a priority - not only for lesser developed countries but also for the international community.

Against the backdrop of China's increasingly influential role in the international financial architecture, this book seeks to characterize and evaluate China's financial power potential.

Since the early 1990s, Europe's economies have been facing several new challenges: the single market programme, the collapse of the Berlin wall and eastward enlargement, and monetary unification.