Political economy

This book explores and analyzes governance and policy issues in South, Southeast, and East Asia.

This title was first published in 2000: An outstanding volume which examines the professional economic merits, practical feasibility, and underlying politics of the hotly contested competing initiatives for strengthening the international financial system.

This book addresses the urgent need to examine central bank policies in response to the global supply and demand shock brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, asking whether central banks are doing enough to address inequalities and concerns around climate change and emerging technologies.

This book provides a blueprint for those interested in teaching from a pluralist perspective, regardless of ideology.

An assessment of the impact of the post-Mao market-orientated reforms in China on the Chinese state and its relations with economy and society.

The Barbara Weinstock Lectures,15This title was originally published in 1932.

This book analyses the past and ongoing decline of Zimbabwe under the rule of ZANU-PF, with a primary focus on the period 1997 to the present.

impact in terms of new opportunity and risk.

Few historians have attempted an account of Japan since 1945 yet the country's emergence as the second largest economy in the world has been one of the most dramatic and significant developments since the Second World War.

Mood is a phenomenon whose study is inherently interdisciplinary.

The neo-Schumpeterian interpretation dominating the field of evolutionary economics puts focus on technological innovation, Darwinian evolution and economic growth, and has proven to be fertile ground for the past forty years.

Social ontology is the study of the nature and basic structure of social reality.

Meltdown reveals how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was able to curb unsafe and unfair practices that led to the 2008 financial crisis.

South Asia today is among the most unstable regions in the world, riddled by both intra- and inter-state conflict.

Radcliff examines the question of how political outcomes in democratic societies determine the quality of life that citizens experience.

This book is about where to go and what to do in China's reform.

The Right and the Welfare State studies the welfare state policies of conservative and liberal governments.

A critique of current conceptions of international political economy, the role of the state and contemporary social movements, The New Development Politics challenges the dominant paradigms in the field of development studies.

This book studies the economic history of India and traces the Indian path of development from a Latin American framework and perspective.

The global financial and economic crisis has brought about many effects that are still difficult to interpret univocally.

The economic, social and environmental systems of the world remain in turmoil.

Dermatologists are often the first medical professionals to see patients with HIV infection, as skin diseases are common in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

This book discusses the philosophy and educational reforms initiated by Wilhelm von Humboldt as well as their legacy in the modern university system.

This edited collection seeks to advance thinking on money and the monetary nature of the economy, macroeconomic analysis and economic policy, setting it within the context of current scholarship and global socioeconomic concerns, and the crisis in the economics discipline.

This book presents an integrated jurisprudential critique of neoclassical microeconomic theory.

Globalisation has put national labour movements under severe pressure, due to the increasing transnationalisation of production, with the production of many goods being organised across borders, and the informalisation of the economy.

This book analyses the opportunities enabled for Armenia by China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in the framework of economic cooperation, policy diversification, social inclusion and regional cohesion.

This Handbook brings together 40 of the world's leading scholars and rising stars who study international law from disciplines in the humanities - from history to literature, philosophy to the visual arts - to showcase the distinctive contributions that this field has made to the study of international law over the past two decades.

This fascinating study considers the fate of 35 million workers laid off from the state-owned sector in China.

Employment is a critical part of the macro-economy and a key driver of economic development.

The inside story of the US-China trade war, "e;especially insightful on how the contradictory natures of Trump and Xi have impeded understanding"e; (The Boston Globe).

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 presents an original interpretation of the building history of London in terms of its evolving political economy.

This book discusses policy instruments for sustainable infrastructure developments.

Innovation is sweeping the globe at breakneck speed, and emerging markets are where tremendous growth and opportunity reside.

India has fallen far and fast from the runaway growth rates it enjoyed in the first decade of the twenty-first century.

This book considers the principal sources of agreement and disagreement among policymakers and analysts concerning the current economic problems of Sub-Saharan Africa.

In 1964 President Lyndon Johnson traveled to Kentucky's Martin County to declare war on poverty.

This book is the culmination of several years work by a group of academics, policy-makers and other professionals looking to understand how alternative economic thinking - and indeed thinking from quite different social-scientific disciplines - could enhance the mainstream economic approach to environmental and natural-resource problems.

Broadcasting is now an important part of the international aid effort, and as such communication for development has ambitious aims: to save lives, improve livelihoods and end corruption.

This interdisciplinary collection examines the significance of constitutions in setting the terms and conditions upon which market economies operate.

Explains the rising importance of emerging markets to give a better understanding of current development challenges.

The 8th edition, already significantly updated, has now been further updated in 2023 to include the likely impact of the post-pandemic cutbacks, the overturning of Roe v Wade, and the Trump indictments on the 2024 national elections.

Recent years have seen the emergence of a unique Taiwanese consciousness.

Offering a piercing indictment of what we have let ourselves become, this short, critical work is a damning critique of the current age and of the democratic systems that characterize it.

In the post-war period, spending on social security, health and education has grown continuously in the leading industrialized countries.

Over the past two decades Americans have become increasingly skeptical about the benefits of community growth and hostile to new taxes--while continuing to demand improvements in local services.

This book describes and refutes thirteen ideas involving free market principles and the US economic system, arguing that these (mostly familiar) ideas are myths.