Political economy

This book discusses current trends, challenges, and opportunities in the fields of business, hospitality, and tourism, particularly in Eastern Europe.

The year 2019 marks 30 years since the fall of the Berlin wall.

This work, first published in 1913, deals with the causes which led to the imposition of the various taxes which were levied down to and including the first income tax act (1799).

John Maynard Keynes expected that around the year 2030 people would only work 15 hours a week.

This volume takes a global view of the emergence of public protest movements over the last decade, asking whether such movements contribute to the globalization of civil society.

Why have countries increasingly restricted immigration even when they have opened their markets to foreign competition through trade or allowed their firms to move jobs overseas?

Does the UK still have an industrial strategy?

This is the only comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the political economy of the five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden).

In recent years the so-called new economic geography and the issue of regional economic convergence have increasingly drawn the interest of economists to the empirical analysis of regional and spatial data.

This book develops foresight techniques to turn future societal challenges into opportunities.

This book provides both a retrospective and prospective look at Turkey on the occasion of the country's centenary.

This book investigates whether democracy reduces state repression.

This book, first published in 1998, presents a quantitative investigation of the macroeconomic effects of different fiscal and monetary policies that have been used to finance wars in the US.

Rules, Rubrics and Riches highlights the limitations of existing approaches to understanding the relationship of the law to the process of development.

The phenomenon of consumption has increasingly drawn attention from economists.

This book analyses the economic and social impact of the Covid-19 crisis with special focus on India.

The purpose of this ground-breaking book is to inspire the principle of innovation as a permeating program for Europe's societies.

When trying to embed changes or new mindsets and behaviors, organizations tend to focus on following a particular methodology rather than clearly defining the underlying behaviors that will deliver the sustainable behavioral change and align the thought processes that drive the behaviors-whether their intent is to continuously improve safety or overall risk management or achieve a sustainable growth and improvement trajectory.

Averting Climate Catastrophe Together addresses the necessity of meeting the Paris Agreement temperature target and explores what framework could enable climate action in an effective, efficient and equitable manner that is consistent with that goal.

In economics, the emergence of New Growth Theory in recent decades has directed attention to an old and important problem: what are the forces of economic growth and how can public policy enhance them?

Originally published in 1970 this book quickly became a classic textbook.

Based on a case-study carried out in the southern city of Guangzhou in China, the book describes in compelling detail the dramatic changes occurring at a large state-owned enterprise as this socialist country undergoes market transition.

The persistence of poverty hurts us all, and attacking poverty is a major policy objective everywhere.

This book argues that intellectual stability causes recurrent market instability, tracing crises from the Great Crash to the Global Financial Crisis.

The Poverty of Nations is a study about the status and trends in human well-being as it varies from nation to nation worldwide.

This edited collection provides a comprehensive geographic and chronological overview of the decentralisation processes in the successor states of former Yugoslavia and Albania during their transition and EU integration years, from 1990 until 2016.

An up-to-date analysis and assessment of the evolving relationship between Canada and the Commonwealth Caribbean, this volume focuses on three dynamic and important issues.

This book takes stock of and analyses the direct and indirect effects of the war in Ukraine, the policy response to the shock across countries, as well as the potential medium-term economic and social implications and policy challenges.

This volume of essays examines the ways in which magical practices are found in different aspects of contemporary capitalist societies.

Written by fifteen leading academics from the Japan Society for International Development (JASID), this book undertakes a review of Japan's economic development over the last 150 years, and seeks to clarify Japanese priorities in domestic and foreign policy for the coming decades.

Credit reporting agencies collect and compile highly sensitive information on the millions of consumers in credit markets throughout the world and also increasingly across a variety of industries, such as insurance, retail and telecommunications.

Although the triggering effect of economic crises on revolt is a classic sociological topic, crises have until recently mostly triggered large-scale collective action in developing countries.

The book introduces a novel approach to international taxation through the lens of heterodox economic and social theories, in particular Marxism.

This book offers a general introduction to and analysis of the history, theory and public policy of Australian local government systems.

Value and the World Economy Today brings together a diverse group of globally renowned scholars of international political economy and critical economics to examine the relevance of value theory for understanding the world economy today.

It uses multi-level analytical approach to provide insights on two industries that coped with WTO initiated global institutional change.

Since the 1980s, neoliberalism has had a major impact on social life and, in turn, research in the social sciences.

This is the first history to be written of the World Food Programme (WFP), the food aid arm of the United Nations System.

What is the role of legislatures in the budget process?

Government, in all of its guises, plays a significant, controversial, and sometimes hidden, role in class actions reform and litigation.

Governing the Global Economy explores the dynamic interaction between politics and economics, between states and markets and between international and domestic politics.

This book uses Nigeria's Afri-capitalist and South Africa's Ubuntu Business models as case studies that reconcile the tension between Africa Rising and Pan African economics, presenting their convergence as Africa's viable Third Way route to global development.