Political economy

Handelskonflikte, Brexit und Euro-Turbulenzen lassen die Stimmung in den Keller rauschen.

In Gaining Currency, leading China scholar Eswar S.

Over the last three decades, inflation targeting (IT) has become the most popular monetary policy framework among larger economies.

First published in 1990, The Political Economy of Communications explores the central theme of the relationship between politics and markets in policy development.

This book stems from a simple 'feminist curiosity' that can be succinctly summed up into a single question: what happens to combatant women after the war?

This book addresses how China could avoid the middle-income trap.

This book presents insightful perspectives on the invocation, implementation and application of UN-approved financial sanctions and related issues.

This book provides social work practitioners and allied professionals with an applied understanding of the formal legislation, policy and guidance relating to young people who are considered 'at risk' of, accused of, or convicted of involvement in offending or anti-social behaviour.

This volume establishes a theoretical framework for exploring the role of host state legal systems (courts and bureaucracies) in mediating relations between foreign investment, civil society and government actors.

This book identifies scenarios for changes in transmission infrastructure, contracting, consumption patterns and fossil fuel financing policies, considering climate goals and the consequences of the conflict in Ukraine.

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

Originally published in 1938, this symposium, based on the Sir Halley Stewart lectures for 1937, numbers among its contributors some of the world's most distinguished economists and the subjects of which they treat are of vital interest.

Using the developmental history of Taiwan as a starting point, Flexibility, Foresight and Fortuna critically examines several prevalent formulations of domestic development and international economy.

This book identifies and analyzes livelihood impacts of recent environmental and socio-economic changes in urban and rural settings of the mountainous state of Himachal Pradesh, north western Himalaya, India.

Projecting win-win situations, new economic opportunities, green growth and innovative partnerships, the green economy discourse has quickly gained centre stage in international environmental governance and policymaking.

Ever since Jim O'Neill at Goldman Sachs coined the term BRICS in 2001 there have been many different assessments of these major emerging economies, with some even proclaiming that the promise of the BRICS (comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) is over.

China's engagement in Africa is generally portrayed simply as African countries being exploited for their mineral wealth by a wealthy political and economic superpower.

The Colonial Office (1956) examines the organisation and work of the Office as it stood in the mid-1950s.

This short manuscript is both a distillation of some of the latest work on disaster risk reduction and an interpretation of this distillation from the author's political economic perspective.

This book describes the complex of economic processes which sustains inflationary pressure in nations with severe inflation problems.

Recent decades have seen the study of politics invaded by economic theories, methods and techniques.

This innovative new book examines government approaches to Public-private partnership (PPP) formation.

The European Union is often depicted as a dominant global regulator.

This pioneering volume is devoted to the analysis of education from the perspective of political science, applying the full range of the discipline's analytical perspectives and methodological tools.

Seeking to extend our understanding of the contemporary global political economy, this book provides an important and original introduction to the current theoretical debates about social reproduction and argues for the necessity of linking social reproduction to specific contexts of power and production.

This book examines the ways in which colonialism continues to define the political economy of Nigeria sixty years after gaining political independence from the British.

'Triggered by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Canada, the United States and Mexico redefined their public policies to facilitate the regionalization of transactions.

This book discusses the work of German economists Gustav von Schmoller and Adolph Wagner, its influence on the tradition of German and Austrian economic and social thought, and its implications for the discipline today.

The European Union's weakest economy is in crisis.

China's rise is altering global power relations, reshaping economic debates, and commanding tremendous public attention.

Outlines how to rethink society''s economic, political, and social institutions and actions to take to build better societies.

With a focus on the European labour market, this book seeks to understand how digital transformation affects changes in employee-employer relations.

The theory of the firm has been fertile ground for economists.

The pre-revolutionary Russian economy was backward and stagnant.

This book develops "e;organizing eating"e; as an organizational-communication centered framework for understanding how communication and power combine to actively shape eating and working in the U.

Management by Agreement (1973) examines the ramifications of the 1971 Industrial Relations Act and industrial relations in Britain.

This book explores Russia's efforts towards both adapting to and shaping a world in transformation.

Originally published in 1974, this book filled a gap in its examination and evaluation of the way in which English local government forms a part of democratic society.

This book examines the need for greater legal coherence within international trade negotiations between the European Union (EU) and external trade relations.

Cuba's Fidel Castro and Spain's Francisco Franco were two men with very similar backgrounds but very different political ideologies.

How well suited are the institutions of a region, nation or international regime to the task of coping with the dramatic changes currently underway in the global economy?

South Africa's current political upheavals are the most significant since the transition from apartheid.

Countries around the world are working to counter the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on their healthcare systems, economies, and industries.

A source of perennial tension in states is the degree to which decision-making power and authority should be concentrated in central institutions and individuals.