Political economy

Argues that Western militaries must reform in order to become viable businesses that address relevant security issues within realistic budgets.

This volume, first published in 1982, is a collection of original essays written to honour Professor W.

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This book presents the sharp regional diff erences within the integrating European continent.

By examining a sector of the economy that was exposed to increased imports more than four decades ago, Crumley illuminates the economic pressures, resistance, and reform that help to shape Russia's agrarian sector today.

"e;Bongiovanni's message should be heeded, especially in Brussels, Berlin and Paris"e; - John Peet, Political Editor, The EconomistFrancesco Bongiovanni returns with a sequel to The Decline and the Fall of Europe, a book Guardian journalist Nils Pratley labelled 'a wake-up call for the twenty-first century'.

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This book examines PRC "e;involved"e; seaports overseas, where involvement can take the form of PRC foreign direct investment (FDI), contracting, and/or terminal operations, in countries such as Cambodia, Pakistan, and the Philippines.

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The Difficult Construction of European Banking Union examines the political, legal and economic issues surrounding the lacunae and design faults of European Banking Union and its problematic operation.

In the early twenty-first century, the citizens of many Latin American countries, such as Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Venezuela, elected left-wing governments, explicitly rejecting and attempting to reverse the policies of neoliberal structural economic adjustment that had prevailed in the region during the 1990s.

Microfinance has become an important component of development, poverty reduction and economic regeneration strategy around the world.

This book seeks to expand analytically on standard institutionalist accounts of taxation by bringing into the explanatory framework the importance of institutional strength (not just design) as well as informal institutions (in addition to formal ones) for policy reform.

Following the end of the Cold War, the economic reforms in the early 1990s, and ensuing impressive growth rates, India has emerged as a leading voice in global affairs, particularly on international economic issues.

This book shows that liberalizing governments across Ibero-America often forge alliances with protected actors such as unions and domestic business.

Despite regionalism having developed into a global phenomenon, the European Union (EU) is still more often than not presented as the 'role-model of regionalism' whose institutional designs and norms are adopted by other regional actors and organizations as part of a rather passive 'downloading process'.

How can we explain the persistent worsening of the income distribution in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s?

This book argues that capitalism cannot be said to be truly democratic and that a system of producer cooperatives, or democratically managed enterprises, is needed to give rise to a new mode of production which is genuinely socialist and fully consistent with the ultimate rationale underlying Marx's theoretical approach.

This book is about continuity and change in early nineteenth-century Britain.

Capitalism and Inequality rejects the popular view that attributes the recent surge in inequality to a failure of market institutions.

Regionalism is under stress.

Analysing reciprocity from a multidisciplinary perspective, Oliver considers how this concept can help to inform public policy design.

A study of the role of clan networks in Central Asia from the early twentieth century through 2004.

Many financial institutions have in recent years failed - failed either completely, and gone into bankruptcy, or failed in the sense that they have not achieved what their owners or their customers expected them to deliver.

Motor vehicle accidents are still a leading cause of death, even if the trend has somewhat declined over the past 20 years.

Looks at how Nigeria''s political parties compete for power in a context of transition, terrorism, and religious and ethnic tension.

This book offers a sociological analysis of globalised capitalist markets, advancing the notion of 'disembedded markets' to challenge the idea of 'social embeddedness' common in economic sociology.

Can the power of the G20 be legitimate?

The book offers a concise account of modern Japanese economic history and the essence of postwar macroeconomic issues and policy.

Toseef Azid, Murniati Mukhlisin, Nashr Akbar, and Muhammad Tahir bring together leading researchers to provide a state-of-the-art overview of the monetary policy, corporate governance, their legal and regulatory issues and procedures that structure Islamic banks (IBs) and other Islamic financial institutions (IFIs).

This analysis of budgetary systems and policies across the world examines how politics, culture, and economics influence public finance.

Was Canada's Dominion experiment of 1867 an experiment in political domination?

Dans ce nouveau livre, Christian Saint-Étienne formule des propositions originales pour mettre en place la France 3.

Large-scale investments in fragile states - in Latin America, Africa, the former Soviet Union and Asia - become magnets for conflict, which undermines business, development and security.

For most Western audiences, Cuba is a touristic paradise stuck in time and virtually detached from world technology networks by the US embargo - anything but a hub of industrial innovation and high value-added biotechnology.

Governing Complexity in the 21st Century surveys the ways in which social systems are becoming more complex.

The goal of behavioural economics is to improve the explanatory and predictive power of economics.

We are living in a time when social and political authoritarianism appear to be gaining ground around the world.

This completely revised and updated sequel to Globalization and Antiglobalization advances our understanding of the dynamics of neoliberal globalization and draws our attention towards efforts to construct 'another world' beyond neoliberalism.

This book is the first work dedicated to the key ideas of Nobel Laureate Ronald Coase on pollution and public goods with sustainable development in mind from the perspective of an economist-town planner.

Wolfgang Streeck has written extensively on comparative political economy and institutional theory.

What happens when corporate culture takes over counterculture?

This work compares IT parks in China, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Hawaii, in search of strategies that policy makers can employ to reduce the Global Digital Divide, advance distributional equity, and soften some of the negative effects of economic globalization.

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Askari and Krichene provide a comprehensive background for recent international financial crises rapid expansion of interest-bearing debt and monetary expansion though the fractional reserve banking system.

The Cuban Revolution offers a reflective account of what the Revolution has meant to various actors such as the dominant powers, the Third World, fellow revolutionaries, intellectuals and Cuban citizens at different periods in its history.

Havard Haarstad is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Geography, University of Bergen.

This book deals with the complex and challenging relationship between economic policy and human rights.

This books presents a theory of economic development very different from the "e;"e;stages of growth"e;"e; hypothesis or strategies emphasizing foreign aid, trade, or regional association.