Political economy

There is every indication that the international system is undergoing a period of significant transformation.

The UK and Multi-level Financial Regulation examines the role of the United Kingdom (UK) in shaping post-crisis financial regulatory reform, and assesses the implications of the UK's withdrawal from the European Union (EU).

Given its geographical proximity to Asia and its close alliance with the West, Australia, amid the rise of Asian economies, needs to re-formulate its policies on trade, investment and security.

Examines the nature and process of private policymaking in US firms and how this interacts with public policymaking.

This book presents the capitalist system as a function of the interaction of the three basic classes in the capitalist social formation.

Policy evaluation and programme choice are important tools for informed decision-making, for the administration of active labour market programmes, training programmes, tuition subsidies, rehabilitation programmes etc.

During its 500-year history, the modern world-system has seen several shifts in hegemony.

This is a comprehensive account of the Chinese debates on economic reforms, from the Third Plenum of 1978 to the crackdown of 1989.

This Palgrave Pivot provides an introduction to the economy and business environment of Vietnam, a member of the ASEAN Economic Community whose economy is rapidly growing.

A critical analysis of Australia's neoliberal state and role in the American imperial project in Asia.

Wee felt it before in sense; but now wee know it by science.

For decades, Africa was falling apart.

The role and economic power of corporations that dominate the world economy has generated considerable controversy.

This title was first published in 2003.

Modern Europe has rural roots.

An exploration of the implications of mineral-led wealth and the opportunities that this creates for economic and social development.

This book contains a selection of chapters coming from For a Better World (First Conference on Hirschman Legacy - Boston 2017), A Bias for Hope (Second Conference on Hirschman Legacy- Washington-WB 2018), and A Passion for the Possible (Third Conference on Hirschman Legacy - Berlin 2019).

Social movements play a significant role in the political and social landscape of Latin America.

The existing scholarship on women in China suggests that gender inequality still exists against the background of the country's reform and opening in recent years.

This edited volume brings together the work of scholars from different disciplines including sociology, political science and anthropology, and analyses how global institutions are embedded in local contexts within development aid.

This book, first published in 2005, offers a comprehensive political economy approach to the study of the welfare state and inequality.

Popkin develops a model of rational peasant behavior and shows how village procedures result from the self-interested interactions of peasants.

A wide-ranging historical account and critical analysis of the global development of economics from 1940 to the present day.

This collection offers pathbreaking framing of the material culture of financialisation.

The humanitarian crises caused by civil conflicts and wars in Africa are too great in scope for an adequate and effective continental response.

In the midst of several large cyberattacks in 2017, the European Commission adopted its multi-sector cybersecurity package in September of that same year.

The Covid-19 pandemic is a repeating biophysical shock yet one for which our current socio-economic structure was not prepared.

An incisive analysis of the state of the global economy and what the future holds.

Offering a unique level of coverage, this book provides a comprehensive survey of the political and economic development of the countries of the former Soviet Union from the mid-1990s onwards.

Uses the framework of ''market in state'', to argue that the Chinese economy is state-centered, dominated by political principles over economic principles.

Fabian Colonial Essays (1945) brings together a host of leading thinkers to discuss different aspects of colonialism.

This book explains some of the ways in which deteriorated socioeconomic conditions (inequality in particular) and institutional limitations (corruption, electoral exclusion, and a weak rule of law, among others) affect political stability in extremely unequal developing countries, like Mexico, where democracy is not yet fully consolidated.

Developing countries have for many decades waged a campaign for the global regulation of trade in primary products through international commodity agreements.

This book aims to address the issue of the effects that the contemporary environmental, technological, social and economic global challenges produce on settlement systems, communities, institutions and enterprises.

Prices and quantities of both stock and flow variables in an economic system are decisively influenced by their spatial coordinates.

After many years in which it appeared to be losing the pre-eminent position it had occupied in the lexicon of the social and human sciences, the term 'capitalism' has once again become a matter of critical concern, both theoretically and substantively, in a range of disciplinary fields.

This book is a collection of studies on economic development and growth in selected African countries.

Since the 1970s, neoliberalism has evolved from ideology to political programme, from political programme to public policy, and from public policy to constitutional rule.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of South-South regional trade issues, with a particular focus on sustainably fostering Africa's regional trade agenda.

In Unfulfilled Union Garth Stevenson examines such topics as the origins and objectives of Confederation and the BNA Act of 1867, the interpretation of Canada's federal constitution by the courts, the impact of economic regionalism and Quebec nationalism, financial relations between the federal and provincial levels of government, the consequences of federalism for economic policy, the sources of federal-provincial conflicts and the means to resolve them, and the lengthy but inconclusive efforts to reform the constitution through federal-provincial agreement, particularly since Quebec's Quiet Revolution in the 1960s.

This new edition examines some of the philosophical and theoretical issues underlying the 'democratic project' which increasingly dominates the fields of comparative development and international relations.

The book examines various aspects of Africa's external economy by focusing on regional monetary arrangements and how they are affected by devaluation episodes.