Political economy

Despite some diversification modern economics still attracts a great deal of criticism.

This book, the first of two volumes, comes to life through the transcription of captivating classroom lectures spanning several years, providing a comprehensive overview of the core topics within Austrian economics.

The purpose of this book is to introduce novice researchers to the tools of meta-analysis and meta-regression analysis and to summarize the state of the art for existing practitioners.

Originally published in 1994, The Economics of the Tropical Timber Trade provides a detailed analysis of the economic linkages between the trade and forest degradation.

This book, the third one of three volumes, focuses on data and the actions around data, like storage and processing.

This book tackles the disagreements that affect those looking to establish the macroeconomic policies needed to halve poverty over the next ten years.

Economics is essential in today's world, and yet mainstream economists are increasingly under criticism for not taking into account sufficiently many dimensions of real life, such as political and moral values, human development, spirituality, and people's widely shared aspiration to live more liberated lives.

The 1997 Asian Crisis principally affected Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Korea, as well as other East Asian countries heavily dependent on intra-regional trade.

With the adoption of a World Bank-sponsored structural adjustment programme in the mid-1980s, Guinea underwent a dramatic change in its economic and agricultural policies.

Standard histories of European integration emphasize the immediate aftermath of World War II as the moment when the seeds of the European Union were first sown.

Published in 1999, this text is influenced by two sets of theories, namely regulation theories and theories on social citizenship.

This book provides historical, theoretical, and biographical perspectives on two giants of contemporary economics, Jacques Rueff (1896-1978) and John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946).

This textbook is Volume 1 of a two-volume set on the axiomatics of economic design.

This book is a reality check of where energy will come from in the future.

This book summarizes the quantitative research methods related to the social benefits of high-speed rails.

China's telecommunications industry has seen revolutionary transformation and growth over the past three decades.

This 2002 edition of OECD in Figures contains key data on OECD countries, ranging from economic growth and employment to education and migration.

This book examines theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of middle powers with reference to South Korea's bilateral relations with Iran, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Iraq.

Sure to be controversial and spur debate, this book presents a powerful analysis of rural change to marketization and globalization.

The transformation of the Vietnamese economy from socialist planning to a market economy has led to Vietnam having one of the fastest economic growth rates in the world; and to also to Vietnam engaging much more with the international economy, joining the World Trade Organisation in 2006.

This edited volume delves into the intricate challenges that cities face in the midst of evolving socio-political, economic, and environmental landscapes.

Theory and practice of high-capacity infrastructure projects are the major focus in the development of countries in the Global South.

This collection brings together leading economists from around the world to explore key issues in economic analysis and the history of economic thought.

This book traces the interacting histories of the disciplines of ecology and economics, from their common origin in the ancient Greek concept of oikonomia, through their distinct encounters with energy physics, to the current obstruction of neoliberal economics to responses to the ecological and climate crisis of the so-called Anthropocene.

A thought-provoking challenge to our ideas about philanthropy, marking it as a deeply political activity that allows the wealthy to dictate more than we think.

Delays in approving genetically modified crops and foods in the European Union have led to a high profile trade conflict with the United States.

The last two and a half decades witnessed China's epoch-making economic growth and great social changes, which indicates the commence of China's national rejuvenation after a near two centuries-long stagnant or backward period.

Based on Party and state documents, Chinese newspaper reports and surveys, the Chinese and Western scholarly literature and the author's own fieldwork, this important study examines the private sector as a case study of the mechanics of reform in China, emphasizing the relationships among local officials, private businesses, and central policy.

The quickening pace of Iran's nuclear activities has produced an international sense of urgency.

This book offers a systematic treatment of the requirements of democratic legitimacy.

Is the pursuit of endless economic growth compatible with the deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions required to avoid the worst extremes of climate change?

Critically examining economic developments within the last sixty years, this book argues that a crisis in global social reproduction is altering existing understandings of work, labour and the economy.

This book introduces a new theoretical framework that examines Iran in relation to the theological concept of Anfal, a confiscatory regime seen in Iran since 1979 where public assets belong to the leader of Iran.

Various forms of decentralization are recently pursued in the world, including developing countries.

Originally published in 1986, after a period of global changes and financial crisis in the majority of industrialised countries, this book explores how Japan's economy seemed to maintain its success.

In addition to environmental change, the structure and trends of global politics and the economy are also changing as more countries join the ranks of the world's largest economies with their resource-intensive patterns.

This book is distinguished for its longitudinal, evidence-based policy analysis concerning the impacts of financial regulatory reforms post-crisis, thereby enriching the comprehension of policy impact mechanisms at a micro-level.

This book explores the concept of livable cities, where people enjoy living and being, and examines indicators of citizens' well-being in relation to the urban environment.

According to Stephen Rousseas, economics cannot be separated from politics.

This machine-generated volume, with chapter introductions by the human expert, of summaries of the existing studies furthers our understanding of the impact of digitalisation on spaces, their imaginations and representations.

Marxist discourse around automation has recently become waylaid with breathless techno-pessimist dystopias and fanciful imaginations of automated luxury communism.

In the global financial crisis, the need to develop a new kind of economy with a closer relation between ethics and economics has become an important challenge to the international society.

This book focuses on the non-military military means through which states intervene to balance the economic and military power of other states.

Demonstrates why claim clubs are perhaps the most important explanation for the origins of and change in property institutions during an important period in American history.

Originally published in 1987 this book argues that South African politics reflect the changing ways in which the region has been incorporated into the world economy.