Political economy

Japan has been one of the most important international sponsors of human security, yet the concept has hitherto not been considered relevant to the Japanese domestic context.

Despite deep divisions on the issue of immigration, this book shows that immigration promotes economic innovation, expands the job market, and contributes to diversity and creativity in the United States.

By gathering institutional details on funding and health research systems in a comparative perspective, Structure and Dynamics of Health Research and Public Funding offers, for the first time, a comprehensive and systematic view of the options and restrictions to which scientists, clinicians and administrators are subject when seeking to establish a productive health research enterprise.

This book provides an insightful guide to the economic challenges currently defining Europe.

Examining India-America relations between 1942-62, this book reconsiders the role of America in shaping the imagination of post-colonial India.

Thomas Malthus identified a crucial tension at the heart of a market economy: While an accumulation of wealth is necessary to provide the capital investment needed to generate growth, too much accumulation will cause planned saving to exceed profitable investment, which will result in secular stagnation, a condition of low growth and underemployment of resources.

This book presents an overview of the economics and politics implemented in the European Union and especially the Eurozone during the crisis of 2008-2012.

This book is original in focusing on critical political economy, identifying its character and reviewing its continuing legacy.

Since 2010, the debt and bank crises in the European area have presented the greatest challenge to the EU since its foundation.

Germany's ability to support its war machine financially has long puzzled scholars.

From creeping capitalism to abortion to government corruption, these three books shed light on controversial topics that are too often left in the dark.

This book proposes a new approach to economics, management and organization that should help in making economic organization 'wise', 'innovative' and 'robust' in an uncertain and risky world.

This volume unravels the politics surrounding behind China's hegemonic project of heritage tourism development in Lijiang.

Gibson explains how subnational authoritarianism is part of democratic politics and strategic interactions between local authoritarians and national democratic leaders.

This work examines the premise of liberal economic principles and their promise of distributive advantages to all free market participants.

Based on new phenomena appearing in many emerging economies, this book presents a theoretical study on the economic influences of labor transfer from several aspects.

Moving Difference demonstrates how differences between migrants who share the same nationality travel with them and can impact on every aspect of their 'mobile lives'.

Providing a comprehensive and authoritative analyses of the impact of the Eurozone crisis on the European social dimension since 2010 - understood as the European Union's (EU) competence in employment and social policy - this book focusses on developments in five policy areas (employment, poverty and social exclusion, pensions, wages and healthcare), all of which form part of the EU's economic reform strategy, Europe 2020.

Since 1994 the European Commission has been supporting activities under the Environment and Climate programme of research and technological de- velopment, with the aim of developing cost-effective applications of satellite Earth observation (EO) for both environmental monitoring and research.

This book explores the significant impact of FinTech on the financial industry and how it could be used to promote legitimate development in the global economy.

This innovative handbook provides a comprehensive, and truly global, overview of the main approaches and themes within law and society scholarship or social-legal studies.

This book investigates how African countries respond to socioeconomic shocks, drawing out lessons to help to inform future policy and development efforts.

This book explores multifaceted dimensions of economic crisis management including strategies and trends post-crisis.

Zahid Shahab Ahmed evaluates the progress of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC).

This book brings together contributions from leading scholars around the world on the most relevant and pressing economic themes surrounding the UK-EU relationship.

The crisis of distribution is one of the longest standing and complicated issues facing human society.

Infrastructure and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa analyzes the extent to which, how, and how fast the infrastructure needs of the poor have been met in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The Political Economy of Regionalism: The Case of Southern Africa challenges prevailing wisdom, showing how ruling political elites and 'big business' join forces with certain external actors in order to promote market integration and economic globalization, boost regimes, and to satisfy group-specific and even personal interests.

This book examines the increasingly international division of labour, which promotes transnational integration.

Most public policy analysis books currently on the market are US-centric and focused on quantitative analysis, while comparative public policy textbooks are oriented around countries and specific policy processes.

As one of the most pioneering development economists, Hans Singer has stimulated many of the ideas that have engaged the attention of the world community for several decades.

This book is unique and original, constituting a pioneering study in the use of spatial economics and related analytical approaches to Brazil's Cerrado agricultural development and the formation of agro-industrial value chains.

The inside story of the political collpase of the Soviet Union is far better understood than the course of economic and social disintegration.

This two-volume book provides an important overview to EU economic and policy issues related to the development of the bioeconomy.

Since the start of the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, research on central banking has gained momentum due to unusual levels of central bank activism and unconventional monetary policy measures in many countries.

Upon its initial publication in 1973 this was the first textbook to present a unified view and comprehensive treatment of the economic development of Europe from a continental rather than a British perspective.

This volume analyzes ecological and socio-economic risks due to climate change in the Himalayan mountain ecosystems, communities, and proposes adaptation strategies and sustainability practices.

Lobbying has long been part of the political landscape.

Explores four types of corruption and the implications for reform, emphasizing practical ways to check abuses of wealth and power.

New Zealand often plays leading roles in implementing progressive ideas.

On the Shoulders of Grandmothers is a global ethnography of Ukrainian transnational migration.

This book examines the global regulation of biodiversity politics through the UN UNConvention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the WTO and other international treaties.

The European Coal and Steel Community has been called "e;a new structure in the marches between internal and international law.

The text is technically precise but at the same time accessible, and is carried forward by numerous examples.