Political economy

The result of a four-year long comparative research study centered at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and financed by the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme, Social Pacts in Europe presents the first full-length theoretical and comparative empirical study of new social pacts in Europe.

A crucial assessment of how global and regional politics converge in the swath of Eurasia that includes South Asia, Central Asia, and the Middle East.

This book is about the relationship between different concepts of freedom and happiness, with implications for public policy.

In 2019, African heads of state and governments launched in fanfare the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), a historic agreement for economic transformation across the continent.

Training and Promotion in Nationalised Industry (1951) is the results of a study made into the personnel department and into certain aspects of personnel policy in the nationalised coal, electricity, gas, transport and airways industries in postwar Britain.

Bringing together a range of illustrative case studies coupled with fresh theoretical insights, this volume is one of the first to address the complexities and contradictions in the relationship between migration, time, and capitalism.

This book explores the various considerations for achieving an effective regulatory strategy to improve financial access and usage in Nigeria and beyond.

Almost all economists, whether classical, neoclassical or Marxist, have failed in their analyses of capitalism to consider the underpinning systems of accounting.

This book is a comprehensive examination of the Indian textile industry and the various determinants affecting its export performance, trends in labour, and capital productivity in the post-liberalization years.

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Europe's transformations is the unifying theme for this collective work that brings together leading academics and policy makers from across Europe and beyond.

This book aims to make the nature of input-output analysis in economics clearly accessible and, contrary to the opinion of many commentators, shows that this type of analysis can be compatible with the doctrines of neoclassical economics.

This book focuses on the construction of the economic policies of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and its institutions.

The Gambia Colony and Protectorate (1967) provides both a history of the colony and a wealth of valuable practical and statistical information about its establishment and running.

This volume examines China's government budgetary condition, analyses the new expansionary fiscal policy, and discusses policy options.

Looking at discrimination, education, environment, health and crime, this volume analyses United States Supreme Court rulings on several legal issues and proposed libertarian solutions to each problem.

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This book  finds that the R&D and technological innovation of a country is not a result, but a factor, of sustained economic growth.

This volume examines the interplay of society and economy against the backdrop of recent crises as well as technological, political and social change in Europe.

In the current period of globalization, Governing Interests presents new research on the impact of internationalization on the organization and representation of business interests through trade and employer associations.

Negotiations are central to the operation of the international system, found at the heart of every conflict and every act of cooperation.

How have US economic defence policies promoted its security since 1933?

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the most salient features of contemporary financial systems and clarifies the major strategic issues facing the development of digital finance.

For many observers, the European Union is mired in a deep crisis.

This book aims to present implications for China's urban development through international comparison of urbanization process from the perspective of spatio-temporal pattern, driving factors, rural-urban interactions, development trends and economic-ecological-social synergic development.

Engineering Expansion examines the U.

Since the beginning of the 21st century, China's energy diplomacy has been expanding rapidly and the country is searching for energy resources worldwide.

On the eve of the financial crisis, the USA was inhabited by almost 70 percent homeowning households, in comparison to about 45 percent in Germany.

In this 2002 book, the author describes how the Indian economy works and whether liberalisation has actually helped ordinary Indians.

Envisioning a different mode of economic relations requires a rethinking of the classical frames of references we commonly take for granted.

This volume reproduces some important contributions to regional and urban economics made by Noboru Sakashita - one of the lead- ing scholars in this field.

This book is intended as a major interdisciplinary contribution to the study of Nietzsche's thought in particular, and the political right more generally.

Public goods are typically defined only in reference to the good itself but, as this book argues, the public goods can be better understood if contextual variables are incorporated.

Rooted in an international political economy theoretical framework, this book provides unique insights into the global forces and local responses that are shaping education systems in Central America and the Latin Caribbean (CALC).

Sandwiched between the US - the sole superpower at the turn of the millennium - and China as the expected next superpower, Europe is rarely discussed as a potential dealer of the 21st century.

First published in 1980, Public Spending Decisions attempts to answer some important questions regarding public spending and its relationship with economic and financial stringency.

This book is the concise story of NATO.

This book brings together some of the world's leading experts to present an interdisciplinary, critical perspective on current issues surrounding the economics of the firms.

India's foreign policy is based on the principle of "e;Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam"e;-the world is one family.

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

Vasco da Gama and His Successors (1970) looks at a range of Portuguese explorers of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the most important being Vasco da Gama, whose first voyage to India ushered in a period of European conquest and empire, and established direct and permanent contact between Europe and the Far East.

Feminist political economy is essential to understanding the power relations and hierarchies that shape and sustain contemporary capitalism.

Saudi Arabia, the West and the Security of the Gulf (1986) considers the geopolitical environment of the Arab Gulf and the nature and threats to Western interests in the region.

The rise of China and India has completely changed the world economy, moving it towards disequilibrium.