Political economy

This unique book provides a platform for resilience research, combining knowledge from various domains, such as genetics, primatology, archeology, geography, physical anthropology, cultural anthropology, medicine, ecology, psychology, risk management and systems science, in order to examine specific concepts.

How the creation of the Nobel Prize in Economics changed the economics profession, Sweden, and the worldEconomic theory may be speculative, but its impact is powerful and real.

The main object of this book is to explain some of the mechanisms of integration and secession among regions from the point of view of game theory.

Following the 2007-2009 financial and economic crises, there has been an unprecedented demand among economics students for an alternative approach, which offers a historical, institutional and multidisciplinary treatment of the discipline.

This books analyses how transnational gas markets have evolved and impacted on EU-Russia energy relations.

In the wake of the Greek crisis, the future of the EU is the subject of a great deal of debate.

This textbook presents all major topics in international monetary theory, foreign exchange markets, international financial management and investment analysis.

Using 50 questions and answers, this book explains the debt impasse for developing countries in a simple but precise manner.

A timely overview of the energy landscape in South Africa (RSA) is presented in this Springerbrief.

This is the first English translation of Benedetto Cotrugli's The Book of the Art of Trade, a lively account of the life of a Mediterranean merchant in the Early Renaissance, written in 1458.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the financial integration of emerging economies through an in-depth analysis of the international monetary system, how it impacts capital flows and exchange rates, and its implications for policy making.

This book explores how leading news media responded to the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath, showing how journalists regularly framed discussions about post-crisis regulatory reform in ways that reinforced the same market liberal policy paradigm that had ushered in the crisis.

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.

This book places economic debates in their historical context and outlines how economic ideas have influenced swings in policy.

The contributors to this edited collection argue that a flexible Job Guarantee program able to react to an economy's fluctuating need for work would stabilize the labor standard, the value of employment in relation to money.

Iain McLean reexamines the radical legacy of AdamSmith, arguing that Smith was a radical egalitarian and that his work supported all three of the slogans of the French Revolution: liberty, equality, and fraternity.

This book captures the critical role of taxation in shaping government responsiveness and accountability in developing countries.

This book reviews Operations Research theory, applications and practice in seven major areas of airline planning and operations.

In this book leading economists evaluate how the world can best spend money to combat the world''s biggest problems.

This book makes an innovative link between classical liberalism and questions of international economic order.

This book examines the causes and consequences of social standards in US and EU preferential trade agreements (PTAs).

Economic Methodology, History and Pluralism: Expanding Economic Thought to Meet Contemporary Challenges pays tribute to Emeritus Professor Sheila Dow (University of Stirling, Scotland).

Central Asian Survey has remained as the premier world-leading peer-reviewed journal for Central Asian studies for four decades.

This book explores how neoliberalism and austerity have affected older people living within a deindustrialised town, utilising a Foucauldian approach and an ethnographic methodology.

This book explains why the Korean welfare state is underdeveloped despite successful industrialization, democratization, a militant labor movement, and a centralized meritocracy.

International Development is a comprehensive inquiry into the field of socio-economic development founded on an understanding that economic advancement involves transformation of society.

The book constructs the Synergy Theory, a new theory of economic growth and calculation methodology.

Contemporary capitalism is characterized by periods of vigorous economic growth and periods of slow or even negative growth.

Das Buch bietet eine Einführung in die empirische Überprüfung mehrdimensionaler kausaler Erklärungen, ihre Abbildung als Kausalmodelle und die notwendigen Schritte zu ihrer Formalisierung.

This book explores the development of economic thought in Sweden through some of the people who shaped it.

This edited volume analyses the channels through which EU membership contributed to the convergence process of member countries in the Baltics, Central-Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.

In the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008, governments around the developed world coordinated policy moves to stimulate economic activity and avert a depression.

Since the early 1980s, the U.

Economics has often been described as "e;the dismal science,"e; with TV and movies reinforcing this description.

Humanity and Nature in Economic Thought: Searching for the Organic Origins of the Economy argues that organic elements seen as incompatible with rational homo economicus have been left out of, or downplayed in, mainstream histories of economic thought.

This book aims to explain and explore the distribution mechanism adopted by China, which prioritizes distribution according to performance while taking factors of production into consideration.

This book offers a service science perspective on platform orchestration and on collaborative consumption, providing an overview of research topics related to service dominant logic in multi-sided markets.

From the Foundations in Global Studies series, this text offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to the study of the social and cultural aspects of global studies.

This book addresses a range of issues relating to the nature and implications of growth of India's services sector, including factors contributing to the rise of services, output measurement and heterogeneity, growth of services exports, and employment in services sectors.

Energy policies play a pivotal part in helping countries achieve their sustainable development goals.

A new lens on development is changing the world of international aid.