Political economy

This book presents a systematic analysis of challenges in the field of Geographical Information Systems and Science, geographical analysis, and regional science for Ontario, one of the fastest-changing provinces in Canada and one of North America's largest economic hubs.

This Element analyzes how frictions in lobbying impact policy-making, challenging the pluralistic view of government from political science.

Food consumption and nutrition are historically among the most characteristic features of inequality in living standards driven by socioeconomic, gender, generational and geographical reasons.

This book explores the distortion of communication online, centered around the theory that the economic policy model of online media is primarily based on the systematic manufacture of dissent.

Traditionally economic anthropology has been studied by sociologists, anthropologists, and philosophers seeking to highlight the social foundations of economic action.

Food consumption and nutrition are historically among the most characteristic features of inequality in living standards driven by socioeconomic, gender, generational and geographical reasons.

Traditionally economic anthropology has been studied by sociologists, anthropologists, and philosophers seeking to highlight the social foundations of economic action.

This book explores the distortion of communication online, centered around the theory that the economic policy model of online media is primarily based on the systematic manufacture of dissent.

Examines how emotions caused by economic crises inflame racial, ethnic, and regional tensions, consequently promoting populism, extremism, and conspiracy theories.

Banks have taken a backseat since the global financial crisis over a decade ago.

This book features a collection of novel and original contributions to the study of urban sustainability from a human health perspective in the light of the current corona pandemic and the challenge of cities to offer inclusive, appealing, and healthy infrastructures.

This book explores the causes of rising income inequality within industrialised, developing, and emerging economies.

This volume is the continuation of our research on economic and developmental policy-making in the global semi-periphery in the post-crisis cycle (see our two recently published volumes titled 'Market-Liberalism and Economic Patriotism in Capitalist Systems' edited by Gerocs and Szanyi, 2019, Palgrave Macmillan and 'The Post-Crisis Developmental State - Perspectives from the Global Periphery' edited by Gerocs and Ricz, 2021).

Emergent Africa (1967) expertly compresses the story of European penetration into the Africa of 1800.

Exceeding $2 trillion annually, health care spending in the United States is growing significantly faster than the national economy.

As the baby boom begins to withdraw from the labor force, ensuring a secure retirement income becomes an increasingly important issue, the number of people over age 65 is expected to double by 2030.

Aviation performance is an important cog in modern globalized economies, which demand flexibility, mobility, efficiency, and dependability.

A Brookings Institution Press and the Center for the New Economy publicationA non-incorporated territory of the United States, Puerto Rico operates under U.

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) provides academic and business economists, government officials, and members of the financial and business communities with timely research on current economic issues.

Sovereign debt crises are a little like the weather: One can get ready to endure them and maybe take some steps to lessen their impact, but so far it hasn't been possible to prevent them.

This latest study in the Brookings series on U.

One of the most dramatic and least studied policy changes of the past twenty years is the increased use of indexingautomatic adjustments for inflationin federal programs.

A Brookings Institution Press and Asian Development Bank Institute publicationThe global financial crisis has led to a sweeping reevaluation of financial market regulation and macroeconomic policies.

The retirement of the baby boom generation will create spiraling costs for health care and pension programs.

The success of nearly all public- and private-sector policies hinges on the behavior of individuals, groups, and organizations.

The United States is standing at a critical juncture in its fiscal outlook.

In The Pursuit of Happiness, the latest addition to the Brookings FOCUS series, Carol Graham explores what we know about the determinants of happiness, across and within countries at different stages of development.

A Brookings Institution Press and the Center for the New Economy publicationAs a territory of the United States, Puerto Rico enjoys the benefits of key U.

It has been nearly a half century since President Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty.

Daily headlines warn American workers that their retirement years may be far from golden.

Broad-based and inclusive financial systems significantly raise growth, alleviate poverty, and expand economic opportunity.

The success of nearly all public- and private-sector policies hinges on the behavior of individuals, groups, and organizations.

Efforts to promote work have been the centerpiece of welfare reform over the past ten years.

A Brookings Institution Press and Asian Development Bank InstituteAlthough emerging economies as a group performed well during the global recession, weathering the recession better than advanced economies, there were sharp differences among them and across regions.

A how-to guide for assessing the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and povertyInequality has emerged in recent years as a major topic of economic and political discussion, but it is often unclear whether governments can or should do something about it, and if so, what that something might be.

In 1964 President Lyndon Johnson traveled to Kentucky's Martin County to declare war on poverty.

The euro crisis, Japan's sluggish economy, and partisan disagreements in the United States about the role of government all have at least one thing in common: worries about high levels of public debt.

"e;My goal is to show the reader that the Soviet political and economic system was unstable by its very nature.

An increasingly popular view holds that institutions--in particular, the rule of law--are the keys to unlocking the developing world's full growth potential.

The dilemma felt by Arab youth was captured in Tunisia by the selfimmolation in 2010 of Mohamed Bouazizi, who was frustrated by restrictions on his small street-vending business.

Since he was first elected in 1999, Venezuelan President Hugo Chvez Fras has reshaped a frail but nonetheless pluralistic democracy into a semi-authoritarian regimean outcome achieved with spectacularly high oil income and widespread electoral support.

Research on social entrepreneurship is finally catching up to its rapidly growing potential.

A Brookings Institution Press and Urban Institute publicationFew people realize that one of the nation's largest health programs runs through the tax system.

Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects, the second in a series, sets out to inform policymakers, practitioners, and scholars about the effectiveness of select policy approaches, reforms, and experiments in addressing key social and economic problems facing cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas.

A Brookings Institution Press and World Bank Group publicationThroughout the 1990s, numerous financial crises rocked the world financial sector.

The federal budget impacts American policies both at home and abroad, and recent concern over the exploding budgetary deficit has experts calling our nation's policies "e;"e;unsustainable"e;"e; and "e;"e;system-dooming.

Improving the economic performance of Arab countries is now more critical than ever.

Este trabajo se centra en el período, de casi 100 años de duración, que se inicia con el fin de la era del guano.

 Las economías capitalistas de mercado contemporáneas afrontan dos grandes problemas al iniciarse el presente siglo: la insatisfacción creciente de las familias en sociedades de la abundancia, la que se viene dando en paralelo a la destrucción medioambiental y a la exagerada explotación de nuestro planeta finito.