Political economy

Revolutionary ideas on how to use markets to achieve fairness and prosperity for allMany blame today's economic inequality, stagnation, and political instability on the free market.

This book gathers selected papers from the 28th Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, held in Coventry, United Kingdom.

This book is a treatise against neoliberalism illuminated by the path of China.

Egypt has undergone significant economic liberalization under the auspices of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, USAID, and the European Commission.

Migration and its associated social practices and consequences have been studied within a multitude of academic disciplines and in the context of policies at local, national and regional level.

This book examines the effect of banking on the real economy and society, focusing on banking supervision as the decisive factor in steering banking activities and determining the social outcome of the game of finance.

This two-volume book addresses the economic transformation occurring in China at present.

This book provides a critical comprehensive summary of the coevolution of telecom markets, rules and public institutions over the last 25 years, focusing on the challenges that regulators and policy makers have been facing.

This book presents insights from several countries in Latin America and beyond on how to organize critical sectors, such as education, roads and water, to improve quality, access and affordability.

As the financial crisis continues to shake the economy it has begun to expose cracks in the ideology long used to justify neoliberal policies.

The Routledge Handbook of Energy in Asia presents a comprehensive review of the unprecedented growth of Asian energy over the past quarter of a century.

The dominant paradigm of the economy is based on homo economicus and its positivist, mechanistic and utilitarian approach.

This study maps out the major weaknesses of each fragile situation on the latest country performance assessment exercises.

This book argues that in recent decades an unrestrained vampire-capitalism has emerged, disengaged from the needs of citizens and workers, leading to a deepening of social class, generational, gender, educational and ethnic divisions.

This book is an extension of the author's last book (Crisis and Sustainability: The Delusion of Free Markets, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and sheds light on the evolution of the financial system after the 2007/08 crisis and on changes and developments in the regulatory framework that have taken place concurrently over the last ten years.

Marx's Capital has of course been widely read; this revival of a systematic study by Geoffrey Pilling, originally published in 1980, argues powerfully that, in order to understand Capital fully, it is necessary to have read and understood Hegel's Logic.

This book explores the connections between the processes of social structuring and sensibilities in contemporary cities.

A textbook that examines how societies reach decisions about the use and allocation of economic resourcesWhile economic research emphasizes the importance of governmental institutions for growth and progress, conventional public policy textbooks tend to focus on macroeconomic policies and on tax-and-spend decisions.

This book reviews taxing choices to protect the local and global environment and preserve and sustain natural resources.

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

This reissued work, originally published in 1985, is a uniquely broad and original survey of theories and beliefs about the growth, behaviour, performance and reform of the governments of modern Western democracies.

The book pays tribute to the celebrated economist Professor Suresh Tendulkar's contribution and scholarship to economics, economic-policy making, and economic reforms in India.

This book chronicles the intersection of chaplaincy, autopathography (illness narratives), and stigmatized illness through the observations and stories of a chaplain working at a facility for people with HIV and AIDS.

This book acts as a tribute to the legacy of the Canadian political economist Kari Polanyi Levitt, daughter of Karl Polanyi, one of the great economists of the 20th century.

There is a growing consensus in social sciences that there is a need for interdisciplinary research on the complexity of human behavior.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to the on-going Greek debt crisis.

Every company's ability to innovate depends on a process of experimentation whereby new products and services are created and existing ones improved.

This book revisits the economic relationship that ties the UK andIreland to the United States in the aftermath of the greatest economic crisisof the past fifty years.

How religious beliefs and practices can influence the wealth of nationsWhich countries grow faster economically-those with strong beliefs in heaven and hell or those with weak beliefs in them?

Mysteries of Wealth and Power UncoveredStep into the labyrinthine world of financial intrigue with Money Mysteries: Unveiling Hidden Agendas.

There are significant returns to be made from private equity, infrastructure, real estate and other illiquid investments, but a competitive strategy is essential for investment success and for meeting objectives.

This volume collects and combines research on regional integration projects beyond Europe and in the Global South across a wide range of policy issues.

Development Strategies, Identities, and Conflict in Asia explores the links between Asian governments' development strategies and the nature and dynamics of inter-group violence, analyzing variations in strategies and their impacts through broad comparative analyses, as well as case studies focused on eight countries.

Influenced most notably by Emile Durkheim and Zygmunt Bauman, Dawson outlines how this long neglected stream of socialist theory can help us more fully understand, and possibly move beyond, the problems of neoliberalism and our conceptions of political individualism.

Junmin Wan takes a two prong approach to analysing this pressure in Japan in his new volume Consumer Casualties.

Development researchers face many challenges in producing robust and persuasive analyses, often within a short time-frame.

This book explains some of the ways in which deteriorated socioeconomic conditions (inequality in particular) and institutional limitations (corruption, electoral exclusion, and a weak rule of law, among others) affect political stability in extremely unequal developing countries, like Mexico, where democracy is not yet fully consolidated.

Is Brazil ready to take its place among the world's leading powers?

How Tory Governments Fall is a landmark study of the forces that shape - and ultimately destroy - political power.

Este libro agrupa un conjunto ensayos de reflexión crítica en torno al pensamiento económico, las organizaciones y empresas híbridas como un cuarto sector de la economía, y el Acuerdo de Paz suscrito entre el gobierno colombiano y las FARC-EP.

International Partnership in Russia provides a unique insight into the joint ventures formed by international oil companies in Russia during the post-Soviet era.

This analysis of South Korea's development experience can present lessons for development in the 21st century.

This volume explores South Korea's successful transition from an underdeveloped, authoritarian country to a modern industrialized democracy.

This book moves beyond technical studies of pension systems by addressing the political economy of pension reform in different contexts.

The contributors highlight alternative imaginaries and social forces harnessing new organizational and political forms to counter and displace dominant strategies of rule.

As national leaders struggle to revive their economies, the people of Europe face a stark reality, which has created an opportunity for local leaders and citizen movers and shakers to rise to the occasion to spur revitalization from the bottom up.

A group of internationally recognised experts examine the recent trends of cross-border movements of people, goods and economic activity at fifteen major borders in the Greater Mekong Sub-region with the aim of predicting the long terms future for this region.

Based on extensive archival research, Beyond Market and Hierarchy reconstructs how Fan waged modern China's war of salts.

This book explores the means through which the garment industry contributes to industrialization, poverty reduction, empowerment of undereducated workers, in particular female laborers, and shared growth in contemporary low-income countries.