Political economy

An innovative account of how thousands of acts of parliament sought to improve economic activity during the early industrial revolution.

This volume broadens the scope of 'comparative capitalism' within the Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) tradition.

Heinz Kurz is recognised internationally as a leading economic theorist and a foremost historian of economic thought.

This book follows on from the author's volume Russian Economic Development and although it encompasses some of the same material it charts the history and progress of the Soviet economy down to the efforts at reconstruction after The Second World War.

An accessible introduction to the processes which shape politics and economics in contemporary Turkey.

An analysis of the repeated existential crises affecting the resilience of the European Union in the twenty-first century.

The purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the work of Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850), one of the towering intellectual figures of nineteenth century France.

This book, first published in 1993, closely examines the United States government's policy toward the Latin American debt crisis in the years 1982 to 1985.

Under what conditions does the internal cohesiveness of the European Union determine its external effectiveness on the world stage?

What happened to economic policy during the first five years of Mrs Thatcher's government?

The authors argue that citizens are willing and able to contribute towards environmental protection.

Sure to be controversial and spur debate, this book presents a powerful analysis of rural change to marketization and globalization.

Oil revenues have made Libya rich since 1961, when oil exports began.

Bringing together the work of sixteen international Japan specialists and scholars, this book analyzes Japan's culture and history to reflect on the critical policy decisions and national commitments required for the country to continue to succeed.

How have immigration and diversity shaped urban life and local governance?

Written as a book for undergraduate students as well as scholars, Surviving Dictatorship is a work of visual sociology and oral history, and a case study that communicates the lived experience of poverty, repression, and resistance in an authoritarian society: Pinochet's Chile.

This book provides an up-to-date interdisciplinary critique of the new economic orthodoxy as represented by the Washington Consensus.

The liberal representative model of democracy is in a crisis.

In the past two decades, Marxism has enjoyed a revitalization as a research program and a growth in its audience.

This book reports the authors' research on one of the most sophisticated general equilibrium models designed for tax policy analysis.

The economic status of young people has declined significantly over the past two decades, despite a variety of programs designed to aid new workers in the transition from the classroom to the job market.

The cotton processing industry is a distinct sector of China's rural economy which recently underwent a momentous transition from plan to market.

Households and Financialization in Europe develops a processual, relational and critical transdisciplinary approach to household financialization in Europe, utilizing a range of national and local case studies.

Other books exist that warn of the dangers of empire and war.

Abadeer incorporates informal norms such as religion, mores, myths, taboos, codes-of-conduct, customary laws, and traditions, into the structure of formal rules (e.

Even before the global economic crisis of 2007-2009, the logic of discipline was under assault.

Employing a multiscalar approach to migration outcomes, spanning individual households, local communities, the macroeconomy and global patterns of capital accumulation, this book demonstrates how cumulatively causal processes at structural, institutional and agency levels have forged a precariously remittance-dependent economy in Sri Lanka.

The capitalist mode of destruction traces contemporary capitalism's economic, ecological and democratic crises.

This book examines the resurgence of debt crises in Africa following the Covid-19 pandemic.

Crossing Borders examines how translocal, transnational, and internal borders of various kinds distribute uneven capabilities for moving, dwelling, and circulating.

Written by leading authorities from Europe, the Americas and Asia, this path-breaking work develops an innovative and original theorization of global political economy.

This volume contains a series of 21 papers presented at the International Conference of Economists, held at the University of Zagreb, Yugoslavia.

This book assesses the performance of Indian industries from the perspectives of trade, investment, policy, and development incentives.

This book offers a historically sweeping yet detailed view of world-systemic migration as a racialized process.

This book connects political economy perspectives with scenario planning for mapping out future trajectories of digital ecosystems.

This book covers a wide variety of aspects of transition in Central and Southeast Europe and the CIS, including the socialist legacy, privatization and growth, skills, and banking reforms.

First published in 1946, A Dictionary of International Affairs is virtually an encyclopaedia.

Since becoming formally established with an international academic society in the late 1980s, ecological economics has advanced understanding of the interactions between social and biophysical reality.

This sequel to "e;Man and the Biosphere"e; is an account of the origins and development of a cultural, social energetic and systems theoretical contribution to critical Marxism.

The analytical approach of standard health economics has so far failed to sufficiently account for the nature of care.

Mainstream economists explain the Federal Reserve's behavior over its one hundred years of existence as (usually failed) attempts to stabilize the economy on a non-inflationary growth path.

Economic growth is generally regarded by governments and most ordinary people as a panacea for all problems, including issues caused by the COVID pandemic.

This book presents a comprehensive history of the political economy of Cuba from 1492 to the present day.

This edited book focuses on recent developments in Dynamic Network Modeling, including aspects of route guidance and traffic control as they relate to transportation systems and other complex infrastructure networks.

This volume provides an analytical and facts-based overview on the progress achieved in water security in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region over during the last decade, and its links to regional development, food security and human well-being.

European Movement and the Council of Europe (1949) begins with a Foreword by Winston Churchill, in which he states that his 'counsel to Europe can be given in a single word: "e;Unite!

This book studies the transition from analog to digital TV in the US and Britain.

The Caspian Sea region has hitherto largely been investigated from a `New Great Game' perspective that depicts the region as a geopolitical battle-ground between regional and external great powers, where tensions have been exacerbated by the sea's rich natural resources, strategic location, and legal disagreements over its status.