Political economy

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.

The delegation of policy-competencies to the European Union has changed the context in which national actors form their interests and represent them.

This book provides detailed empirical analysis of countries in Asia to examine various dynamic models that incorporate the impact of technology and innovations on the industry evolution and overall economic growth.

Germany's public savings banks - Sparkassen - are a remarkable and puzzling phenomena.

This books provides an essential study of communicable diseases, by integrating the diagnosis, treatment and cure of communicable diseases in developing countries with the practical aspects of delivery of these services to the public.

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

This book defines the dilemmas related to the interface between legal regulations and planning practice in the spatial management system.

Today, by many accounts, China is the world's foremost purveyor of foreign aid and foreign investment to developing countries.

The Political Economy of Noncompliance explains why states fail to comply with international law.

This volume collects published papers and essays from widely scattered and inaccessible sources, some of which appeared for the first time when this book was originally published.

This is a book on the interrelatedness of planning and implementation, on how policymakers and planners can be more effective in solving problems of providing new homes and settlements for urban squatters in developing countries.

This book examines the critical themes of employment, growth and development to focus on challenges and opportunities, both old and new, in the contemporary world economy.

The global capitalism perspective is a unique research program focused on understanding relatively recent developments in worldwide social, economic, and political practices related to globalization.

This book discusses the case for socialism and the models of socialist planning.

The Decline of Trade Union Organisation (1987) considers the reasons behind the decline in trade union membership and discusses the prospects for recovery.

The main objective of this book has been to carry out research into the definition of industrial policy and its goals; to evaluate previously-introduced policies and instruments; and to identify the future challenges for and features of a modern EU industrial policy.

Reconciling regionalism and multilateralism is a challenge common to all branches of global economic governance.

First published in 1997, this collection of articles and essays analyses the political economy of reform and change in Eastern Europe during the years of Gorbachev's perestroika and the years immediately following the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

This book comprehensively investigates the position of China's working class between the 1980s and 2010s and considers the consequences of economic reforms in historical perspective.

This is the third and final volume of collected papers of A.

Product longevity is one of the cornerstones in the transition towards a more sustainable society and a key driver for the circular economy model.

This book discusses how Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is practiced in developed and developing economies.

Representing Europeans takes a fresh and quizzical look at the problems facing the European Union.

Despite the unprecedented growth of arbitration and other means of ADR in treaties and transnational contracts in recent years, there remains no clearly defined mechanism for control of the system.

European Trade Unionism (1973) examines the differences between the trade union movements of Europe, alongside noting their similarities.

First published in 1987.

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) has long been recognized as a major political and social thinker as well as historian, but his writings also contain a wealth of little-known insights into economic life and its connection to the rest of society.

Two prominent features of the current global economy are the world-wide recession brought about by the recent financial crisis, and the emergence of major economic powers from within the developing world such as Brazil, China and India.

This book constitutes a systematic and critical assessment of the nature, evolution, and prospects of the development partnership between the 79-member African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) group of states and the 28-member European Union (EU).

First published in 1999, this work of economic history explores the evolution of the single market and of economic and political integration in Europe since World War II.

The globalized economy depends on local and context-specific factors.

Can global justice be promoted by distributing money more equitably?

This book develops a socio-economic paradigm of the future in the context of digital transformation.

Social Accounting Systems: Essays on the State of the Art contains essays prepared during a workshop aimed at the development and promulgation of objectives for future work on social accounting, and the making of recommendations to achieve them by evaluating existing demographic and time-based accounting models.

The subject of this book is to reveal the formation process of circulation structure centering on vegetable wholesale market in western cities of China.

From small-town life to the world stage, Richard Lesher's inspiring tale is one of dogged determination.

How disputes over privacy and security have shaped the relationship between the European Union and the United States and what this means for the futureWe live in an interconnected world, where security problems like terrorism are spilling across borders, and globalized data networks and e-commerce platforms are reshaping the world economy.

Many important economic and political debates today refer to the nature and the role of the State: should governments intervene in the economy and interfere with the operation of markets?

This book provides the first comprehensive and critical examination of Maki's realist philosophy of economics.

Since the 1970s, the degrowth idea has been proposed by scholars, public intellectuals and activists as a powerful call to reject the obsession of neoliberal capitalism with economic growth, an obsession which continues apace despite the global ecological crisis and rising inequalities.

Processes of neoliberal globalization have put national trade unions under pressure as the transnational organization of production puts these labour movements in competition with each other.

This book shows how environmentalists have shaped the world's largest multilateral development lender, investment financier and political risk insurer to take up sustainable development.

Do high rates of economic growth create conditions favourable to their own maintenance?

This book provides the why, who, and how of international migration, explaining how it affects the jobs, wages, and welfare of people.

This edited volume addresses the issues of Iraqi Kurdistan's political economy with historically grounded, theoretically informed, and conceptually relevant scholarship that prioritizes comparative politics over international relations.