Political economy

The war in Ukraine is a major humanitarian crisis with associated economic shocks that threaten the post-pandemic recovery.

Destructive conflicts have thwarted growth and development in South Asia for more than half a century.

Liam Clegg provides an innovative reading of where power lies in the institutions' concessional lending operations, drawing its focus on shareholders and stakeholders from staffs' own understandings of their operational environments.

This study patterns national identity over a number of important historical milestones and brings the debates over Europe up-to-date with an analysis of recent happenings including the referendum on Scottish independence, the global economic crisis and the current crisis in Syria.

The post 2000 period for India has been quite eventful for Indian economy.

This collection reflects on the international political economy of media and the valuable lessons to be learned from the media reforms currently taking place across South America.

Alfred Marshall, Principles of Economics (1890) - Founder of Modern (Neo-classical) Economics.

Monique Taylor analyses the policy rationale and institutional underpinnings of China's state-led or neomercantilist oil strategy, and its development, set against the wider context of economic transformation as the country transitions from a centrally planned to market economy.

Philippe Zittoun analyses the public policymaking process focusing on how governments relentlessly develop proposals to change public policy to address insoluble problems.

Understanding the American stock market boom and bust of the 1920s is vital for formulating policies to combat the potentially deleterious effects of busts on the economy.

Eirikur Bergmann explains the exceptional case of Iceland's fantastical boom, bust and rapid recovery after the Crash of 2008 and explores the lessons for the wider EU crisis and for over-reaching economies that over-rely on financial markets.

This report outlines nontariff barriers to trade between BISMSTEC subregion countries and shows how a structured approach centered on boosting compliance, harnessing technology, and improving infrastructure can bolster intraregional trade.

Addressing an under-studied aspect of U.

This book offers a new critical perspective on emerging and alternative 'spaces' for emancipation within lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities.

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The British Worker Question (1986) examines the productivity of British workers, drawing upon a wide range of management, trade union and other sources, and spanning the traditional preserves of several other areas and disciplines - economic history, industrial administration, industrial relations and Marxism.

The first English collection of translated essays, by Chinese literary scholars, writers, and critics, this volume focuses on the legacy of socialist culture and post-socialist phenomena within the context of capitalist globalization.

Spain is at the epicentre of a crisis that threatens the future of the Eurozone.

This book introduces embodied innovations into the circle of already recognised causes of economic crises.

This volume examines current and previous environmental policies, and suggests alternative strategies for the future.

Recent work on rent and rentierism has offered a distinctive and fresh approach to understanding and explaining contemporary capitalism.

Korea's twin transitions - agrarian to industrial and industrial to post-industrial - transformed the country's political economy.

Few countries have achieved social development, which requires simultaneously securing market and social incorporation (good jobs and access to social services).

Was the victory of Francois Hollande, the Socialist challenger to Nicolas Sarkozy, inevitable in the 2012 French Presidential elections?

By exploring the concepts of 'crisis' and 'critique', this study offers a thought-provoking re-examination of the political and social thought of Cornelius Castoriadis in light of the current world crisis and with regard to his radical critique of both the traditional Left and contemporary capitalist societies.

How do bank supervisors strike a balance between market self-regulation and pro-active regulatory intervention?

La historia que los estadounidenses asumen como propia es convincente: Estados Unidos es una fuerza positiva en el mundo, refugio para prosperar y defensor incondicional de la democracia y los derechos humanos.

Drawing evidence from North and South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, the contributors illustrate that even within the common framework of economic globalization, the ways in which the interests of state actors and the agency of migrants intersects continuously shapes and reshapes both home and destination societies.

The contributors investigate processes of international conflict transformation and peaceful cooperation.

Capitalism, the State and Industrial Relations (1982) examines the many different forms of state intervention in industrial relations in Britain, among them being corporatism, liberalism, paternalism and pluralism.

Class, consciousness and the end of capitalism.

In this volume, the USA is treated as a system that has been stress-tested by four unique events: the War on Terror, Hurricane Katrina, the Financial Meltdown that led to the Great Recession and the Giant Oil Spill.

This book discusses the links between population growth, migration and the transport system in China.

Using an inter-disciplinary and global approach this book examines the different roles gold played in the international economy from the late 19th century until today.

Globalization of production has created opportunities and challenges for developing country producers and workers.

This volume studies the relation between globalization and inequalities in emerging societies by linking Area and Global Studies, aiming at a new theory of inequality beyond the nation state and beyond Eurocentrism.

Politicians, business leaders and citizens look with hope to the Latin American middle class for political stability and purchasing power, but the economic position of the middle class remains vulnerable.

The Northern Sea Route and the Economy of the Soviet North (1956) evaluates the commercial value of the route on the basis of a detailed study of the economy of the Soviet North.

The authors uncover the roots of the eurozone crisis, focusing on how this can be solved against the backdrop of a very deep financial and economic crisis and its strong social impact.

This definitive work mixes case law, public policy, economic strategy, and examines the wide range of issues facing efforts to improve the American economy, to illustrate how economic growth is driven through strong public-private partnerships, and how successful growth strategies from the state and local level operate to grow jobs.

This book examines China's trade insertion strategy in Latin America.

British monetary policy was reactivated in 1951 when short-term interest rates were increased for the first time in two decades.

The book examines the problems that Nixon faced during his presidential term, focusing on economics but the role of politics is also highlighted.

Financial statecraft' goes beyond sanctions against rogue states.

The remarkably successful gold standard before 1914 was the first international monetary regime.

The Soviet Economy (1983) examines the long-term prospective growth of the USSR's economy.

According to Stephen Rousseas, economics cannot be separated from politics.

On Skidelsky's Keynes and Other Essays is a collection of essays, biographies, review articles and tributes, focusing on the lives and times of the Cambridge School of Economists, and the immense contribution that these thinkers, including the author, made to the discipline.

Energy Reviews: Unified Gas Supply System of the USSR (1985) explores some important aspects of the development and operation of the unified gas system of the Soviet Union.

The Northern Sea Route and the Economy of the Soviet North (1956) evaluates the commercial value of the route on the basis of a detailed study of the economy of the Soviet North.