Political economy

Together with efforts to control the arms race, commercial issues were a central feature of relations between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1970s.

China's workers have been transformed by the transition to capitalism.

The Wisdom of the Commons examines the history and philosophy of civic education as the essential political part of liberal education.

It may seem surprising that the economic choices we make in society are often determined by ideas rather than scientific evidence or financial resources.

The idea for this volume came from the enigma that some Central and Eastern European (CEE) European Union (EU) member states have been keen to join the Eurozone while others have shown persistent reluctance.

Investment is the engine of growth.

The work of Karl Polanyi has become a central reference point for scholars in a variety of traditions and disciplines within the social sciences, including international relations, international political economy, economic sociology and economic anthropology.

This book focuses on the implementation of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a multi-billion-dollar infrastructure development project intended to connect Asia with Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

China has achieved alarming success in accelerating the economic growth rate since it started economic reform about 16 years ago.

This book shows the impact of globalization on Southeast Asia, which over a few decades has evolved from a loose set of war-torn ex-colonies to being a centre of global manufacturing.

Framed by critical globalisation theory and David Harvey's 'co-revolutionary moments' as a theory of social change, this book brings together a multi-disciplinary team of researchers to empirically analyse how socialism is being constructed in contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean, and beyond.

Jonathan Ping's volume establishes a unifying theory for the concept of middle power (MP).

'Ann and Robert Seidman have written an invaluabe theoretical (and practical) guide for those concerned with the role of the state in development.

The financial crisis that began in 2008 is a stark demonstration that we as a nation take great risks when we build too much of our economy on a base that does not create real value.

For over a decade, the world has experienced an accelerating erosion of a language that took hundreds of years to emerge.

This book delves into the intricate dynamics between economic elites and the political party system in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, particularly during their democratization phases in the twentieth century.

Lobbying is not only the subject of ongoing, heated debates in politics and the public sphere but has also been a focus of the social sciences for decades.

This book covers many aspects of innovation theory, evolutionary economics, economic geography, and simulation models.

This title was first published in 1969.

This book examines China's response to the Asian financial crisis of 1997, both in its immediate aftermath and in the years since.

This book investigates the causes of inequalities that have developed in the European Union, analyzes their social and economic consequences, and assesses the political measures taken to address these issues - also on the basis of public survey results.

The financial crash of 2007-2008 and the subsequent global economic crisis have raised questions about the viability of capitalism and the desirability of alternative types of economic system.

This Element analyses the value of effective state institutions before introducing democracy.

This book is intended as a philosophical introduction to geo-ontologies, in response to their increasing diffusion within the contemporary debate, where philosophy plays a fundamental, though still unexplored, role.

Governments all round the world are facing problems with their public finances.

This book is a re-interpretation of labour market policy models from a gender perspective, providing an analysis of within-gender inequality and how these policies affect inequality.

The relationship between innovation, networks and localities is of central concern for many nations.

This book seeks to explore a fundamental obscurity in electoral behavior literature: while socioeconomic status is typically robustly and positively associated with a higher propensity for voting worldwide, the relationship in Africa is either negative or non-existent.

This book corrects an imbalance in Canadian political literature through offering a conservative account of Canadian political thought.

This book is a volume of essays celebrating the life and work of Yoshiro Higano, professor of Environmental Policy, Doctoral Program in Sustainable Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan.

This timely, comprehensive and interdisciplinary volume advances an original argument about the complex roots and multiple politics of globality.

This book assesses South America's most ambitious attempt at economic integration, Mercosur.

In 1878 Karl Marx developed the reproduction schema: his model of how total capital is produced and reproduced.

This early work by Richard T.

From bank bailouts to austerity, Europe's and Ireland's response to the economic crisis has been engineered specifically to shift the burden of paying for the crisis onto ordinary citizens while investors, financiers, bankers and the privileged are protected.

This single-volume comprehensive compilation of documents integrates institutional labour history (movements and trade unions) with aspects of social and cultural history, as well as charting changes in trade union and managerial practices, and integrating the economics and politics of labour history.

This book explores the advantages of a linear model of planning in reducing regional inequalities.

Central economic planning is often associated with failed state socialism, and modern capitalism celebrated as its antithesis.

For decades, the idea that more education will lead to greater individual and national prosperity has been a cornerstone of developed economies.

Telecommunications are increasingly recognized as a key component in the infrastructure of economic development.

The book provides the first detailed account of the complex geographical dynamics restructuring China's manufacturing industries from the evolutionary economic geography perspective.

Reveals the deep roots of the UK''s lack of resilience when COVID-19 hit and sets out an ambitious manifesto for change.

This Palgrave Pivot uses Marxian economic categories and analysis to explore the deeper causes of the 2008 global economic crisis, what the crisis represents for capitalism, and why fiscal and monetary policies pursued in its wake have failed to rejuvenate economies.

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