Political economy

This contributed volume presents the outcomes of multidisciplinary studies on the problem of sustainable economic development.

The Persian Gulf 2018 is sixth in the series published by MEI@ND and examines India's bilateral relations with the countries along the Persian Gulf, namely, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Yemen.

This book presents a critical reassessment of theories of property rights, in response to conflicts and competition between different groups, and the state.

This book introduces recent developments in both theoretical and empirical analyses of local public economics.

This book explains how to bring about institutional change and foster new institutional structures (institution building) by resolving power inequities in a rural ecosystem in India, and advocates the identification of an appropriate institutional champion to make this happen.

This book provides a rare integrative interpretation of government-enterprise relations in China, offering readers a comprehensive understanding of the topic.

This book assesses China's reputation as a global clean energy champion, and applies institutional and public policy theories to explain how the country has achieved so much and why there continue to be so many unintended consequences and constraints to progress.

This book explores how better governance can help Africa to achieve structural transformation (understood to be the reallocation of factors of production across and within sectors to better support inclusive development), which history has shown to be key to sustained, inclusive growth.

This book examines various ideational, attitudinal and intellectual impasses that are becoming glaringly apparent on several fronts, and which have held back India's balanced, steady and uniform development and transformation post-independence.

This book focuses on the competitive situation and policy outlook of China's provincial economy in the 13th five-year period.

This book addresses energy research from four distinct International Political Economy perspectives: energy security, governance, legal and developmental areas.

This volume brings together three areas of interest: the rule-based approach, the entrepreneur, and Japan as an empirical application.

This book, combining history and reality, theory and practice,  is devoted to establishing a theoretical system on the Belt and Road Initiative by analyzing 24 related major questions ,  such as a community with a shared future for mankind, Green Silk Road, Digital Belt and Road, the Arctic Channel,  Geographic Space, financial innovation, energy cooperation, language planning and discourse power of think tanks.

This book constitutes an up-to-date methodology reference work for International Relations (IR) scholars and students.

This book discusses the question of how a regional economy can develop under the influence of an ageing and declining population, and how regional development policies can help make labor markets more resilient and more inclusive.

This book investigates the extent to which depoliticisation strategies, used to disguise the political character of decision-making, have become the established mode of governance within societies.

Studying the political economy of welfare state reform, this edited collection focuses on the role of public opinion and organized interests in respect to policy change.

The book is seventh in the annual Persian Gulf series published by MEI@ND.

This book covers key issues related to comprehensive reform in China in a broad range of areas, such as the economy, politics, culture, social management, the environment and CPC Party building.

This study explores the dynamic relationship between science, numbers and politics.

Mainstream research has rationalized China's stock market on the basis of paradigms such as the institutional approach, the efficient market hypothesis, and corporate valuation principles.

This book focuses on the role of economic and political institutions in economic development.

This book sheds light on the role that grievances play for mobilisation dynamics in a context of material deprivation.

This book is the third installment in a series of volumes looking at episodes in American economic history from a public choice perspective.

Over time, globalization has evolved into a shared journey of humanity, involving entrepreneurship, innovation, business and policy advances around the world.

This volume is devoted to the geographical-or spatial-aspects of population research in regional science, spanning spatial demographic methods for population composition and migration to studies of internal and international migration to investigations of the role of population in related fields such as climate change and economic growth.

This book focuses on the urban wind environment of urban center district.

The most damning criticism of markets is that they are morally corrupting.

The concept of industry 4.

This book presents a comprehensive debate and analysis of existing Territorial Impact Assessment (TIA) methodologies, designed under the auspices of the ESPON programme since the mid-2000s.

The book illustrates the use of spatial econometric models to analyze the economic resilience of regions to climate-related shocks.

This book explores the restructuring of the labour market and the opportunities that have resulted from economic globalization.

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

This book explains why inflation remains subdued after recessions, based on three revolutionary concepts: defensive expectations, compensatory savings, and cumulative wage gap.

This volume focuses on the topic of energy transitions in the coal mining industries of China and Japan by adopting a Sino-Japanese comparative approach in area studies to examine the experiences between the two major East Asian economies.

This book explores how Marx envisaged society after capital(ism) by a close examination of the idea of socialism in the text(s) of Capital.

This book offers a general introduction to and analysis of the history, theory and public policy of Australian local government systems.

This book calls upon us to rethink and reboot the European Union.

This book deals with the consequences of the inclusion of African states and communities in the global aluminium chain.

This book  finds that the R&D and technological innovation of a country is not a result, but a factor, of sustained economic growth.

This book offers an analysis of China in its muddling through of financial reforms towards adopting a local real property tax.

This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of rural-urban migration in Vietnam.

This book investigates whether legal reforms intended to create a market-friendly regulatory business environment have a positive impact on economic and financial outcomes.

How did banking in early nineteenth-century Massachusetts evolve?

This book is about the role of agents in policy and institutional change.

Within the context of regional integration, comparative regionalism, organizational change, and regional security literatures, this book investigates three cases wherein regional economic organizations were confronted with conventional security threats: the 1978-91 Association of Southeast Asian Nations-Vietnam Standoff, the 1990 Economic Community of West Africa-Liberian Civil War Challenge, and the 1990-91 European Communities-Balkans Crisis.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the municipal incorporation activity in the United States over the last several decades and the geographic consequences of the incorporation of new cities.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was assumed that liberal democracies would flourish worldwide.

This book examines what we can gain from a critical reading of Marx's final manuscript and his conclusion of the "e;systematic presentation"e; of his critique, which was the basis for Engels's construction of the third volume of his infamous 'Capital'.