Economics

The pursuit of wealth has captivated people s attention for centuries.

Lobbying has long been part of the political landscape.

The contemporary debate on economic policy is dominated by the issue of 'which model of capitalism works best'.

For over three decades neoliberalism has been the dominant economic ideology.

In this enormously influential book, Jurgen Habermas examines the deep tensions and crisis tendencies which underlie the development of contemporary Western societies and develops a powerful analysis of the legitimation problems faced by modern states.

As we struggle with the legacy of the crisis and with the prospect of accelerating environmental degradation, it is time to ask not what we can do for capitalism but what capitalism can do for us, as citizens of a democratic society.

For more than a century, the United States has been the world's most powerful state.

In what ways are cities central to the evolution of contemporary global capitalism?

China is in the midst of transitioning from a manufacturing-based economy to one driven by innovation and knowledge.

Recent years have seen an enormous increase in protests across the world in which citizens have challenged what they see as a deterioration of democratic institutions and the very civil, political and social rights that form the basis of democratic life.

In this thought-provoking new book, Anthony Smith analyses key debates between historians and social scientists on the role of nations and nationalism in history.

The Global Financial Crisis overturned decades of received wisdom on how financial markets work, and how best to keep them in check.

Capitalism is the only complex system known to us that can provide an efficient and innovative economy, but the financial crisis has brought out the pernicious side of capitalism and shown that it remains dependent on the state to rescue it from its own deficiencies.

Today Europe finds itself in a crisis that casts a dark shadow over an entire generation.

Twenty-five years after the end of the Cold War, a new Cold War is being waged in our societies.

We need a world trade organization.

In a world of high finance, unprecedented technological change, and cyber billionaires, it is easy to forget that a major source of global wealth is, literally, right under our noses.

The family has long been viewed as both a microcosm of the state and a barometer of social change in China.

The West has long defined the pursuit of happiness in economic terms but now, in the wake of the 2007-8 financial crisis, it is time to think again about what constitutes our happiness.

The concealment of income, wealth and profits in tax havens has brought the topic of offshoring into public debate, but as John Urry shows in this important new book offshoring is a much more pervasive feature of contemporary societies.

Consumption practices in China have been transformed at an unprecedented pace.

At a recent meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, it was reported that a ghost was haunting the deliberations of the assembled global elite - that of the renowned social scientist and economic historian, Karl Polanyi.

There is a specter haunting advanced industrial countries: structural unemployment.

If you look carefully at how things are actually made in China - from shirts to toys, apple juice to oil rigs - you see a reality that contradicts every widely-held notion about the world's so-called economic powerhouse.

The European Union is in crisis.

This new book by two distinguished Italian economists is a highly original contribution to our understanding of the origins and aftermath of the financial crisis.

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This new book by two leading economists is a far-reaching analysis of the role and organization of the financial system in the aftermath of the economic crisis.

Much orthodox economic theory is based on assumptions which are treated as self-evident: supply and demand are regarded as independent entities, the individual is assumed to be a rational agent who knows his interests and how to make decisions corresponding to them, and so on.

Winner of the 2014 European Book Prize.

Critical social theorist and philosopher David Theo Goldberg is one of the defining figures in critical race theory.

Once deemed a dysfunctional democracy with a feckless set of political institutions and a drunk economy, today s Brazil has undergone a complete reversal of fortune.

The central paradox of the contemporary world is the simultaneous presence of wealth on an unprecedented scale, and mass poverty.

There is still no consensus on who or what caused the financial crisis which engulfed the world, beginning in the summer of 2007.

This book provides a critical overview of the myriad literatures on work, viewed not only as a product of the marketplace but also as a social and political construct.

Inequality is not just about the size of our wallets.

The Politics of Global Supply Chains analyses the changing politics of power and distribution within contemporary global supply chains.

Theories of Globalization offers students and scholars a comprehensive and critical introduction to the concept of globalization.

Sub-Saharan Africa is no longer a troubled dark continent.

In a world of increasing austerity measures, democratic politics comes under pressure.

The euro crisis is tearing Europe apart.

The book investigates the ways in which state-centred approaches to international relations have limited our understanding of global, political, economic and cultural processes.

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Market Society provides an original and accessible review of changing conceptions of the market in modern social thought.

"e;Rai subjects the projects of both national development and globalization to searching scrutiny through a gender lens.

This work provides an introduction to the work of Michel Foucault.

We are told that this is a new world, with which old theories cannot cope.

This is a new introductory text providing an up-to-date account of leading theories of development.

With the growing challenges of economic globalization and national welfare state retrenchment, the development and future of EU social policy has become increasingly important.

Hayek has been one of the key liberal thinkers of the twentieth century.