Economic Systems & Structures

It is common wisdom that central banks in the postwar (19451970s) period were passive bureaucracies constrained by fixed-exchange rates and inflati...

How medieval Dutch society laid the foundations for modern capitalismThe Netherlands was one of the pioneers of capitalism in the Middle Ages, givi...

This book is a study of Cuba's economic development under communism over the last fifty-five years. The authors find that Cuba's socioeconomic deve...

In this incisive analysis of one of the most spectacular economic breakthroughs in the Deng era, Jean C. Oi shows how and why Chinese rural-based i...

In this unique contribution to economic sociology, Jeffrey Hass examines the impact of culture, norms and political authority on Russia's post-soci...

EPDF and EPUB available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Money is central to capitalism and to our many sustainability crises. Could we remak...

Misrecognitions mounts a vigorous defense of the labyrinthine plotting of Victorian novels, notorious for their implausible concluding revelations ...

In Finance-Led Capitalism , bestselling author and economist Robert Guttmann provides a new conceptual framework to assess the dominate role of mod...

This book examines human-interest stories, unpacking from them violence inherent to neoliberalism, and considers if it is possible to find in these...

Since the 1970s, urban communities across the country have had to face the wrenching process of economic restructuring. As the media announce the l...

Water covers some 75% of the earths surface, while land covers 25%, approximately. Yet the former accounts for less than 1% of world GDP, the latt...

Since the 1970s, urban communities across the country have had to face the wrenching process of economic restructuring. As the media announce the l...

Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command, and Change, Fourth Edition, is an introduction to economics that explains how capitalism works, why...

This book provides the analysis on capital markets in China, focusing attention upon (1) the bubble phenomena (whether or not a Chinese bubble real...

An incisive and inspiring call to look beyond capitalism to chart a road map for a planet ravaged by pandemics, climate crisis, and wars.Prompted b...

From Finland to Kenya to Stockton, California, more and more governments and private philanthropic organizations are putting the idea of a Universa...

From Finland to Kenya to Stockton, California, more and more governments and private philanthropic organizations are putting the idea of a Universa...

Overcentralization in Economic Administration (Oxford, 1959) was the first book written by an Eastern European and published in the West that openl...

Since the early 1980s, Koreas financial development has been a tale of liberalization and opening. After the 1997 financial crisis, great strides w...

Household Finance: An Introduction to Individual Financial Behavior speaks to both how people should and how people actually do make financial deci...