Economic Systems & Structures

The hedge fund industry has grown dramatically over the last two decades, with more than eight thousand funds now controlling close to two trillion...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future ...

When citizens take collaborative action to meet the needs of theircommunity, they are participating in the social economy. Co-operatives,community-...

A Wall Street cartel has quietly seized control of the American economy, and they are forcing governments and businesses to bow down to their polit...

The Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2019 will assess the global economic context for development financing, highlighting growing globa...

In a series of 50 accessible essays, Jonathan Portes demystifies the fundamental concepts of capitalism - from its history, core theories and key ...

What started as a modest waste collection and disposal company in Chicago transformed into North Americas leading provider of waste collection, rec...

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...