Economic Systems & Structures

Because their economies were regulated, their financial systems ‘repressed’ and their states interventionist, for many years the countries of East ...

This title contains eight essays that are connected by various common strands. The most important one is the community of the main subject-matter: ...

In this book prominent scholars from around the world debate two major themes: the past and future of the capitalist world-economy, and the ways in...

The seventeenth century was called the Dutch Golden Age. Over the course of eighty years, the tiny United Provinces of the Netherlands overthrew Sp...

"Better to fight for something than live for nothing." — General George S. PattonIt is 75 years since the end of WW II and the strange, mysterious ...

From its emergence as a modest newspaper to becoming the largest communication group in Argentina, and one of the main communications groups in Lat...

This book addresses the sustained resurgence of American economy, and the firms, regions, and technologies that are driving this growth. Michael Be...

This work focuses on the transition faced by business organizations and their stakeholders as they move from protected markets to open competition,...

In this path-breaking book, the author argues that European countries' political-economic policies, practices, and discourses have changed profound...

Model-free Hedging: A Martingale Optimal Transport Viewpoint focuses on the computation of model-independent bounds for exotic options consistent w...

This book explores the role of community in facilitating the transition to market relationships in economic development, and in controlling and sus...

Through a deep examination of what has become known as the ‘Preston Model’, this book explores an innovative approach to local economic development...

In order to fully understand the evolution and future growth of economic systems, we must draw on the lessons of economic history. The 2008 Financi...

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is an essential part of the fabric of a business; however, EA also transcends and transforms technology and moves it i...

The demise of state-owned enterprises, the transformation of collectives into shareholding cooperatives, and the creation of investment opportuniti...

Mainstream textbooks present economics as an objective science, free from value judgements. This book demonstrates this to be a myth – one which se...

After the devastation of World War II, Germany and Japan built national capitalist institutions that were remarkably successful in terms of nationa...

An increasing number of studies in the last decade or so have emphasized the viability and persistence of distinctive systems of economic coordinat...

Events of the 1970s and 1980s have provoked intense controversy about the desirability of existing political and economic institutions. On the basi...

The widespread migration of civil servants to high-profile positions in the private and public sectors is known in Japan as amakudari, or "descent ...

In order to understand today's Russia and former Soviet republics, it is vital to consider their socialist past. Caroline Humphrey, one of anthropo...

From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, this comprehensive reference work covers the monetary systems of 203 countries and four confederations. It provide...

The Invisible Hand offers a radical departure from the conventional wisdom of economists and economic historians, by showing that 'factor markets' ...

Life in the Market Ecosystem, the second book in the Nature of Liberty trilogy, confronts evolutionary psychology head on. It describes the evoluti...

Since the early 1980s, governments worldwide have taken many measures to expand the role of markets. Recent political events reflect widespread dis...

The land, labor, credit, and trading institutions of Marmara village, in Hausaland, northern Nigeria, are detailed in this study through fieldwor...

Peter Hall and David Soskice's Varieties of Capitalism has become a seminal text and reference point across the social sciences, generating debate ...

J. E. Meade is among the most distinguished of contemporary economists, noted for his contributions to economic theory and policy. This volume pres...

In 2007-2008 the world was plunged into a financial and economic crash. This book explores the multiple entwined roots of the crash, including the ...

This graduate textbook is a "primer" in macroeconomics. It starts with essential undergraduate macroeconomics and develops in a simple and rigorous...