Economic Systems & Structures

This book highlights the efforts made to realize the concept of Circular Bioeconomy. It has twelve (12) chapters, focussed on five (5) sections, na...

The global capitalism perspective is a unique research program focused on understanding relatively recent developments in worldwide social, economi...

This open access book presents the proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Polymers in Concrete 2023 (ICPIC 2023), held under the theme C...

Using the Regenerative economic model also known as Doughnut Economics Susan Hayward offers a thought-provoking sketch for a renewed, tentatively...

In 1953, John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson shook the foundations of imperial history with their essay The Imperialism of Free Trade. They reshaped...

This book examines how contemporary financial economy evolved as the predominant economic system, and why unabated accumulation of financial capita...

There are many misconceptions and concerns regarding Islamic societies and how Muslim countries have failed to come up with their own localised sol...

In this important new book, Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi take a fresh look at the big questions surrounding the peculiar social form known as capi...

What started as a sub-prime mortgage crisis in the United States in 2007 snowballed into global recession and later transformed into an economic cr...

How corporations used mass media to teach Americans that capitalism was natural and patriotic, exposing the porous line between propaganda and publ...

This book deals with the transformations of both accumulation process and labour in the transition from a Fordist to a cognitive capitalism paradig...

The volume analyzes the long-term trajectories of change in the capitalist models of the UK, Germany, Sweden, France, Italy, Hungary, Slovakia, and...

Recently, the issue of inequality has regained attention in the economic and political debate. This is due to both an increase in income inequality...

Back in 1972, German political sociologist Claus Offe published a book on the Structural Problems of Late Capitalism which, for almost two decades,...

  Devine begins with an analysis of the theory and practice of capitalist planning, central planning and 'market socialism'. He argues that, while ...

Adam Smiths An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was the product of the rich tradition of the Scottish Enlightenment but ...

Economic theory and a growing body of empirical research support the idea that economic freedom is an important ingredient to long-run economic pro...

This title was first published in 2002. This useful collection brings together scholars from diverse standpoints to examine the transition from Com...

This title was first published in 2002. This useful collection brings together scholars from diverse standpoints to examine the transition from Com...

This title was first published in 2002. Portugal experienced rapid and dramatic change over the final decades of the twentieth century. After the t...