Economic Systems & Structures

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...

This title was first published in 2000: The Asian financial crisis and its aftermath provide a crucible in which Chinese diaspora capitalism has be...

This title was first published in 2000: Since 1998, there have been many diagnoses, studies and theories attempting to explain the East Asian econo...

What the opioid epidemic teaches us about the addiction at the root of our social lifeand how we free ourselves from it.How To Break An Addiction p...

A powerful case for limitarianismthe idea that we should set a maximum on how much resources one individual can appropriate. A must-read! Thomas P...

The long history of Chinas relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how its current leadership threatens this delicate balanc...

This book showcases research, theoretical, and validated work associated with digital finance to enhance the quality of a more sustainable environm...

The Meddlers is an eye-opening, essential new history that places our international financial institutions in the transition from a world defined b...

What does development mean? How does progress happen? What drives civilisational change, from the first urban settlements in Mesopotamia to the cre...

Populism has taken root almost everywhere in the West. It is crucial to understand how it has come about, where its antagonistic worldview, its nat...

Something has gone seriously wrong with the American economy. The American economy has experienced considerable growth in the last 30 years. But v...

While there recently has been renewed interest in Marx, we cannot simply apply his more than 170-year-old texts to today's world. Capitalism, after...