Economic Systems & Structures

Why was the rise of capitalism in Germany and Japan associated not with liberal institutions and democratic politics, but rather with statist contr...

Islam and Capitalism is a learned, engaged rebuttal of the cultural reductionism of Max Weber and others who have tried to explain the politics and...

Free enterprise is off the leash and chasing new opportunities for profit making across the globe. After a turbulent century of unprecedented socia...

How does the politics of working life shape modern organizations? Is our desire for meaningful, secure work increasingly at odds with corporate beh...

This book explores the underbelly of globalisation - the illicit networks of money, drugs, people and arms that make up a multi-billion dollar ille...

Humans just aren't entirely rational creatures. We decide to roll over and hit the snooze button instead of going to the gym. We take out home loa...

Celebrities are increasingly front and centre in public debates on everything from solving world poverty to halting genocide, confronting obesity, ...

Brian Reed's account is widely acknowledged as the definitive work on the once mighty Crewe Works, with an emphasis on the pre-1947 period it also ...

How much credit can be given to entrepreneurship for the unprecedented innovation and growth of free-enterprise economies? In this book, some of th...

Just as we learn from, influence, and are influenced by others, our social interactions drive economic growth in cities, regions, and nations--dete...

An intense debate has played out in recent years regarding how to implement a so-called "flexicurity system"-a labor market reform that combines fl...

The Great Financial Crisis that began in 2007-2008 reminds us with devastating force that financial instability and crises are endemic to capitalis...

The international fragmentation of economic activities – from research and design to production and marketing – described through the lens of the g...

The twenty-first century workplace compels Americans to be more flexible. To embrace change, work with unpredictable schedules, be available 24/7, ...

As Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward argued in the early seventies, in a capitalist economy, social welfare policies alternatingly serve politi...

As Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward argued in the early seventies, in a capitalist economy, social welfare policies alternatingly serve politi...

Over the last decade, market-based incentives have become the regulatory tool of choice when trying to solve difficult environmental problems. Evid...

In Dynamism, Rivalry, and the Surplus Economy, János Kornai examines capitalism as an economic system and in comparison to socialism. Kornai explai...

From 1978 through the turn of the century, China was transformed from a state-owned economy into a predominantly private economy. This fundamental ...

From 1978 through the turn of the century, China was transformed from a state-owned economy into a predominantly private economy. This fundamental ...

Hannah Arendt’s 1958 The Human Condition was an impassioned philosophical reconsideration of the goals of being human. In its arguments about the k...

The first book length study of property-owning democracy, Republic of Equals argues that a society in which capital is universally accessible to al...

Why and how has the business corporation come to exert such a powerful influence on American society? The essays here take up this question, offeri...

Japan's economy stumbled in the 1990s. After four decades of rapid growth that transformed Japan into a wealthy country at the world's technologica...

Japan's economy stumbled in the 1990s. After four decades of rapid growth that transformed Japan into a wealthy country at the world's technologica...

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

This book considers why institutional forms of modern capitalist economies differ internationally, and proposes a typology of capitalism based on t...

The gradual introduction of market reforms in China since 1978 and their subsequent massive and rapid adoption in the former Soviet bloc triggered ...

Between 1980 and 1985, the French economy and industry faced a dramatic crisis; in the ten years that followed, it witnessed a remarkable revival. ...

Prabhat Patnaik's starting point is the fundamental question of how we can explain the resilience and durability of capitalist economies - after al...

This is a book about Washington Consensus capitalism and the controversies its encroachment causes in Japan and Germany. Many people in both those ...