Economic Systems & Structures

Free trade, indeed economic globalization generally, is under siege. The conventional arguments for protectionism have been discredited but not ban...

Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit is an innovative sociological examination of what is perhaps the main engine of economic reform in China, the large in...

The state of Kerala in southern India is notable for the ways in which lower-class mobilization and state intervention have combined to create one ...

Ukraine may have taken a "gradualist" approach to economic reform, but the results have been no better than in Russia. The editors have assembled t...

These previously unpublished papers by leading American and Vietnamese economists analyze the dramatic transformation of Vietnam's economy during t...

The renowned economist Joseph A. Schumpeter (1883-1950) made seminal contributions not only to economic theory but also to sociology and economic h...

For generations, influential thinkers--often citing the tragic polarization that took place during Germany's Great Depression--have suspected that ...

After a meteoric rise, China's once inexorable growth has come to a screeching halt. With it ends China's dream of establishing a new tianxia (‘har...

The prevailing aspiration of business is performance, while that of society is progress. Capitalism, both the paradigm and practice, sits at the in...

In this landmark work, Neil Gilbert addresses the long-standing tensions between capitalism and the progressive spirit. Challenging the contemporar...

The prevailing aspiration of business is performance, while that of society is progress. Capitalism, both the paradigm and practice, sits at the in...

The impact of the Great Depression on politics in the 1930s was both transformative and shocking. The role of government in America was forever tra...

After many years in which it appeared to be losing the pre-eminent position it had occupied in the lexicon of the social and human sciences, the te...

The impact of the Great Depression on politics in the 1930s was both transformative and shocking. The role of government in America was forever tra...

The end of the Cold War ushered in an age of American triumphalism best characterized by the 'Washington Consensus': the idea that free markets, de...

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

The balance of economic power in Europe is shifting eastwards. Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Romania have all seen increases in their co...

In Casino Capitalism Hans-Werner Sinn examines the causes of the banking crisis, points out the flaws in the economic rescue packages, and presents...

The financial crisis, which originated in developed country financial markets, quickly spread to developing countries. Governments and central bank...

In the 20th century, privatization and market capitalism have reconstructed Eastern Europe and lifted 800 million people - in China, Brazil, and In...

Developing country debt crises have been a recurrent phenomenon over the past two centuries. In recent times sovereign debt insolvency crises in de...

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

Developing country debt crises have been a recurrent phenomenon over the past two centuries. In recent times sovereign debt insolvency crises in de...

The financial crisis, which originated in developed country financial markets, quickly spread to developing countries. Governments and central bank...

This book provides an assessment of the role of the International Monetary Fund in poor countries. In recent years, a large portion of the work of ...

′This is an ambitious, original, and complex treatment of key aspects of contemporary capitalism. It makes a major contribution because it profound...

Several years before the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, most East Asian economies with the exception of China had engaged in the liberal reform pr...

Much of the received wisdom about the world of work emphasizes the marketization of the employment relationship; the decline of class-based forms o...

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

Derived from the 2001 Santa Fe Institute Conference, "The Economy as an Evolving Complex System III," represents scholarship from the leading figur...

The global ubiquity of informal economic activities has turned informality into a key policy question, not least in international peace- and state-...

Capitalism faltered at the end of the 1990s as corporations were rocked by fraud, the stock-market bubble burst and the American business model – u...

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