Economic Systems & Structures

Megaprojects, also referred to in the literature as Large Engineering Projects or Major Projects, are generally defined as large-scale investment i...

A discussion of transition in Jordan between 1990-2000, showing it to be a multi-faceted process, in which each facet interacts with the other, for...

This volume presents current research on the roles and importance of tourism and its interrelationships with governance and development in societie...

In Marx's familiar dictum, the more-developed country shows the less developed an image of its own future. Turning this idea upside down, In the Mi...

What price will North American business pay if it fails to develop an understanding of the role of East Asia in the transformation of global compet...

This book reviews the experience of 14 countries with external liberalization and related policies, based on papers written by national authors fol...

Over the past fifteen years, the United States, Western Europe, and Japan have transformed the relationship between governments and corporations. T...

Entrepreneurship is a key element in the development of market based economies and one of the potential drivers of change in countries that are in ...

China's Economic Development and Democratization examines China's transformation from an institutional perspective. It proposes an analytical fram...

Since the early 1990s, Europe's economies have been facing several new challenges: the 1992 single market programme, the collapse of the Berlin wal...

How does globalization change national economies and politics? Are rising levels of trade, capital flows, new communication technologies, and dereg...

Democracy is overrated. Capitalism, on the other hand, doesn't get enough credit. In this provocative and engaging book, John Mueller argues that t...

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These previously unpublished papers by leading American and Vietnamese economists analyze the dramatic transformation of Vietnam's economy during t...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