Economic Systems & Structures

We live in a time of transition, argues Yann Moulier Boutang. But the irony is that this is not a transition to a new type of society called ‘socia...

This study of economic reforms throughout Eastern Europe covers the history of attempts at decentralization. The book: * Describes the centralized ...

We live in a time of transition, argues Yann Moulier Boutang. But the irony is that this is not a transition to a new type of society called ‘socia...

Political Economy and the New Capitalism examines the relevance of Sam Aaronovitch's pioneering empirical studies of British capitalism in the ligh...

The key figure of the capitalist utopia is the individual who is ultimately free. The capitalist’s ideal society is designed to protect this freedo...

Developmental Macroeconomics: Access to Demand, the Exchange Rate and Growth offers a new approach to development economics and macroeconomics. It ...

Pribble investigates the barter economies that developed in many of the labor camps established under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. When the Khmer R...

Journalism and Austerity: Digitization and Crisis During the Greek Memoranda presents an overview of press coverage focused on the Greek crisis. Th...

A New Social Street Economy: An Effect of The COVID-19 Pandemic explores the impact of the Corona crisis on the capitalist world and the developmen...

As long as commodity and securities markets have been in operation, market manipulation has been a serious concern. Now that many electricity and n...

Arguably, the most important single work in classical sociology is Max Weber's thesis on how Protestantism makes its impact on capitalism. Cohen's ...

This book builds on research in translation studies of change in organizations and demonstrates the implications and application of these findings ...

In the last twenty years, several periods of turmoil have shaped the financial and economic system. Many regulatory policies, such as Basel III, ha...

An award-winning journalist’s investigation into Amazon’s true impact on inequality. The market value of Amazon.com has exceeded one trillion dolla...

The dominant neoliberal approach presents politics and political economy as nuisances which disturb the smooth operation of self-regulating markets...

After decades of declining profitability, China's industrial state-owned enterprises appear to be obsolete. This book utilizes extensive data and q...

Has Japan developed its own unique economic model? For years, Americans concerned about the Japanese economic challenge have heatedly debated this...

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the world financial markets, and institutions have new features, and are working in different environ...

The ever-changing nature of the business world and government policies makes continuing research on the capital markets model vital to our complete...

Has Japan developed its own unique economic model? For years, Americans concerned about the Japanese economic challenge have heatedly debated this...

In contrast to the failure to economic reforms in Eastern Europe, China's economic reforms have been quite successful. Decollectivization, marketiz...

In contrast to the failure to economic reforms in Eastern Europe, China's economic reforms have been quite successful. Decollectivization, marketiz...

In Capitalism and Commerce, Edward Younkins provides a clear and accessible introduction to the best moral and economic arguments for capitalism. D...

While some conclude from the revolutions of 1989 that socialism is dead, interest in socialism continues because of persisting problems of contempo...

Werner Sombart (1863-1941) may well have been the most famous and controversial social scientist in Germany during the early twentieth century. Hig...

With the collapse of communism and the accelerated trend of globalization, a new stage of capitalism has arrived. Protest actions that occurred in ...

China's dramatic economic growth in the last two decades of the last century and the prospect of its rise as a great power in this new one have gre...

Among the unintended and largely unforeseen consequences of globalization are the fundamental transformations of local relationships, both economic...

This study systematically examines uneven regional development in China, focusing on three central agents: the foreign investor, the state and the ...

This book investigates recent changes in Japan's financial system and looks at the implications for Japan's particularistic model of political econ...

China's dramatic economic growth in the last two decades of the last century and the prospect of its rise as a great power in this new one have gre...

This collection of essays hand explores a major undercurrent of the debate on rights, namely the question of universalism and cultural relativism. ...