Economic Systems & Structures

There is growing international recognition of the importance of the social economy, consisting of cooperatives, mutuals and non-profit organization...

The last several decades have witnessed major restructurings—economic, political, and cultural—in the international arena. The depth and scope of t...

In the midst of the current financial crisis, John Gray revisits his brilliant polemic against the forces of global capitalism and deregulation. Wr...

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

The attempt to reduce the role of the state in the market through tax cuts, decreases in social spending, deregulation, and privatization - "neolib...

Populists on both sides of the political aisle routinely announce that the American Dream is dead. According to them, the game has been rigged by ...

During global capitalism's long ascent from 1600–1850, workers of all kinds—slaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers, soldiers, and ...

Urbanisation and urban development issues are the focus of this comprehensive account which introduces readers to the far-reaching changes now taki...

Capital Markets: A Global Perspective concentrates on principles that financial professionals - regardless of geography - need to know, rather than...

'Burnham has real intellectual courage, and writes about real issues.' - George Orwell Burnham's claim was that capitalism was dead, but that it w...

In this innovative book, David McNally develops a powerful critique of market socialism, by tracing it back to its roots in early political economy...

Latin American societies have undergone fundamental changes in the past two decades, moving from capitalist economies with very wide-ranging state ...

Brazil was an early case of a “conservative transition” from authoritarian rule, wherein civilian elites associated with the outgoing military regi...

Capitalism was born in England, yet the dominant Western conceptions of modernity have come from elsewhere, notably from France, the historical mod...

Corporations are expanding their performance to both financial economic performance (ESP) and non-financial environmental, ethical, social and gove...

This book points out that apart from usual “profit-maximizing business,” there are some other types of business models that serve social causes wit...