Economic Systems & Structures

An overview of present day thought on the very topical subject of financial stability and central banking. The papers, written by leading researche...

The global economy is dominated by a powerful set of established and emerging capitalisms, from the long-standing capitalist economies of the West ...

In the most complete, accurate and accessible presentation of Karl Marx’s theory of capitalism to date, Johan Fornäs presents a guide for anyone wh...

Mainstream economics generally assumes a universalistic market-oriented economic behavior that drives countries to adopt one economic system, with ...

Today, when it seems like everything has been privatized, when austerity is too often seen as an economic or political problem that can be solved t...

You thought capitalism was permanent? Think again. David Harvey unravels the contradictions at the heart of capitalism-its drive, for example, to ...

Global capital markets are in a state of flux. Castigated in the past as “Barbarians at the Gate”, private equity providers are once again proclaim...

In this controversial book, Anatole Kaletsky puts the upheavals of 2007-2009 in historical and ideological perspective. He shows how the forces tha...

With the collapse of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance in 1991, the Eastern European nations of the former socialist bloc had to figure ou...

This book challenges the popular thesis of a downward trend in the viability of welfare states in competitive market economies. With approaches ran...

The Multilevel Politics of Trade presents a timely comparative analysis of eight federations (plus the European Union) to explore why some sub-fede...

Malinowski’s Argonauts of the Western Pacific was a major contribution to anthropological theory and method, while simultaneously establishing th...

Rethinking the contributions of the Manchester School of Social Anthropology for political ethnography, the Politics of Relations elaborates its ...

The authors of this outstanding scholarly work analyze the dynamics of disinflation in transition economies in Central and Eastern Europe. The volu...

In order to understand today's Russia and former Soviet republics, it is vital to consider their socialist past. Caroline Humphrey, one of anthropo...

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 ...

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...

Contemporary problems of economic and social change have obliged social scientists from different fields to learn much about each others' work as w...

This original, quantitatively oriented analysis applies the theory of the core to define competition in order to describe and deduce the consequenc...

The old discussion of 'Market or State' is obsolete. There will always have to be a mix of market and state. The only relevant question is what tha...

In the context of China’s growing influence over the global economy, its newly developed labour market and the subsequent series of industrial rela...

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