Economics, Finance, Business & Management

Predatory Value Extraction explains how an ideology of corporate resource allocation known as 'maximizing shareholder value' (MSV) that emerged in ...

We have become accustomed to economists and politicians talking about “market forces” as if they are immutable laws of the universe. But what exact...

In the 1980s and 1990s, much of the developing world experienced transitions to democracy accompanied by economic liberalization and decentralizati...

This new and comprehensive volume covering the subfield of comparative political economy provides a detailed overview over its intellectual roots, ...

The crisis of the neoliberal order has resuscitated a political idea widely believed to be consigned to the dustbin of history. Brexit, the electio...

Following the end of the Cold War, the economic reforms in the early 1990s, and ensuing impressive growth rates, India has emerged as a leading voi...

The Anthropocene, in which humankind has become a geological force, is a major scientific proposal; but it also means that the conceptions of the n...

Bush II, Obama, and the Decline of U.S. Hegemony in the Western Hemisphere applies competing definitions and conceptions of hegemony to various for...

If we believe that the small, open economies of Nordic Europe are paragons of good governance, why are they so prone to economic crisis? In Good Go...

Since 2000, countries across Africa have maintained over a decade of unprecedented economic expansion in a phenomena known as ‘Africa rising’. How...

In this short, highly readable book, the master of world-systems theory provides a succinct anatomy of capitalism over the past five hundred years....

This book deals with the ongoing processes of migration and boundary-(re)making in Europe and other parts of the world. It takes stock of recent an...

With heart-wrenching reporting and incisive analysis, In These Times magazine has charted a staggering rise in inequality and the fall of the Ameri...

A Financial Times Book of the Year. A clear, readable analysis of the inescapable fact that Generation Y (and subsequent generations) will be poore...

How does Britain get its food? Why is our current system at breaking point?How can we fix it before it is too late?British food has changed remarka...

THE NEW INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE WORLD IS FLATWe all sense it: something big is going on. Life is speeding up, and it is diz...

Elinor Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Economics. Her theorising of the commons has been celebrated as groundbreaking and ope...

Intermediate Environmental Economics has established itself as one of the field's most authoritative texts, as well as one of the more challenging....

Hard-hitting recommendations for what must be done to manage global natural capital and reverse environmental destruction Natural capital is what n...

In the face of political impotence, resource depletion, and catastrophic climate change, many of us have become reconciled to an uncertain future. ...

By examining “the real thing” ingredient by ingredient, this brilliant history shows how Coke used a strategy of outsourcing and leveraged free pub...

Along the Bering Strait, through the territories of the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia, Bathsheba Demuth explores...

Our planet's resources are running out. The media bombards us with constant warnings of impending shortages of fossil fuels, minerals, arable land,...

This publication explores the funding of project-based carbon reduction projects in the UK by: surveying potential sources of supply and demand for...

Lessons from the Great Recession: At the Crossroads of Sustainability and Recovery examines global cases of environmental sustainability and econom...