Political Economy

Private Interest Governments were identified in the 1980s as a special form of public regulation in selected economic sectors, rivalling convention...

The 2008 financial crisis led the whole world to ask questions of the financial industry. Why are wages in the financial industry so high? Are bonu...

This title was first published in 2003. Hammouda's text focuses on modernization experiences in the South which, in the 80s had reached their limit...

Title first published in 2003. This invaluable book provides the first definitive critical introduction to the concept of stakeholding and its impl...

Monetary policy is still one of the most contested areas of modern economics, and since the original publication of Policy Makers on Policy much ha...

Adam Smiths contribution to economics is well recognised, but scholars have recently been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his works....

The mainstream agri-food system in Thailand has been shaped to aid capital accumulation by domestic and transnational hegemonic forces, and is curr...

This title was first published in 2002: This compelling text is the first major application of Michael Porter's diamond framework to identify the ...

This title was first published in 2001. Containing a wide array of intellectual perspectives, this illuminating text takes an authoritative look at...

In this age of overlapping and mutually reinforcing deep global crises (financial convulsions, global warming, mass migrations, militarism, inequal...

Synthetic finance revolutionizes materialism such that we can now create wealth in the process of universally distributing it. While financial inno...

The economic crisis of 2008, starting from the US banking crisis, affected economic and political development in varied ways around the world. This...

Neoliberalism has been studied as a political ideology, an historical moment, an economic programme, an institutional model, and a totalising polit...

Title first published in 2003. This invaluable book provides the first definitive critical introduction to the concept of stakeholding and its impl...

This title was first published in 2002. This innovative work analyses how the United States has laid down the foundations for global power. It reas...

Over time there has been a miscommunication between mainstream economics and human rights that has paved the way to a justificatory ideology that v...

Published in 1999, this text is influenced by two sets of theories, namely regulation theories and theories on social citizenship. Regulation theor...

This edited book focuses on the dynamic balance between global cultural diversity and multilateral convergence in relevant policy areas that involv...

This innovative multidisciplinary collection brings together the latest research on human rights issues in the Asian region, by leading scholars wi...

Originally published in 1965 and written by a noted economist and leader in the field of conflict resolution, this book traces the forces which hav...

This book investigates how China has used Taiwanese investment and treated Taiwanese investors to pursue political reunification. The books main su...

Combining an analysis of regionalism from a systemic view with a domestic political-economy analysis, this book sheds light on the new dynamics and...

This title was first published in 2002: From Individualism to the Individual treats finance as a social and cultural process, exploring the unseen ...

One of the fundamental challenges facing modern welfare states is the question of work-family reconciliation. An increasing share of mothers work, ...