Political Economy

In July 2015, multilateral talks with Iran culminated in an agreement called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), through which Iran com...

The assessment and measurement of the level of well-being in a society have been on the radar of researchers and institutions for many years. The c...

Egypt has undergone significant economic liberalization under the auspices of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, USAID, and the Europ...

Egypt has undergone significant economic liberalization under the auspices of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, USAID, and the Europ...

Should the United States be open to commerce with other countries, or should it protect domestic industries from foreign competition? This question...

Activists have exposed startling forms of labor exploitation and environmental degradation in global industries, leading many large retailers and b...

How poor countries can ignite economic growth without waiting for global action or the creation of ideal local conditionsCountries that ignite a pr...

The gap between the rich and the poor has grown dramatically in the United States and is now at its widest since at least the early 1900s. While by...

The gap between the rich and the poor has grown dramatically in the United States and is now at its widest since at least the early 1900s. While by...

In 1776 Adam Smith (1723-90) wrote The Wealth of Nations , a book so foundational it has led to him being called the 'father of economics'. Today h...

This work serves as a comprehensive collection of global scholarship regarding the vast fields of public administration and public policy. Written ...

Why has violence spiked in Latin America's contemporary democracies? What explains its temporal and spatial variation? Analyzing the region's uneve...

Why has violence spiked in Latin America''s contemporary democracies? What explains its temporal and spatial variation? Analyzing the region''s une...

Our economy is neither overwhelmingly capitalist, as Marxist political economists argue, nor overwhelmingly a market economy, as mainstream economi...