Political Economy

This edited collection examines various facets of governance - the organization and steering of political processes within society - for a better u...

After the Great Financial Crisis, economic theory was fiercely criticized from both outside and inside the discipline for being incapable of explai...

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is a global development that shows no signs of slowing down. In his book, The Workplace of the Future: The Fourth ...

The rise of China has been shaped and driven by its engagement with the global economy during a period of intensified globalization, yet China is a...

Exploring the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific region, a major hub of global economic/commercial, military, diplomatic and cultural activities in th...

Emerging in the late 1970s, the Amsterdam Schools (AS) most distinctive contribution to international political economy was the systematic incorpor...

In Power and Regionalism in Latin America: The Politics of MERCOSUR, Laura Gómez-Mera examines the erratic patterns of regional economic cooperatio...

Contesting Precarity in Japan details the new forms of workers' protest and opposition that have developed as Japan's economy has transformed over ...

Offering a retrospective view of how the system operated in Communist Czechoslovakia, this book is an important voice in the discussion about the s...

This book gives a complex description and discussion of todays populist attacks against the European Union (EU) following the financial crisis of 2...

In this important text, Stephen Valocchi brings capitalism back into the study of the gay and lesbian movement. He argues that to understand the co...

This book explains the role of formal labour market institutions in keeping the labour utilisation in Central and Eastern Europe above the level ch...

Globalisation has opened new avenues to corruption. Corrupt practices are proliferating not only within national borders but across different count...

This book is set against the assumption that humans' unique feature is their infinite creativity, their ability to reflect on their deeds and to co...

In Constructing Change, Ezgi B. Unsal provides a political economy of electricity and housing provision in Turkey. By using the case studies of ele...

Over the last decade, author and activist Astra Taylor has helped shift the national conversation on topics including technology, inequality, indeb...

For as long as there have been rich nations and poor nations, debt has been a powerful force for maintaining the unequal relations between them. Tr...

This thorough and timely book collects essays on the political economy of Brazil, focusing on the federal administrations led by the Workers' Party...

An engaging and reflective look at how austerity and the billionaire class paved the way for Trump's presidency, the rise of the alt-right, and the...

In the present stage of international capitalist development, women are increasingly being drawn into paid employment by multinational and state in...

This book explores the life of the man whom even his critics acknowledged was one of the world's most significant Communist economists. From his ou...

This volume provides an interdisciplinary analysis on the political role of corporations in society by using the analytical device of corporate cit...