Political Economy

For the better part of a century, the Left has been waging a slow, methodical battle for control of the institutions of Western civilization. Duri...

The heralding of ambitions and hardening of geopolitical and military stances by China has given rise to few questions: Did China challenge the Uni...

Few issues are more central to our present predicaments than the relationship between economics and politics. In the century after Adam Smith's Wea...

Media Ownership and Agenda Control offers a detailed examination of media ownership amidst the complexities of the information age, from the resurg...

Larisa Jasarevic offers an unforgettable look at the everyday experiences of people living in post-socialist, post-war Bosnia. Not at all existing ...

Worst-case scenarios are all too real, and all too common. The financial crisis of 2008 was not the first or the last to destroy jobs, homeownershi...

Beneath Venezuelan soil lies an ocean of crudethe worlds largest reservesan oil patch that shaped the nature of the global energy business. Unfortu...

Political economy debates have focused on the internationalisation of private capital, but foreign states increasingly enter domestic markets as fi...

If values conflict and rival human interests clash we often have to weigh them against each other. However, under particular conditions incommensur...

We live in a world that has become a resource, a world conditioned by the progressive domination of a monetary scale applied across the board. Our ...

Why are banking systems unstable in so many countries--but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic banking crises since 1840, whil...

The end of the post-World War II 'long boom' in the mid-1970s proved the beginning of a process of political-economic change that has fundamentally...

Unraveling the Crime-Development Nexus offers the first criminological account of the relationship between international development, crime, and se...

According to the European Commission, Europe is facing a transversal crisis that obliges the rethinking and redefinition of its narrative. As a res...

Who Matters at the World Bank explores who matters in a 32-year history (1980-2012) of policy change within the World Bank's public sector manageme...

If you want to be a successful leader in todays business world, you need to think like an activist. If you want to be a successful leade...

Although previously denounced for their gender blindness in the past, private businesses have increasingly emerged as vocal proponents of womens em...

Offers a critique of the economic model of immigration Most understandings of migration to the US focus on two primary factors. Either there was tr...

What is pragmatism? Is it a means to an end, or an end in itself? Is it antithetical to ideology or morality?Arguing that pragmatism is a skill muc...

Why we should take Bernard Mandeville seriously as a philosopherBernard Mandevilles The Fable of the Bees outraged its eighteenth-century audience ...

In Discreet Power, Christina Garsten and Adrienne Sörbom undertake an ethnographic study of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Accessing one of the pr...

In Discreet Power, Christina Garsten and Adrienne Sörbom undertake an ethnographic study of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Accessing one of the pr...

In the late 1980s, most of the world still associated Vietnam with resistance and war, hardship, refugees, and a mismanaged planned economy. During...

How do countries' political and policy choices affect the credit ratings they receive? Sovereign ratings influence countries' cost of funding, and ...

Once hidden behind the veils of entrepreneurship, it is now clear that platforms are reshaping the world of work, and Amazon has been a forerunner ...

Today, the Bay Area is home to the most successful knowledge economy in America, while Los Angeles has fallen progressively further behind its neig...

Centred around key topics and debates, Global Political Economy encourages students new to the field to explore its breadth and diversity, and unde...

If the military were a business, would you buy shares? Over recent years, Western armed forces, particularly the US, have been costing more yet ach...

This book offers a comparative and historical analysis of foreign direct investment (FDI) liberalization in China and India and explains how the re...

Employing macroeconomic performance as a lens to evaluate democratic institutions, the author uses models of political behavior that allow for oppo...

This book is an authoritative account of the economic and political roots of the 2008 financial crisis. It examines why it was triggered in the Uni...

This book explains how the success of attempts to expand the boundaries of the postwar welfare state in The Netherlands and the United Kingdom depe...

Hou proposes to end the dichotomous view of the state and the market, and capitalism and communism, by examining the local institutional innovation...