Political economy Books

This book investigates the socioeconomic factors that triggered Tunisia's "revolution for dignity" and the current issues and challenges facing its economy while suggesting mechanisms and instruments for their resolution. The author begins by analyzing...

This book provides a genealogical study of Australian agricultural restructuring, focusing on the case study of wheat export market deregulation. This policy shift was implemented in 2008, ending 60 years of statutory wheat marketing. At the time, policy...

This is the first English book on the economic relations between China and Latin America written by Chinese scholars. The authors are all from the Institute of Latin American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences - China's premier think tank. By...

This book analyzes the social forces and political coalitions driving regional integration projects in Asia with a focus on ASEAN and Indonesian conglomerates. It asks which social forces, within the domestic political economy of Asian states, are...

This book introduces recent developments in both theoretical and empirical analyses of local public economics. Theories of those economics as well as empirical analyses have been developed dramatically in various directions in recent years. One...

The report was written by senior scholars of international studies and Indian Ocean studies and focuses on international relations in the Indian Ocean region and covers many aspects of OBOR policy and South Asia. The report includes both a strategic...

This book proposes a method for calculating China's debt based on a quantitative econometric analysis. This is conducted by measuring the relationship between China's debt size and economic growth.  The conclusion that is reached is as follows:...

This book analyzes of the surplus of production capacity in China. According to a government statement, there is a serious surplus of productive capacity in the steel, cement, glass, aluminum, and shipbuilding industries. There was no surplus of...

This book is devoted to analyzing contemporary capitalism both in Japan and in the world economy by using the theoretical framework of the French régulation theory and by revisiting the theory of civil society in postwar Japan. The Japanese theory...

This book focuses on the nature and significance of China's state enterprises which have undergone substantial changes since China's economic liberalization in 1978. It argues that much of the criticism is based on mistaken premises, where even the term...

The Malaysian economy is at a crossroads amid global and regional shifts in geopolitics. Malaysia is in a prime position to benefit from the renewed appetite for investment into the region. If Malaysia gets its priorities right, this could be the...

Through a detailed historical and empirical account of post-independence years, this book offers a new assessment of the role of the judiciary in Pakistani politics. Instead of seeing the judiciary as helpless or struggling against an authoritarian...

This book takes a comprehensive look at the governance and civil society of Macao, the shadowy mecca of gambling in Asia, and the reforms, changes, and social movements which are challenging that reputation today. Thanks to the rapid expansion of the...

This book provides new insights into the economic impacts, strategic objectives and legal structures of an emerging branch of government incentives conditioned on meeting intellectual property-related requirements. Despite becoming more common in recent...

This textbook systematically addresses why and how Circular Economy should be developed and practiced by employing a Discussion and Research (D&R) teaching method. This method allows us to show the whole process of academic research, from formulating the...

Chapter 1. Introduction: What's in the Book and How to Read It.- Chapter 2. Armington, Krugman and Melitz as Special Cases of an Encompassing Model.- Chapter 3. Optimality in the Armington, Krugman and Melitz Models.- Chapter 4. Calibration and Parameter...

This book describes various methods of analysis for ascertaining the effects of agglomeration economies, which are important for formulating regional economic policies. Specifically, it describes new analytical approaches using productivity and...

This book challenges the hegemonic view that economic calculation represents the ultimate rationality. The West legitimises its global dominance by the claim to be a rational, democratic, science-based and progressive civilisation. Yet, over the past...

This volume explores the challenges to diversification in Gulf countries, which can no longer rely on profits from hydrocarbons to fund national expenditures. It elaborates on the problem of weak institutions, lack of coordination between policy makers...

This book discusses both linear economic theory and its application to China's recent economy from, 1987-2000, with an emphasis on fixed capital. It starts with the development of Marx-Sraffa linear economic models with fixed capital. The author then...

This book offers an authoritative study on special economic zones in China. With articles from economic experts and scholars, the scope of the book includes new theories, methods and discoveries in the field of special economic zone studies. It foscuses...

This is the first theoretical book on Chinese Cultural Soft Power. It focuses on the inner logical relations between Chinese cultural soft power and the realization of the China Dream, while also offering detailed explanations of the scope of and...

This monograph is devoted to the analysis of the dynamics of business cycles and stabilization policies. The analysis is conducted in models of the AS-AD type, focusing on involuntary unemployment and capital accumulation. Major conclusions are the...

Foreword.- Preface.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: A Disciplinary Field Model for Systemology.- Chapter 3: The Potential of General Systemology as a Transdiscipline.- Chapter 4: The Existence, Nature and Value of General Systems Theory (GST*).-...

"Your First Government Contract: Capture and Proposal Writing" by Scott Johnson is a comprehensive guide designed to navigate the intricacies of securing government contracts. Leveraging Johnson's extensive experience in government project management,...

A Promising Future For Young Africans - Book ReviewThis educationally informing and insightful book, "A Promising Future for Young Africans," deals with a broad spectrum of continental-wide as well regional-specific matters necessary to propel forward...

Land of the Ancestors: Expropriation a Necessity for Justice explores the complex history of land dispossession and the urgent need for land expropriation without compensation in South Africa. The book delves into the brutal colonial and apartheid-era...

This work is a deconstruction of Xi Jinping's discourse of the new development model for China in the new era/ new normal of the post 2008 21st century going forward. This new development model, made necessary by the post 2008 condition of the Chinese...

Our interest in studying televised legislatures was kindled by two episodes. The first was a series of rejections by the U.S. Senate between 1984 and 1986 of resolutions to permit live television coverage of floor proceedings...

Growth of the electric industry Electric generating stations and the associated transmission and distribu­ tion systems are high ticket items as are the costs of fuel and of operating the industry. The country presently spends...

Dear Reader, Before you begin to study this book please be aware of the complexity of the "Conversion of Military Enterprises in Russia", The question of conversion is not only a change of the market and products it is in the...

Long before policy analysis emerged as a separate profession with its own graduate schools, economists offered advice about government policies. Positive economics provides the tools for predicting the impacts of prop­ osed...

This book is the result of more than a decade's preoccupation with the issue of compliance in the Barents Sea fisheries, first as an interpreter in the Norwegian Coast Guard, then as a graduate student at the University of...

This book brings together much of the best policy-oriented research on state and local mortgage revenue bond (MRB) programs. Most of this re­ search was conducted to evaluate the impact of MRB subsidies on housing markets and...

While much has been gained from the traditional legal scholars' doctrinal mode of analysis of the takings issue, this volume is presented in the belief that contributions from scholars from the various schools of thought...

The discipline of public administration and public policy is experiencing a renaissance of research in which explicit attention is paid to political insti­ tutions. This renewed interest in institutions is not simply an...

The importance of technology transfer to innovation and wealth creation is now recog­ nised by most governments. As the policy debate has intensified, however, it has become clear that the problem of encouraging successful...

Population growth slowed across the world in the last decades of the 20th century, changing substantially our view of the future. The 21st century is likely to see the end to world population growth and become the century of population aging, marked by...

This book provides theoretical perspectives on systemic discrimination in employment and an overview of policy and institutional responses in eight countries, focusing on affirmative action and employment equity policies. As a...

Der demographische Wandel ist in aller Munde und das, was sich seit über dreißig Jahren abzeichnet wird nun eintreffen. Erste Indikatoren sind schon da: Fachkräftemangel, alternde Belegschaften und offene Debatten über Einwanderung. Doch was bedeutet das...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich BWL - Wirtschaftspolitik, Note: 2,3, Katholische Hochschule Freiburg, ehem. Katholische Fachhochschule Freiburg im Breisgau, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Hausarbeit wird versucht, das komplexe...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich BWL - Wirtschaftspolitik, Note: 2,0, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (Institut für ökonomische Bildung), Veranstaltung: Schule und das außerschulische Kooperationsfeld Unternehmen, Sprache: Deutsch,...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich BWL - Wirtschaftspolitik, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (Institut für ökonomische Bildung), Veranstaltung: Stabilisierungspolitik, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ich werde mich im Rahmen dieser...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich BWL - Wirtschaftspolitik, Note: 1,7, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Hausarbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Privatisierung des öffentlichen Gutes Wasser und hat das Ziel, Vor- und Nachteile der...