Political economy Books

This book investigates various dimensions of the economic conflicts between the USA - and other democratic market-economy countries - and state-capitalist communist China in the past decade, examining how differences in institutions and ideology bring...

Malaysian-born M. Bakri Musa, a California surgeon, is a columnist for Malaysiakini.com and a contributor to Malaysia-Today.net. His credits have appeared in the Far Eastern Economic Review, International Herald Tribune, and Education Quarterly. His...

Contains documents which reflect the great debates that have shaped this country's economic life. Covering a wide variety of problems, this work shows how each document was treated at a moment when it was politically urgent.

Your guided tour to America's employment crisis, the title says it all. Where Did the Jobs Go--and How Do We Get Them Back? is a clear, nonpartisan, surprisingly entertaining look at our nation's current joblessness mess and how we can get ourselves...

""Ecclesiastical Duties And Revenues Bill: Speech Delivered In The House Of Lords, On Behalf Of The Deans And Chapters Petitioning Against The Bill, July 23, 1840"" is a historical document written by James Lewis Knight Bruce. The book is a speech that...

""Dell'Andamento Delle Cose In Italia"" ����� un libro scritto da Luigi Pianciani nel 1860. Questo testo ����� una raccolta di discorsi tenuti dallo stesso autore durante il periodo in cui fu Ministro dell'Interno del Regno d'Italia. Il libro analizza la...

""The Decline of the Roman Republic V3"" is a historical book written by George Long and published in 1864. The book is a detailed account of the events that led to the decline of the Roman Republic, from the end of the Punic Wars to the rise of Julius...

Essays On The Monetary History Of The United States is a book written by Charles Jesse Bullock and first published in 1900. The book is a collection of essays that explore the monetary history of the United States from colonial times to the end of the...

""Early History Of The Colony Of Victoria V2"" is a historical book written by Francis Peter Labilliere in 1878. The book provides a comprehensive account of the early history of Victoria, Australia, from the time of its discovery to its establishment as...

Duncan examines the challenges of governments face such as a global pandemic, climate change, and strategic rivalry and how public policy and administration plays a crucial role in solving these issues. A useful guide for officials, civil servants, and...

This proceedings volume of InCoTEPD 2018 covers many ideas for handling a wide variety of challenging issues in the field of education. The outstanding ideas dealing with these issues result in innovation of the system. There are many innovation...

In recent years, China, the US, and the EU and its Member States have either promulgated new national laws and regulations or drastically revised existing ones to exert more rigorous government control over inward foreign direct investment (FDI). Such...

This book presents a study of Japanese involvement in post-Soviet Central Asia since the independence of these countries in 1991, examining the reasons for progress and stagnation in this multi-lateral relationship.Featuring interviews with...

Music is an expression of feelings of the soul conveyed through the medium of sound. But not all sounds are music. It might be said that only an organised sound or series of sounds can be called music. Thus, music is connected to the eternal and constant...

Providing a selection of papers presented at ICECE 2018, a biennial conference organised by the Early Childhood Education Program, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia. The conference's general theme was "Finding Alternative Approaches, Theories, Frameworks,...

The papers published in this proceedings volume are written by a selection of authors, resulting from a call for papers for the 1st International Conference on Law and Governance in a Global Context (ICLAVE) originating from Indonesia and other countries...

Supply Chain Management and Corporate Governance is the first comprehensive analysis and analytical robust optimisation modelling of the relationships between corporate governance principles and supply chain management for risk management and decision...

This book investigates civil society regionalization in Southern Africa. The point of departure is the study of 'new regionalism', which refers to the wave of regional integration globally since the 1980s. However, whilst the current regionalism studies...

Traditional research about Financial Stability and Sustainable Growth typically omits Earnings Management (as a broad class of misconduct), Complex Systems Theory, Mechanism Design Theory, Public Health, psychology issues, and the externalities and...

Evolving economies, the emergence of new technologies and organisational forms are all features of late capitalism. Among this milieu, a marked feature has been the emergence and recognition in society of new occupations. The claim upon a body of...

The Circular Economy in Europe presents an overview and a critical discussion on how circularity is conceived, imagined, and enacted in current EU policy-making. In 2013, the idea of a circular economy entered the stage of European policy-making in the...

Public Policy and the CJEU's Power offers an overarching analytical framework for thinking about the impact of policy contexts on the CJEU's influence on European public policy and the course of European integration. Thereby, it lays out a research...

Ip uses Hong Kong as a case study in how the production of the desire for "the local" lies at the heart of global cultural economy.Perhaps more so than most places, the construction of a local identity in Hong Kong has come about through a complex...

This book provides a comprehensive investigation of the messy and crisis-ridden relationship between the operations of capitalist finance, global capital flows, and state power in emerging markets. The politics, drivers of emergence, and diversity of...

Universities are important public institutions and are seen as key drivers for a country's economic and intellectual development. Their ability to deliver relevant research and education at the highest level have an impact on growth and progress in...

Much is talked and written about well-being in the workplace, but many wonder whether 'putting people first' is just a facade and that were it not for employment legislation, union representation and the high profile of human rights issues, employers...

The essays in this volume, by veteran economists as well as younger scholars, are part of a radical attempt to grapple with the problems of advanced capitalist development without discarding the real theoretical breakthroughs made by Keynes. The...

This is the fourth in the magisterial series of essays by the former editors of Monthly Review on the state of the U.S. economy and its relation to the global system. Like its predecessors, this volume focuses on the development of U.S. capitalism as it...

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is the first full-length study of the largest nongovernmental, global regulatory network whose scope and influence rivals that of the UN system.   Much of the interest in the successes and...

This book analyses the strategic dimensions of energy security, particularly where energy resources have become the object of military competition. The volume explores the risks that may arise from conditions of increasing economic competition and...

It highlights the diverse national discourses and the flexibility required to deliver effective global education programs. ESE practitioners, researchers, and policymakers worldwide will find inspiration and invaluable perspectives in this book.

Although much has been written about contemporary Poland, discussions that provide a balanced assessment of the current situation are in short supply. To correct that problem, this book offers a cross-section of intellectual opinion within Poland,...

This book analyzes the Reagan administration's Middle East policy during its first four-year term of office. It deals with security assistance, bilateral strategic cooperation, military collaboration, crisis management in Lebanon, and the Reagan Plan...

In The Economics of Welfare, originally published in 1920, Pigou reconceptualized economics as a science of economic welfare, in the course of which he developed the first systematic theory of market failures. Employing Alfred Marshall's theoretical...

Economic turmoil has spread throughout the western world, but terrorists and other threats to national security have not been put out of business by the Great Recession. Economic Instruments of Security Policy explores the critical question: does the...

""M�����moires de M. l'Abb����� Terray, Contr�����leur G�����n�����ral V1-2: Contenant Sa Vie, Son Administration (1776)"" est un livre qui relate la vie et l'administration de Joseph Marie Terray, qui �����tait Contr�����leur G�����n�����ral sous le...

The complexities of war are only truly known when you've experienced it.From 1992 to 1994, Jonathan Jones, an ex-serviceman of the Gloucestershire Regiment, found himself in the depths of chaos while providing humanitarian aid as a civilian truck driver...

Metrology is the study of measurement science. Although classical economists have emphasized the importance of measurement per se, the majority of economics-based writings on the topic have taken the form of government reports related to the activities...

This book analyses the root and proximate causes of the Bahr el Ghazal famine in 1998 as a chain of political, environmental, economic and social factors, as well as a failure of public action and early warning systems. It is estimated about 70,000...

Modern capitalism favors values that undermine our face-to-face bonds with friends and family members. Focusing on the post-communist world, and comparing it to more "developed" societies, this book reveals the mixed effects of capitalist culture on...

Stephen Krasner has been one of the most influential theorists within international relations and international political economy over the past few decades. This book is a collection of his key academic work as well as a meditation on his time in...

This book provides an empirical study of the increasing importance of the concept of the entrepreneur in the context of the neoliberal cultural paradigm. Using the theoretical framework of the post-structural discourse theory and methods of qualitative...

This edited volume represents the first collaborative effort to explicitly view China's rapid international ascent as associated with the same process that catapulted Great Britain, the United States, Germany, and Japan to international prominence - the...

The book explores whether fiscal policies can secure full employment without inflation, one of the key questions in economics after Keynes. Part 1, General Theory of Public Finance and Fiscal Policy, discusses Ends and Means in economic policy. The...

'Dalton has succeeded in expressing general economic concepts in simple language' The Economist. The 1971 edition of this famous textbook includes recent material to the general survey on the theory of taxation, other forms of public revenue, public...

Asian interregional economic cooperation has assumed greater prominence with the rise of Asia's two giant economies of China and India. The economic liberalization of China's economy in 1979, followed by India in 1991, signalled the presence of business...