Political economy Books

Eudine Barriteau exposes the precarious position of women in 20th century Caribbean societies by analyzing the operations of gender systems. She reveals the absence of gender justice and equity, and demonstrates that after 25 years of policies on women...

This book uses case studies and theoretical reflection to contextualize the linkages between collective action theories, social movement practices, and the phenomenon of globalization. The perspectives presented will force a rethinking of the exact...

List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements Foreword The Emerging Country: Appendix: Are Governments Really Inefficient? Ways to Overcome the Public Goods Problem Appendix: Notes on Altruism, Ideology, and Anarchy The Draft Constitution and its...

PART I: INTRODUCTION Introduction: Beyond Billiard Ball Analysis Learning to Read Between the Lines An Overview of Sri Lanka in Politics PART II: CRITICAL JUNCTURES Critical Juncture I: 1948 Independence and the Disenfranchisement of the Plantation...

List of Tables - List of Figures - List of Abbreviations - Foreword - Bibliographic Details of Contributors - PART 1: NGOs, STATES AND DONORS: AN OVERVIEW AND KEY ISSUES - NGOs, States and Donors: An Overview; D.Hulme & M.Edwards - Donors,...

Introduction: The Great Debate: Free or Managed Markets? - Steel and Automobiles: The Heavy Industrial Complex - Banks and Stocks: The Financial Industrial Complex - Chips and Networks: The Microelectronics Industrial Complex - Weapons and Spaceships:...

The purpose of this book is voter education. Every thinking person realizes that we face serious problems: increasing disparity between rich and poor, a shrinking middle class, disintegration of the family, teen pregnancy, cultural subversion, crime and...

This is a basic examination of basic tax systems, for both Layperson and Student. It describes the various forms of tax, both historical and theoretical. It examines each in turn, bringing insight to its advantages and hazards. The Author gives a...

This volume compares the role played by State intervention in the economy in the United Kingdom and Italy. In both nations, the State played an important role as Entrepreneur in the 20th century but with different aims in each country. The crisis of...

By exploring the writings of Mandeville, Hume and Smith, this book offers a critique of Hayek's theory of cultural evolution and explores the roots of his powerful defence of liberalism. This book is an original contribution to the debate, and vital...

With growing concern about the conditions facing low wage workers and new challenges to traditional forms of labor market protection, this book offers a timely analysis of the purpose and effectiveness of minimum wages in different European countries...

Is the EU enlargement the success EU institutions proclaim? Based on fifteen years of fieldwork research across Central and Eastern Europe and on migrants in the UK and Germany, this book provides a less glittering answer. The EU has betrayed hopes of...

Benjamin J. Cohen has been one of the most original and influential writers on international political economy. This book provides an overview of his contribution to the field, grouped around the central theme of global monetary governance. The book is...

For more than a century and a half, the most powerful national governments have created institutions of multilateral governance that promise to make a more inclusive world, a world serving women, working people, the colonized, the 'backward', the...

Over the last decade governments in Europe and North America have attempted to improve efficiency of public services through Information and Communication Technology, commonly branded as electronic government (e-government). Public Sector Transformation...

In 2006, British forces entered the Helmand Province of Afghanistan in what would become one of the defining military campaigns of the decade. At great cost in blood and treasure, the UK waged a protracted counter-insurgency against a resurgent Taliban. ...

The 9/11 terrorist attacks prompted a new urgency in efforts to deal with chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear proliferati on. The potential acquisition and use by terrorist groups of such weaponry was suddenly a much increased threat. The G8...

Law reform in developing countries has become an increasingly topical subject in recent years.  A critical issue is why so many law reform projects in developing economies are regarded by their sponsors and recipients as unsuccessful. This...

This book provides a broad and comprehensive survey of the development of capitalism in Russia from the collapse of the Soviet economic system to the present, and includes the results of substantial new research on the current state of a wide range of...

Living wage activism has spanned time and space, reaching across decades and national boundaries. Conditions generating living wage movements early in the twentieth century have resurfaced in the twenty-first century, only on a global scale: 'sweated'...

This book looks at the role of the Association for Monetary Union in Europe's role in the construction of the Euro. It argues that the AMUE played a prominent role in the adoption of a number of proposals related to the single currency and had a guiding...

Democracy, Citizenship and the Global City focuses on the controversial, neglected theme of citizenship. It examines the changing role of citizens; their rights, obligations and responsibilities as members of nation-states and the issue of...

The blue economy, comprising coastal and marine resources, offers vast benefits for sub-Saharan Africa: of the 53 countries and territories in the region, 32 are coastal states; there are 13 million sq km of maritime zones; more than 90% of the region's...

Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) entails a fundamental shift in macroeconomic policy for participating member states. Adjusting to EMU examines the design and delivery of monetary, fiscal and supply-side policies within the euro area. It appraises the...

Traditional theories suggest that developing countries lack influence in the trade regime. In A Social Theory of the WTO, Jane Ford uses a social theory or constructivist approach to show that developing countries played a critical role in strengthening...

Latin America has a pivotal role to play in international trade negotiations. This book focuses on the key issues for Latin American countries' participation in trade negotiations on the shifting ground of expanding trade agendas, diversifying...

List of Tables List of Figures Glossary of Acronyms and Abbreviations Glossary of Terms and Organizations Series Editor's Preface Introduction The Approach of this Book to the Study of External Shocks and Policy Analysis External Shocks and External...

Preface Acknowledgements Foreword; M.Panic Introduction Background to Policy Recommendations Taxation Reform and Investment Incentives Accounting Conventions and Policy Package Deals General Essays Index

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION PART TWO: ECONOMIC GROWTH AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS Japan's Economic Growth: Past and Present Comments Participatory Employment Practices in Japan Comments Kudoka and the Japanese Worker Comments PART THREE: TRANSFER OF JAPANESE...

Drawing on original research from social scientists working on twelve countries, this book explores the key issues faced by nations and citizens as they struggle to rediscover, reaffirm or reconstruct their sense of national identities in the face of...

Differences in the way national economies are organized have been highlighted in academic and policy debates. This book provides studies of key national economies, examining both enduring features of their economic institutions and how these have changed...

List of Tables Preface PART I: INTRODUCTION Introduction; P.Mosley PART II: DONOR PERSPECTIVES The Poverty Reduction Strategies of the Development Cooperation Agencies in the 1990s: Their Record and What They Need to Do; A.Cox & J. Healey Poverty...

This book looks at how sociological concepts that were first invented and applied to describe social inequality in Europe were also used to understand and explain inequality in the US. Hess analyzes changing uses of concepts and measurements of social...

After a long era of military rule, South American nations have been working on the construction of a new democratic order. This book provides a long-term historical assessment of the main features of civil-military relations in this region, from...