Political Economy

Inspired by modern physics, the author brings together an evolutionary methodology, along the way implicating quantum, graph, and percolation theory. This book provides an interdisciplinary approach to entrepreneurship...

Though central to the market process, entrepreneurship is often overlooked by theorists. This work presents the entrepreneur as theorist, developing ideas to be tested in the market, creating new ventures through trial and error...

This title was first published in 2003. This book provides an innovative, fresh approach to entrepreneurship. It puts forward a flexible, expansive conceptualization of the continuum of entrepreneurial behaviour and integrates context, culture, social networks and entrepreneurship as an embedded act..

The book integrates inputs from behavioural science with insights and models from the philosophy of knowledge and of economics to consider the problem of valid knowledge construction and effective knowledge governance in the modern economy...

This book, which include articles from Tony Lawson, Ivor Grattan-Guinness and Roger Backhouse, highlights current notions of equilibrium in economics and provides a guide to understanding the links between economic theory and economic reality...

The influence that Chinese communities have had in various Asian countries has been quite staggering. This book is a collection of essays from important internationally-based thinkers on this interesting subject...

This book brings together a collection of experts to address the role of the Mediterranean in the study of European Integration and discuss issues such as development, aid, labour, markets, human capital investment and institutional reform...

This book consists of two parts. Part 1 provides a broad range of issues that show how flexible evolutionary political economy can handle acute policy problems in Europe: should Europe support the revived build-up of NATO forces on its Eastern border, or should it rather aim at economic cooperation ..

Inequalities in incomes and wealth have increased in advanced countries, making our economies less dynamic, our societies more unjust and our political processes less democratic. As a result, reducing inequalities is now a major economic, social and political challenge. This book provides a concise ..

The contributors to this volume focus on the political and value issues that, in their shared view, underlie the global environmental crisis facing us today. They argue that only by transforming our dominant values, social institutions and way of living can we avoid ecological disaster...

Professor Ailsa McKay, who was known not only for her work as a feminist economist but also her influence on Scottish social and economic policy, died in 2014 at the height of her academic career and impact on public life. Organised around the key themes of Ailsa McKay’s work, this collection brings..

Recurrent crisis in emerging markets and advanced economies in the last few decades have cast doubt on the ability of financial liberalization to meet the aims of sustainable economic growth and development. The increasing importance of financial markets and financial efficiency principles over econ..