Political Economy

This book assesses South America’s most ambitious attempt at economic integration, Mercosur, explaining the main—and inherent—weaknesses of the integration effort, through explicit comparison with the European experience with integration...

The early 21st Century saw a boom in Brazil’s economy. Commodities had a large part to play, including bananas, sugar and soybeans, but also processed food, gasoline and medium sized airplanes. This book argues it is the adoption of leftist economic policies and changes made by Lula’s government whi..

The book is the first attempt to offer a holistic and integrated exploration of the political-economic framework underpinning economic regionalism. In doing so it provides a much-needed contribution to the literature on international political economy, international relations and Asian political eco..

This book constitutes an up-to-date treatment of Russia’s economic development and economic policies since 2000, exploring how in spite of steep production decline, widening welfare differentials and increasing social uncertainty, the 1990s created many of the institutional and policy preconditions ..

Rousseas provides theoretical background and insight into the ideology of supply-side economics, commonly referred to as Reaganomics. Originally published in 1982, this title is ideal for students of Economics and Politics, as well as the general reader interested in the subject...

Rousseas provides theoretical background and insight into the ideology of supply-side economics, commonly referred to as Reaganomics. Originally published in 1982, this title is ideal for students of Economics and Politics, as well as the general reader interested in the subject...

This book considers issues of economic reform in developed, transition and developing countries. Using country specific cases including Uzbekistan, Burma and Haiti, it focuses on those territories which have encountered problems reforming...

This book seeks to analyse the development of the EU arguing that the the principle of free movement of capital, goods, services and people is fundamentally at odds with the creation of an interventionist regime...

Oren M. Levin-Waldman studies the role that living wage campaigns may have had in recent years in altering the political landscape in four cities where they have been adopted: Los Angeles, Detroit, Baltimore, and New Orleans...

Oren M. Levin-Waldman studies the role that living wage campaigns may have had in recent years in altering the political landscape in four cities where they have been adopted: Los Angeles, Detroit, Baltimore, and New Orleans...

Fusing theories from political science, management and linguistics, Dannreuther and Perren assert that the idea of the small firm is an important discursive resource used by political actors to legitimise their actions, influence their citizens and help sustain regimes of accumulation. On top of thi..

The Political Economy of Trade Finance provides a detailed analysis as to how firms use the medium and longer-term financing provided by ECAs to export goods to developing countries. It also explains how ECA arrears has contributed to the debt of developing countries and illustrates how the commerci..