Political Economy

This study seeks to demonstrate the subtle ways in which changes in the language associated with economic issues are reflective of a gradual but quantifiable conservative ideological shift...

Government is never big enough. Here’s why. The welfare state is taken for granted. Its presence in modern Western economies, including the United States, is so deeply entrenched that life without it seems unfathomable. Yet, the Western world has been in a long process of economic stagnation. This b..

Government is never big enough. Here’s why. The welfare state is taken for granted. Its presence in modern Western economies, including the United States, is so deeply entrenched that life without it seems unfathomable. Yet, the Western world has been in a long process of economic stagnation. This b..

Lord Roberthall was economic adviser to a succession of Labour and Conservative governments from 1947 to 1961. During that time, he served under eight Chancellors and exercised more influence on economic policy than perhaps any other official. Fortunately – though it was contrary to Civil Service ru..

Lord Roberthall was economic adviser to a succession of Labour and Conservative governments from 1947 to 1961. During that time, he served under eight Chancellors and exercised more influence on economic policy than perhaps any other official. Fortunately – though it was contrary to Civil Service ru..

Lord Roberthall was economic adviser to a succession of Labour and Conservative governments from 1947 to 1961. During that time, he served under eight Chancellors and exercised more influence on economic policy than perhaps any other official. Fortunately – though it was contrary to Civil Service ru..

Lord Roberthall was economic adviser to a succession of Labour and Conservative governments from 1947 to 1961. During that time, he served under eight Chancellors and exercised more influence on economic policy than perhaps any other official. Fortunately – though it was contrary to Civil Service ru..

The political economy of research and innovation (R&I) is one of the central issues of the early 21st century. Responding to this urgency, this handbook presents a pioneering selection of the growing body of literature that has emerged in recent years at the intersection of science & technology stud..

This volume clarifies the character and fundamental structures of ‘political economy’ as an intellectual discipline in the texts of Adam Smith and will be vital reading for historians of economic thought and philosophers of social science...

This book shows that not one, but three different forms of rationality (subjective, social and instrumental) determine the final outcomes of strategic decisions executed by major organizations. Based on an argumentation analysis of six high profile public debates, this book adds nuance to the concep..

This book develops a framework for the analysis of scientific experimentation and applies it to the experimental field of economics looking at the epistemic role of the participation of human subjects in economics experiments...

The contributions to this edited collection, first published in 1983, examine the major recession that took hold of the global economy during the 1980s and assesses its effects on key areas of social structure, including political and economic democracy and trade union representation. This is a comp..