Political Economy

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..

The current financial crisis is characterised by high levels of inequality, rampant unemployment, economic and social insecurity and environmental decay. This book draws together approaches from heterodox economics and psychoanalysis and adopts a pluralist and interdisciplinary approach to the study..

The current financial crisis is characterised by high levels of inequality, rampant unemployment, economic and social insecurity and environmental decay. This book draws together approaches from heterodox economics and psychoanalysis and adopts a pluralist and interdisciplinary approach to the study..

This book gathers a collection of multidisciplinary essays by Jesús Huerta de Soto, examining the dynamic processes of social cooperation which characterize the market, with particular emphasis on the role of both entrepreneurship and institutions...

This book gathers a collection of multidisciplinary essays by Jesús Huerta de Soto, examining the dynamic processes of social cooperation which characterize the market, with particular emphasis on the role of both entrepreneurship and institutions...

In recent times, policy makers, scientists, academics and commentators have become increasingly nervous about the US economic downturn. This new edited volume, from a top international set of contributors, seeks to answer these questions and to offer alternative, realistic and feasible strategies an..

The Vision of a Real Free Market Society calls for root and branch changes to the inherent structure of American capitalism. The book explains why the system fails so many Americans in so many different ways, and outlines how we can build a better economy that simultaneously promotes freedom and soc..

This book explores the history, structure and current operations of the World Bank, which despite being the largest development organisation and the largest development research body in the world with tremendous direct and indirect influence on developing economies, has rarely received the critical ..

The recent economic events driven by the great financial crisis of 2007-08 has challenged some "dogma", highlighting various limits and drawbacks of current paradigms. The crisis showed the limitations of monetary policy and led to a revaluation of what levels of public debt can be considered safe. ..

This book promises to describe political and economic dynamics as interwoven as they are in real life and it adds to that an evolutionary perspective, which allows for a long-run view. The essays in this volume explore the theoretical and methodological aspects of evolutionary political economy. In ..

A lot of recent attention has been given to one of the central paradoxes of trust: namely how people can restrict self-interest in order to trust. Existing perspectives, theories, and models offer partial explanations, but this volume presents a novel framework that expands on the findings of recent..

Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century reached the top of most best-seller lists last year shortly after it was released. Nonetheless, few people actually read the book. Yet reviewers have agreed that the book is important because it touches on one of the major problems facing the US economy, ..