Political Economy

Winner of the 2010 Myrdal Prize_x000D_ Exploring the technological advantage of nations, their performance and pattern of specialization and the affect of their financial and governance systems, this book discusses changes that need to be made so that they can cope with new challenges...

This book deconstructs the myth that debt, both public and private, in Southern Europe is the sole outcome of the spendthrift ways of Greece, Spain, Italy and Portugal, offering a fresh perspective on the material, social and ideological parameters of the economic crisis and the spaces where it unfo..

The role of the German Historical School and of Carl Menger (founder of the Austrian School) is appraised in this new book. Gilles Campagnolo has produced an impressive original work which makes use of rarely seen research by Carl Menger and as such this book will be of interest across several discp..

Culture plays an important role in shaping the nature and content of economics. This fascinating book compares the two cultures of Japan and the United States and provides insights into the economic workings and differences between the two nations...

The aim of this book is to embed the ‘new culturalism’ theoretically and relate it to longer-standing debates about culture and/or economy. The result is the first significant text book to explore the interrelationship between culture and economics...

This collection of twelve new essays by distinguished scholars in the fields of history and the philosophy of economics is one of the first book-length studies of Hume’s political economy...

This book delves into regulatory and technological change affecting the electricity industry and provides a previously unexplored synthesis of new institutional economics, experimental economics, evolutionary economics, and network theory...

This book delves into regulatory and technological change affecting the electricity industry and provides a previously unexplored synthesis of new institutional economics, experimental economics, evolutionary economics, and network theory...

This book restores social production and classes back at the centre of Marxist theory by providing what E. V. Ilyenkov calls the development of a "fully logical and really historical" dialectical examination of human social production._x005F_x000D_..

This book restores social production and classes back at the centre of Marxist theory by providing what E. V. Ilyenkov calls the development of a "fully logical and really historical" dialectical examination of human social production._x000D_..

This is a comprehensive account of the Chinese debates on economic reforms, from the Third Plenum of 1978 to the crackdown of 1989. It is designed for scholars and graduate students interested in the political economy of China's reforms...

A revised/updated edition of the regarded 1993 book "Driven by Growth", this work presents the political-economic evolution of the Asia-Pacific countries, with overviews of the impact of economic development on political change. This edition includes chapters on Burma and Vietnam...