Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
Inequality in the Workplace
Labor Market Reform in Japan and Korea
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
The past several decades have seen widespread reform of labor markets across advanced industrial countries, but most of the existing research on job security, wage bargaining, and social protection is based on the experience of the United States and Western Europe. In Inequality in the Workplace,...
New Visions for Market Governance
Crisis and Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
The financial crisis of 2008-2009 and the "Great Recession" that it precipitated highlight a number of important questions about the governance of contemporary capitalism. How do shortcomings in existing market governance institutions help to account for trends of rising economic inequality...
Chinese Capitalism in a Global Era
Towards a Hybrid Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Chinese Capitalism in a Global Era examines the dynamic ways in which millions of ethinic Chinese in East and Southeast Asian economies organize their economic activities. It analyses how Chinese capitalism has changed under conditions of contemporary globalization and anticipates what the future...
Reformation to Industrial Revolution
1530-1780
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
The masterful account of Britain’s reshaping as a modern nation
In 1530 England was a backward economy. Yet by 1780 she possessed a global empire and was on the verge of becoming the world’s first industrialized power. This book deals with the intervening 250 years, and explains how England...
Transitioning to a Post-Carbon Society
Degrowth, Austerity and Wellbeing
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
This book deals with one of the most pressing social and environmental issues that we face today. The transition to a post-carbon society, in which the consumption of fossil fuels decreases over time, has become an inevitability due to the need to prevent catastrophic climate change, the increasing...
Japan Transformed
Political Change and Economic Restructuring
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
With little domestic fanfare and even less attention internationally, Japan has been reinventing itself since the 1990s, dramatically changing its political economy, from one managed by regulations to one with a neoliberal orientation. Rebuilding from the economic misfortunes of its recent past, the...
Who's Afraid of John Maynard Keynes?
Challenging Economic Governance in an Age of Growing Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
This is a book with many benefits. Davidson explains the importance of the market economy, and unveils how and why global financial crises occur when the liquidity of financial assets traded in the market, suddenly collapse.
70 years after Keynes’ death, in another era of financial crisis...
The Magic Kingdom
Property, Monarchy, and the Maximum Republic
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Anyone who knows anything about Britain knows that it is a democracy and a constitutional monarchy. The trouble is, it is neither. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is one of the most exotic nations on earth. In the republican form of government a defined public exercise sovereign...
by Ishac Diwan
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
For the millions of citizens in the Arab World who came together in 2010–2011 to discover their common yearning for dignity and liberty, the real revolutions only began after the wave of protests. Understanding the Political Economy of the Arab Uprisings reassess the interests, potential and constraints...
Environmental Security in the Arctic Ocean
Promoting Co-operation and Preventing Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
The North Pole is being transformed from a sea-ice cap to a seasonally ice-free sea within the next few decades. This fundamental shift in the boundary conditions of the Arctic Ocean will create a new natural system with different dynamics than anything previously experienced by humans in the region....
“Pan” Africa Rising
The Cultural Political Economy of Nigeria’s Afri-Capitalism and South Africa’s Ubuntu Business
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This book uses Nigeria’s Afri-capitalist and South Africa’s Ubuntu Business models as case studies that reconcile the tension between Africa Rising and Pan African economics, presenting their convergence as Africa’s viable Third Way route to global development. In presenting Afri-capitalism...
by George O'Brien, Dr. Edward McPhail
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
This work offers a unique perspective on the rise of capitalism and socialism and the effect of the Reformation. Specific topics include consequences of belief in the private judgment of scriptures; separation of spiritual and secular life; difference between Lutheran and Calvinist teachings on economics;...
Workers' Movements and Strikes in the Twenty-First Century
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
While workers movements have been largely phased out and considered out-dated in most parts of the world during the 1990s, the 21st century has seen a surge in new and unprecedented forms of strikes and workers organisations.
The collection of essays in this book, spanning countries across...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book looks at the future role of local economic development. Once New Labour came to power in 1997, they sought a third way between the new right agenda of Thatcherism with its attempts to reduce the role of the local state and foster a free market and the left’s attempts to take more control...