Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
Russia's Path from Gorbachev to Putin
The Demise of the Soviet System and the New Russia
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2007
Over the past few years, many of the former Communist-rule countries of Central and Eastern Europe have taken a steady path toward becoming more or less normal capitalist countries - with Poland and Hungary cases in point.
Russia, on the other hand, has experienced extreme difficulties in...
Giants
The Global Power Elite
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
A look at the top 300 most powerful players in world capitalism, who are at the controls of our economic future.
Who holds the purse strings to the majority of the world's wealth? There is a new global elite at the controls of our economic future, and here former Project Censored director and...
by Arsenio M. Balisacan
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Anecdotal evidence permeates accounts on the impact of the global economic crisis on Philippine poverty. This study systematically assesses the evidence and recent data. It adopts a somewhat eclectic approach as applying regression and decomposition techniques to trace the impact of the global economic...
by Austin Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Austin Mitchell's book is the first comprehensive study of the rise, fall and consequences of neoliberalism in Britain and New Zealand, the two countries which adopted the new economics most enthusiastically, became its poster boys in the eyes of right-wing economists and media AND suffered the most...
Looking West
Regional Transformation and the Future of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Although a history of protest politics has done so much to define western Canada and to place it outside the Canadian mainstream, the aspirations and frustrations that animated western discontent over the years have been replaced by a new reality: the West is in, and many of the levers of national...
Criticisms of Classical Political Economy
Menger, Austrian Economics and the German Historical School
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
The role of the German Historical School and of Carl Menger (founder of the Austrian School) is appraised in this new book. This important period of the history of economics is vital to understand how the discipline developed over the next half-century. Gilles Campagnolo has produced an impressive...
The Limits to Capitalist Nature
Theorizing and Overcoming the Imperial Mode of Living
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
The book provides for a historical-materialist understanding of the multiple crises of capitalism, focusing on the ecological crisis and its interaction with other crisis phenomena (financial crisis, crisis of democracy, economic crisis). Drawing on political ecology, Gramscian theory of hegemony,...
European Capitalist Welfare Societies
The Challenge of Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
This book offers an analysis of European capitalist welfare societies, centering on the questions of sustainability and the financing of social rights. Capitalism is defined as a multi-model economy, comprising of a market economy (including production, distribution and exchange), a state welfare...
Combating Inequality
The Global North and South
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Economic inequality has recently gained considerable academic attention. However, two important aspects of inequality have not been discussed systematically: its multidimensional nature and the question of what can be done to reverse it. This book offers insights from scholars representing the Global...
American Hegemony after the Great Recession
A Transformation in World Order
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
This book traces America's rise as a hegemon of the capitalist system, arguing that the greatest threat to global economic stability is America's polarized and ineffectual political system rather than foreign competition from China and the European Union. The author points to China’s considerable...
The Great Wall of Money
Power and Politics in China's International Monetary Relations
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
As an economic superpower, China has become an increasingly important player in the international monetary system. Its foreign exchange reserves are the largest in the world and its exchange rate policy has become a major subject of international economic diplomacy. The internationalization of the...
The Oil Curse
How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2012
Countries that are rich in petroleum have less democracy, less economic stability, and more frequent civil wars than countries without oil. What explains this oil curse? And can it be fixed? In this groundbreaking analysis, Michael L. Ross looks at how developing nations are shaped by their mineral...
The Germany Illusion
Between Economic Euphoria and Despair
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Europe is in a period of transition and there is great uncertainty about its direction. No country plays a greater role in influencing Europe's future path than Germany, which is either seen as overbearing or indecisive in its imposition of policies-and sometimes is seen as both at once. In The Germany...
Resource Curse and Post-Soviet Eurasia
Oil, Gas, and Modernization
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
By the end of the 2000s, the term 'resource curse' had become so widespread that it had turned into a kind of magic keyword, not only in the scholarly language of the social sciences, but also in the discourse of politicians, commentators and analysts all over the world-_like the term 'modernization'...