Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
A unique examination of why the quest for global free trade often forgets that trade liberalization is organized regionally rather than multilaterally.
There are now more than 250 regional integration initiatives and this number is steadily increasing. This trend raises a key question: What...
The National Origins of Policy Ideas
Knowledge Regimes in the United States, France, Germany, and Denmark
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2014
In politics, ideas matter. They provide the foundation for economic policymaking, which in turn shapes what is possible in domestic and international politics. Yet until now, little attention has been paid to how these ideas are produced and disseminated, and how this process varies between countries....
by Galal Amin
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
In his latest exploration of the Egyptian malaise, Galal Amin first looks at the events of the months preceding the Revolution of 25 January 2011, pointing out the most important factors behind popular discontent. He then follows the ups and downs (mainly the downs) of the Revolution: the causes of...
Profiting Without Producing
How Finance Exploits Us All
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Financialization is one of the most innovative concepts to emerge in the field of political economy during the last three decades, although there is no agreement on what exactly it is. Profiting Without Producing puts forth a distinctive view defining financialization in terms of the fundamental conduct...
Living with Transition in Laos
Market Intergration in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Laos - the Lao People's Democratic Republic - is one of the least understood and studied countries of Asia. Its development trajectory is also one of the most interesting, as it moves from state, or perhaps more appropriately subsistence, to market. Based on extensive original research, this book...
The Coming Revolution
Capitalism in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
A technological revolution is driving capitalism toward crisis and collapse. Can our society evolve in time to rescue the future? Radical advances in automation, robotics, and computer technology have thrown millions out of work and will only continue to do so in the years to come. At the same time,...
Ricardo's Law
House Prices and the Great Tax Clawback Scam
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2006
Presenting insights into how income and wealth are produced and distributed, this study analyzes how, despite two centuries of capital accumulation, poverty persists in rich nations. Relying on the theories of David Ricardo—a 19th-century economist credited with developing the theory of rent—a...
Great Recession and its Implications for Human Values
Lessons for Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The earth has enough for everyone's need, but not everyone's greed. — Mahatma GandhiThe Great Recession, which started around 2007, stands out as the most significant crisis of global capitalism since the 1930s, both in scope and intensity. Although it was triggered by developments in the financial...
State Fragility and State Building in Africa
Cases from Eastern and Southern Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
This book describes the contrast between the strong economic growth and democratization that have occurred in Africa and its stalling political progress. It presents and discusses fragility as the phenomenon that has caused the state to remain weak and faltering and has led to at least one third of...
by Arlo Poletti, Daniela Sicurelli
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
This book critically engages with a long tradition of scholarly work that conceives of the European Union as a peculiar international actor that pursues a value-based, normatively oriented and development-friendly agenda in its relations with international partners. The EU is a pivotal player in...
Trade Battles
Activism and the Politicization of International Trade Policy
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Winner of ASA's 2019 Charles Tilly Distinguished Book Award Trade was once an esoteric economic issue with little domestic policy resonance. Activists did not prioritize it, and grassroots political mobilization seemed unlikely to free trade advocates. The passage of the North American Free Trade...
by Daniel Defoe
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
The creator of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe was quite politically active and that activism even resulted with his arrest, placement in a pillory and imprisoning. This collection represents his political activism and mirrors the true political climate in 18 th century England. His most successful...
Climate Leviathan
A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
How climate change will affect our political theory—for better and worse
Despite the science and the summits, leading capitalist states have not achieved anything close to an adequate level of carbon mitigation. There is now simply no way to prevent the planet breaching the threshold of two...
by Walter Rodney
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis
In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America,...