Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
Korea's Developmental Alliance
State, Capital and the Politics of Rapid Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
South Korea is often cited as a case of miraculous transformation from poverty to prosperity. Korea’s achievement of moving from one of the world’s poorest countries as recently as the early 1960s to the ranks of the ten biggest economies only four decades later has rightly attracted interest...
Regulation Theory and Australian Capitalism
Rethinking Social Justice and Labour Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
The end of the post-World War II ‘long boom’ in the mid-1970s proved the beginning of a process of political-economic change that has fundamentally transformed labour law, both in Australia and across the developed world more generally. This is a phenomenon with deep ramifications for social justice.
The...
Governing Global Land Deals
The Role of the State in the Rush for Land
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
This collection of essays in Governing Global Land Deals provides new empirical and theoretical analyses of the relationships between global land grabs and processes of government and governance.
Reframes debates on global land grabs by focusing on the relationship between large-scale land deals...
Africa and China
How Africans and Their Governments are Shaping Relations with China
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
The China-Africa relationship has so far largely been depicted as one in which the Chinese state and Chinese entrepreneurs control the agenda, with Africans and their governments as passive actors exercising little or no agency. This volume examines the African side of the relation, to show how African...
The Changing Politics of Finance in Korea and Thailand
From Deregulation to Debacle
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
This is the first systematic attempt to explore the causal relationship between financial market reform and financial crisis in an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective. It examines the political underpinnings of financial policy-change and provides an in-depth analysis of market liberalisation...
Egalitarianism of The Free Society
and the end of class conflict
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2008
The transformation of society and the world of work, in the industrialised countries over the past 60 years, have overtaken political systems in the democratic world. The old left/right political divide, which has marked the pattern of socio-economic struggle since 1789, has now ceased to be a useful...
Conflicts in the Persian Gulf
Origins and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
This book analyzes the origins of conflicts and wars in the Persian Gulf, assesses the common factor(s) that have been their essential fuel, determines their fallout for the political, economic, and human development of the region, and provides insight into how they may be better contained.
New Millennium South Korea
Neoliberal Capitalism and Transnational Movements
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Despite the common held belief that Asian nations have displayed anti-market tendencies of under-consumption and export-oriented trade since the Asian financial crisis, in the 10 years since the crisis, South Korea has bucked this trend accruing a higher debt rate than the US. This groundbreaking...
The Political Economy of Britain in Crisis
Trade Unions and the Banking Sector
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This book explores two recent crises in British political economy: the crisis of 1976–9, for which the trade unions were impugned, and the 2007 economic crisis, for which bankers were (at least initially) blamed. The author argues that the “crisis resolution” of the former – principally the...
The Politics of Autonomy in Latin America
The Art of Organising Hope
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
The author contests older concepts of autonomy as either revolutionary or ineffective vis-à-vis the state. Looking at four prominent Latin American movements, she defines autonomy as 'the art of organising hope': a tool for indigenous and non-indigenous movements to prefigure alternative realities at a time when utopia can be no longer objected.
The Delusions of Economics
The Misguided Certainties of a Hazardous Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
In The Delusions of Economics, Gilbert Rist presents a radical critique of neoclassical economics from a social and historical perspective. Rather than enter into existing debates between different orthodoxies, Rist instead explores the circumstances that prevailed when economics was 'invented', and...
by Andrei V. Belyi, Kim Talus
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Research on the role of states and markets in the hydrocarbon sector is highly topical in contemporary International Political Economy. This edited collection will approach this subject from a broader perspective, investigating the very essence of the interaction between the state and the market and how this varies on a regional basis.
Biopolitical Governance
Race, Gender and Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
For years critical theorists and Foucauldian biopolitical theorists have argued against the Aristotelian idea that life and politics inhabit two separate domains. In the context of receding social security systems and increasing economic inequality, within contemporary liberal democracies, life is...
by Keming Yang
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Since 1949, Chinese capitalists have experienced some dramatic shifts in their political and economic life. Keming Yang examines what such changes tell us about China's current political situation and future political development, making use of both historical and current interdisciplinary evidence.