Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
Financing Armed Conflict, Volume 1
Resourcing US Military Interventions from the Revolution to the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
This first part of a two-volume series examines in detail the financing of America’s major wars from the American Revolution to the Civil War. It interweaves analyses of political policy, military strategy and operations, and war finance and economic mobilization with examinations of the events...
Arsenal of World War II
The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1940-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Prolific munitions production keyed America's triumph in World War II but so did the complex economic controls needed to sustain that production. Artillery, tanks, planes, ships, trucks, and weaponry of every kind were constantly demanded by the military and readily supplied by American business....
Elite Recruitment and Coherence of the Inner Core of Power in Finland
Changing Patterns during the Economic Crises of 1991-2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The book outlines the approaches of classical elite theory and democratic elitism for the study of national power structures. The book displays different research methods for elite study as well as the power conceptions included within these methods. An elite structure typology is derived from the...
Reviving Legitimacy
Lessons for and from China
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
The Chinese government has attempted to bolster its legitimacy as a political response to emerging social, cultural, political, economic, environmental challenges and crises experienced during market-oriented reforms and rapid modernization in China. However, contrary to the Western preference for...
by David Baker, Pauline Schnapper
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
This book centres on the effects of the political and later economic crisis which seriously affected the European Union and its impact on the seemingly endless UK debate over Britain's position within the EU.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2009
More than 15 years have passed since the end of the Cold War, but uncertainty persists in the political-economic shaping of the world economy and state system. Although many countries have institutionalized neoliberal policies since the mid-1970s, these
policies have not taken hold to the same degree,...
Polarized America
The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Updated analysis of how the increasing polarization of American politics has been accompanied and accelerated by greater income inequality.
The idea of America as politically polarized—that there is an unbridgeable divide between right and left, red and blue states—has become a cliché....
by Wayne Hope
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
In this book Wayne Hope analyzes the double relation between time and global capitalism. In order to do this, he cross-relates four epistemes of time - epochality, time reckoning, temporality and coevalness – with four materializations of time – hegemony, conflict, crisis and rupture. Using this...
Violent Entrepreneurs
The Use of Force in the Making of Russian Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Entering the shady world of what he calls "violent entrepreneurship," Vadim Volkov explores the economic uses of violence and coercion in Russia in the 1990s. Violence has played, he shows, a crucial role in creating the institutions of a new market economy. The core of his work is competition among...
Dirty Cities
Towards a Political Economy of the Underground in Global Cities
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
This volume uncovers the relations between globalization and dirty dealings in urban settings, focusing on some capital cities and on the relations between underground and overground dynamics all over the globe. It aims to provide a new take on the dark side of globalization.
Employment and Development under Globalization
State and Economy in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Cohn lays out a new strategy of how states can produce economic development in poor nations – by considering barber shops, beauty parlours, hotels and restaurants in Brazil. Cohn considers the case of nations with budgetary limits that cannot afford to follow the East Asian model, and finds alternative policies that create jobs and reduce poverty.
Constructing a Post-War Order
The Rise of US Hegemony and the Origins of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
The years 1942 to 1946 saw the acceleration of World War II, its conclusion and the construction of a post-war order that was to culminate in the Cold War. Andrew Baker here examines the expansion of US political and economic power and hegemony during this period, and the extent to which smaller states,...
South Africa Pushed to the Limit
The Political Economy of Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Since 1994, the democratic government in South Africa has worked hard at improving the lives of the black majority, yet close to half the population lives in poverty, jobs are scarce, and the country is more unequal than ever. For millions, the colour of people’s skin still decides their destiny....
Following St. Francis
John Paul II's Call for Ecological Action
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The first book to present the environmental teachings of this beloved pope—the newly canonized St. John Paul—and the hopeful words of Pope Francis, thoughtfully synthesized into a complete spiritual and practical vision for the future.
"The ecological crisis is a moral crisis."...