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This edited volume analyses how EU membership influenced the convergence process of member countries in the Baltics, Central-Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. It also explores countries that are can……続きを見る

This edited volume analyses the channels through which EU membership contributed to the convergence process of member countries in the Baltics, Central-Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. These channe……続きを見る

The Trump Paradox: Migration, Trade, and Racial Politics in US-Mexico Integration explores one of the most complex and unequal cross-border relations in the world, in light of both a twenty-first-ce……続きを見る

New Frontiers in Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Peace Science explores the uncharted land of conflicts, human security and peace. Bringing together a diverse, world-leading researchers, th……続きを見る

Noi paghiamo il prezzo dei loro misfatti. Viviamo in un sistema che socializza le perdite e privatizza i guadagni. Questo non è capitalismo. È economia distorta. Joseph Stiglitz a Zuccotti Park 続きを見る

This book aims to define comparative economics and to illustrate the breadth and depth of its contribution. It starts with an historiography of the field, arguing for a continued legacy of comparati……続きを見る

Why and how will the fourth industrial revolution impact great power politics? Here, Glenn Diesen utilizes a neoclassical approach to great power politics to assess how far the development of AI, na……続きを見る

Non c'è più alcun dubbio: il capitalismo si sta avvicinando ai suoi ultimi giorni. I quattro cavalieri che annunciano la ventura Apocalisse sono secondo Slavoj Žižek: la crisi ecologica globale; i g……続きを見る

«Che tu possa vivere in tempi interessanti!» è una maledizione attribuita ai cinesi, tanto più sottile perché si nasconde dietro la maschera di una benedizione. Zizek la rivolge ai filosofi radicali……続きを見る

According to conventional wisdom, American social policy has always been exceptional--exceptionally stingy and backwards. But Edwin Amenta reminds us here that sixty years ago the United States led ……続きを見る

The Elusive Tipping Point: China-India Ties for a New Order is a timely foreign-policy-relevant book. This insightful book delves deep into the reasons for frequent diplomatic and strategic crises b……続きを見る

The contributions to this book examine the two main asymmetries of the Euro Area as they have intensified during the second decade of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU): the first between monetary un……続きを見る

Political macroeconomy refers to the interconnection between macroeconomic politics and macroeconomic performance. The expectational Phillips curve may be used to examine the economic aspects of thi……続きを見る

This book argues for the abolition of the employment system in favor of workplace democracy and thus escapes the usual capitalism-versus-socialism binary choice by reframing the basic issue as the e……続きを見る

The original works of foreign classics, including the most representative literary masters and the most influential representative works. 続きを見る

This book discusses socialism and democracy. It approaches socialism not as a label but as an ideology. Based on a careful examination of what socialism is, traced back to Karl Marx, this book expla……続きを見る

The governments of China and the United States - despite profound differences in history, culture, economic structure, and political ideology - both engage the private sector in the pursuit of publi……続きを見る

Assaults on democracy are increasingly coming from the actions of duly elected governments, rather than coups. Backsliding examines the processes through which elected rulers weaken checks on execut……続きを見る

Drawing on ethnographic research at the British seaside, this book offers an original and insightful anthropological contribution to the study of contemporary Britain and nationalism. The volume foc……続きを見る

This book explores endogenous institutional change and the global, cyclical, and power-based drivers that underpin it. A metatheoretical framework is presented to highlight the influence of path dep……続きを見る

This book provides a focus on some of the main markers and challenges that are at the core of the study of structural transformations in contemporary capitalism and their implications for labour in ……続きを見る

En la Argentina, la persistente falta de dólares –y sus consecuencias en el devenir de la política económica y la vida cotidiana de las personas– tiene poco que ver con la lógica de la noticia efíme……続きを見る

This study deals with three domains of food which raise complex epistemological, political and moral issues. Through an examination of a wide range of material drawn from anthropology, history, lite……続きを見る

Vivimos en un paradigma económico que sufre un proceso de cambio radical hacia una realidad financiera que exige nuevas formas de compresión y participación. Este cambio está generando incertidumbre……続きを見る

Nuestro mundo evidencia una serie de cambios estructurales cuyo alcance habrá de sentirse por generaciones. Asistimos al fin de una era, cuyo punto de inflexión desde la perspectiva geoestratégica s……続きを見る

Critical of the economic and political power relations in contemporary India, this book is written from the vantagepoint of the working masses whose basic economic and democratic rights remain unmet……続きを見る

Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy ……続きを見る

We've all been tourists at some point in our lives. How is it we look so condescendingly at people taking selfies in front of the Tower of Pisa? Is there really much to distinguish the package holid……続きを見る

Así como el siglo XX significó la época de las “guerras del petróleo/gas” que formaron parte de los juegos geoestratégicos de las superpotencias, el siglo XXI se orienta a las “guerras globales del ……続きを見る

Poverty in Contemporary Economic Thought aims to describe and critically examine how economic thought deals with poverty, including its causes, consequences, reduction and abolition. This edited vol……続きを見る