Political Economy

In this book Tymoigne argues that financial stability should be the sole goal of central banks and suggests an alternative to the inflation targeting framework showing how interest-rate policy can help to solve some of the problems faced by central bankers...

The book explores the way in which the state has become commercialised as party and government officials have gone into business and considers the impact that this has had on politics within Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi...

China's relationship with the developing world is a fundamental part of its larger foreign policy strategy. Sweeping changes both within and outside of China and the transformation of geopolitics since the end of the cold war have prompted Beijing to reevaluate its strategies and objectives in regar..

China's relationship with the developing world is a fundamental part of its larger foreign policy strategy. Sweeping changes both within and outside of China and the transformation of geopolitics since the end of the cold war have prompted Beijing to reevaluate its strategies and objectives in regar..

This text analyzes the dramatic shifts in Chinese Communist Party economic policy during the mid to late 1950s which eventually resulted in 30 to 45 million deaths through starvation as a result of the failed policies of the Great Leap Forward...

This text analyzes the dramatic shifts in Chinese Communist Party economic policy during the mid to late 1950s which eventually resulted in 30 to 45 million deaths through starvation as a result of the failed policies of the Great Leap Forward...

China’s Market Communism guides readers step by step up the ladder of China’s reforms and transformational possibilities to a full understanding of Beijing’s communist and post-communist options by investigating the lessons that Xi can learn from Mao, Adam Smith and inclusive economic theory. The bo..

China’s Market Communism guides readers step by step up the ladder of China’s reforms and transformational possibilities to a full understanding of Beijing’s communist and post-communist options by investigating the lessons that Xi can learn from Mao, Adam Smith and inclusive economic theory. The bo..

Chinese Trade demonstrates how government subsidies play a large part in China’s economic growth success. Moreover, it describes China’s current trade practices with the West as a zero sum game at the expense of the West, and explores two solutions: an increase in Western exports to China or a very ..

This impressive volume presents an historical review of the evolution of economic thought. Bruni offers a significant contribution for a new season of studies on happiness and sociality in economics...

Analysing four cases of reform in the post-crisis regulatory context, this book shows how building coalitions with important elite allies outside and inside government helped traditionally weak interest groups transcend a lack of material resources to influence and shape regulatory policy...

Efforts to resolve the recent financial crisis have obscured a more deeply rooted financialization crisis that impacts not only the market economy but also the vital civic and moral traditions that support it. This book reveals the cultural influence of finance in reshaping the foundations of Americ..