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.
The recent economic events driven by the great financial crisis of 2007-08 has challenged some "dogma", highlighting various limits and drawbacks of c..
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The core of this book are the chapters on the social costs of markets and neoclassical economics, the social benefits of environme..
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In this book, several academic disciplines are involved: international economics, international political econ..
The current financial crisis is characterised by high levels of inequality, rampant unemployment, economic and social insecurity and environmental dec..
This book explores the foundations of the current economic crisis. Offering a heterodox approach to interpretation it examines the policies implemente..
This book provides the basic knowledge of Japanese contributions in political economy and ongoing research agenda such as the pursuit of theoretical c..
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This book describes the financialization process in commodity futures markets which transformed commodities into an asset class. I..
In book explains how flexible exchange rates became necessary to accommodate the Federal Reserve’s relentless efforts to prevent progressive social ch..
This collection offers a comparative overview of how financial regulations have evolved in various European countries since the introduction of the si..
Neoliberalism and the Moral Economy of Fraud shows specifically how these policies, reforms, ideas, social relations and practices that are described ..
The economics of voting is about when, and subject to what qualifications, electoral markets are like ideal commercial markets where universally self-..
This book offers an explanation as to why economics has become so determinedly non-pluralistic, but much attention is also given to exploring and eval..