New Political Economy
Structuralism and Individualism in Economic Analysis: The "Contractionary Devaluation Debate" in Development Economics
1st Edition
By S. Charusheela
September 10, 2012
This book argues that the debates about the appropriate economic policies to follow in the developing world within the field of development economics are at heart debates about the appropriate ontology to ascribe to agents within the developing world....
The African-Asian Divide: Analyzing Institutions and Accumulation in Kenya
1st Edition
By Paul Vandenberg
July 27, 2012
Why have Africans not gained a more dominant position in urban manufacturing in Kenya? This question is explored through an analysis of the institutions, both formal and informal, that have affected patterns of capital accumulation in Kenya by the African and Asian (Indian) communities. Using a new...
Prison Labor in the United States: An Economic Analysis
1st Edition
By Asatar Bair
April 10, 2012
This book is the only comprehensive analysis of contemporary prison labor in the United States. In it, the author makes the provocative claim that prison labor is best understood as a form of slavery, in which the labor-power of each inmate (though not their person) is owned by the Department of ...
The Political Economy of European Union Competition Policy: A Case Study of the Telecommunications Industry
1st Edition
By Tuna Baskoy
February 24, 2012
In the European Union (EU), competition policy occupies a central place amongst other EU public policies and is the first truly supranational public policy regulating market competition. One of the stated objectives of EU competition policy is to prevent excessive concentration of economic power in...
Labor, Industry, and Regulation during the Progressive Era
1st Edition
By Daniel E. Saros
February 23, 2012
The Progressive Era was among the most volatile times for the economy and labor in American History. Daniel E. Saros explores the institutional and economic conditions of this time, revealing new insight into the regulated nature of industry and the conditions of labor. Using the steel industry as ...
New Deal Banking Reforms and Keynesian Welfare State Capitalism
1st Edition
By Ellen Russell
February 23, 2012
Russell provides a groundbreaking critique of the orthodox position on the nature of New Deal reforms as well as an innovative analysis of the unraveling of those reforms. Russell argues that the success of the New Deal banking reforms in the post-war period initially produced a "pax financus" in ...
Discipline in the Global Economy?: International Finance and the End of Liberalism
1st Edition
By Jakob Vestergaard
February 03, 2012
In Discipline in the Global Economy, Jakob Vestergaard investigates the currently prevailing regulation of international finance, launched in response to the financial crises of the 1990’s. At the core of this approach is a set of standards of ‘best practice’, ranging from banking supervision to ...
Market Sense: Toward a New Economics of Markets and Society
1st Edition
By Philip Kozel
June 18, 2010
This book concentrates upon the historic associations of the marketplace in the work of Aristotle, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and demonstrates how what markets were imagined to entail for society was critical to each author's understanding of the central social problems of their time....