Political Economy Books

New and Published Books

1. Technological Change and Network Effects in Growth Regimes

   Exploring the Microfoundations of Economic Growth

   By Torsten Heinrich

   Series: Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics

   In this new volume it is argued that network effects are much more common than usually assumed, and that they have a profound impact on many aspects of economic systems, especially technological change and economic growth. The analysis and modelling of this interrelationship is the central focus of...

   Published February 3rd 2013 by Routledge
2. Financial Crisis, Labour Markets and Institutions

   Edited by Sebastiano Fadda, Pasquale Tridico

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   This book seeks to explain the global financial crisis and its wider economic, political, and social repercussions, arguing that the 2007-9 meltdown was in fact a systemic crisis of the capitalist system. The volume makes these points through the exploration of several key questions: What kind...

   Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge
3. The World Bank and the post-Washington Consensus in Vietnam and Indonesia

   Inheritance of Loss

   By Susan Engel

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

   This book explores the history, structure and current operations of the World Bank, which despite being the largest development organisation and the largest development research body in the world with tremendous direct and indirect influence on developing economies, has rarely received the critical...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
4. Small and Medium Enterprises in India

   Infirmities and Asymmetries in Industrial Clusters

   By Satyaki Roy

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

   Small and medium enterprises (SME) have attracted increasing interest in the last few years, and industrialization is no longer seen as a linear way of development. This book analyzes how SME clusters emerge in a developing economy. Using India as a case study, it addresses one central question: If...

   Published January 27th 2013 by Routledge
5. The Political Economy of Disaster

   Destitution, Plunder and Earthquake in Haiti

   By Mats Lundahl

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History

   Haiti, one of the least developed and most vulnerable nations in the Western Hemisphere, made the international headlines in January 2010 when an earthquake destroyed the capital, Port-au-Prince. More than a year later, little reconstruction has taken place, in spite of a strong international...

   Published January 24th 2013 by Routledge
6. Towards International Government (Routledge Revivals)

   By J.A. Hobson

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1915, Towards International Government considers the consequences of war for global diplomacy and the alliance system. Hobson argues that, to reduce armaments and the possibility of another world war, an organisational structure of international government must be put into place....

   Published January 23rd 2013 by Routledge
7. Tiger Girls

   Women and Enterprise in the People's Republic of China

   By Minglu Chen

   Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

   The existing scholarship on women in China suggests that gender inequality still exists against the background of the country’s reform and opening in recent years. However, the situation of women in enterprise ownership and leadership seems to indicate that despite such notions of disadvantage...

   Published January 16th 2013 by Routledge
8. Nationalism and Economic Development in Modern Eurasia

   By Carl Mosk

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History

   This book advances a new theory of why nationalism emerged in the modern world. In particular it explains why nationalism and economic development are closely linked, and why warfare plays a crucial role in the spread of the nation-state system. It is based on qualitative and quantitative evidence...

   Published January 13th 2013 by Routledge
9. The Hungry Dragon

   How China’s Resource Quest is Reshaping the World

   By Sigfrido Burgos Cáceres, Sophal Ear

   This book explores China’s quest for energy sources, raw materials and natural resources around the world, with a specific emphasis on oil. China’s ubiquitous presence in Africa, Asia and Latin America is reshaping the world with regards to economics, politics and national security. It offers a...

   Published January 9th 2013 by Routledge
10. Water Resources Policies in South Asia

    Edited by Anjal Prakash, Sreoshi Singh, C. G. Goodrich, S. Janakarajan

    Falling or stagnant agricultural growth, increasing dependence on groundwater, climate variability, swift industrialization, and unplanned and unregulated urbanization in South Asia have spawned a variety of challenges for water resources governance, management and use: groundwater overdraft;...

    Published December 30th 2012 by Routledge India