Exposes the shock doctors and offers information and connections that show how the shock doctors' beliefs dominate our world - and how this domination has been achieved. This book tells the tale of how a few are making a killing while more are getting killed.

Examines the logic underlying the neoliberal welfare state that South Korea created in response to the devastating Asian Debt Crisis (1997-2001).

Significant advances have occurred in Europe and in North America in addressing agri-environmental policies. Land use issues tend to be more pressing in Europe than in the US as a whole because of different spatial exigencies. This book aims to identify options for policy to overcome the challenges ahead.

Obama's Stimulus Plan and the Remaking of America.

By investigating the record of economic development in Venezuela from 1920 to 2005, this book shows how political strategies interacted with economic strategies - specifically, how politics determined state capacity at any given time and how the stage of development and development strategies affected the nature of political conflicts.

Bartlett explains how economic theories that may be perfectly valid at one moment in time under one set of circumstances tend to lose validity over time because they are misapplied under different circumstances. He makes a compelling, historically-based case for large tax increases, once anathema to him and his economic allies.

Presents an account of social policy initiatives in China. This book assesses the social impact brought about by the market-oriented changes in China's social policies, and contests the idea whether market-oriented development can result in a more sustainable society.

Taking into account of developments at the World Trade Organization and at the World Intellectual Property Organization, this book incorporates the author's research on Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs). Containing the theoretical and analytical elements, it offers an analysis of how intellectual property is politically constructed.

Taking into account of developments at the World Trade Organization and at the World Intellectual Property Organization, this book incorporates the author's research on Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs). Containing the theoretical and analytical elements, it offers an analysis of how intellectual property is politically constructed.

Examines the logic underlying the neoliberal welfare state that South Korea created in response to the devastating Asian Debt Crisis (1997-2001).

Effectiveness of Network Structures. .

Today's financial crisis is the result of dismal failures on the part of regulators, market analysts, and corporate executives. Yet the response of the American government has been to bail out the very institutions and individuals that have wrought such havoc upon the nation. Are such massive bailouts really called for? Can they succeed?Robert E. Wright and his colleagues provide an unbiased ...

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This volume addresses the issue of state intervention in industry and markets. It provides a comprehensive critique of the policies informed by the Washington Consensus. Building on this critique, the editors bring together essays by leading experts in the field which focus on instances of successful industrial policies and interventions.

If there is one thing that both Left and Right sides of political economic debate over the world economic phenomenon of globalization agree upon it is that globalization reflects the increasingly unfettered spread of capitalism (the 'market') in the world. This book provides an analysis of capitalism's world historic phases of development.

In this book Professor Peter Rutland analyses the role played by regional and local organs of the Soviet Communist Party in economic management from 1970 to 1990.

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This book offers the first political analysis of special purpose jurisdictions.

This book offers the first political analysis of special purpose jurisdictions.

The Effect of Market Imperfections on Economic DecisionMaking. .