Political economy Books

Book SynopsisFree Market Revolution argues that the answer to our current economic woes lies not in "trickle-down government" but in Ayn Rand's philosophy of capitalism and self-interest. The authors apply Rand's ideas to today's political events addressing key issues including the debt crisis, inflation, regulation, and the welfare state.Table of ContentsIntroduction The Incredible Unshrinking Government Why Government Grows With Friends Like These... The 2008 Housing Meltdown: A Crisis That Government Built Rethinking Selfishness The Morality of Success The Business of Business The Nobility of the Profit Motive Selfishness Unleashed The Dynamism of the Market The Regulatory State and Its Victims The Immoral Entitlement State You Are Not Your Brother's Health Care Provider Stopping the Growth of the State Index

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Book SynopsisCaroline Ball, Barrister, taught child law and criminal justice at the University of East Anglia, UK. Her books include Law for Social Workers and Young Offenders: Law Policy and Practice.Trade Review'This user-friendly book provides a clear and comprehensive overview which will be of assistance to students and to practitioners alike.'- HHJ Sally Dowding, Wolverhampton Combined Court Centre, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Overview of Legislation, Guidance and Key Research 2. Accommodation Under Section 20 3. Other Routes to 'Looked After' Status 4. Local Authorities' Responsibilities Towards Looked After Children 5. The Voice of the Looked After Child and the Role of the Family 6. The Acommodation of Looked After Children 7. Reviews 8. Looked After Children's Transition to Adulthood Useful Website Glossary Bibliography Index.

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Book SynopsisThis volume scrutinizes the functionality of a capitalist market society, which is usually praised for the efficiency and dynamism, rather than for its morality. It addresses the dualism behind capitalism's encouragement of greed, which is usually considered to be a moral failing, while also being a driver behind economic growth.Table of ContentsIntroduction Session 1 – Restraining Insatiability; Robert Skidelsky, Perry Anderson and Robert Frank Session 2 – Equality and Corruption; Steven Lukes and Glen Newey Session 3 – The Moral Limits of Markets; Edward Skidelsky and John Milbank Session 4 – The Meaning of Money; Felix Martin, Geoffrey Hosking and David Graeber

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Book SynopsisLatin America was one of the regions least affected by the global financial crisis of 2008. Latin America after the Financial Crisis explains how the global financial crisis affected the region and why it was not as severe as other crises in the past.Trade Review“Latin America after the Financial Crisis is stronger on diagnosis than innovative policy prescription. … a richly textured view of how Latin America experienced the global financial crisis. Opening with commonly understood causes of the crisis in globalized capital markets, the book contests the neoclassical view that unsound monetary policy, regulatory failures, fraudulent practices, and external shocks were at the core of the seismic crisis.” (Patrice Franko, Latin American Research Review, Vol. 54 (1), 2019)Table of Contents1. Introduction; Juan Santarcangelo 2. Unraveling the Sub-prime Global Financial Crisis; Orlando Justo and Juan Santarcangelo 3. The Global Crisis and its Effects on the Accumulation in Argentina; Juan Santarcangelo and Guido Perrone 4. The Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on Brazil from 2008 to the Present; Paul Cooney and Gilberto Marquez 5. Boom and Bust in Colombia 1990-2013; Guillermo Maya Munoz and Daniel Restrepo Soto 6. The Global Crisis and the Chilean Economy; Claudio Lara Cortes 7. The Impact of the Global Post-2007 Economic Crisis and Subsequent Lethargic Performance on Cuba's Economy; Al Campbell 8. The Structural Causes of the Severity of the World Crisis in Mexico; Abelardo Marina Flores and Sergio Camara Izquierdo 9. Venezuela and the International Crisis; Diego Mansilla 10. The Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis in Latin America; Paul Cooney, Orlando Justo and Juan Santarcangelo

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Book SynopsisThe arts are situated at the centre of policies and programs seeking to make communities more creative, cohesive or productive. This book highlights the governmental, aesthetic and economic contexts which shape art in community, offering a constructive account of the ties between government, culture and the citizen.Trade Review"Art in Community provides an astute analysis of art, community and government in a world shaped by neo-liberal policies and increasing cultural diversity. Resisting the celebratory tone of creative industries discourse and community arts practice, the book is alive to the contradictions of contemporary art-making. Khan lucidly argues that provisionality is symptomatic of the evolving relations between culture, politics and subjectivity." - Greg Noble, University of Western Sydney, AustraliaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Resituating art, community and citizenship 1. From consensual to open-ended communities 2. Art as aesthetics, culture and economy 3. The multicultural artist as citizen Conclusion

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Book SynopsisTexas' economic growth has consistently outpaced that of the United States as a whole over the past quarter century.Trade Review"Ten-Gallon Economy is a timely volume on the important forces shaping the dynamic Texas economy over the past decade and more. The invited articles touch on the myriad drivers of the state's rapid growth (energy, exports, low taxes), but they also focus on the challenges that need addressing if Texas is to remain vibrant. The volume is not a compendium of Texas boosterism but rather of clear-eyed research and recommendations to assure future economic success for all Texans." - Kathleen Cooper, Director of International Politics and Economics, Tower Center, Southern Methodist University, USA; former Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, US Department of Commerce; Chief Economist, Exxon Mobil Corporation "Rather than providing simply an overview of Texas' 'oil economy,' Ten-Gallon Economy examines the people and socioeconomic conditions as well as the energy and non-energy components of the state's economy in the past, present, and future. This book is a must-read that will be both informative and enlightening for anyone interested in how we got here and the road forward." - Steve Murdock, Allyn and Gladys Cline Professor of Sociology, Rice University, USA; former Director of the US Census Bureau "We have a responsibility to turn our diversity into strength. The effective deployment of human capital has never offered greater promise than it does today. Ten Gallon Economy outlines the choices we face and the rewards we can fully realize only by addressing our growing education needs. We must always evaluate what our real-world options are; change is the one constant. Ten Gallon Economy's research and analysis provides invaluable insight in these challenging times." - Renu Khator, Chancellor, University of Houston, USATable of ContentsPART I: INTRODUCTION1. Tipping Our Hats to the Ten-Gallon Economy; Pia M. Orrenius, Jesús Cañas, Michael Weiss PART II: PUBLIC POLICY AND BUSINESS CLIMATE2. Increasing Jobs and Income from Work: The Role and Limitations of Public Policy; David Neumark 3. Why Texas Grows Faster: The Role of Smaller Government; Jason Saving4. The Shortcomings of the Texas Margin Tax; Alan D. ViardPART III: HUMAN CAPITAL AND LABOR MARKETS5. Texas' Education Challenge: A Demographic Dividend or Bust?; Marta Tienda 6. Oil Boom Lowers Human Capital Investment in Texas; Anil Kumar7. Employment Growth and Labor Market Polarization in the U.S. and Texas; Melissa LoPalo, Pia M. OrreniusPART IV: INDUSTRY AND EXPORTS8. Texas Real Estate: From the 1980s' Oil Bust to the Shale Oil Boom; John V. Duca, Michael Weiss, Elizabeth Organ9. The Evolution of Texas Banking; Kory Killgo and Kenneth J. Robinson10. The Impact of Changing Energy Prices on the Texas Economy; Mine K. Yücel, Michael Plante, Amy Jordan, Nicole Lake11. Texas Comparative Advantage and Manufacturing Exports; Jesús Cañas, Luis Bernardo Torres Ruiz, Christina EnglishPART V: BORDER AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT12. So Close to Mexico: Economic Spillovers Along the Texas–Mexico Border; Roberto Coronado, Marycruz De León, Eduardo Saucedo13. Border Economic Recovery Lags Rest of State; Keith R. Phillips and Christopher Slijk 14. Las Colonias Along the Texas–Mexico Border; Jordana Barton, Elizabeth Sobel Blum, Emily Ryder Perlmeter, Raquel R. Márquez

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Book Synopsis1. Energy, Capitalism and World Order; Tim Di Muzio; Jesse Salah OvadiaPART I: ENERGY, CAPITAL AND INTERNATIONAL THEORY2. IPE and the Unfashionable Problematic of Capital and Energy; Tim Di Muzio3. Reassessing the Crisis: Ecology and Liberal International Relations; Shane Mulligan4. The Political Economy of Trade in the Age of Carbon Energy; Silke Trommer; Tim Di MuzioPART II: ENERGY, CAPITALISM AND THE (RE)MAKING OF WORLD ORDER5. Oil-Backed Capitalist Development in the Global South: A Case of Positive Oil Exceptionalism?; Jesse Salah Ovadia6. A Different Kind of Magic? Oil, Development and the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela; Tom Chodor7. Towards a North American Energy Bloc: the Geopolitical implications of Market Preserving Federalism; Dan Bousfield8. The Political Economy of (Climate) Change: Low Carbon Energy Transitions under Capitalism; Peter NewellPART III: ENERGY, CAPITALISM AND THE 21ST CENTURY9. The Ethanol Boom and DistributioTrade Review“The book will be helpful for readers in academic fields like development studies, history, geography, international relations, political science, public administration and even sociology. It may also be of interest to practitioners in the energy sector, policy experts, government and the public sector, as well as other experts who want to examine energy and its relationship with capitalism and the future world order through the prism of international political economy.” (Donn David P. Ramos, LSE Review of Books, blogs.lse.ac.uk, November, 2016)Table of Contents1. Energy, Capitalism and World Order; Tim Di Muzio; Jesse Salah OvadiaPART I: ENERGY, CAPITAL AND INTERNATIONAL THEORY2. IPE and the Unfashionable Problematic of Capital and Energy; Tim Di Muzio3. Reassessing the Crisis: Ecology and Liberal International Relations; Shane Mulligan4. The Political Economy of Trade in the Age of Carbon Energy; Silke Trommer; Tim Di MuzioPART II: ENERGY, CAPITALISM AND THE (RE)MAKING OF WORLD ORDER5. Oil-Backed Capitalist Development in the Global South: A Case of Positive Oil Exceptionalism?; Jesse Salah Ovadia6. A Different Kind of Magic? Oil, Development and the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela; Tom Chodor7. Towards a North American Energy Bloc: the Geopolitical implications of Market Preserving Federalism; Dan Bousfield8. The Political Economy of (Climate) Change: Low Carbon Energy Transitions under Capitalism; Peter NewellPART III: ENERGY, CAPITALISM AND THE 21ST CENTURY9. The Ethanol Boom and Distributional Coalitions in US Agribusiness: Beyond 'Capital in General'; Joseph Baines; David Ravensbergen10. The Unsustainable Nature of Petro-Market Civilization in Canada; Matt Dow11. Fracking into the Future of Petro-Market Civilization; Emma Lee12. Critical IPE, the Open Range and the Illusion of the Epoch; Tim Di Muzio; Jesse Salah Ovadia

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Book SynopsisThis book examines how to promote industrial development in low-income countries. It considers the role of traders in the evolution of a cluster, the role of managerial human capital, the effect of the ''China shock'', and the role of industrial policies focused on international knowledge transfer in supporting the upgrading of clusters.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Scope and Significance of the Study PART I: THE ROLE OF TRADERS IN CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT Overseas Vietnamese Traders in a Garment Cluster in Vietnam Petty Traders in a Garment Cluster in Kenya PART II: THE ROLE OF MANAGERIAL HUMAN CAPITAL IN THE UPGRADING PROCESS The Product Ladder in the Steel-Bar Industry in Vietnam The Move to the Formal Sector in the Metalwork Industry in Kenya PART III: THE CHINA SHOCK AND QUALITY IMPROVEMENT The Coping Strategy of the Electrical Fittings Industry in Pakistan The V-Shaped Growth in the Leather Shoe Industry in Ethiopia PART IV: THE SUCCESS AND FAILURE OF INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES International Knowledge Transfer in a Garment Cluster in Bangladesh Misfired Promotion of the Export-Oriented Garment Industry in Ethiopia Conclusion: Towards the Design of Effective Industrial Development Policies

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Book SynopsisIntroduction: Guilty Men 1. Apprenticeships 2. Renegade 3. Elect 4. Networker 5. Minister 6. Critic 7. Explorer 8. Rejections 9. OptionsTrade Review“This new study of the early political career of Sir Oswald Mosley … is both a perceptive biography of the ambitious baronet and a painstaking reconstruction of the wider political ideas and context of the 1920s. … Howell’s study is an important contribution to the historiography, which combines thoughtful analysis of Mosley’s early years in politics with a comprehensive understanding of the internal politics of the Labour movement of the 1920s.” (Steven Woodbridge, Parliamentary History, Vol. 35 (2), June, 2016)“The book is an excellent contribution to scholarship not only about Mosley, but also about Conservative and Labour politics of the 1920s. … The book contains solid analyses of Mosley’s politics and elections prior to his entrance into fascist politics. … The book is an excellent and welcomed study about inter-war politics and Oswald Mosley.” (Ryan Shaffer, History - Journal of the Historical Association, January, 2016)'David Howell superbly charts Mosley's remarkable political journey across the political spectrum in the years following the First World War. His book is a brilliant & unique exploration of early 20th century political thought, postwar British political history and the personal odyssey of one of the most remarkable political figures of the time.' - Stewart Wood, Lord Wood of AnfieldTable of ContentsIntroduction: Guilty Men 1. Apprenticeships 2. Renegade 3. Elect 4. Networker 5. Minister 6. Critic 7. Explorer 8. Rejections 9. Options

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Book SynopsisCOLIN HAY is Professor of Political Analysis and Co-Director of the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Sheffield, UK. DANIEL WINCOTT is Blackwell Professor of Law and Society at Cardiff University Law School and co-Chair of the Wales Governance Centre.Trade Review'Every decade or so a book comes along that defines research in the comparative political economy of the advanced industrial states. If the 1990s belonged to Esping-Andersen and the 2000s to Hall and Soskice, the next decade belongs to Hay and Wincott. Combining historical synthesis, comparative analysis, and cutting-edge theory, they give us a refreshing and insightful account of the genesis, evolution, and transformation of European welfare states. Critically interrogating the impact of globalization, regionalization and competitiveness on these states, Hay and Wincott recast the evolution of European Welfare Capitalism as always and everywhere a political struggle over market imperatives.' - Mark Blyth, Brown University, USA 'This masterful and highly original reassessment demonstrates that more welfare state rather than less can go hand in hand with competitiveness; that European integration, not globalization, better explains welfare state transformation; and that different clusters of welfare capitalism are diverging further rather than converging. A 'must-read' for anyone who wants to understand not only what is wrong but also what is right about the European welfare state.' - Vivien Schmidt, Boston University, USA 'Un tour de force. Combining ambitious, rich and precise analysis with a wealth of effectively deployed empirical data, this is comparative political economy at its best. The concluding chapter on the impact of the current crisis on the evolution of European welfare states in particular is not to be missed.' - Patrick le Gales, Centre d'etudes europeennes, Sciences Po France and King's College London, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction European Welfare Capitalism in Good Times and Bad Varieties of European Welfare Capitalism Globalization, Europeanization and the Welfare State Competitiveness and the Welfare State European Integration and Welfare Capitalism Convergence and Divergence in European Welfare Trajectories European Welfare Capitalism in Hard Times.

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Book SynopsisThis books reviews forms of capital 'popular finance' and argues that it is important, as a site at which capital is visible not as a macro-structural reality but as a category itself, which needs to be made and performed in the spaces where is does not already exist. 'Culture' is used to intervene into everyday spaces to develop capital there.Trade Review"Rob Aitken's work will leave readers in little doubt that 'finance capital' is not some coherent and extra-ordinary force that occupies a unique place outside of 'real' political-economic life, but is precariously assembled and visualised through the mundane performances of saving and self-government. Conceptually incisive and empirically rich, Performing Capital is essential reading for political economists and for all who are concerned with financial markets and the power of Wall Street" - Paul Langley, author of World Financial Orders and The Everyday Life of Global Finance"This is a wonderful account of the constitution of global finance in diverse spaces of everyday life. It is perhaps the first volume to take seriously the importance of visual culture to the history of finance. This book is an important addition to the growing literature on the interdisciplinary study of financial practice - and a good read!" - Dr Marieke de Goede, Department of European Studies, University of AmsterdamTable of ContentsPART I: PERFORMING CAPITAL Performing Capital: An Introduction Culture, Government, Capital PART II: POPULAR FINANCE AND THE NATIONAL BODY Geopolitics, Nation and Beyond: Performances of Security 'A Vital Force': Popular Finance and the National Economy PART III: POPULAR FINANCE, OWNERSHIP AND ECONOMICS OF INVESTMENT 'A Direct Personal Stake': Mass Investment and the New York Stock Exchange * 'An Owner's Sense of Interest': The Ethics of Socially Responsible Investing 'In Free-Enterprise...Free Is a Verb': Enterprise, Saving and Asset-Based Social Policy Toward a Cultural Economy of Popular and Global Finance

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Book SynopsisList of Boxes Acknowledgements Introduction Theorizing Globalization: Introducing the Challenge Economic Globalization Globalization and Politics Cultural Globalization Resisting Globalization: The Alternative Globalization Movement Bibliography IndexTrade Review'El-Ojeili and Hayden provide an engaging treatment of a subject worn to death by staid, conventional accounts. Using an accessible version of critical theory, they explore the interconnected sinews of globalization and consider its many tensions and contradictions. Their insights and reflections will be of use to students for many years.' - Randall Germain, Carleton University, Canada '...this volume is an insightful repository on how theoretical frameworks tend to foreclose certain perspectives on global interactions while favouring others.' - Emilian Kavalski, Political Studies ReviewTable of ContentsList of Boxes Acknowledgements Introduction Theorizing Globalization: Introducing the Challenge Economic Globalization Globalization and Politics Cultural Globalization Resisting Globalization: The Alternative Globalization Movement Bibliography Index

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