Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> Political Economy

Koistinen puts the political back in political economy in this fascinating account of New England s twentieth-century industrial erosion. First-rate research and sound judgments make this study essential reading. Philip Scranton, Rutgers University Camden

Well-organized and clearly written, Confronting Decline looks at one community to understand a process that has become truly national. David Stebenne, Ohio State University

Koistinen s important book makes clear that many industrial cities and regions began to decline as early as the 1920s. Alan Brinkley, Columbia...

In this thorough collection of inspiring and informed essays, Kim Moody, one of the world's most authoritative and recognized labor writers, analyzes the past, present, and future of unions in the United States. With a sharp understanding of Marxist theory and labor history, Moody charts a well-reasoned course for the future of rank-and-file struggle.

Kim Moody was a founder of Labor Notes and is a member of the National Union of Journalists and a senior research fellow at the Work and Employment Unit of the University of Hertfordshire.

In this book, de Montbrial lays the foundation for a praxeology, or a "science of action," to facilitate a better understanding of the dynamics of international problems and a more systematic approach to policy making. He develops a model to analyze different types of international problems that arise from interactions between different units; he then applies this model to a range of current and historical problems.

The partnership between India and Taiwan is situated in a virtual maze of complex political factors. Given the core issue of contestation of Taiwan s political status in world affairs and India s adherence to the One China policy, the relationship remains a fragile one for both partners. In recent years, Taiwan has signed the Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) with Mainland China. Increasingly, its political and economic future (including its relationships with countries such as India) will continue to be linked with Mainland China.
This book closely examines...

One of our most incisive and committed journalists author of the classic All the Livelong Day shows us the real human cost of our economic follies.
The Great Recession has thrown huge economic challenges at almost all Americans save the super-affluent few, and we are only now beginning to reckon up the human toll it is taking. Down the Up Escalator is an urgent dispatch from the front lines of our vast collective struggle to keep our heads above water and maybe even someday get ahead. Garson has interviewed an economically and geographically wide variety of...