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Economic Reform and Social Change in China

by Andrew Watson

Economic growth in China has transformed both politics and society. Old orthodoxies are painfully being eroded in the drive for reform while new social and cultural tensions are coming to light. It has been...


Political Economy of European Unemployment

by Henk Overbeek

This edited collection examines unemployment in Europe in the context of globalisation, the implementation of European Monetary Union and the Eastern enlargement of the EU. It combines theoretical chapters with...


Business Networks in Clusters and Industrial Districts: The Governance of the Global Value Chain

by Fiorenza Belussi & Alessia Sammarra

During the 1980s the Marshallian concept of industrial district (ID) became widely popular due to the resurgence of interest in the reasons that make the agglomeration of specialised industries a territorial...


Idea of Global Civil Society

by Randall Germain & Michael Kenny

This book evaluates the claim that in order to explore the changing social foundations of global power relations today, we need to include in our analysis an understanding of global civil society, particularly...


Unequal China: The political economy and cultural politics of inequality

by Wanning Sun & Yingjie Guo

Economic development and a dramatic improvement in living standards in many parts of the People's Republic of China during the past three decades of economic reforms have been hailed by the Chinese Communist...


The EU-Russia Borderland: New Contexts for Regional Cooperation

by Heikki Eskelinen, Ilkka Liikanen & James W. Scott

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, there were high hopes of Russia's "modernisation" and rapid political and economic integration with the EU. But now, given its own policies of national development, Russia...


The Chinese Corporatist State: Adaption, Survival and Resistance

by Jennifer Y. J. Hsu & Reza Hasmath

The modern Chinese state has traditionally affected every major aspect of domestic society. With the growing liberalization of the economy, coupled with increasingly complex social issues, there is a belief...


Kinds of Power

by James Hillman

In the boldest expose on the nature of power since  Machiavelli, celebrated Jungian therapist James  Hillman shows how the artful leader uses each of two  dozen kinds of power with finesse and subtlety.  Power,...


Coffee and Transformation in Sao Paulo, Brazil

by Mauricio A. Font

This volume examines the dynamism of the São Paulo region and its coffee industry and evolution since the latter part of the nineteenth century. Targeting key players such as large entrepreneurial coffee landlords...


Coming to Terms with Chance: Engaging Rational Discrimination and Cumulative Disadvantage

by H. Gandy Jr

The application of probability and statistics to an ever-widening number of life-decisions serves to reproduce, reinforce, and widen disparities in the quality of life that different groups of people can enjoy....


Poor America: A Comparative-Historical Study of Poverty in the U.S. and Western Europe

by Samuel J. Eldersveld

Poor America describes the sharp contrast in the extent of poverty between the United States and six Western European countries. Samuel J. Eldersveld seeks to discover why America struggles more with this social...


El Norte or Bust!: How Migration Fever and Microcredit Produced a Financial Crash in a Latin American Town

by David Stoll

In this unexpected story of a financial bubble and collapse, David Stoll puts a compelling human face on the global economic crisis. Tracing the desperate plight of Latin Americans moving north in search of...


Has the European Experiment Failed?: The Munk Debate on Europe

by Niall Ferguson, Daniel COHN-BENDIT & Josef Joffe

In the sweep of human history, the European Union stands out as one of humankind's most ambitious endeavors. It encompasses half a billion people, twenty-seven member states, twenty-three languages, and an economy...


Transition and Development in China: Towards Shared Growth

by Yun Chen

China's transition from a planned economy to a market economy has succeeded in producing more than a decade of phenomenal growth. How the difficult task of balancing the diverse array of often competing concerns...


Rural Sustainable Development in the Knowledge Society

by Karl Bruckmeier & Hilary Tovey

Based on the EU-funded CORASON research project, this volume brings together and compares studies into rural and sustainable development processes in 12 European countries. In doing so, it identifies key trends...


Technical Change and Economic Growth: Inside the Knowledge Based Economy

by George M. Korres

In this in-depth and detailed study, George Korres analyzes the macroeconomic and the microeconomic factors influencing the economics of innovation and the economic relations between technology, innovation,...


The Korean Economic System: Governments, Big Business and Financial Institutions

by Jae-Seung Shim & Moosung Lee

Presenting a fascinating and comprehensive analysis of economic development outside of the traditional neo-classical, developmental-state and dependency perspectives, this book examines in detail the evolution...


Recovering Resources - Recycling Citizenship: Urban Poverty Reduction in Latin America

by Jutta Gutberlet

Co-operative recycling practices have been increasingly used as a strategy to contest both the waste problem and urban poverty. By examining experiences from Brazil and other Latin American countries, this book...


Britain, the Euro and Beyond

by Mark Baimbridge & Philip B. Whyman

Through a critical examination of the relationship between the UK and the EU, this important book considers the historic and contemporary costs and benefits of EU membership, and assesses whether this has been...


Services and Economic Development in the Asia-Pacific

by P.W. Daniels & J.W. Harrington

This book explores various aspects of the relationship between service industries and economic development in Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Singapore, India, Australia and New Zealand. It provides new sector-oriented...