Political Economy Books

New and Published Books

1. China and East Asian Regionalism

   Economic and Security Cooperation and Institution-Building

   Edited by Suisheng Zhao

   To convey the image of a responsible power willing to contribute to regional stability and cooperation, China has shifted from a single-minded preference for bilateralism to an active participation in East Asian regionalism in the recent decades. This development has inspired discussions over...

   Published February 8th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Economics and Politics of Oil in the Caspian Basin

   The Redistribution of Oil Revenues in Azerbaijan and Central Asia

   Edited by Boris Najman, Richard Pomfret, Gaël Raballand

   Series: Central Asia Research Forum

   The Caspian Basin region has boomed since the late 1990s due to new oil discoveries, new pipelines that have diversified countries' transport options and world oil prices that have risen from below $10 in 1998 to $70 in 2006. This book analyzes the experience of the Caspian countries during the...

   Published February 5th 2012 by Routledge
3. Discipline in the Global Economy?

   International Finance and the End of Liberalism

   By Jakob Vestergaard

   Series: New Political Economy

   In Discipline in the Global Economy, Jakob Vestergaard investigates the currently prevailing regulation of international finance, launched in response to the financial crises of the 1990’s. At the core of this approach is a set of standards of ‘best practice’, ranging from banking supervision to...

   Published February 2nd 2012 by Routledge
4. The Role of 'Informal' Economies in the Post-Soviet World

   The End of Transition?

   By Peter Rodgers, John Round, Colin C. Williams

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

   This book challenges the accepted notion that the transition from the command economy to market based systems is complete across the post-Soviet space. While it is noted that different political economies have developed in such states, such as Russia’s ‘managed democracy’, events such as Ukraine...

   Published January 31st 2012 by Routledge
5. The Political Economy of Reform in Central Asia

   Uzbekistan under Authoritarianism

   By Martin C. Spechler

   Series: Central Asia Research Forum

   This book examines the economic reforms and material progress made since the Central Asian republics became independent from the Soviet Union in 1991. Without some of the neo-liberal reforms recommended by the "Washington Consensus" and with an authoritarian presidency, Uzbekistan, the largest of...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
6. Global Restructuring, Labour and the Challenges for Transnational Solidarity

   Edited by Andreas Bieler, Ingemar Lindberg

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   Globalisation has put national labour movements under severe pressure, due to the increasing transnationalisation of production, with the production of many goods being organised across borders, and the informalisation of the economy. Through a range of case studies, this volume examines the...

   Published January 29th 2012 by Routledge
7. The Social Economy

   Working Alternatives in a Globalizing Era

   By Hasmet M. Uluorta

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   Critically examining economic developments within the last sixty years, this book argues that a crisis in global social reproduction is altering existing understandings of work, labour and the economy. The author of this original volume, Hasmet M. Uluorta, contends that the crisis in the global...

   Published January 29th 2012 by Routledge
8. Business Regulation and Non-State Actors

   Whose Standards? Whose Development?

   Edited by Peter Utting, Darryl Reed, Ananya Reed

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

   This volume assesses the achievements and limitations of a new set of non-state or multistakeholder institutions that are concerned with improving the social and environmental record of business, and holding corporations to account. It does so from a perspective that aims to address two limitations...

   Published January 23rd 2012 by Routledge
9. Economics for Real

   Uskali Mäki and the Place of Truth in Economics

   Edited by Aki Lehtinen, Jaakko Kuorikoski, Petri Ylikoski

   Series: Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology

   This book provides the first comprehensive and critical examination of Mäki’s realist philosophy of economics....

   Published January 23rd 2012 by Routledge
10. Globalization and Self-Determination

    Is the Nation-State Under Siege?

    By David R. Cameron, Gustav Ranis, Annalisa Zinn

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

    Is the nation state under siege? A common answer is that globalization poses two fundamental threats to state sovereignty. The first concerns the unleashing of centrifugal and centripetal forces - such as increasing market integration and the activities of institutions like the IMF, World Bank, and...

    Published January 22nd 2012 by Routledge