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Politics after Neoliberalism
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 26.00This book analyzes fresh evidence from Southern Mexico about the effects of this global wave of policy reforms. The analysis shows that free-market reforms, rather than unleashing market forces, trigger the construction of different types of new regulatory institutions with contrasting consequences for economic efficiency and social justice. more...
Federalism and the Market
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 28.00This book explores the conflict between national and subnational politicians over the formulation of economic policy. In testing the argument with combination of cross-sectional time-series and case study analysis, this book contributes to the broad literatures on development and the comparative political economy of federalism and decentralization. more...
Globalization, Politics, and Financial Turmoil
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 22.00It focuses on the role of miscommunication in the financial crises of developing nations. By examining the determinants of Asia's financial crisis of 1997-98, it demonstrates why developing democracies are vulnerable to breakdowns in communication and outlines the disastrous consequences of such breakdowns. more...
Transformational Growth and the Business Cycle
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 210.00This book examines the concept of Transformational Growth from a number of different historical and geographical perspectives. Transformational Growth sees the economy as an evolving system in which the market selects and finances innovations, changing the character of costs and affecting the pattern of market adjustment. This creates the possibility... more...
Conflict and Change in EU Budgetary Politics
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 49.95Why did the European Union experience a stark variation in the levels of conflict between the late 1970s, when budgetary disputes dominated European politics, and the 1990s, when political actors were able to settle upon budgetary agreements without major conflicts? This book responds to this key question with a two-step argument: Its first... more...
Globalization and State Transformation in China
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 33.00Zheng explores how China's leaders have embraced globalization and market-oriented modernization. While they have been open to Western ideas in rebuilding the economic system, they have been reluctant to import Western concepts of democracy. The author argues that this selectivity will impede China's progress in becoming a modern nation state. more...
Deliberative Policy Analysis
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 30.00Traditionally, policy analysis has been state-centred. Today, however, policy-making is often carried out in loosely organized networks of public authorities, citizen associations and private enterprises. Providing examples from around the world, the contributors argue that democratic governance now calls for a new deliberatively-oriented policy analysis. more...
The Price of the Euro
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 122.00This volume presents a critical examination of the EMU from different perspectives. It includes essays on the political economy of currency unions, on the Growth and Stability pact, the European Central Bank, an evaluation of the first four years of the EMU, and the costs and benefits for Sweden as well as for Britain of adopting the euro. more...
The Philosophy and Economics of Market Socialism
Oxford University Press 1995; US$ 119.99This treatise offers a comparative evaluation of market socialism and free enterprise systems. It argues that a market socialist system would be responsible for widespread and systematic exploitation that is precluded or minimized in a free enterprise system. more...
The Economics of Europe and the European Union
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 50.00An EU and European nation-state perspective on the major policy issues in Europe since 1945. more...









