"Americans today face no shortage of threats to their financial well-being, such as job and retirement insecurity, health care costs, and spiraling college tuition. While one might expect that these concerns would motivate people to become more politically engaged on the issues,…
"Korea's twin transitions ... agrarian to industrial and industrial to post-industrial ... effectively transformed the country's political economy. Moving away from the traditional focus on aspects such as market, state and world systems, culture, and colonialism, the author arg…
"This essential reader brings together a collection of influential contributions on China's economic development, published by Palgrave on behalf of Compartive Economic Studies. Each chapter has been carefully selected for the contribution it has made to furthering the understan…
A touchstone on how to read the history of modern Britain, this is the shady story of how Big Oil shaped the nation.
"Starting in the late 1970s, tens of thousands of American industrial workers lost jobs in factories and mines. Deindustrialization had dramatic effects on those workers and their communities, but its longterm effects continue to ripple through working-class culture. Economic re…
Myanmar and the World - From Cox's Bazar to the Western Capitals -- From Pariah to Frontier Economy (1990-2015) -- Democracy's Victory and the Uncertainties of Governing -- Economic Reform: Finding Direction, Moving Forward -- Shifting Images of the Golden Land -- The Simple and…
"In recent years, there has been an increase in new forms of employment. Namely, thanks to the use of platforms in business and the emergence of the "gig economy", there are gradual changes in this domain. These include part-time, temporary, informal, and unpaid family work. Thi…
"Decades of rapid economic growth in East Asia mask diverse national paths. Analyzing ten countries over forty years, the book identifies three major regime types and their discrete economic paradigms, some vastly successful, others mired in failure. In closing, the book shows h…
"To argue against the widely proclaimed idea of American decline might seem a lonely task. After all, the problems are real and serious. Yet if we take a longer view, much of the discourse about decline appears exaggerated, hyperbolic and ahistorical. Why? First, because of the …