Regime change and political reform occur in complex and context-dependent ways. In this book we introduce students to a body of knowledge about the sources of political change—the economic and cultural determinants of democracy; the strategic interaction between autocratic rulers and reform-minded opp...
Political economy was advanced in the 18th century as the study of the economies of states, or polities, therefore, the term political economy. In the end of 19th century, the phrase economics came to replace political economy, concurring with the publication of an influentia...
This textbook is the first to present a cross-section of country studies, including all four BRIC countries, Brazil, Russia, India and China alongside integrative thematic chapters covering all the important topics needed to excel in this field. The textbook also benefits from the editors' and co...
And thirdly (although the examples could be multiplied) the textbook entitled Key Concepts in Migration (Bartram et al. 2014), which one might expect to have a broader remit, self-declaredly focuses almost exclusively on international migration. As I and my Sussex colleague Ron Skeldon have ...
Comparative politics, however, is more than current events, and the field of comparative politics has been engaged in vigorous debates about how we should study these incredible political events. If we have no method, then, as textbook author Patrick O'Neil argues, all we are left with is "...
History of Political Economy 32.3 (2000) 695-696 Comparative Advantage in International Trade: A Historical Perspective. By Andrea Maneschi. Cheltenham, U.K., and Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar, 1998. 258 pp. $81.00. A problem from which economists suffer has been pointed out by Paul Krugm...
I argue that Ricardo infers the direction of comparative advantage and the size of the gains from trade by interpreting the four numbers in his "Principles of Political Economy and Taxation" for cloth and wine traded betwee England and Portugal as amounts of labor embodied in the quatities ...
In 1817, David Ricardo published Principles of Political Economy and Taxation in which he advanced the idea of absolute and comparative advantage by comparing the production of wine and cloth in England and Portugal. If, in England, it took the labor of 100 men working for 1 year to produce...
'Erudite and accessible, McCann demonstrates how the national gets reconfigured around the global without losing some of its unique features. Far from being a one-size-fits-all Anglo-American template, neoliberalism comes in many different hues and variations. This is by far the best textbook in...
Both Ministries of Education advocated a bureaucratic form of school organization, uniformity of study programs and examinations, and centralization of teacher training and textbook-writing. Attempts to create alternative school structures which were less centralized and more localized met with limited ...