"This book seeks to examine the existing variability of development in the global marketplace and to identify the catalysts responsible for this disparity of success, analyzing the economic frontiers, social norms, and infrastructural capabilities that factor into the socio-economic growth of...

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This volume analyzes the economic, social, and political challenges that emerging states confront today. Notwithstanding the growing importance of the ‘emerging states’ in global affairs and governance, many problems requiring immediate...

"This book seeks to examine the existing variability of development in the global marketplace and to identify the catalysts responsible for this disparity of success, analyzing the economic frontiers, social norms, and infrastructural capabilities that factor into the socio-economic growth of...

"Technological progress and globalization have generated indisputable benefits, but also relevant costs, such as growing economic inequality, economic fluctuations and financial instability. Mainstream economics has usually considered these costs as temporary, evenly distributed and more than...

The Welfare State and Welfare Capitalism -- Theoretical Foundations of the Welfare State -- Worlds of Welfare Capitalism: Interlinking Welfare State and Production Regimes -- Historical Development and Contemporary Challenges of the Advanced Capitalist Welfare State -- Historical Phases of...

The global centre of gravity continues to shift to the Asia-Pacific, the most dynamic region in the world. These economies have generally grown faster for longer periods of time than any other major region in world history. Their embrace of globalization has been a central feature, and driver,...