"Drawing on Kaleckian and Kaldorian approaches, Political Economy of Contemporary Italy: The Economic Crisis and State Intervention explores the reasons behind the stagnation of the Italian economy from the 1970s, and suggests policy solutions to ease the crisis. The central thesis of the book...

The economic crisis in Greece: Short account of events and actors / Angeliki Boubouka -- Media and representations of the economic crisis / Angeliki Boubouka and Vaia Doudaki -- Discourses of legitimation in the news: Concepts and dimensions / Vaia Doudaki -- Analysing discourse: Legitimation...

The sustainable urban real estate agenda: there is more to it than the "green" thing -- Economic sustainability considerations in a local real estate context (with post-bubble hindsight) -- Assessment criteria for sustainable local price development -- Some diagnostic issues -- Quasi-dynamic som...

"Karl Marx hypothesized that there is a long-term tendency for the profit rate to fall in capitalist economies. Immanuel Wallerstein hypothesized that capitalist development tends to drive up labor cost, material cost, and taxation cost. This book evaluates Marx's and Wallerstein's hypotheses by...