"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...

Seit vergangenem Herbst häufen sich Negativmeldungen über die Wirtschaft Frankreichs. Guido Zimmermann, Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, sieht den Hauptgrund für den im internationalen Vergleich sehr starken Einbruch der Exporte Frankreichs in einem Strukturbruch in der Fähigkeit,...

"This volume shines a light on Sustainable Community Movement Organisations (SCMOs), an emergent wave of non-hierarchical, community-based socio-economic movements, with alternative forms of consumption and production very much at their core. Extending beyond traditional ideas of cooperatives...

"In today's world, towns and cities dynamically develop over time and that's why urban regeneration is a widely experienced phenomenon. How can Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) create necessary conditions for the development of these phenomena? What is the role that BIDs have in...

Population, health, and development -- India's real population concerns -- India's bogus population concerns -- Defecation and development -- In whose interest? The drift of economic policy -- Letting the RBI be -- On child labour legislation -- A suddenly 'pro-poor' budget? -- The...

2001 wuchs die spanische Wirtschaft mit 2,8% im EU-Vergleich überdurchschnittlich, so dass das Land seinen Konvergenzprozess zu den EU-Ländern fortsetzen konnte. Die Teuerungsrate erreichte mit 3,7% ihren seit Mitte der neunziger Jahre höchsten Wert. Die Arbeitslosenquote blieb, trotz ihrer...