Given the near-silence in technological and business history about post-World War II socialist enterprises, this book gives voice to a generation of Communist China’s managers, entrepreneurs, cadres, and workers from the Liberation to the early 1970s. Using recently-opened online archival...

This book tries to integrate the different arrangements devised in the MTS for small and large NMEs into one analytical framework and explores two sets of rules (GATT/WTO-minus and GATT/WTO-plus) along three historical stages (shaping, weakening and strengthening). The focal point of this book...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Inherited Underdevelopment? -- Chapter 3: Overcoming Underdevelopment? -- Chapter 4: Brazilians, the Architects of Brazil? -- Chapter 5: A Neanderthal in Spacesuit -- Chapter 6: Institutional Complementarity, not rent, is the recipe of Brazil’s economic...

This book focuses on the concept of “brand hate” and consumer negativity in today’s digital markets. It explores the emotional detachment consumers generate against valued brands and how negative experiences affect their and other consumers' loyalty. It is almost impossible not to run into...

This book presents the complete and pioneering works of the great Spanish economist, Germán Bernácer (1883-1965), to an English audience for the first time. Bernácer, the first director of the Research Service of the Bank of Spain (1930-55), inspired Keynes’ theory but was also a major...

This Palgrave Pivot uses Marxian economic categories and analysis to explore the deeper causes of the 2008 global economic crisis, what the crisis represents for capitalism, and why fiscal and monetary policies pursued in its wake have failed to rejuvenate economies. With an innovative...

Chapter 1: A Good Place to Live -- Chapter 2: The Economic Istitutions of Isocracy -- Chapter 3: The Political Istitutions of Isocracy -- Chapter 4: The Anthropological Mutation -- Chapter 5: The Structural Possibility of an Alternative

1. Introduction: The BRI as Strategic Camouflage -- 2. The Road to the Belt and the Road -- 3. The BRI and its Different Manifestations -- 4. India May Join and Benefit from the BRI – A Chinese View -- 5. The BRI and the Good, Not So Good and Bad Business with India -- 6. India as Jealous Foe...

1. Introduction -- 2. the Place of Money in Marx’s Theory of Capital -- 3. Speculative Capital and the Dematerialisation of Money -- 4. Crypto-Currencies: From the Fetishism of Gold to Hayek Gold -- 5. Financialisation and the Contradictory Unity Between the Real and Financial Dimensions of...

1. Introduction -- 2. A Peripheral Finn in the Capital of Europe -- 3. Fire Brigade to Athens -- 4. Big Bazooka by Night -- 5. The Deauville Doomsday and Voldemort in Ireland -- 6. The Comprehensive Crisis Response -- 7. Summertime Blues in Italy -- 8. The Hour of Obama – and Don Camillo -- 9....