This book responds to an increasingly pluricentric, reflexive, and flexible society as a result of globalization and economic liberation from the bureaucratic-political system. The third industrial revolution saw citizens, companies, and the economy acting in functional networks rather than in...

This short book describes the role big banks played in the financial crisis of 2008 while denouncing the financial oligarchy’s rise to power and the dangers it represents for democracy today. There have been many books since the financial crisis that have considered historical events leading...

Is democracy still the best political regime for countries to adapt to economic and technological pressures and increase their level of prosperity? While the West seems to have stagnated in an environment of political mistrust, increasing inequality and low growth, the rise of the East has shown...

This book presents a set of original and innovative contributions on state, institutions and democracy in the field of political economy. Modern political economy has implied the interaction between politics and economics to understand political, electoral and public issues in different nations,...

This book investigates why Austrian economists fail to apply the spontaneous order framework to cooperative relationships - such as a dynamic and evolving public sector - that might complement a thriving market. In direct response to Israel Kirzner's The Driving Force of the Market, Nell...

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the ways that politics and financial markets impact one another. In this relationship, politics is the ultimate controlling force. The kinds and prices of financial instruments that get traded and the individuals and institutions that get to trade...

Could democracy do better? This book presents a vision on optimal democracies and a set of new rules to help achieve them. The monograph follows on the author’s successful book “Designing Democracy” from 2005 and further develops its ideas. While liberal democracies are the best systems of...

1. Introduction -- 2. On Alienation -- 3. A Scientific Approach to Politics -- 4. Between Marxism and Personalism -- 5. Philosophy of Action -- 6. Puzzled Democracy -- 7. Heterogenesis of State Sovereignty -- 8. Political Orders -- 9. Communities -- 10. Which Representation?

Die globalisierte Ökonomie hat zu einer abnehmenden Handlungsfähigkeit von Nationalstaaten bei der Steuerung grenzüberschreitender Probleme geführt. Daher schließen sich zunehmend Akteure aus unterschiedlichen gesellschaftlichen Bereichen zusammen, um Normen und Implementationsmaßnahmen zu...