This authoritative and accessible state-of-the-art reference collection maps the changing landscape of labour mobility in terms of the dialectic between state sovereignty and market-based logic, which is transforming the speed, scope and scale of transboundary migration-for-employment.Faced with...

State failure takes many forms. Somalia offers one extreme. A collapse of central authority as the outcome of a prolonged civil war, where authority descends into competing factions -- headed by warlords -- around the spoils of local commerce, power and international aid. At the other end of the...

List of tables -- List of figures -- Comparative analysis -- The five phases of economic development and institutional evolution in China, Japan and Korea / M. Aoki -- Social organizations, risk sharing institutions and economic development / A. Greif, M. Iyugun & D. Sasson -- Before and beyond...