"Economists occupy leading positions in many different sectors including central and private banks, multinational … security. Power and Influence of Economists explores the interconnected relationship between power, knowledge and influence … explore the complex and diverse methods and channels that economists have used to exert and expand their influence from …

"The book aims to counter the normative functioning of creativity in contemporary capitalism with a plethora of … alternatives to radical creative practices. In the first part, titled 'Creative Capitalism', five authors analyze the forms of … contemporary capitalism: on the one hand, there are new ways of working which include flexibility, mobility, and especially …

contains thirteen world leading political economists writing from within eight different countries who critically analyze the … to be effective in a world in jeopardy. The varieties of capitalism (VoC) debate itself came into being as the Soviet …"The Future of Capitalism After the Financial Crisis: The Varieties of Capitalism Debate in the Age of Austerity …

parts of the world. This is in contrast to theories that project globalisation as a process driven exclusively by global … capital and technology, a scheme in which some parts of the world forever will be 'peripheries' supplying labor and natural …

approach in postcolonial studies, the book seeks to sketch the commensal relation-a symbiotic "phoresy"-between capitalism and … through which to produce more greatly nuanced understandings of imperialism, capitalism, and their inextricable relation, 'new …