The Challenge of Achieving Economic Diversification -- Economic Diversification: Concept, Application and State-Market Relations -- Unpacking Politics: Power, Actors, and Institutions -- The Transition to Becoming Africa's Top Oil Producer -- The Transition to becoming Africa's Largest Economy...

Intro -- Vorwort -- Inhalt -- Teil I. Staatliche Prozesssteuerung versus Ordnungsgestaltung in der Marktwirtschaft -- Ordnungstheorie versus Institutionenökonomik: Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten -- Central Banks - from Overburdening to Decline? -- Politische Ökonomie der Energiewende:...

Why would the removal of authoritarian institutions in some developing countries lead to sustained socio-economic crisis, while others experience explosive growth despite 'persisting' informal, insecure and rent-seeking institutional arrangements? A key to solving this enigma lies in...

China's change to a new model of growth, now called the 'new normal', was always going to be hard. Events over the past year show how hard it is. The attempts to moderate the extremes of high investment and low consumption, the correction of overcapacity in the heavy industries that were the...

Comparative political economy scholarship struggles to categorize Italy's model of capitalism between a mixed-market economy and a hybrid, stagnant economic system. To enhance our understanding of the Italian political economy, this paper employs the analytical framework of growth regimes to...

Introduction: Arab Development via the Channels of War and Oil / A. Kadri. - PART I: POLITICAL ECONOMY. - 1. Egypt: Failed Emergence, Conniving Capitalism, Fall of the Muslim Brothers, A Possible Popular Alternative / Samir Amin. - 2. The Failure of Arab Macro Policy / Fadle Naqib. - 3. The...