"The development of European unification has reached a critical stage. Despite 75 years of peace, increases in welfare, and growth since World War II, there is now a growing scepticism of the European agenda from various quarters, most notably embodied in the exit of the United Kingdom from the...

Introduction. Which road to development? The 'Mediterranean model' revisited / Luigi Burroni, Emmanuele Pavolini and Marino Regini -- Is there a 'Mediterranean' growth model? / Lucio Baccaro -- States' performance, reforms and policy capacity in Southern European countries / Giliberto Capano and...

"This book is about the convergence of trends in two American institutions - the economy and the criminal justice system. The American economy has radically transformed in the past half-century, led by advances in automation technology that have permanently altered labor market dynamics. Over...

"Margarita Fajardo tells the story of the cepalinos, Latin American economists and policymakers, and their dependentista critics, whose ideas about economic growth and global inequality transformed our approach to development and changed the course of the twentieth century."

"In a time of persistent uncertainty, fragile eco-structures, the politics of "populism," and limits in institutional leadership, The Caribbean on the Edge acts as an analytical roadmap into a challenging era of globalization for the countries on the edge of history in the Caribbean, those often...