1. Alan W. Cafruny and Herman M. Schwrtz, Exploring the Global Financial Crisis 1. - Part 1 - The crisis in the global political economy. - 2. Alan W. Cafruny and Leila Simona Talani, The Crisis of the Eurozone 13. - 3. R. Taggart Murphy, The Dollar and East Asia-The Endgame? 35. - 4. Peter...

Most debate about the efficacy of orthodox stabilization programs, such as those of the International Monetary Fund, has been fruitless. First, rarely are these programs fully implemented or sustained for long periods. Second, defenders and critics of the programs hold differing premises about...

Australian public sector institutions and public sector labour relations experienced intense change during the 1980s and 1990s. Proponents of restructuring sought to insert market-like pressures into areas formerly governed by bureaucratic mechanisms. This reversed a trend towards continual...

John Hobson's theory of Imperialism has remarkable relevance for contemporary relations between the United States and Asia/Europe. A reconstruction of his argument shows that whereas the Bretton Woods period presents Hobson's preferred non-imperial outcome, this outcome was not stable. Instead,...

<DIV>Why did some economies experience a boom in the 1990s? Discussing this crucial question, <I>Employment 'Miracles' </I>comparatively analyzes select "miracle" economies. The contributors critically analyze how the small sizes and institutional structures of seven countries—including the Netherlands,...</i></div>

A survey of the 'miracle economies' of the 1990s, that analyses the role of the relatively small size of the economies in question, and of accidental external circumstances which contributed to favourable developments. This book examines the rise, in the 1990s, of the model status of the smaller...