Intro -- About Island Press -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: What Is a Parking Space Worth? -- Parking as a Contested Space -- Problems of Unmanaged Parking -- Understanding Parking Behavior -- Strategic Parking...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Growth and Crisis in the Japanese Economy -- 2 Economic Ascent and Hegemony in the Capitalist World-Economy -- 3 The MIDAs-Steel-Ships Nexus -- 4 Creating Japan's Coal-Exporting Peripheries -- 5 Replicating Japan's New Model in Iron Ore -- 6 Transporting Coal...

Leith shows that while other African nations with resources failed to develop economically Botswana prospered because economic interests, working within a democratic political system anchored in tradition, tempered by leadership, and shaped by evolution of effective institutions, promoted growth.

Mel Watkins is an iconic figure in the development of the "new" political economy in Canada. Since the 1960s he has combined scholarly writing with political activism for a range of issues, from Canada's economic dependency on the US to the role of social democratic parties to aboriginal rights.

Distribution and Development -- Distribution and Development A NewLookatthe Developing World -- Contents -- Preface -- The Distributional Effects of Economic Growth -- The Meaning and Measurement of Income Inequality -- Economic Growth and Inequality: A Review of the Empirical Evidence -- The...

"This book provides an analysis of the political economy of Cabo Verde from its independence in 1975 to the present. The collection serves as both a primary source and sociopolitical study, featuring some of the most accomplished scholars and policy practitioners on the subject matter of the...

This book is about the economics of developing countries' rise, based on the case of China and focuses on economic growth theory. It features traditional political economics and Chinese characteristics of socialism to examine the great economic development achievements of China within such a...

Do we have the rights to optimism? Can capitalism deliver a next great wave of growth? The future, wrote William Gibson, is already here. It just isn't evenly distributed yet. Lucid and polemical, Turnaround Challenge is a dig into that future and its meaning for business. It dissects the nexus...

""Green growth"" has proven to be politically popular, but economically elusive. Can Green Sustain Growth? asks how we can move from theoretical support to implementation, and argues that this leap will require radical experimentation. But systemic change is costly, and a sweeping shift cannot...

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between financial openness and total factor productivity (TFP) growth using an extensive dataset that includes various measures of productivity and financial openness for a large sample of countries. We find that de jure capital...