In the great boom of the 1990's, top management's compensation soared, but the wages of most Americans barely grew at all. This wages stagnation has baffled experts, but in The New Ruthless Economy, Simon Head points to information technology as the prime cause of this growing wage disparity. Many e[...]

A leading economist offers a jargon-free exploration of the recent financial crisis, arguing that there is a way to correct the excesses of a free-market economy without stifling entrepreneurship and instituting central planning.[...]

"Political Economy and the Changing Global Order, Third Edition" introduces undergraduate students to the rapid changes taking place in the global economy. This edited collection from top scholars in political economy examines how the economic global order is unfolding and how it will evolve over th[...]

Informal labour translates as labour or employment that is not regular. Labour in the informal sector is casual, insecure, and unprotected. This book brings to light the plight of the landless and land-poor peasants in the informal economy in India. While discussing the labour being pushed out of ag[...]

This work examines the nature of the German economy in the 1930s and World War II. The essays explore the tension between Hitler's vision of an armed economy and the reality of German economic and social life.[...]

Japan remains one of the dominant economic powers. Yet the Japanese economy is one of the most misunderstood phenomena in the modern world. Conventionally, Japan is presented as the exception to mainstream economic theory: an exception to the standard models of modern economics. This book demolishes[...]