Global markets and the developing economy

E.V.K. FitzGerald takes a fresh approach to the macroeconomics of developing countries, based on the influence of global markets on domestic savings, private investment, firm behaviours, employment levels and income distribution. He suggests that a Keynesian approach is still relevant today when reformulated ...

Promises not kept

poverty and the betrayal of Third World development

The 6th edition of this very accessible introductory text - the first to be published by Palgrave Macmillan - has been revised throughout to take account of the 'new American hegemony' and 'war on terrorism' of the early 21st century. Presenting a wide range of up-to-date facts ...

Management consultancy and banking in an era of globalization

Management consultancy and investment banking have been held up as industries at the forefront of contemporary globalization. Using an inter-disciplinary approach ranging across economics, economic geography, sociology and management studies, Andrew Jones analyzes the nature of globalization within business service transnational corporations in these sectors ...

The economics of enlargement

In this volume, well-known scholars examine the challenges facing the EU at the start of the Eastern enlargement, whose first wave should be decided at the end of 2002 and implementation in 2004-2006. This enlargement is not to be underestimated as it involves in the ...

Managing the world economy

Managing the World Economy, while recognizing how much has been achieved since the start of the Industrial Revolution, challenges the view that much better results could have been attained. It argues that faster economic growth and much better use of the available human talent could ...

Global finance at risk

on real stagnation and instability

Sunanda Sen offers an analysis of the ongoing malaise in the world economy, which include the financial and real instability as well as economic recession and lack of development. Rejecting the explanations advanced by the orthodoxy, she deplores the retrograde steps in the interest of ...

Value and the world economy today

production, finance and globalization

Value and the World Economy Today brings together a diverse group of globally renowned scholars of international political economy and critical economics to examine the relevance of value theory for understanding the world economy today. The book is unique in the way that it connects ...

Ideology and the international economy

the decline and fall of Bretton Woods

For twenty-five years, the International Monetary Fund administered a worldwide system of fixed exchange rates until their system was destroyed by a combination of market forces and those who advocated market forces. The first destructive element has been extensively analyzed; the second has hitherto been ...

Criminology, conflict resolution and restorative justice

Modern Italy

Elizabethe's wars

war, gobernment and society in Tudor England, 1544-1604

Comparing empires

european colonialism rom prutugueses expansion to de spanish - american war

Urban Europe, 1100-1700

Homeoroticism and chivalry

discourses of male same-sex desire in the fourteenth century

Nationalism in Europe, 1890-1940

A commentary to Kant's "critique of pure reason"

Mussolini and the origins of the Second World War, 1939-1940

Richelieu and Mazarin

a study in statesmanship

Medieval warfare

theory and practice of war in Europe 300-1500

Yugoslavia

when ideals collide

The Palgrave concise historical atlas of the Cold War

Women and education

1800-1980

Using a biographical approach, Jane Martin and Joyce Goodman explore and celebrate the aims, visions and actions of six little-recognized British women educational activists... within nineteenth- and twentieth-century history: Sarah Austin, Jane Chessar, Margaret Cole, Mary Dendy, Elizabeth Hamilton and Shena Simon. As individuals, these ...