Books in the Routledge Studies in Contemporary Political Economy series

Climate change and environmental policy in general was one of the key issues discussed at the historic G8 summit in Gleneagles in the summer of 2005. This book draws together a team of political economists and environmentalists to assess the big picture and eschews 'number-crunching' cost-benefit analysis to develop a more holistic approach.

Provides an analysis of bilateralism in the Asia-Pacific region, tracing its growth as an international economic phenomenon. This book is useful to policymakers, scholars, and students of Asian Studies, politics, economics and management.

Traces the origins of social capital through the work of Becker, Bourdiey and Coleman and reviews the literature across the social sciences. This book is topical and uniquely critical of social capital.

Just how risky is the Movie industry? Is screenwriter William Goldman's claim that "nobody knows anything" really true? Can a star and a big opening change a movie's risks and return? Do studio executives really earn their huge paychecks? These and many other questions are answered in "Hollywood Economics".

Examining the problems besetting the world economy in the era of globalization, this text outlines possible solutions. The contributors challenge the fatalistic belief that the new globalized economy resists any change of course.

Analyzing hotly debated topics and current, newsworthy discussions, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of bilateralism in the Asia-Pacific region, tracing its growth as an emerging international economic phenomenon.

An impressive array of expert contributors come together to provide a study of issues, such as labour market regulation and wages, that have arisen from the fact that people have come to accept longer working hours as a way of life.

The main representatives of the Post-Keynesianism from both sides of the Atlantic are represented here, including Paul Davidson, Geoff Harcourt and Sheila Dow.

This book looks at the internet bubble and the furore that surrounded it.

This book goes beyond the orthodoxies of economics and offers fresh insights into issues such as theories of growth, the historic relations between state and market and the significance of globalization for modern society.

This volume offers an original perspective on the relationship between economic theory and policy. It discusses the lessons of economic theory and policy from a broad political economy perspective.

In recent years there has been a great deal of talk about the social economy and the term "the third way". Placing the Social Economy provides a refreshing and accessible account of real life experience in a social economy.

This volume presents a critique of the fashionable idea of globalization, where the kind of global economy that is in the process of forming is seen as the highest possible form of economy, and the neoliberal economic orthodoxy on which it rests.