This book is the eagerly awaited successor to Robert Gilpin's 1987 The Political Economy of International Relations, the classic statement of the field of international political economy that continues to command the attention of students, researchers, and policymakers. The world economy and political system have changed dramatically since the 1987 book was published. The end ...(展开全部)

After the end of World War II, the United States, by far the dominant economic and military power at that time, joined with the surviving capitalist democracies to create an unprecedented institutional framework. By the 1980s many contended that these institutions - the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (now the World Trade Organization), the World Bank, and the Internatio...(展开全部)

The field of international political economy gained prominence in the early 1970s--when the Arab oil embargo and other crises ended the postwar era of virtually unhindered economic growth in the United States and Europe--and today is an essential part of both political science and economics. This book offers the first comprehensive examination of this important field's developm...(展开全部)

Presenting the first critical analysis of Carl Schmitt's "The Nomos of the Earth" and how it relates to the epochal changes in the international system that have risen from the collapse of the 'Westphalian' international order. There is an emerging recognition in political theory circles that core issues, such as order, social justice, rights, need to be studied in their global...(展开全部)

The first comprehensive guide to the discipline of political economy and its application to media and communication studies, The Political Economy of Communication examines the ways that political economy has been used in communication studies. Author Vincent Mosco looks at the debates around political economy and its relationship to a range of disciplines in social science and...(展开全部)

'Vincent Mosco's heavily revised and thoroughly updated "Political Economy of Communication" is a masterpiece. (It) is the one single indispensable book that all media students and scholars need to read to understand this vital and growing area of research' - Robert W. McChesney, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 'Mosco has done all students of communication a great s...(展开全部)

Originally published in 1871, The Theory of Political Economy was the first text to introduce the concept of utility theory into economics and the use of calculus as a way to simplify and present economic problems. In this classic work Jevons re-formulated the central problem of economics as one of how to maximise overall utility with a set amount of means of production. Utilit...(展开全部)