The Chinese Economy
Stephen L. Morgan
China’s transformation over the past four decades has been unprecedented. The vision of its leaders for the next three decades is unprecedented too, as China seeks to fashion an advanced economy without [...]Read More
Economic Anthropology
James G. Carrier
Conventional economic thought sees the economy as the sum of market transactions carried out by rational individuals deciding how to allocate their resources among the various things on offer that would [...]Read More
Essays on Civil War, Inequality and Underdevelopment
Syed Mansoob Murshed
Syed Mansoob Murshed has been at the forefront of research in the rational choice approach to conflict. His pioneering work over many years has demonstrated that armed conflict is inseparable from inequality [...]Read More
A Modern Migration Theory
Peo Hansen
Current migration policy is based on a seemingly neutral accounting exercise, in which migrants contribute less in tax than they receive in welfare assistance. A “fact” that justifies increasingly restrictive [...]Read More
The Political Economy of Industrial Strategy in the UK
Craig Berry, Julie Froud, Tom Barker
Does the UK still have an industrial strategy? How should we understand the renewed interest within government in industrial policy – and now its apparent reversal – in recent years? This collection [...]Read More
The Return of the State
Patrick Allen, Suzanne J. Konzelmann, Jan Toporowski
Pushed by the Covid-19 crisis, the UK government has borrowed massively to save jobs, businesses and the economy from collapse, making a mockery of the austerity policies that it had championed for [...]Read More
Luuk van Middelaar lecture series, Collège de France, Paris
Luuk van Middelaar, author of Alarums and Excursions and the forthcoming Pandemonium, will deliver four public lectures on "geopolitical Europe: acts and words" at the Collège de France. The lectures will be livestreamed on 24 March, 31 March, 7 April and 14 April each at 19.30 CET.
No More Mr Nice Europe
Read Hans Kribbe's article on Europe and the Strongmen in Politico Europe.
Financial Times best books of 2020
Edward Luce, the FT's US national editor, chooses Eric Lonergan and Mark Blyth's Angrynomics as his book of the year.
Download a copy of our 2021 Catalogue
Our 2021 catalogue showcases new titles for the coming year and key backlist.
Our 2020 books now available from JSTOR
We are pleased to announce that our 2020 titles are now available through the JSTOR platform, the digital library for scholars, researchers and students.
Post-Budget reading Austerity
Boris Johnson has said that the UK government "has absolutely no intention of returning to the A word" but with the Covid-19 crisis set to take government debt levels to new heights, is a return to austerity measures inevitable?
