"This volume aims to fill a gap in studies of BRICS. It offers a critical analysis of the rise of the BRICS countries' economies within the framework of a global capitalism that is increasingly predatory, exclusionary and unequal, no more so than in the BRICS countries themselves. The authors...

The post-communist states of Central and Eastern Europe have gone from being among the world's most closed, autarkic economies to being some of the most export-oriented and globally integrated. While previous accounts have attributed this shift to post-1989 market reform policies, Besnik Pula...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary of Terms -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Ireland in Profile : An Improbable Tiger Habitat -- 3 Rich Man, Poor Man : But is it a Tiger Economy? -- 4 The Accidental Tiger -- 5 The Sample and...