This paper provides a policy analysis of the EU Emissions Trading System and its crisis. The aim of the research is to give an answer to the question why the EU Emissions Trading System is in crisis and cannot be revised in an effective way. Therefore, the policy process of the revision of the...

This paper uses hysteresis to develop the concept of policy lock-in and lock-out. Policy changes may near-irrevocably change the economy’s structure, thereby changing the distribution of wealth, income and power. That may lock-in policy by changing the political equilibrium. Exit costs that...

This study begins with an overview of the poverty situation in the Philippines. It then takes a brief look at the poor in the rural areas, followed with a discussion of the poor in the informal sector. It then, brings these two sectors together, with an examination of the poor and the...

This study looks at some non-conventional determinants of economic growth, with the help of the newly developed economic freedom index datasets of the Heritage Foundation/Wall Street Journal(HF/WSJ), which is a cumulative index derived from several sub-indices (trade freedom index, financial...

In jüngerer Zeit werden in der internationalen ökonomischen Debatte wirtschaftspolitische Forderungen laut, die deutlich von einer Nachfrageorientierung und weniger von einer angebotsorientierten liberalen Sicht geprägt sind. Sie gehen teilweise recht weit oder scheinen einer...

This paper explores lock-in and lock-out via economic policy. It argues policy decisions may near-irrevocably change the economy's structure, thereby changing its performance. That causes changed economic outcomes concerning distribution of wealth, income and power, which in turn induces...

This article deals with the Brazilian labour movement during Workers' Party governments, discussing its organizational reconfiguration and its ability to influence politics. It identifies the main actions and demands put forward by the trade union movement after the arrival of the PT to the...

This paper explores the four decades of intellectual relationship between the Austrian School economist Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) and two major representatives of German ordoliberalism, Walter Eucken (1891-1950) and Wilhelm Röpke (1899-1966). The timespan covered starts in the early 1920s...

This book takes as its point of departure the observation that much of the critical discussion of the European political economy and the Eurozone crisis has focused upon an impending sense that solidaristic achievements built up during the first thirty years of the post-war period are being...

The political ecology of agri-food systems -- Realising agro-neoliberalism in Brazil -- Push and hold the agribusiness frontier -- The rent of agribusiness -- Displacement, replacement and misplacement -- Poverty in rich Amazonian ecosystems -- Conclusions : fields of empty grains

"Southeast Asia is one of the most diverse regions in the world, hosting a wide range of languages, ethnicities, religions, economies, ecosystems, and political systems. Amidst this diversity however has been a common desire to develop. This provides a uniting theme across landscapes of...

Introduction -- Restoring Tang splendour? : a critical historical assessment of China's new aspirational narrative of global leadership -- CPC elite perception of the US since the early 1990s : Zheng Bijian, Wang Huning and Liu Mingfu as test cases -- The "Singapore fever" in China : policy...

Introduction : market nationalism and Israeli capitalism -- States and markets in late-developing economies -- The formative period : economic ideas and state preferences -- Towards an industrial revolution -- Constructing state capacities -- From full employment to economic independence :...

Introduction : beyond the critique of speculation -- Foundationalism and self-referentiality -- Constructions and performances -- Luhmannian considerations -- System, economy and governance -- Foucault beyond the critique of economism -- Time, investment and decision -- Minsky beyond the...

Introduction: the genealogy of the economic -- The invention of economic necessity and the political mob -- Life at the limits: scarcity and the economic -- The right to live and the politics of affect -- The return of the political and the cultural critique of economy -- Money and the economic...

Acknowledgement -- Introduction / Alessandro Bonanno and Steven Wolf -- The corporate domination of agri-food -- Is resistance futile? : how global agri-food attempts to co-opt the alternatives / Lawrence Busch -- Best practices : the artificial negativity of agri-food / Alessandro Bonanno --...

This book analyses the discourses of economic liberalization reform in six Western European countries - Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Austria. It provides systematic empirical evidence that policy-related discourses are much more than noise; rather, they...

The economy in a post-growth era : what project and what philosophy? / Isabelle Cassiers and Kevin Maréchal -- Work and employment in a post-growth era / Dominique Méda -- The new paths of decommodification / Bernard Perret -- Social economy and polycentric governance of transitions / Thomas...

1. Introduction: Locating the Political in Late Neoliberalism -- 2. Presupposing Democracy: Placing Politics in the Urban -- 3. Desiring the Common in the Post-crisis Metropolis: Insurgencies, Contradictions, Appropriations -- 4. The Globalized City as a Locus of the Political: Logistical...

"Costly Fix addresses core questions about the Alberta oil sands boom that started in the 1990s: Why did this flood of investment pour into the oil sands of northern Alberta? What role has government played with respect to the oil sands rush, and why? Who benefited and who or what has paid the...

In this paper, I explore the politically contested association between the degree of capitalism, captured by measures of economic freedom, and the risk and characteristics of economic crisis. After offering some brief theoretical considerations, I estimate the effects of economic freedom on...

We examine the relationship between capitalism and income inequality for a large sample of countries using an adjusted economic freedom index as proxy for capitalism and Gini coefficients based on gross-income as proxy for income inequality. Our results suggest that there is no robust...

This paper examines the major competing interpretations of the economic crisis in the US and explains the rebound of neoliberal orthodoxy. It shows how US policymakers acted to stabilize and save the economy, but failed to change the underlying neoliberal economic policy model. That failure...