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Connecting comparative political economy with structural economics, this book explores the relationship between national growth models and economic structures and considers the impacts of both growth models and structural change on various arenas include gender and environmental issues.

The comparative political economy paradigm of demand-led growth models examines the links between macrodynamics and region- and nation-specific institutions, while structural economics explores the composition and transformation of the structure of the economy, its technological endowments and its external insertion. The book explores the explanatory potential of combining these approaches through three parts: the first part lays out the theoretical foundations of the approaches; the second part is devoted to a set of region- and country-specific studies, covering both advanced and developing economies, including Europe, Mediterranean Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, the U.S., China, and Latin America; the third part examines the specific socio-economic impacts of the interaction between growth models and structural change, with particular attention to gender and environmental impacts, occupational change and welfare state transformations, and income inequality. Adopting a medium-term perspective, the book provides a comprehensive explanation of the economic transformations associated with growth models. It also explores regional- and country-specific policy responses to the financial crisis of 2008, and the Covid-19 crisis.

The book will appeal to readers across economics and politics with particular interest from scholars of comparative political economy, post-Keynesian macroeconomics and structural economics.

This is the first book to illustrate the use of Network Analysis for the analysis of rating datasets. It uses a multi-disciplinary approach to focus on the quantification and visualization of rater effects for exploration, diagnosis, reporting, decision-making, and planning.

Combining cutting-edge theories of rater effects with step-by-step practical examples using publicly available data and open-source code (R packages), this book provides an introduction to the concept of rating datasets. It uses simple language to discuss data requirements, model assumptions, and other important details, and it follows all theoretical sections with practical applications that analyze empirical data step-by-step. The book also demonstrates how the proposed methods can be integrated with more established approaches, such as Rasch models, to make the analysis of relevant data more efficient. With its accessible language and gentle introduction to graph theory and network analysis, this book is suitable for readers unfamiliar with the methodology. throughout the book, readers will become able to plan a rater-effects study, format the dataset, conduct the analysis, and report the findings. The data and code are available as supplementary online material to encourage readers to replicate the analysis and reflect on the results.

This book will be of great interest to graduate students and researchers who conduct research on using ratings, and will also be an important reference for anyone studying measurement, research, and quantitative methods. Researchers and practitioners in the fields of testing services, awarding bodies and social sciences in general will also find this book useful

Critically engaging with contributions from both the Global North and South, this book offers a systematic rethinking of Marx's concept of primitive accumulation and its relevance to contemporary capitalism. The book argues that recent attempts to reinterpret dispossession often suffer from conceptual overstretch and a neglect of production and class relations.

The book's focus is the concept of expanded primitive accumulation: an ongoing, capitalist state-mediated process of extra-economic coercion that separates producers from privately owned, communal, and state-owned means of production and subsistence. This concept is situated within a broader framework that distinguishes and relates primitive accumulation, labour exploitation, normal capitalist exchange relations, and class differentiation within the totality of capitalist social relations. The analysis foregrounds the capitalist state as both enforcer and manager of dispossession, and shows that such processes are shaped by class struggle and require ideological legitimation.

Combining theoretical reconstruction with empirical analysis, including a case study from Odisha, India, the book develops the political implications of dispossession, emphasizing the need for working-class leadership in struggles against capitalism. It will be of interest to scholars and students across the social sciences, as well as to readers concerned with Marxist political and economic thought, capitalism, dispossession, and the state.

This book evaluates the deepening accord the EU and Japan hold in the Indo-Pacific region in terms of security, economy, and values.

Focusing on the contemporary period after Japan and the EU signed Strategic and Economic Partnership Agreements in 2018, the book analyses both general outlooks and world visions of the two, and the practical programmes and initiatives in the Indo-Pacific through which these are achieved. By exploring both actors' perception of the Indo-Pacific in historical, intellectual, and political contexts, and their contemporary political interests within security, environmental, and economic dimensions, the book demonstrates how closely the duo's roles in the region are connected.

Revealing the changing contours of the EU-Japan partnership in the Indo-Pacific, this will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of geopolitics, economic geography, and international relations, particularly of Japan, the EU, and the Indo-Pacific.

This book explores the deep impact of AI and digital transformation on finance, its practices and decision intelligence processes. The book and its practical, analytical chapters present further insights regarding ways to effectively utilize AI, potentially even beyond the existing theoretical and practical knowledge. Regulatory, ethical, security, and moral challenges and concerns associated with the use of AI in finance are thoroughly analyzed.

Readers will take away a conceptual and practical understanding of AI and digitalization as well as real-world practical case studies, so that they can be applied appropriately in a workplace setting. It aims to differentiate itself by focusing more specifically on the practical realities of AI and digital transformation in decision-making processes within finance, offering actionable guidance and real-world case study or implications, which are less emphasized in most other competitors.

The book is appropriate for experts and professionals interested in deployment of AI, digitalization and their implementation in finance. No doubt, academics, professionals, students, and finance experts will find this book an informative practice resource. The book would suit anyone interested in AI and its broader applications in finance or its uses in decision-making processes.

AI-Powered Insurance is a comprehensive exploration of how Artificial Intelligence is revolutionizing the global insurance industry. This book brings together cutting-edge research and real-world case studies, covering AI's transformative impact across underwriting, risk management, customer experience, and policy personalization. It examines emerging technologies, ethical challenges, and security concerns while analyzing machine learning applications in insurance policy evaluation. From automation versus human expertise to bibliometric research trends, the book offers diverse perspectives from leading experts. An essential resource for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers, it charts the future of intelligent, data-driven insurance in an increasingly digital world.

Providing a comprehensive feminist political economy analysis of gender and global trade, this book challenges existing approaches to gender in global trade governance that prioritise market-based solutions to inequality.

The authors reveal how the power dynamics shaping trade governance unfold on gendered terrain. Tracing the emergence of gender mainstreaming in trade and its implementation in digital and food trade, they caution that dominant 'free trade feminist' approaches risk perpetuating gender-based and intersectional inequalities.

Weaving rigorous academic theory with cutting-edge policy analysis, they disrupt conventional wisdom about women's empowerment in trade and establish a feminist research agenda for transformative trade governance.

This book comprehensively explores the intersection between gender, climate change, and the green economy in Africa. It investigates the gendered impacts of climate change and emphasises the critical role women play in addressing climate change, shaping sustainable development, and the green economy.

Drawing on a range of case studies, policy analyses, and theoretical reflections, the book highlights the often-overlooked contributions of women to sustainability efforts, environmental governance, and socio-economic resilience in the face of climate impacts. It argues that women are disproportionately affected by climate change due to existing socio-economic inequalities. It challenges women's exclusion from climate policy development and implementation by placing women at the centre of climate action and as critical actors for advancing climate justice and the green economy. To bridge the gap between gender-focused research and practical policy solutions, the book provides gender-sensitive strategies for a more inclusive, just, and sustainable future.

This book will be an important read for policymakers, researchers, and students across the fields of sustainable development, African studies, gender studies, and environmental studies. Additionally, it will be a valuable resource for development practitioners and NGOs working in the space of environmental justice and sustainable development.

The Routledge Handbook of Contract Farming and Development assesses the main conceptual, methodological and theoretical debates surrounding contract farming, and its implications for rural development in the Global South.

Contract farming has rapidly expanded in the Global South in the wake of structural adjustment, providing an intermediate form of agricultural organization between open procurement and fully integrated plantation agriculture. However, it is also a focus of contestation, with some viewing it as a "win-win" solution to the struggles of smallholders in the Global South, and others viewing it through the lens of peasant exploitation. This book combines conceptual and methodological contributions with rich empirical case studies, encouraging a holistic understanding of contract farming by transcending disciplinary silos. Overall, the book equips readers with a rich understanding of key themes, policies, business models, actors and social dynamics surrounding contract farming. It considers local and regional variations and contexts, and the broader implications of contract farming for agrarian change globally.

The book's comprehensive coverage of contract farming will be of interest to researchers across the fields of agricultural economics, development studies, rural sociology and agrarian political economy. Its insights will also be instructive for policy makers and development practitioners looking for a comprehensive overview.

The green transition is no longer simply a question of better technologies or stronger carbon prices. It is a question of whether decarbonisation can remain feasible, investable, and socially durable under volatility, geopolitical rivalry, ecological limits, and distributional conflict. This book examines the transition as a systemic process shaped by bottlenecks, institutional capacity, and the interaction of policy, finance, and social legitimacy.

Bringing together political economy, governance, and green finance, the book analyses how policy instruments, metrics, resilience, and risk architectures condition the pace and durability of transformation. It explores the design of policy mixes, the role of indicators as governance devices, and the architecture of de-risking, market-making, coordination, disclosure, and supervisory frameworks. The discussion also addresses digital innovation, greenwashing risks, and the ways in which climate and regulatory uncertainty reshape capital allocation. Comparative evidence from the European Union, the United States, and China, together with analysis of European electricity markets, shows how transition strategies succeed or fail as constraints shift.

Written for academics, policymakers, regulators, practitioners, and graduate students in economics, finance, and sustainability, the book offers a framework for understanding how the transition can be governed under turbulence. It provides tools for identifying binding constraints, evaluating resilience, and understanding how credibility, sequencing, and uncertainty affect investment. Rather than offering a blueprint, it shows how transitions depend on managing sequences of constraints over time. Its central message is that a sustainable transition depends not on ambition alone, but on institutions capable of making long-term commitment credible under structural uncertainty.

This book is about macroeconomics as a major field of economic theory. The reference to "alternative macroeconomic theory" emphasizes the distance from mainstream and Keynesian economics. There are important groundings in this book, notably in Marxian, Keynesian, Schumpeterian, and Minskian approaches, but no strict adhesion to a particular train of thought.

The frontal treatment of "disequilibrium" is the key idiosyncratic feature. Disequilibrium is understood in the strict sense, and equilibria approached as outcomes of actual dynamic processes. The stability and instability of these dynamics are placed on equal footings. Credit mechanisms are a pivotal component of the funding of firms' investment, brewing the destabilizing potential inherent in disequilibrium dynamics. Instability would be the general rule if procedures built in institutions and regulations did not see to it. A special attention is placed on the historical establishment of these mechanisms and their contemporary institutional settings such as the Basel Accords and unconventional macro policies, emphasizing their efficiency. The satisfaction of stability conditions remains, however, conditional, and their recurrent violation is the pivotal component of our analysis of business cycles.

The theory here presented is applied to the empirical study of the U.S. from World War II, but with deep roots in the 19th century surrounded by the broader consideration of social relations: there is no a-historical or a-social macroeconomics.

This book, along with its sister volume, Instability Cycles, Distribution, and Inflation, is essential reading for all macroeconomists and economic theorists, especially those who are open to alternative approaches.

Routledge Handbook of Defense Economics brings together cutting-edge research on militarization from economics and allied social sciences to examine one of the most pressing challenges of the twenty-first century. With contributions from leading scholars of defense and peace economics, it examines the drivers and consequences of military expenditure across a wide range of socio-economic domains, including economic growth, inequality, profit rates, social spending, sustainable development, and gender.

Recognizing that military budgets are shaped by intertwined economic and strategic forces, the volume adopts an interdisciplinary perspective that connects defense economics with political, social, and institutional dynamics. At a time marked by economic instability, democratic backsliding, persistent poverty, and intensifying geopolitical tensions, the book places military spending within broader transformations of globalization and political economy. Drawing on new data and advanced analytical methods, this volume offers fresh insights into how militarization reshapes development paths and social outcomes worldwide.

This Handbook is an essential resource for scholars and students of the economics of defense, war, conflict, and peace from across the social sciences.

The Dynamics of Global Financial Markets: Risks, Regulation, and Innovation provides a timely and comprehensive overview of the modern financial system amid rising uncertainty and rapid change. It explores how global markets are influenced by systemic risks, regulatory developments, geopolitical tensions, climate-related pressures, and technological advancements.

The book explores the institutional foundations of financial markets, the roles of central banks and international organisations, the transmission of geopolitical and climate-related shocks, and the transformative influence of digital assets, blockchain, artificial intelligence, and fintech. By incorporating historical perspectives, analytical discourse, and policy relevance, it shows how financial markets serve as sources of opportunity, vulnerability, and strategic adaptation.

This book will be essential reading for academics, advanced students, policymakers, regulators, and practitioners in finance, economics, and public policy. It provides readers with a structured and globally informed understanding of the major trends shaping modern finance, while offering insights into the regulatory, institutional, and strategic challenges that will influence its future.

Rethinking the economics of gender.

In the 1970s, as women started to enter the labor force in unprecedented numbers, economists began to examine their roles as economic actors. The result was the rise of gender economics, now a major subfield with powerful data and new methods comparing the economic lives of men and women. Yet despite decades of progress, many of the most consequential questions about gender inequality remain unresolved.

In this bold and reflective book, renowned economist and demographer Shelly Lundberg argues that the problem is not a lack of evidence but a failure to challenge entrenched economic models and outmoded assumptions about markets and gender that have limited what the field can explain.

Why does occupational segregation persist? Why do "women's jobs" pay less? Why are men falling behind in education? And why do policies like paternity leave fail to change behavior? Drawing on more than five decades in the field and integrating insights from other social sciences, Lundberg explains signs of recent progress and charts a path toward a more realistic, socially grounded economics capable of meeting the challenges of gender inequality today.

This book explores IoT-based ecosystems and AI-driven automation in agriculture to provide solutions for intelligent farming systems and precision agriculture techniques. It provides a comprehensive view of emerging technologies' integration and the resultant impact on the farming ecosystem. Real-world case studies and examples
of IoT and AI applications in agriculture are included to show how IoT and AI have revolutionized conventional agriculture. The book also examines the potential and difficulties of deploying IoT and AI in the agricultural business with case studies.

Features:
* Demonstrates how technologies like precision agriculture, smart sensors, and automated systems can be utilized to boost production, reduce waste,and increase sustainability by optimizing resource usage and reducing
environmental impact.
* Explains how small sensors, intelligence drones, or low-power Internet of Things setups for detecting, monitoring, gathering, analyzing, and storing data through cloud platforms are encouraging smart and intelligent agriculture.
* Highlights IoT and AI intervention options for effective assessment of musculoskeletal, ergonomic, and postural analyses.
* Explains usage of AI and IoT in precision farming, agricultural drones and hopping systems, livestock monitoring, temperature monitoring, smart greenhouses, and computer imaging.
* Discusses challenges like data security, rural connectivity issues, infrastructure limitations, and the digital divide in rural areas.

The book is a helpful reference for professionals, scholars, and students interested in digital farming and sustainable agricultural practices. It acts as a guiding tool for practitioners, researchers, educators, and policymakers, encouraging discussions, innovations, and advancements that will shape a sustainable, efficient, and resilient future for agriculture.

This book examines the shifting dynamics of global trade governance in an era of uncertainty. Michael Sampson introduces a new framework to explain why rising powers like China have favoured flexible, low-detail agreements, while relatively declining powers such as Japan seek comprehensive deals to preserve influence.

Drawing on original analysis of trade arrangements, the book highlights how these competing strategies fuel conflict over institutions like the World Trade Organization and shape the future of international cooperation. The insights drawn are vital for scholars and policy makers navigating today's fractured trade landscape.

Black Women in the U.S. Economy: The Hardest Working Woman explores the impact of economic, structural, and policy changes since the 1970s on the status and well-being of Black women in the U.S. It examines the rise in income and wealth inequality and subsequent economic downturns on Black women and their families given the changing relationship between the state, markets, and families over this period of time.

The book assembles an interdisciplinary group of scholars who use Black Feminist frameworks along with applied microeconomics and econometrics to understand the multiple identities, roles, and experiences of Black women in the U.S. economy. The Hardest Working Woman is divided into three sections: 1) Black Women in the Market Economy, 2) Family and Community, and 3) Politics, Public Policy and Its Effects. The chapters are designed to stand alone or complement each other, offering a broad overview of Black women's work. The aim of this book is to challenge the popular rhetoric about Black women's work experiences, economic status, and role in providing for and sustaining their families and communities.

This important and illuminating study will be essential reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of Black women's experiences within the political economy, as well as all those with an interest in Economics, Women's Studies, Africana Studies, Sociology, Political Science and Public Policy.

Corine Pelluchon examines the psychological and political obstacles standing in the way of the emergence of a new ecological Enlightenment, the basic principles of which she has developed in her books. Her starting point is the thesis that the current ecological and democratic crises cannot be understood without analyzing the system of domination that structures our relationships with other people, animals, nature, and with ourselves. In dialogue with phenomenology, critical theory, and existentialism, the analysis uncovers the anthropological roots of modern destructiveness: the refusal to acknowledge one's own vulnerability, the denial of death, fantasies of omnipotence, and the decoupling of technical rationality from responsibility. The author demonstrates that these mechanisms give rise to a culture of death, which manifests itself in the trivialization of violence, the destruction of life, and the erosion of democratic institutions. Violence against animals, ecological extractivism, and the growing susceptibility to authoritarian populist discourses thus appear as interconnected expressions of the same imaginary of domination and the same denial of mortality.
In response to these dynamics, the essay introduces the concept of consideratio. It refers to a way of being that forms the foundation for the virtues enabling us to find joy in changing our lifestyle. It is based on a deepening of our self-awareness as vulnerable, born, and mortal beings, through which we intensely experience our belonging to the shared world. This experience leads to an expansion of subjectivity, which Corine Pelluchon calls transdescendence. This transformation of our relationship to ourselves and to others forms the ethical and political prerequisite for an ecological democracy. At the same time, it opens the possibility of a hope, not to be understood as optimism, but as the ability to recognize, despite the crises, the harbingers of a new horizon - a perspective that gives us the energy to reframe the future.

This book examines management meaning, nature and theories addressing classical, neo-classical and modern approaches with emphasis on evolution of management thought and relevance to agricultural extension. It covers administration, supervision and functions of management including POSDCORB framework, extension management in public, private and pluralistic sectors and also:

• Examines management meaning, nature and theories including classical, neo-classical and modern approaches with emphasis on evolution of management thought
• Covers administration, supervision and functions of management addressing POSDCORB framework, approaches to management, levels of management, and qualities, skills and competencies of effective manager in extension organizations
• Addresses extension management in public, private and pluralistic sectors
• Discusses decision-making and human resource management in extension covering types of decisions, styles and techniques, manpower planning, recruitment, selection, training and development
• Examines leadership, authority, coordination and performance in extension addressing leadership styles, delegation, decentralization, line and staff relations

This title has been co-published with Elite Publishing House. T&F does not sell or distribute the print versions in India.

This book examines economic integration and peace prospects in Central and South Asia with focus on UTTAPI countries-Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. It analyzes trade impact on national economies, transportation corridors, and regional development patterns. It addresses India's strategic role through TAPI pipeline and military cooperation initiatives, and also:

• Examines economic integration among UTTAPI countries (Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India).

• Addresses India's strategic role in Central and South Asian integration through initiatives including TAPI gas pipeline, DUSTLIK military exercises, and infrastructure development.

• Analyzes Afghanistan's stability as critical factor for regional security and economic connectivity.

• Examines India-Pakistan relations with focus on trade and economic collaboration potential for addressing common challenges.

• Covers transportation and transit corridor development among UTTAPI countries.

This title has been co-published with Knowledge World Publishers. T&F does not sell or distribute the print versions in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri lanka.

The global financial landscape is undergoing a profound transformation. As digital assets and virtual currencies move from the periphery of experimental technology-long considered a "playground for nerds"-and to the core of institutional strategy, the ability to effectively manage these projects has become a critical competency for modern organizations. Real estate, receivables, carbon credits, and even intellectual property can be represented as digital tokens, enabling fractional ownership, secondary markets, and new financing structures. Digital Project Practice to Capitalize on Digital Assets and Virtual Currencies is a multidisciplinary roadmap for navigating this shift. Highlights include:

• AI-driven smart contracts and autonomous financial ecosystem
• The psychological effects of Blockchain on human behavior
• Tokenized carbon credits powering a net-zero economy
• Deposit tokens, stablecoins and the evolution of digital settlement
• Digital identity, hybrid governance, and the future of market access

With a nuanced look at digital assets and virtual currencies, the book moves beyond technical implementation to address socio-legal and strategic implications. Combining hands-on practical experience and academic inquiry, it explores managing digital projects that can create value and promote inclusive growth. It discusses the diverse components of the digital asset lifecycle to provide guidance needed for leading successful digital initiatives in an increasingly virtual economy. Digital assets are moving from expectations to production; in the future, the winners will not be the ones with the best ideas, but the ones who can execute a regulated transaction at-scale. Whether it covers asset tokenization, currency management, or the underlying identity frameworks that secure them, the book provides the strategic clarity required for those leading the charge in the next generation of the digital economy.

This book analyzes China's food safety co-governance with Chinese characteristics through the Asymmetric Party-State-Society (PSS) Triangle Structure, combining theoretical analysis with 67 interviews conducted between 2018 and 2024. It traces how this framework took shape and matured from the 2008 melamine scandal to the present.

The framework positions the Communist Party at the apex, providing strategic direction; the government at the base, translating directives into enforceable standards and enforcement; and society at the pivot, participating within state-defined boundaries. It develops the concept of structured asymmetry, demonstrating how hierarchical authority and functional collaboration can coexist. This challenges the assumption in Western collaborative governance theory that effective governance requires dispersed power and voluntary participation. It places China alongside the United States and the European Union, assesses the strengths and limitations of each model, and examines China's growing influence in international standard-setting bodies, including the Codex Alimentarius Commission. The book further considers the future of PSS co-governance as digital technologies and global supply chain pressures reshape the institutional boundaries of the triangle structure.

The book will appeal to scholars and practitioners working in food safety law and policy, Chinese politics and governance, comparative public administration, and regulatory theory.

At both ends of the wealth spectrum, the laws governing credit and debt hardwire patterns of both privilege and poverty. They drive financial extraction by creating a flow of assets from the pockets of low-income families into the bank accounts of high-wealth ones. In short, some families are legally enabled as they accumulate and preserve great fortunes that get passed down through generations-while others are locked into a cycle of scraping by, just hoping to find affordable housing and put food on the table.

This book traces the joint forces of law, geography, and narrative that have built this superstructure of inequality and extraction: "the house of family money." Allison Anna Tait reveals how this monumental piece of economic architecture can be deciphered by the blueprints that guided its construction, navigated by maps that reveal its hidden shortcuts, and ultimately renovated by lasting reforms.

Do you find mastering research and statistical methods in the vast field of social sciences daunting? This book serves as an accessible introduction, guiding you through the core concepts needed to navigate data with confidence. From designing a study to presenting results, this text goes back to basics and provides a modern approach to understanding statistics.

This first edition also offers:

• Comprehensive Coverage: Explores essential statistical methods relevant to social sciences, from descriptive statistics to spatial and temporal pattern analysis.
• An Accessible Writing Style: Engages students with a science communication approach, simplifying complex concepts.
• Visual Learning: Utilises figures and graphics to enhance understanding, making data presentation a key focus.
• Global Relevance: Includes examples with broad global applicability.

With an array of online resources, this book is a must-have resource for building foundational skills in research and statistics as a beginner social scientist.