This review examines how international development has been studied by anthropologists,
both as a particular form of institutional practice and as the terms of global economic and …

Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective explains how development thinking
and practice have shaped our world. It introduces students to four interconnected projects …

'There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're
winning.'Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, 2006 (quoted in Stein 2006) In an …

This book is about global social policy. Global social policy consists of two things: first, it is
the social policy prescriptions for national social policy being articulated by global actors …

This article reviews the conceptual and analytical contribution of one strand of 'global social
policy studies' since the mid-1990s. It outlines some of the strengths and weaknesses of the …

The global economic crisis continue to dominate headlines, yet measures to build a social
floor under the global economy and reform global governance have received little attention …

In 2007, Ghana joined the club of Gulf of Guinea oil-rich countries when transnational
corporations discovered proven reserves in the Jubilee Field, off of the Cape Three Points …

Die Internationale Politische Ökonomie (IPÖ) hat sich seit den 1970er Jahren zu einem
lebhaften Forschungszweig entwickelt, in dem Wissenschaftler aus unterschiedlichen …

Despite the influence corporations wield over all aspects of everyday life, there has been a
remarkable absence of critical inquiry into the social constitution of this power. In analysing …

This book provides a comprehensive investigation of the messy and crisis-ridden
relationship between the operations of capitalist finance, global capital flows, and state …