Neoliberalism is easily one of the most powerful concepts to emerge within the social
sciences in the last two decades, and the number of scholars who write about this dynamic …

The first edition established itself as one of the leading books to situate the issue of
intellectual property within the discipline of International Political Economy (IPE). Since its …

Creativity and Its Discontents is a sharp critique of the intellectual property rights (IPR)–
based creative economy, particularly as it is embraced or ignored in China. Laikwan Pang …

Dramatic and controversial changes in the funding of science over the past two decades,
towards its increasing commercialization, have stimulated a huge literature trying to set out …

Abstract Using Kauffman, Kraay, and Mastruzzi governance indicators, this article analyzes
the impact of formal institutions on the knowledge economy by assessing how the …

Arlie Russell Hochschild's influential emotional labour thesis in The Managed Heart (1983)
exposes and opposes the harm wrought by the commodification of human feelings as …

Faked in China is a critical account of the cultural challenge faced by China following its
accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001. It traces the interactions between nation …

This book considers the lessons learnt so far from the emergence of the Internet and the
development of the field of Internet studies, whilst also considering possible directions for …

What can and can't be copied is a matter of law, but also of aesthetics, culture, and
economics. The act of copying, and the creation and transaction of rights relating to it …

What can we do in this period of historic, global turbulence? Mainstream narratives have no
plausible account of how to stop exacerbating the multiple, overlapping challenges; much …