Evolutionary Political Economy: Content and Methods

political economy of china in central asia

this research is about the political economy of china in central asia. in this research the political & economic interactions affected on chinas political economy in central asia are examined. chinas goal of presence in central asia including political-security, economic and energy goals is described in one part. in another part, the trade relations between china and central asian countries ar...

Introduction: Political Ecology and Canadian Political Economy

The papers in this special iSSU. e of Studies in Political Economy are, with one exception, drawn from presentations made at the SPE annual conference in February 2002. The conference objective was to provide a forum for public and scholarly engagement with the questions of political ecology and political economy.The papers provided a number of critical perspectives on the themes of sustainable...

POLITICAL ECONOMY † Health and Democracy

In spite of the inexorable march of democracy around the globe, just how democratic institutions affect human well-being is open to debate. The evidence that democracy promotes prosperity is neither strong nor robust. Moreover, which aspects of policy making and human well-being are promoted by democracies is still a subject of debate. Even if correlations between democracy and outcome measures...

Power fluctuations and political economy

We study the constrained Pareto efficient allocations in a dynamic production economy in which the group that holds political power decides the allocation of resources. We show that Pareto efficient allocations take a quasi-Markovian structure and can be represented recursively as a function of the identity of the group in power and updated Pareto weights. For high discount factors, the economy...

Political Economy Lecture Notes