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A concise and up-to-date survey of Japan's recent economic history, the economy's characteristic features and the challenges it continues to face, from economic stagnation to an ageing population.

A concise overview of the workings of the modern Italian economy and its unique characteristics from the doyenne of Italian economic historians.

This new title in the World Economies series charts and explains the development of the Indian economy since independence and partition and provides a unique up-to-date overview of the contemporary Indian economy and the reasons it has assumed its current form.

A new introduction to the modern Russian economy, one that explores Russia's continued tentative and inconsistent use of the market and the microfoundations and leadership norms of Russia's "sistema" that continue to inhibit liberalization.

Stephen Morgan provides a comprehensive analysis of China's unprecedented economic transformation and the specifics of its development, including issues such as well-being and human capital, inequality, ageing, urbanization and sustainability, consumerism, health, education and the environment.

A new economic history and political economy of the Gulf States -- Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and UAE.

Latin America's largest economy Brazil has gone from boom to bust in the past decade. This introduction to the workings of the Brazilian political economy provides a fresh analysis of Brazil's economic fortunes and the challenges of "interpreting" Brazil.

The first general economic history of France since 2004 and the first to include the impact of the global financial crisis.

Charts the astonishing economic development of South Korea and explains the country's remarkable transformation to a highly innovative economy based on advanced technologies and infrastructure in spite of a postcolonial legacy of military leaders in suits and the absence of fully developed free markets.

An economic history of postwar South Africa, with particular focus on the modern post-apartheid period.

A concise and up to date analysis of Mexico's economic development and the country's political economy suitable for a range of courses in Latin American studies and Development Studies.