The authors investigate the origin of the EMU to identify its constructional defects in order to explain why it is failing to resolve the European crisis effectively.

The shift from debt-financed public expenditure to debt-financed private expenditure-led growth in India has resulted in increased dependence on foreign capital and vulnerability.

The report validates the concerns that many nations may not have adequate flexibility to regulate capital flows because of the trade and investment treaties they are party to.

In the context of the digital revolution, the author discusses some possible implications of the impact of the internet on the print business and the directions they point to.

Arguing that China has chosen an original path, the author analyses the nature of this path at each of the stages of its development from 1950 to today–2012.

The crisis in East Europe is due to the asymmetric integration of these countries into the European Union, which led to structural weaknesses.

Analysing the Baltic republics' response to the crisis of 2008–2011, the essay shows that the Baltic 'model' of crisis resolution cannot be replicated anywhere else in Europe.

Contrary to public perception, austerity measures are not limited to Europe; in fact, it is in the developing world that many adjustment measures feature most prominently.

This paper reviews the main causes of the Euro Zone financial crisis and argues that the prevailing crisis resolution philosophy resembles the original deflationary Euro-bias.

This paper traces the historical development of commerce in primary commodities, focusing on derivatives contracts and the legal framework for derivative transactions.

This essay investigates the subject of history or the social class that has precipitated the social disaster in Syria.

The paper takes a critical look at the Asian initiatives at monetary and financial integration and points to some issues in the way forward.

The current initiatives to address inequality are fraught with the risks of de-politicisation of policy debates and an obsessive focus on inequality indicators.

The financial crisis in Greece and the 'austerity measures' being imposed on the country has lead to disastrous results for the economy. Contrary to mainstream prescriptions that seek to bailout big financial institutions at the expense of the real economy, an alternative proposal that was originally proposed by the author has gained much credence. The ''Raffer Proposal'' (also known as the Fair Transparent Arbitration Procedure (FTAP)) has been endorsed and propagated by many noteworthy economists, NGOs, and the Jubilee Movement. This article espouses the basic tenets of the Proposal and explains how it can help resolve the Greek crisis.

The author provides a theoretical framework that makes it possible to create a taxonomy of knowledge governance regimes and elucidate what is needed for catching-up strategies.

This paper argues that the 2008 economic crisis was particularly deep in Estonia and Iceland because non-corporatist neo-liberal political features were essential endogenous factors deepening it. A lack of corporatist features also formed the basis for responses to the crisis and the political aftermath in both cases. Furthermore, the paper argues that adding new institutionalist aspects to the corporatist model helps deepen our understanding of political dynamics in societies that lack clear-cut corporatist features.