Explore how political economy examines the impacts of economic theories, like capitalism, on real-world interactions and policies globally.

Outside the Chinese Parliament in Beijing, the centerpoint of China's decades of communist rule and economic expansion -- the former now beginning to strangle the latter. REUTERS China had a good run, ...

In the early 1990s, following the demise of the Soviet Union, Cuba suffered immensely. But then Venezuela, under the leadership of socialist Hugo Chavez, provided Cuba with at least the energy it ...

Whenever the foreign news is especially depressing, I like to reminisce about the halcyon days of 1989, when the fall of the Berlin wall so memorably illustrated the collapse of Communist tyranny in ...

When a traveler from a Chinese metropolis vacations in the United States or Europe, the experience can be unexpectedly trying. To order at a restaurant, the menu must first be deciphered and then the ...

Income contrasts tend to decline as economic development progresses, under consumer sovereignty, wrote BR Shenoy in 1977.