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There are considerable differences in environmental performance and outcomes across both democracies and autocracies, but there is little understanding of how levels of democracy and autocracy influence environmental performance. This book examines whether analysing the...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-02-17
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The idea that healthcare and education should be provided as universal public services to all who need them is widely accepted. But why leave it there? Why not expand it to more of life’s essentials? In their bold new book, Anna Coote and Andrew Percy argue that this...
Editeur :
Polity
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2020-02-13
Collection :
The Case For
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In diesem essential ergründet der Autor, was man sich von der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft verspricht, warum die Soziale Marktwirtschaft nicht „sozial“ ist und Lohnsteigerungen nicht helfen, sie sozialer zu machen. Dabei treibt ihn vor allem der Wunsch nach mehr...
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Springer Gabler
Parution :
2020-01-31
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Provides aspiring engineers with pertinent information and technological methodologies on how best to manage industry's modern-day environment concerns This book explains why industrial environmental management is important to human environmental interactions and...
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Wiley
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2020-01-29
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This book provides a detailed analysis of the economic and political implications of the introduction of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics into the service sector of economies that have so far relied on service jobs to sustain levels of employment. It examines how...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-01-25
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This book explores the complex and ever-changing relationship between the European Union and its member states. The recent surge in tension in this relationship has been prompted by the actions of some member state governments as they question fundamental EU values and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-01-22
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All of a sudden, everybody’s talking about the gig economy. From taxi drivers to pizza deliverers to the unemployed, we are all aware of the huge changes that it is driving in our lives as workers, consumers and citizens. This is the first comprehensive overview of...
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Polity
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2020-01-17
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If 'prevention is better than cure', why isn't policy more preventive? Policymakers only have the ability to pay attention to, and influence, a tiny proportion of their responsibilities, and they engage in a policymaking environment of which they have limited...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-01-16
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Our broken economic model drives inequality and disempowerment, lining the pockets of corporations while extracting wealth from local communities. How can we reverse this? Joe Guinan and Martin O’Neill argue for an approach that uses the power of democratic...
Editeur :
Polity
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2020-01-14
Collection :
The Case For
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This volume challenges global leaders and citizenry to do more in order to resource the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (AfSD) and its 17 interwoven Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Starting from the concept ‘we cannot manage what we...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-01-14
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Too often, economics disassociates humans from nature, the economy from the biosphere that contains it, and sustainability from fairness. When economists do engage with environmental issues, they typically reduce their analysis to a science of efficiency that leaves...
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Polity
Parution :
2020-01-13
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If 'prevention is better than cure', why isn't policy more preventive? Policymakers only have the ability to pay attention to, and influence, a tiny proportion of their responsibilities, and they engage in a policymaking environment of which they have limited...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-01-09
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Few economic phenomena provoke as much confusion as money. From the first measures of value and the physical coins that circulated at the dawn human civilization to the era of ‘virtual’ money transmitted through cyberspace, it is ubiquitous and hugely important, yet...
Editeur :
Polity
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2020-01-08
Collection :
What is Political Economy?
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‘Governments should spend no more than their tax income.’ Most people in Europe and North America accept this statement as simple common sense. It resonates with the deeply engrained economic metaphors that dominate public discourse, from ‘living within your means’ to...
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Polity
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2020-01-07
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John Maynard Keynes is the 20th century’s greatest economist. He sparked an intellectual revolution that transformed economic theory and policymaking. This book, written in plain English with minimal mathematics, is a concise and probing account of his major ideas. ...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-12-18
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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Die Bedingungslose Jugendhilfe beschreibt den Versuch, die gegenwärtig degradierende Bedarfsprüfung zur Gewährung von Hilfen zur Erziehung zu überwinden und gleichzeitig ihre Inanspruchnahme zu de-stigmatisieren. Im Buch wird zunächst die Konzeption des...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-12-11
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A leading progressive intellectual offers an "illuminating" agenda for how real democracy can triumph in America and beyond (Ari Berman, New York Times).Since the New Deal in the 1930s, there have been two eras in our political history: the liberal era, stretching up to...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2019-12-10
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This book offers a compelling critical analysis of American society by examining the role of psychotherapy within social policy and the culture that has fashioned it. It takes a deeply critical look at ‘the social clinic,’ defined here as a ubiquitous organizational...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-07
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Provides a state-of-the-art overview of international trade policy research The Handbook of Global Trade Policy offers readers a comprehensive resource for the study of international trade policy, governance, and financing. This timely and authoritative work presents...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-12-06
Collection :
Handbooks of Global Policy
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Health crises plague most economies irrespective of their average per capita income levels, and this is largely due to chronic and repeated illnesses. Contextualizing this paradigm in India, India Public Finance and Policy Report:Health Matters is an attempt to discuss...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2019-12-05
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