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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...
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Polity
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2020-01-14
Collection :
The Case For
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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
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2020-01-13
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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...
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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. ...
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Polity
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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...
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Springer VS
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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...
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Basic Books
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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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174,95€
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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...
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OUP India
Parution :
2019-12-05
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This book is an original study of the contemporary debate over U.S. foreign policy between the president, members of Congress, and political parties. Specifically, it examines how factions at the ideological extremes within parties such as the Tea Party, the Freedom...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-04
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This book develops the first integrated, critical-historical examination of the terms, narratives and assumptions constructing present day notions of participation and value, and the relations between them. Histories of Cultural Participation, Values and Governance...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-04
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Predatory Value Extraction explains how an ideology of corporate resource allocation known as 'maximizing shareholder value' (MSV) that emerged in the 1980s came to dominate strategic thinking in business schools and corporate boardrooms in the United States....
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OUP Oxford
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2019-12-04
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Tackling one of the most controversial subjects of our time, one of the world's foremost environmental and petroleum engineers explores the potential causes and ramifications of global climate change. For too many years climate change (also referred to as global...
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Wiley-Scrivener
Parution :
2019-12-02
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189,95€
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This Handbook presents a broad yet nuanced portrait of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, its socio-political rifts, economic challenges, foreign policy priorities and historical complexities.
The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has traditionally been an oasis of peace and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-30
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Predatory Value Extraction explains how an ideology of corporate resource allocation known as 'maximizing shareholder value' (MSV) that emerged in the 1980s came to dominate strategic thinking in business schools and corporate boardrooms in the United States....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-28
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The unconditional basic income (UBI) has attracted renewed attention in academia, as well as in public discussions in recent years, and much has been written on the possible consequences of a UBI. However, this is the first book focusing on the UBI in Europe that offers...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-11-27
Collection :
Contributions to Economics
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This book examines childhood in four Caribbean SIDS (Barbados, Jamaica, Haiti and St. Lucia). Through the analysis of primary and secondary data, the author reveals that children in Caribbean SIDS experience an endangered childhood. The intrinsic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-25
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Das Buch untersucht aktuelle Entwicklungen der Konstruktion von sozialer Differenz in spätmodernen Gesellschaften. Damit werden Ansatzpunkte für eine kritische Revision der Differenzbezeichnungen identifiziert, die Gruppen von Nutzerinnen und Nutzern homogenisieren und...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-11-25
Collection :
Perspektiven Sozialwirtschaft und Sozialmanagement
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?The mining sector has been an integral part of economic development in many African countries. Although minerals have been exploited for decades in these countries, the benefits have not always been as visible. This has necessitated reforms including nationalisation of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-22
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