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“Dowding and Taylor offer student and scholar alike a clear and compelling perspective on the foundations of political economy. Their narrative coherently frames the scholarship of the last half century, and persuasively applies it to the recurring problems facing...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-07-09
Collection :
Foundations of Government and Public Administration
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Is climate catastrophe inevitable? In a world of extreme inequality, rising nationalism and mounting carbon emissions, the future looks gloomy. Yet one group of environmentalists, the ‘ecomodernists’, are optimistic. They argue that technological innovation and...
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Polity
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2019-07-09
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The updated third edition of the definitive text on health social work Thoroughly revised and updated, the third edition of Handbook of Health Social Work is an authoritative text that offers a comprehensive review of the diverse field of health social work. With...
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Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2019-07-09
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This book explains in depth the issues and challenges faced by rice farmers in India in relation to production and productivity, and the possible adaptation strategies to climate change.
Based on five years of groundbreaking research on emerging trends in cultivation...
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Springer
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2019-07-04
Collection :
India Studies in Business and Economics
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This book is devoted to offering a new concept of non-employment caused by social exclusion. Among labor economic studies, it is the first attempt to investigate the conditions of jobless persons who have completely lost opportunities for daily communication with...
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Springer
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2019-07-04
Collection :
Advances in Japanese Business and Economics
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Ying Huang untersucht mithilfe der Theorie des Neoliberalismus die Leitmotive der Chinapolitik Deutschlands nach der Wiedervereinigung. Die Analyse zeigt, dass die deutsche Chinapolitik stets ein Balanceakt zwischen Wertedominanz und Interessenherrschaft darstellt....
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Springer VS
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2019-07-03
Collection :
Globale Gesellschaft und internationale Beziehungen
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Why did the West become so rich?Why is inequality rising? How ‘free’ should markets be? And what does sex have to do with it? In this passionate and skilfully argued book, leading feminist Victoria Bateman shows how we can only understand the burning economic issues of...
Editeur :
Polity
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2019-07-01
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Dieses Buch analysiert die deutsche Migrationspolitik aus ökonomischer Sicht umfassend und systematisch. Der Autor spannt dabei einen weiten Bogen: von der aktuellen Flüchtlingskrise über die Einwanderungspolitik bis zu den Zwängen des Europarechts und der Zukunft des...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-06-28
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This book introduces the “Belt and Road” in its entirety, including what it is, what it aims to do, what it can do and how.This book can serve as a helpful resource for the general public, it can improve their understanding about the “Belt and Road” and its relative...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-06-27
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The objective of this book is to take stock of the research Paolo Urio has conducted since 1997 on the rise of modern China, with emphasis on strategic public management.The starting point of the book is China’s will to recover world power status. This objective is of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-06-27
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This interdisciplinary edited collection explores the dynamics of global capitalist expansion through the concept of the ‘commodity frontier’. Applying an inductive approach rather than starting at the global level, as most meta-narratives have done, this book sheds...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-19
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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This book examines the intellectual and institutional transformations of four British think tanks in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis. In the context of a crisis of expert authority, González Hernando demonstrates how these organisations...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-14
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy
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"If one wants to understand why, from its modest beginnings, the European Parliament has become a major player in EU decision-making, look no further than this book. It presents, to date, the theoretically most compelling, methodologically disciplined and empirically...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-08
Collection :
European Administrative Governance
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This book discusses policy strategies for the effective management of natural resources in Africa within the context of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). While natural resource wealth has the potential to lift many out of poverty, sustain...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-06-07
Collection :
Natural Resource Management and Policy
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Increasingly, employees are being falsely treated as ‘self-employed’. This phenomenon – the ‘gig economy’ – is seen as the inevitable shape of things to come. In this book, Colin Crouch takes a step back and questions this logic. He shows how the idea of an employee – a...
Editeur :
Polity
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2019-06-07
Collection :
The Future of Capitalism
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"The best book I've read this year" Rachael, Goodreads reviewer ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ "Fantastic" Rachel, Goodreads reviewer ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ "Funny, insightful, heart-breaking" NetGalley reviewer ⭐ ⭐...
Editeur :
Seven Dials
Parution :
2019-05-30
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The popular uprisings in 2011 that overthrew Arab dictators were also a rebuke to crony capitalism, diverted against both rulers and their allied businessmen who monopolize all economic opportunities. While the Middle East has witnessed a growing nexus between business...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-23
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This volume addresses the family situation in Japan and Germany. Gender-segregated labor markets and precarious employment patterns bear detrimental consequences for the socioeconomic capacity to maintain family households and to have children. By applying a...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2019-05-22
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This volume focuses on Chinese society in the environment created by new media. It offers insights into Chinese public opinion for an international readership, and to promote the media literacy and crisis coping capacity of all social sectors by integrating multiple...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-05-22
Collection :
Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path
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Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not wreak their damage equally across populations, and every disaster has social dimensions at its very core. This important book sheds light on the social conditions and on the global,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-05-20
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