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In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, central banks created trillions of dollars of new money, and poured it into financial markets. ‘Quantitative Easing’ (QE) was supposed to prevent deflation and restore economic growth. But the money didn’t go to ordinary...
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Polity
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2019-07-26
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The Case For
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This book investigates Australia’s relationship with the Eurovision Song Contest over time and place, from its first screening on SBS in 1983 to Australia's inaugural national selection in 2019. Beginning with an overview of Australia’s Eurovision history, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-07-25
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Dieser Sammelband gibt einen Überblick über die Herausforderungen für Organisationen im Wirtschaftsschutz im Alltag und stellt Ansätze und Szenarien vor, die für Unternehmen und andere Einrichtungen eine hohe Relevanz haben und die Fähigkeit zur Resilienz erhöhen. Der...
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Springer
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2019-07-24
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In this book the authors demonstrate how the economics of insurance, risk reduction, and damage control or limitation can be combined with concepts of collective choice and collective behavior to improve analysis of the escalating threats faced by alliances throughout...
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Springer
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2019-07-23
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In this timely book about the current state of research and practice of emergency management in China, the authors take as their basic premises that we now live in a risk society and that our collective ability to deal with disasters and their aftermath is more...
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Springer
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2019-07-20
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Advocated (and attacked) by commentators across the political spectrum, paying every citizen a basic income regardless of their circumstances sounds utopian. However, as our economies are transformed and welfare states feel the strain, it has become a hotly debated...
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Polity
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2019-07-20
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The supreme challenge of our time is tackling climate change. We urgently need to curtail our use of fossil fuels – but how can we do so in a just and feasible way? In this compelling book, leading economist James Boyce shows that the key to solving this conundrum is to...
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Polity
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2019-07-20
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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
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2019-07-09
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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
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2019-07-09
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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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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
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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
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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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The economy has been brutal to American workers for several decades.The chance to give one's children a better life than one's own -- the promise at the heart of the American Dream -- is withering away. While onlookers assume those suffering in marginalized...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-07-03
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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...
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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
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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
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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...
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Springer
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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...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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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...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-06-14
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