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Global Energy Politics
Sovacool, Benjamin K. Van De Graaf, Thijs
Polity Press (2020)
- EAN: 9781509530496
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha de edición: 2020
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Ever since the Industrial Revolution energy has been a key driver of world politics. From the oil crises of the 1970s to todays rapid expansion of renewable energy sources, every shift in global energy patterns ...
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How Everything Can Collapse
Servigne, Pablo Stevens, Raphaël
Polity Press (2020)
- EAN: 9781509541393
- Páginas: 250
- Fecha de edición: 2020
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What if our civilization were to collapse? Not many centuries into the future, but in our own lifetimes? Most people recognize that we face huge challenges today, from climate change and its potentially catastrophic consequences ...
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The Left Case for Brexit "Reflections on the Current Crisis"
Tuck, Richard
Polity Press (2020)
- EAN: 9781509542284
- Páginas: 200
- Fecha de edición: 2020
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Liberal left orthodoxy holds that Brexit is a disastrous coup, orchestrated by the hard right and fuelled by xenophobia, which will break up the Union and turn what's left of Britain into a neoliberal dystopia. ...
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Post-Democracy After the Crises
Crouch, Colin
Polity Press (2020)
- EAN: 9781509541577
- Páginas: 200
- Fecha de edición: 2020
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In 'Post-Democracy' Colin Crouch argued that behind the facade of strong institutions, democracy in many advanced societies was being hollowed out, its big events becoming empty rituals as power passed increasingly to circles of wealthy ...
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The Tribalization of Europe "A Defence of Our Liberal Values"
Wind, Marlene
Polity Press (2020)
- EAN: 9781509541683
- Páginas: 140
- Fecha de edición: 2020
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Tribalization is a global megatrend in today's world. The election of Donald Trump, the Brexit vote, populist movements like Catalan separatism - together with democratic backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe - are all examples ...
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Almost everyone has heard of Adam Smith, founding father of modern economics and author of 'Wealth of Nations'. THere is, however, much more to him than this. This new introduction gives a crystal clear overview ...
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In Search of Africa(s) "Universalism and Decolonial Thought "
Amselle, Jean-Loup Diagne, Souleymane Bachir
Polity Press (2020)
- EAN: 9781509540297
- Páginas: 185
- Fecha de edición: 2020
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This volume examines a series of issues that are central to the question of the postcolonial. The postcolonial paradigm, and the more recent decolonial paradigm, raise the issue of the universal: is the postcolonial the ...
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What Is Environmental Politics?
Desombre, Elisabeth
Polity Press (2020)
- EAN: 9781509534142
- Páginas: 202
- Fecha de edición: 2020
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Why is it so difficult to control, or fix, pollution? How can we justify harvesting the worlds natural resources at unsustainable rates, even though these activities cause known harm to both people and ecosystems? Scientific ...
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Lectures on Negative Dialectics
Adorno, T.
Polity Press (2008)
- EAN: 9780745635101
- Páginas: 270
- Fecha de edición: 2008
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This volume comprises one of the key lecture courses leading up to the publication in 1966 of Adorno's major work, Negative Dialectics. These lectures focus on developing the concepts critical to the introductory section of ...
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The Case For People's Quantitative Easing
Coppola, Frances
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509531301
- Páginas: 140
- Fecha de edición: 2019
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"As the 2008 financial crisis ravaged economies, central banks turned to quantitative easing to prevent a return to the 1930s. There wasn't a repeat of the Great Depression, but there certainly wasn't a recovery. Instead, ...
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Political Economies of the Middle East and North Africa
Springborg, Robert
Polity Press (2020)
- EAN: 9781509535606
- Páginas: 270
- Fecha de edición: 2020
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"Despite its oil wealth, the Middle East and North Africa is economically stagnating. In this book leading Middle East scholar Robert Springborg discusses the economic future of this region by examining the national and regional ...
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Populism
Moffitt, Benjamin
Polity Press (2020)
- EAN: 9781509534333
- Páginas: 170
- Fecha de edición: 2020
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Populism is the key political phenomenon of the 21st century. From Trump to Brexit, from Chávez to Podemos, the term has been used to describe leaders, parties and movements across the globe who disrupt the ...
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The Case for Economic Democracy
Cumbers, Andrew
Polity Press (2020)
- EAN: 9781509533855
- Páginas: 140
- Fecha de edición: 2020
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The idea that the people have a right to shape political decisions through democratic means is widely accepted. The same cannot be said of the decisions that impact on our everyday economic life in the ...
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The Digital Economy
Jordan, Tim
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509517565
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha de edición: 2019
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Boasting trillion-dollar companies, the digital economy profits from our emotions, our relationships with each other, and the ways we interact with the world.
In this timely book, Tim Jordan deftly explores the workings ... -
Instagram
Abidin, Crystal Highfield, Tim Leaver, Tama
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509534395
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2019
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Instagram is at the heart of global digital culture, having made selfies, filters and square frames an inescapable part of everyday life since it was launched in 2010.
In the first book-length examination of ... -
The New Environmental Economics
Laurent, Eloi
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509533817
- Páginas: 230
- Fecha de edición: 2019
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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 ...
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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, ...
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The Uncounted
Cobham, Alex
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509536023
- Páginas: 200
- Fecha de edición: 2019
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What we count matters - and in a world where policies and decisions are underpinned by numbers, statistics and data, if youre not counted, you dont count.
Alex Cobham argues that systematic ... -
The Debt Delusion "Living Within Our Means and Other Fallacies"
Weeks, John
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509532940
- Páginas: 216
- Fecha de edición: 2019
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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, ...
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Why Austerity Persists
Blad, Cory Shefner, Jon
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509509874
- Páginas: 208
- Fecha de edición: 2019
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Several nations in the Global North have turned to austerity policies in an effort to resolve recent financial ills. What many failed to recognize is the longer history and varied pattern of such policies in ...
