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The Return of the Russian Leviathan
Medveded, Sergei
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509536054
- Páginas: 140
- Fecha de edición: 2019
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Russias relationship with its neighbours and with the West has worsened dramatically in recent years. Under Vladimir Putins leadership, the country has annexed Crimea, begun a war in East Ukraine, used chemical weapons on the ...
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John Maynard Keynes
Hayes, M.G.
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509528257
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha de edición: 2019
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John Maynard Keynes is the 20th centurys 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 ...
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Digital Social Research
Veltri, Giuseppe A.
Polity Press (2001)
- EAN: 9781509529315
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha de edición: 2001
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To analyse social and behavioral phenomena in our digitalized world, its necessary to understand the main research opportunities and challenges specific to online and digital social research. This book presents an overview of the many ...
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Data Selves
Lupton, Deborah
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509536429
- Páginas: 154
- Fecha de edición: 2019
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As people use self-tracking devices and other digital technologies, they generate increasing quantities of personal information online. These data have many benefits, but they can also be accessed and exploited by third parties.
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Riding for Deliveroo "Resistance in the New Economy"
Cant, Callum
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509535514
- Páginas: 140
- Fecha de edición: 2019
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What is life like for workers in the gig economy? Is it a paradise of flexibility and individual freedom? Or is it a world of exploitation and conflict? Callum Cant took a job with one ...
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The Political Economy of International Trade
Heydon, Ken
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509534364
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha de edición: 2019
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With protectionist sentiment and economic nationalism on the rise, international trade and how it is governed is at the heart of some of the most important contemporary economic and political debates.
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Is Globalization Over?
Green, Jeremy
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509535453
- Páginas: 154
- Fecha de edición: 2019
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Looming trade wars and rising nationalism have stirred troubling memories of the 1930s. Will history repeat itself? Do we face the chaotic breakdown of the global economic system in the face of stagnation, protectionism and ...
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Failure
Alexander, Neta Appadurai, Arjun
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509504725
- Páginas: 120
- Fecha de edición: 2019
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Wall Street and Silicon Valley'the two worlds this book examines'promote the illusion that scarcity can and should be eliminated in the age of seamless 'flow.' Instead, Appadurai and Alexander propose a theory of habitual and ...
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Socialism has made a dramatic comeback in the 21st century. In the wake of financial crisis, mounting inequality and social decay, it seems more relevant than ever. Nobody who seeks to understand contemporary politics can ...
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Changemakers "The Industrious Future of the Digital Economy"
Arvidsson, Adam
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509538904
- Páginas: 160
- Fecha de edición: 2019
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This book argues that, as industrial capitalism enters a period of prolonged crisis, a new paradigm of 'industrious modernity is emerging. Based on small-scale, commons-based and market-oriented entrepreneurship, this industrious modernity is being pioneered by ...
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Austerity
Suzanne J. Konzelmann, Marc
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509534876
- Páginas: 180
- Fecha de edición: 2019
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Austerity has been at the center of political controversy following the 2008 financial crisis, invoked by politicians and academics across the political spectrum as the answer to, or cause of, our post-crash economic malaise. However, ...
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Defending Freedom "How We Can Win the Fight for an Open Society"
Fücks, Ralf
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509536245
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha de edición: 2019
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We are witnessing a crisis of liberal democracy. A widespread fear of social decline, rapid globalization and uncontrolled immigration have culminated in a prevailing mood of hostility towards the established order. Confidence in democratic institutions ...
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In Defence of Democracy
Fuller, Roslyn
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509533138
- Páginas: 216
- Fecha de edición: 2019
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Should Brexit or Trump cause us to doubt our faith in democracy? Are 'the people too ignorant or stupid to rule? Numerous commentators are seriously arguing that the answer to these questions might be 'yes.
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For a Politics of the Common Good
Badiou, Alain Engelman, P.
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509535057
- Páginas: 140
- Fecha de edición: 2019
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This volume of conversations between Alain Badiou and Peter Engelmann focuses on the concrete political situation in the world of today. Here the validity and applicability of Badious ideas are tested in relation to the ...
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What Makes a Social Crisis? "The Societalization of Social Problems"
Alexander, Jeffrey
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509538256
- Páginas: 180
- Fecha de edición: 2019
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In this book, Jeffrey Alexander develops a new sociological theory of social crisis, which he calls societalization. He argues that crises are triggered not by objective social strains but by the discourse and institutions of ...
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Russia and America "The Asymmetric Rivalry "
Tsygankov, Andrei
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509531141
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha de edición: 2019
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In recent times, US-Russia relations have deteriorated to what both sides acknowledge is an 'all time low.' Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election and Putins continued support for the Assad regime in Syria ...
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Waste is one of the planet's last great resource frontiers. From furniture made from up-cycled wood to gold extracted from computer circuit boards, artisans and multinational corporations alike are finding ways to profit from waste ...
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Minsky
Neilson, Daniel H.
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509528509
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha de edición: 2019
pvp.22,95 €
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No economist has written more incisively and provocatively on financial crisis than Hyman Minsky. Minsky is best known for his claim that "stability is destabilizing" - that the seeds of the bust are sown in ...
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International Conflict Management
Diehl, Paul F. Greig, J. Michael Owsiak, Andrew P.
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509530533
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha de edición: 2019
pvp.26,60 €
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International conflict has long plagued the world, and it continues to do so. With many interstate and civil disputes experiencing no third-party attempts at conflict management, how can the international community mitigate the effects of ...
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Cybersecurity "Politics, Governance and Conflict in Cyberspace"
Brantly, Aaron F. Van Puyvelde, Damien
Polity Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781509528103
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha de edición: 2019
pvp.23,85 €
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In the last decade, the proliferation of billions of new Internet enabled devices and users has significantly expanded concerns about cybersecurity. But should we believe the prophets of cyber war or worry about online government ...
