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Gross Domestic Problem "The Politics Behind the World's Most Powerful Number"
Fioramonti, Lorenzo
Zed Books Ltd (2013)
- EAN: 9781780322728
- Páginas: 208
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.17,50 €
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Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is arguably the best-known statistic in the contemporary world, and certainly amongst the most powerful. It drives government policy and sets priorities in a variety of vital social fields - from ...
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NGOizationComplicity, Contradictions and Prospects
Choudry, Aziz
Zed Books Ltd (2013)
- EAN: 9781780322575
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.27,00 €
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The growth and spread of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at local and international levels has attracted considerable interest and attention from policy-makers, development practitioners, academics and activists around the world. But how has this phenomenon impacted ...
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Organizing Women Workers in the Informal Economy "Beyond the Weapons of the Weak"
Kabeer, Naila
Zed Books Ltd (2013)
- EAN: 9781780324517
- Páginas: 312
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.27,00 €
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Women as a group have often been divided by a number of intersecting inequalities: class, race, ethnicity, caste. As individuals - often isolated in reproductive or other home-based work - their weapons of resistance have ...
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Capitalism's Last Stand? "Deglobalization in the Age of Austerity"
Bello, Walden
Zed Books Ltd (2013)
- EAN: 9781780320458
- Páginas: 282
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.17,60 €
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'Walden Bello's work has been consistently outstanding, highly informative and full of insight.' - Noam Chomsky 'Walden Bello is the world's leading no-nonsense revolutionary.' - Naomi Klein 'Deploying his wide-ranging knowledge of political economy and ...
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Gender and Social Protection in the Developing World
Holmes, Rebecca Jones, Nicola
Zed Books Ltd (2013)
- EAN: 9781780320410
- Páginas: 446
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.25,50 €
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Millions of pounds of international development funds are invested annually in social protection programmes to tackle poverty. Poverty is perpetuated by risk and vulnerability, much of which is gendered. Despite this, little attention has been ...
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Resistance "Nationalism, the Failure of the Left and the Return of God"
Worth, Owen
Zed Books Ltd (2013)
- EAN: 9781780323350
- Páginas: 176
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.20,25 €
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In November 1999 the first protests associated with the 'anti-globalisation movement' took place in Seattle, and came to be seen as the starting point for globalised resistance to neoliberal capitalism. Despite initial optimism, the following ...
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The Great Eurozone Disaster "From Crisis to Global New Deal"
Patomaki, Heikki
Zed Books Ltd (2013)
- EAN: 9781780324784
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.17,50 €
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The last couple of years have seen the eurozone lurch from crisis to calamity. With Greece, Portugal and Ireland already driven to the brink of economic catastrophe, and the threat that a number of other ...
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Reclaiming Public Ownership "Making Space for Economic Democracy"
Cumbers, Andrew
Zed Books Ltd (2012)
- EAN: 9781780320069
- Páginas: 192
- Fecha de edición: 2012
pvp.24,95 €
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The last few years have seen the spectacular failure of market fundamentalism in Europe and the US, with a seemingly never-ending spate of corporate scandals and financial crises. As the environmental limits and socially destructive ...
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Economies of Recycling "Global Transformations of Materials, Values and Social Relations"
Alexander, Catherine Reno, Joshua
Zed Books Ltd (2012)
- EAN: 9781780321943
- Páginas: 336
- Fecha de edición: 2012
pvp.26,95 €
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For some, recycling is a big business; for others a moralised way of engaging with the world. But, for many, this is a dangerous way of earning a living. With scrap now being the largest ...
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How to Manage an Aid Exit Strategy "The Future of Development Aid"
Fee, Derek
Zed Books Ltd (2012)
- EAN: 9781780320298
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2012
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After almost 40 years of development aid most commentators agree that aid as we know it has not worked. Aid fatigue is suffered on both the donor and recipient sides, with a wide divergence between ...
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The Problem with Banks
Rethel, Lena Sinclair, Timothy
Zed Books Ltd (2012)
- EAN: 9781848139381
- Páginas: 160
- Fecha de edición: 2012
pvp.17,60 €
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Banks of all sorts are troubled institutions. The cost of public bail-outs associated with the subprime crisis in the United States alone may be as high as US$5 trillion. What is the problem with banks? ...
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Capitalism "A Structural Genocide"
Leech, Garry
Zed Books Ltd (2012)
- EAN: 9781780321998
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha de edición: 2012
pvp.17,55 €
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In the wake of the global financial crisis, and ongoing savage government cuts across the world, Garry Leech addresses a pressing and necessary topic: the nature of contemporary capitalism, and how it inherently generates inequality ...
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The Health of Nations "Towards a New Political Economy"
Mooney, Gavin
Zed Books Ltd (2012)
- EAN: 9781780320595
- Páginas: 162
- Fecha de edición: 2012
pvp.22,95 €
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Why, despite vast resources being expended on health and health care, is there still so much ill health and premature death? Why do massive inequalities in health - both within and between countries - remain? ...
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Confronting Managerialism "How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of"
Locke, Robert Spender, J-C.
Zed Books Ltd (2011)
- EAN: 9781780320717
- Páginas: 192
- Fecha de edición: 2011
pvp.16,90 €
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Confronting Managerialism offers a scathing critique of the crippling influence of neoclassical economics and modern finance on business school teaching and management practice. In doing so, Locke and Spender show how business managers who were ...
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The Delusions of Economics "The Misguided Certainties of a Hazardous Science"
Rist, Gilbert
Zed Books Ltd (2011)
- EAN: 9781848139220
- Páginas: 178
- Fecha de edición: 2011
pvp.22,95 €
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In The Illusions of Economics, Gilbert Rist presents a radical critique of neoclassical economics from a social and historical perspective. Rather than enter into existing debates between different orthodoxies, Rist instead explores the circumstances that ...
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Economic Policy and Human Rights "Holding Governments to Account"
Balakrishnan, Radhika Elson,Diane
Zed Books Ltd (2011)
- EAN: 9781848138742
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha de edición: 2011
pvp.26,95 €
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Macroeconomic Policy and Human Rights presents a powerful critique of three decades of neoliberal economic policies, assessed from the perspective of agreed upon human rights norms. In doing so, it brings together two areas of ...
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Postcolonial Economies
Hughes, Alex Mcewan, Cheryl Pollard, Jane
Zed Books Ltd (2011)
- EAN: 9781848134041
- Páginas: 248
- Fecha de edición: 2011
pvp.27,65 €
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Postcolonial approaches to understanding economies are of increasing academic and political significance as questions about the nature of globalisation, transnational flows of capital and workers and the making and re-making of territorial borders assume centre ...
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The Rise And Fall Of Neoliberalism "The Collapse Of An Economic Order?"
The Collapse Of An Economic Order?Birch, Kean
Zed Books Ltd (2010)
- EAN: 9781848133495
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha de edición: 2010
pvp.27,65 €
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The recent, devastating and ongoing economic crisis has exposed the faultlines in the dominant neoliberal economic order, opening debate for the first time in years on alternative visions that do not subscribe to a 'free' ...
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Why Doesn'T Microfinance Work? "The Destructive Rise Of Local Neoliberalism"
The Destructive Rise Of Local NeoliberalismBateman, Milford
Zed Books Ltd (2010)
- EAN: 9781848133327
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2010
pvp.27,65 €
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Over the last thirty years or so, microfinance has risen to become one of the most high-profile policies to address poverty and under-development. in developing and transition countries. It is beloved of rock stars, royalty, ...
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Africa'S Development Impasse "Rethinking The Political Economy Of Transformation"
Rethinking The Political Economy Of TransformationAndreasson, Stefan
Zed Books Ltd (2010)
- EAN: 9781842779729
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha de edición: 2010
pvp.27,65 €
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Orthodox strategies for socio-economic development have failed spectacularly in Southern Africa. Neither the developmental state nor neoliberal reform seems able to provide a solution to Africa's problems. In "Africa's Development Impasse", Stefan Andreasson analyses this ...
