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How We Sold Our Future "The Failure to Fight Climate Change"
Beckert, Jens
Polity Press (2024)
- EAN: 9781509565092
- Páginas: 208
- Fecha de edición: 2024
pvp.35,10 €
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For decades we have known about the dangers of global warming. Nevertheless, greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase. How can we explain our failure to take the necessary measures to stop climate change? Why are ...
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In AI We Trust "Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms"
Nowotny, Helga
Polity Press (2024)
- EAN: 9781509565467
- Páginas: 192
- Fecha de edición: 2024
pvp.23,95 €
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One of the most persistent concerns about the future is whether it will be dominated by the predictive algorithms of AI - and, if so, what this will mean for our behaviour, for our institutions ...
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Richer and More Equal "A New History of Wealth in the West"
Waldenström, Daniel
Polity Press (2024)
- EAN: 9781509557783
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2024
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Once there were princes and peasants and very few between. The extremes of wealth and poverty are still with us, but that shouldn't blind us to the fact our societies have been utterly transformed for ...
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Money for Beginners "An Illustrated Guide"
Doornen, Heske Van Wray, L. Randall
Polity Press (2023)
- EAN: 9781509554614
- Páginas: 124
- Fecha de edición: 2023
pvp.18,95 €
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Money is mysterious. We love it, we hate it, but few people can tell you what the heck it really is. Wouldn't it be good to get out of the fog?
This book will ... -
Making Money Work for Us "How MMT Can Save America"
Wray, L. Randall
Polity Press (2023)
- EAN: 9781509554263
- Páginas: 182
- Fecha de edición: 2023
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Is money precious and scarce, necessitating iron fiscal discipline? Must the government always balance the books or risk ruin? Or is money, in fact, a flexible tool that can be used to mobilize our collective ...
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Superyachts "Luxury, Tranquility and Ecocide"
Salle, Grégory
Polity Press (2024)
- EAN: 9781509559954
- Páginas: 125
- Fecha de edición: 2024
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A superyacht is a boat that exceeds 30 metres in length, with some surpassing even 100 metres-more than a football field. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, there were about 2,000 of these vessels ...
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Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution
Berg, Maxime Hudson, Pat
Polity Press (2023)
- EAN: 9781509552689
- Páginas: 282
- Fecha de edición: 2023
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The role of slavery in driving Britain's economic development is often debated, but seldom given a central place.
In their remarkable new book, Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson 'follow the money' to document in ... -
The Trade Weapon "How Weaponizing Trade Threatens Growth, Public Health and the Climate"
Heydon, Ken
Polity Press (2023)
- EAN: 9781509557561
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha de edición: 2023
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Prompted by geostrategic rivalry and the war in Ukraine, COVID-19 and the climate transition, trade policy is increasingly being weaponized. This trend towards protectionist capture and retaliation is self-sabotaging and bad for growth. But there ...
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Sociology "Introductory Readings"
Giddens, Anthony Sutton, Philip W.
Polity Press (2022)
- EAN: 9781509549139
- Páginas: 342
- Fecha de edición: 2022
pvp.28,95 €
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The fourth edition of this best-selling introductory reader has been thoroughly revised and updated to offer a stimulating and wide-ranging set of readings for anyone who wishes to engage with the scope of sociological thought ...
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Essential Concepts in Sociology
Giddens, Anthony Sutton, Philip W.
Polity Press (2021)
- EAN: 9781509548095
- Páginas: 241
- Fecha de edición: 2021
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Social life is in a constant process of change, and sociology can never stand still. As a result, contemporary sociology is a theoretically diverse enterprise, covering a huge range of subjects and drawing on a ...
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A Herstory of Economics
Kuiper, Edith
Polity Press (2022)
- EAN: 9781509538430
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2022
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There were only a few women economists who made it to the surface and whose voices were heard in the history of economic thought of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Maynard Keynes, and Milton Friedman ...
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How the World Became Rich "The Historical Origins of Economic Growth"
Koyama, Mark Rubin, Jared
Polity Press (2022)
- EAN: 9781509540235
- Páginas: 2600
- Fecha de edición: 2022
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Most humans are significantly richer than their ancestors. Humanity gained nearly all of its wealth in the last two centuries. How did this come to pass? How did the world become rich?
Mark Koyama ... -
Sustainable Futures "An Agenda for Action"
Kaplinsky, Raphael
Polity Press (2021)
- EAN: 9781509547838
- Páginas: 264
- Fecha de edición: 2021
pvp.26,95 €
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Long before the pandemic, economies across the world were in trouble, with growth slowing across the board. This downturn coincided with growing inequality and social exclusion. Rising political dissatisfaction with ruling elites fuelled the rise ...
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Solidarity Economics "Why Mutuality and Movements Matter"
Benner, C. Pastor, Manuel
Polity Press (2021)
- EAN: 9781509544080
- Páginas: 208
- Fecha de edición: 2021
pvp.23,95 €
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Traditional economics is built on the assumption of self-interested individuals seeking to maximize personal gain, but that is far from the whole story. Sharing, caring, and a desire to uphold the collective good are also ...
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The Case for a New Bretton Woods
Gallagher, Kevin P. Kozul-Wright, Richard
Polity Press (2021)
- EAN: 9781509546541
- Páginas: 140
- Fecha de edición: 2021
pvp.14,95 €
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After the 2008-9 global financial crisis, reforms to promote stability, social inclusion, and sustainability were promised but not delivered. As a result, the global economic situation, marred by inequality, volatility, and climate breakdown, remains dysfunctional.Now, ...
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The World According to China
Economy, Elizabeth
Polity Press (2021)
- EAN: 9781509537495
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha de edición: 2021
pvp.35,10 €
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An economic and military superpower with 20 percent of the worlds population, China has the wherewithal to transform the international system. Xi Jinpings bold calls for China to 'lead in the reform of the global ...
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China and Africa "The New Era"
Large, Daniel
Polity Press (2021)
- EAN: 9781509536337
- Páginas: 250
- Fecha de edición: 2021
pvp.23,95 €
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China has gone from being a marginal to a leading power in Africa in just over two decades. Its striking ascendancy in the continent is commonly thought to have been primarily driven by economic interests, ...
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The New Economics "A Manifesto"
Keen, Steve
Polity Press (2021)
- EAN: 9781509545292
- Páginas: 140
- Fecha de edición: 2021
pvp.19,95 €
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In 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the wall of Wittenberg church. He argued that the Church's internally consistent but absurd doctrines had pickled into a dogmatic structure of untruth. It was time ...
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New Pandemics, Old Politics "Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and its Alternatives"
De Waal, Alex
Polity Press (2021)
- EAN: 9781509547807
- Páginas: 284
- Fecha de edición: 2021
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New Pandemics, Old Politics explores how the modern world adopted a martial script to deal with epidemic disease threats, and how this has failed - repeatedly. Europe first declared 'war on cholera in the 19th ...
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Capitalism and the Death Drive
Han, Byung-Chul
Polity Press (2021)
- EAN: 9781509545001
- Páginas: 180
- Fecha de edición: 2021
pvp.18,25 €
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What we call growth today is in fact a tumorous growth, a cancerous proliferation which is disrupting the social organism. These tumours endlessly metastasize and grow with an inexplicable, deadly vitality. At a certain point ...
