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Silicon Empires
Srnicek, Nick
Polity Press (2025)
- EAN: 9781509550494
- Páginas: 200
- Fecha de edición: 2025
pvp.21,75 €
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Since the emergence of ChatGPT, generative AI has been heralded as a technology poised to revolutionize our world. But beyond the hype and hyperbole, who truly wields power over this transformative technology?
In Silicon ... -
Equality "What It Means and Why It Matters"
Piketty, Thomas Sandel, Michael J.
Polity Press (2025)
- EAN: 9781509565504
- Páginas: 122
- Fecha de edición: 2025
pvp.17,50 €
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In this compelling dialogue, two of the world's most influential thinkers reflect on the value of equality and debate what citizens and governments should do to narrow the gaps that separate us. Ranging across economics, ...
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Price Setting
Bewley, Truman F.
Polity Press (2025)
- EAN: 9781509565764
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha de edición: 2025
pvp.39,95 €
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The prices of some products fluctuate dramatically, while others remain more constant. What accounts for these extreme differences?
Renowned economist Truman F. Bewley investigates and elucidates this puzzling problem. Its crux, he argues, is ... -
Decolonizing Economics "An Introduction"
Alves, Carolina Dutt, Devika Kesar, Surbhi Kvangraven, Ingrid Harvold
Polity Press (2025)
- EAN: 9781509545483
- Páginas: 292
- Fecha de edición: 2025
pvp.23,50 €
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Decolonization has long been debated across the social sciences, but the economics discipline has so far avoided such critical engagement. This book provides a much-needed intervention.
Dutt, Alves, Kesar, and Kvangraven uncover the deeply ... -
The New Empire of AI "The Future of Global Inequality"
Adams, Rachel
Polity Press (2024)
- EAN: 9781509553099
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha de edición: 2024
pvp.29,95 €
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As AI takes hold across the planet and wealthy nations seek to position themselves as global leaders of this new technology, the gap is widening between those who benefit from it and those who are ...
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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
pvp.34,95 €
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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
pvp.21,00 €
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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
pvp.18,95 €
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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
pvp.36,95 €
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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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22,45 €En la web:16,84 €
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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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A Herstory of Economics
Kuiper, Edith
Polity Press (2022)
- EAN: 9781509538430
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2022
pvp.25,95 €
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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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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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22,45 €En la web:16,84 €
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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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Seven Ethics Against Capitalism "Towards a Planetary Commons"
Mould, Oli
Polity Press (2021)
- EAN: 9781509545964
- Páginas: 156
- Fecha de edición: 2021
pvp.21,50 €
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Capitalism has become so dominant that it is difficult to ever imagine a world in which its injustices and inequalities are not violently present. In this ambitious and compelling book, Oli Mould turns his diagnosis ...
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The End of Ilusions
Reckwitz, Andreas
Polity Press (2021)
- EAN: 9781509545704
- Páginas: 205
- Fecha de edición: 2021
pvp.24,95 €
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We live in a time of great uncertainty about the future. Those heady days of the late twentieth century, when the end of the Cold War seemed to be ushering in a new and more ...
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Post Growth "Life after Capitalism"
Jackson, Tim
Polity Press (2021)
- EAN: 9781509542529
- Páginas: 242
- Fecha de edición: 2021
pvp.21,00 €
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'Empowering and elegiac
Yanis Varoufakis, author of Another Now
'Utterly inspiring
Caroline Lucas, MP, Green Party
'A masterpiece of measured rage and love
Jonathan Porritt, author of Hope in Hell
Capitalism is ... -
Can Democracy Safeguard the Future?
Smith, Graham
Polity Press (2021)
- EAN: 9781509539253
- Páginas: 160
- Fecha de edición: 2021
pvp.13,95 €
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Our democracies repeatedly fail to safeguard the future. From pensions to pandemics, health and social care through to climate, biodiversity and emerging technologies, democracies have been unable to deliver robust policies for the long term.
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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
pvp.18,95 €
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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 ...
