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The Globalization Backlash
Crouch, Colin
Polity Press (2018)
- EAN: 9781509533770
- Páginas: 120
- Fecha de edición: 2018
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Globalization, heralded for decades as a harbinger of prosperity, faces a huge backlash. Derided by right-wing nationalists as a 'globalist plot to undermine traditional communities, and by left-wing critics as the rule of rampaging corporations, ...
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Prosperity and Justice "A Plan for the New Economy"
Institute For Public Policy Research
Polity Press (2018)
- EAN: 9781509534999
- Páginas: 220
- Fecha de edición: 2018
pvp.17,95 €
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The UK economy is broken. It no longer provides rising living standards for the majority. Young people face an increasingly insecure future. The gap between rich and poor areas is widening. Meanwhile the rise of ...
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Sugar Daddy Capitalism "The Dark Side of the New Economy "
Fleming, Peter
Polity Press (2018)
- EAN: 9781509528202
- Páginas: 0
- Fecha de edición: 2018
pvp.19,95 €
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What is the connection between the sleaziness of Harvey Weinstein s business meetings and the passionless doctrine of neoclassical economics? In this witty and incisive examination of the new economy, Peter Fleming argues that they ...
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Why Can't You Afford a Home?
Ryan-Collins, Josh
Polity Press (2018)
- EAN: 9781509523269
- Páginas: 140
- Fecha de edición: 2018
pvp.13,50 €
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While wages and incomes continue to stagnate for the majority, house prices and rents remain staggeringly high. For millions of people, particularly millennials, the basic goal of acquiring decent, affordable accommodation is a distant dream. ...
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Lobbying and Society "A Political Sociology of Interest Groups "
Scott, John C.
Polity Press (2018)
- EAN: 9781509510351
- Páginas: 200
- Fecha de edición: 2018
pvp.21,50 €
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Lobbying and political interest groups occupy an ambivalent place in advanced democracies. Lobbying is viewed with suspicion, but is also a critical avenue for voices in policy debates.
This insightful book injects a ... -
The New Authoritarianism "Trump, Populism, and the Tyranny of Experts "
Babones, Salvatore
Polity Press (2018)
- EAN: 9781509533091
- Páginas: 120
- Fecha de edición: 2018
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The election of Donald Trump and the Brexit vote in the UK have caused fear and panic among liberals worldwide. They argue that the populist backlash represents a dangerous new authoritarianism.
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Libertarianism
Mack, Eric
Polity Press (2018)
- EAN: 9781509519309
- Páginas: 176
- Fecha de edición: 2018
pvp.19,95 €
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The Mood of the World
Bude, Heinz
Polity Press (2018)
- EAN: 9781509519941
- Páginas: 120
- Fecha de edición: 2018
pvp.21,95 €
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In many Western societies today the optimism of the 1990s and early 2000s has given way to a deep unease and a dark sense of foreboding. In the aftermath of the financial crisis, many people ...
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The Shock Doctrine of the Left
Jones, Graham
Polity Press (2018)
- EAN: 9781509528554
- Páginas: 140
- Fecha de edición: 2018
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Shocks, from natural disasters to military catastrophes, have been exploited for years by the state to impose privatisation, cuts and rampant free markets on us. This book argues that the Left can turn this on ...
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Do Central Banks Serve the People?
Claveau, François Dietsch, Peter Fontan, Clèment
Polity Press (2018)
- EAN: 9781509525775
- Páginas: 137
- Fecha de edición: 2018
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Central banks have become the go-to institution of modern economies. In the wake of the 2007 financial crisis, they injected trillions of dollars of liquidity - through a process known as quantitative easing - first ...
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What Happened in the Twentieth Century?
Sloterdijk, Peter
Polity Press (2018)
- EAN: 9781509518388
- Páginas: 225
- Fecha de edición: 2018
pvp.25,95 €
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When we look back from the vantage point of the 21st century and ask ourselves what the previous century was all about, what do we see? Our first inclination is to focus on historical events: ...
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Capitalism "A Conversation in Critical Theory "
Fraser, Nancy Jaeggi, Rahel
Polity Press (2018)
- EAN: 9780745671574
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha de edición: 2018
pvp.24,50 €
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What is capitalism? How do we understand its relation to twenty-first century society? What does it mean to criticize capitalism? And what kinds of social conflict and struggle can we expect to find under capitalism?
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Economy and Society "Selected Writings"
Polanyi, Karl
Polity Press (2018)
- EAN: 9781509523313
- Páginas: 280
- Fecha de edición: 2018
pvp.24,95 €
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Few figures are more crucial to understanding the upheavals of our contemporary era than Karl Polanyi. In a world riven by social and economic crises, from rising inequality to the decay of democratic institutions and ...
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A Philosophy for Europe
Esposito, Roberto
Polity Press (2018)
- EAN: 9781509521067
- Páginas: 260
- Fecha de edición: 2018
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Amid a devastating economic crisis, two tragic events coming from the outside the wave of immigration and Islamic terrorism have radically changed the profile and significance of the space we call Europe. Given a paradigm ...
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The Case for a Maximum Wage
Pizzigati, Sam
Polity Press (2018)
- EAN: 9781509524921
- Páginas: 140
- Fecha de edición: 2018
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Modern societies set limits, on everything from how fast motorists can drive to how much waste factory owners can dump in our rivers. But incomes in our deeply unequal world have no limits. Could capping ...
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Why Read Hannah Arendt Now
Bernstein, Richard J.
Polity Press (2018)
- EAN: 9781509528608
- Páginas: 124
- Fecha de edición: 2018
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Recently there has been an extraordinary international revival of interest in Hannah Arendt. She was extremely perceptive about the dark tendencies in contemporary life that continue to plague us. She developed a concept of politics ...
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Reading Marx
Hamza, Agon Ruda, Frank Zizek, Slavoj
Polity Press (2018)
- EAN: 9781509521418
- Páginas: 170
- Fecha de edición: 2018
pvp.21,00 €
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Marx's critique of political economy is vital for understanding the crisis of contemporary capitalism. Yet the nature of its relevance and some of its key tenets remain poorly understood. This bold intervention brings together the ...
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Will Big Business Destroy Our Planet?
Dauvergne, Peter
Polity Press (2018)
- EAN: 9781509524013
- Páginas: 140
- Fecha de edición: 2018
pvp.13,50 €
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Walmart. Coca-Cola. BP. Toyota. The world economy runs on the profits of transnational corporations. Politicians need their backing. Non-profit organizations rely on their philanthropy. People look to their brands for meaning. And their power continues ...
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Understanding Development "Issues and Debates "
Hopper, Paul
Polity Press (2018)
- EAN: 9781509510511
- Páginas: 246
- Fecha de edición: 2018
pvp.27,95 €
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Understanding Development offers a comprehensive introduction to the multidimensional and evolving nature of international development in the contemporary world. This new edition has been fully revised and expanded to incorporate the key events, trends and ...
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Can Government Do Anything Right?
Roberts, Alasdair
Polity Press (2018)
- EAN: 9781509521500
- Páginas: 144
- Fecha de edición: 2018
pvp.49,15 €
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Across the Western world, people are angry about the inability of government to perform basic functions competently. With widespread evidence of policy failures at home and ill-conceived wars and interventions abroad, it is hardly surprising ...
