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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 ...
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The Political Power of Global Corporations
Mikler, John
Polity Press (2017)
- EAN: 9780745698465
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.24,50 €
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We have long been told that corporations rule the world, their interests seemingly taking precedence over states and their citizens. Yet, while states, civil society, and international organizations are well drawn in terms of their ...
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The Digital Condition
Stalder, Felix
Polity Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781509519606
- Páginas: 220
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.21,95 €
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Our daily lives, our culture and our politics are now shaped by the digital condition as large numbers of people involve themselves in contentious negotiations of meaning in ever more dimensions of life, from the ...
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Karl Marx was the first theorist of global capitalism and remains perhaps its most trenchant critic. This clear and innovative book, from one of the leading contemporary experts on Marx's thought, gives us a fresh ...
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Mass Starvation "The History and Future of Famine "
De Waal, Alex
Polity Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781509524679
- Páginas: 264
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.22,95 €
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The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappeared. Today, famines are resurgent, driven by war, blockade, hostility ...
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Europe's Crises
Castells, Manuel
Polity Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781509524877
- Páginas: 476
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.25,95 €
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Today the European Union is facing a crisis as serious as anything it has experienced since its origins more than half a century ago. What makes this so serious is that it is not a ...
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Global Labour Studies
Rioux, Sebastien Taylor, Marcus
Polity Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781509504077
- Páginas: 248
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.22,95 €
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From the rise of fully automated factories to the creation of new migrant workforces, the world of work, employment and production is rapidly changing. By reshaping the global distribution of wealth, jobs and opportunities, these ...
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Narcocapitalism "An End to the Anaesthetic Society "
De Sutter, Laurent
Polity Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781509506842
- Páginas: 140
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.13,95 €
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What do the invention of anaesthetics in the middle of the 19th century, the Nazis' use of cocaine, and the development of Prozac have in common? The answer is that they're all products of the ...
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What's Wrong With the IMF and How to Fix It
Hibben, Mark R. Momani, Bessma
Polity Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781509509676
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.21,95 €
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The International Money Fund (IMF) stands at a crossroad. Derided as increasingly irrelevant in the first decade of the new millennium, the fall-out from the 2008 global financial crisis has restored its power and prestige. ...
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Brexit and British Politics
Evans, Geoffrey Menon, Anand
Polity Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781509523863
- Páginas: 140
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.17,95 €
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Brexit has changed everything - from our government, to our principal trading relationship, to the structure and organisation of the British state. This watershed moment, which surprised most observers and mobilised previously apathetic sections of ...
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The Internet of Things
Bunz, Mercedes Meikle, Graham
Polity Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781509517466
- Páginas: 192
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.21,95 €
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More objects and devices are connected to digital networks than ever before. Things - from your phone to your car, from the heating to the lights in your house - have gathered the ability to ...
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Can the Euro Be Saved?
Sawyer, Malcolm
Polity Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781509515257
- Páginas: 140
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.13,95 €
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The economies of the eurozone countries are plagued by multiple crises, which cast major doubts over the future of the euro. In this engaging new book, leading economist Malcolm Sawyer argues that the entire policy ...
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Do We Need Economic Inequality?
Dorling, Danny
Polity Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781509516551
- Páginas: 140
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.13,95 €
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Although economic inequality provokes widespread disquiet, its supposed necessity is rarely questioned. At best, a basic level of inequality is seen as a necessary evil. At worst, it is seen as insufficient to encourage aspiration, ...
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After the Internet "Digital Futures "
Fish, Adam Srinivasan, Ramesh
Polity Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781509506187
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.21,00 €
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In the wake of Edward Snowden´s revelations, and concern that the internet has heightened rather than combated various forms of political and social inequality, it is time we ask: what comes after a broken internet?
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Labor is the source of all wealth. Without workers, the world´s natural resources cannot be transformed into finished goods and services cannot be delivered. Labor, though, is a uniquely important resource because, unlike others, it ...
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Can Governments Earn Our Trust?
Kettl, Donald F.
Polity Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781509522460
- Páginas: 144
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.13,95 €
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Some analysts have called distrust the biggest governmental crisis of our time. It is unquestionably a huge problem, undermining confidence in our elected institutions, shrinking social capital, slowing innovation, and raising existential questions for democratic ...
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The Struggle for Development
Selwyn, Benjamin
Polity Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781509512799
- Páginas: 208
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.22,45 €
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The world economy is expanding rapidly despite chronic economic crises. Yet the majority of the world's population live in poverty. Why are wealth and poverty two sides of the coin of capitalist development? What can ...
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Neoliberalism "Key Concepts"
Cahill, Damien Konings, Martijn
Polity Press (2017)
- EAN: 9780745695532
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.22,45 €
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For over three decades neoliberalism has been the dominant economic ideology. While it may have emerged relatively unscathed from the global financial crisis of 2007-8, neoliberalism is now - more than ever - under scrutiny ...
