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Should Rich Nations Help the Poor?
David, Hulme
Polity Press (2016)
- EAN: 9780745686066
- Páginas: 136
- Fecha de edición: 2016
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In the past decade, the developed world has spent almost US$ 2 trillion on foreign aid for poorer countries. Yet 1.2 billion people still live in extreme poverty and around 2.9 billion cannot meet their ...
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Parallax of Growth "The Philosophy of Ecology and Economy"
Bjerg, Ole
Polity Press (2016)
- EAN: 9781509506248
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha de edición: 2016
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Parallax of Growth explores the ideas of economy and ecology and the factors that have put them on a collision course. Bjerg argues that our current mode of economic organization is characterized by an inherent ...
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The New Russia
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Polity Press (2016)
- EAN: 9781509503872
- Páginas: 400
- Fecha de edición: 2016
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After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has ever been in the past 25 years. Putin's motives, his reasons for seeking confrontation with the West, ...
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Babel
Bauman, Zygmunt Mauro, Ezio
Polity Press (2016)
- EAN: 9781509507603
- Páginas: 180
- Fecha de edición: 2016
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We are living in an open sea, caught up in a continuous wave, with no fixed point and no instrument to measure distance and the direction of travel. Nothing appears to be in its place ...
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TTIP "The Truth about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership"
De Ville, Ferdi Siles-Brugge, Gabriel
Polity Press (2015)
- EAN: 9781509501021
- Páginas: 160
- Fecha de edición: 2015
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The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has stirred passions like no other trade negotiation in recent history. Its supporters maintain that TTIP will produce spectacular growth and job creation; claims that are wholeheartedly rejected ...
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Foucault on Neoliberalism
Behrent, Michael C. Zamora, Daniel
Polity Press (2015)
- EAN: 9781509501779
- Páginas: 152
- Fecha de edición: 2015
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Michel Foucault's death in 1984 coincided with the fading away of the hopes for social transformation that characterized the postwar period. In the decades following his death, neoliberalism has triumphed and attacks on social rights ...
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Probability
Rowbottom, Darrell P.
Polity Press (2015)
- EAN: 9780745652573
- Páginas: 180
- Fecha de edición: 2015
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When a doctor tells you there's a one percent chance that an operation will result in your death, or a scientist claims that his theory is probably true, what exactly does that mean? Understanding probability ...
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Is the American Century Over?
Nye, Joseph S. Jr.
Polity Press (2015)
- EAN: 9780745690070
- Páginas: 152
- Fecha de edición: 2015
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For more than a century, the United States has been the world's most powerful state. Now some analysts predict that China will soon take its place. Does this mean that we are living in a ...
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The Sociology of Work
Grint, Keith Nixon, Darren
Polity Press (2015)
- EAN: 9780745650456
- Páginas: 472
- Fecha de edición: 2015
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This leading, authoritative textbook has been carefully and substantially revised to provide the indispensable foundational resource for the sociology of work. The fourth edition has been transformed to combine unrivalled explanations of classic theories with ...
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Can Financial Markets be Controlled?
Davies, Howard
Polity Press (2015)
- EAN: 9780745688312
- Páginas: 150
- Fecha de edición: 2015
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The Global Financial Crisis overturned decades of received wisdomon how financial markets work, and how best to keep them in check.Since then a wave of reform and re-regulation has crashed overbanks and markets. Financial firms ...
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Civic Capitalism
Hay, Colin Payne, Anthony
Polity Press (2015)
- EAN: 9780745692074
- Páginas: 120
- Fecha de edición: 2015
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As we struggle with the legacy of the crisis and with the prospect of accelerating environmental degradation, it is time to ask not what we can do for capitalism but what capitalism can do for ...
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The Third Way "Renewal of Social Democracy"
Giddens, Anthony
Polity Press (1998)
- EAN: 9780745622675
- Páginas: 176
- Fecha de edición: 1998
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The idea of finding a a third waya in politics has been widely discussed over recent months -- not only in the UK, but in the US, Continental Europe and Latin America. But what is ...
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European Union Foreign Policy in a Changing World
Smith, Karen E.
Polity Press (2014)
- EAN: 9780745664705
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha de edición: 2014
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The European Union finds itself at a critical juncture; not only has the deepening crisis in the eurozone weakened the EU's internal structure, it has impacted significantly on its international image and external relations. The ...
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Turbulent and Mighty Continent "What Future for Europe?"
Giddens, Anthony
Polity Press (2014)
- EAN: 9780745680972
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha de edición: 2014
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A "United States of Europe", Winston Churchill proposed in 1946, could "as if by a miracle transform" that "turbulent and mighty continent". "In this way only", he continued, "will hundreds of millions of toilers be ...
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Europe Entrapped
Offe, Claus
Polity Press (2014)
- EAN: 9780745687513
- Páginas: 104
- Fecha de edición: 2014
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Today Europe finds itself in a crisis that casts a dark shadow over an entire generation. The seriousness of the crisis stems from one core political contradiction at the heart of the European project: namely, ...
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Saving the Market from Capitalism "Ideas for an Alternative Finance"
Amato, Massimo Fantacci, Luca
Polity Press (2014)
- EAN: 9780745672557
- Páginas: 176
- Fecha de edición: 2014
pvp.67,60 €
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This new book by two leading economists is a far-reaching analysis of the role and organization of the financial system in the aftermath of the economic crisis. The authors argue that the financial markets, as ...
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Homo Economicus "The (Lost) Prophet of Modern Times"
Cohen, Daniel
Polity Press (2014)
- EAN: 9780745680125
- Páginas: 184
- Fecha de edición: 2014
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The West has long defined the pursuit of happiness in economic terms but now, in the wake of the 2007-8 financial crisis, it is time to think again about what constitutes our happiness. In this ...
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Algerian Sketches
Bourdieu, Pierre
Polity Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780745646954
- Páginas: 400
- Fecha de edición: 2013
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In the late 1950s, like tens of thousands of young men of his generation, Pierre Bourdieu, having recently passed the agregation in philosophy, found himself immersed in the Algerian war. Motivated by an impulse that, ...
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Turbulent and Mighty Continent "What Future for Europe?"
Giddens, Anthony
Polity Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780745680965
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.23,95 €
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A "United States of Europe", Winston Churchill proposed in 1946, could "as if by a miracle transform" that "turbulent and mighty continent". "In this way only", he continued, "will hundreds of millions of toilers be ...
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Making Capitalism Fit For Society
Crouch, Colin
Polity Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780745672236
- Páginas: 216
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.21,60 €
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Capitalism is the only complex system known to us that can provide an efficient and innovative economy, but the financial crisis has brought out the pernicious side of capitalism and shown that it remains dependent ...
