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Communists constructing capitalism
This book offers a novel account of how the Chinese Communist Party has achieved rapid economic growth while preserving political stability. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and challenging existing paradigms of political economy, it sheds light on the financial foundations of China’s evolving auth...
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Consumer politics in postwar japan
Providing comparisons to the United States and Britain, this book examines Japan's postwar consumer protection movement. Organized largely by and for housewives and spurred by major cases of price gouging and product contamination, the movement led to the passage of basic consumer protection legi...
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Contemporary iran
This accessible introductory text explains the political, economic and religious developments since the formation of the Islamic Republic in 1979 and provides an analysis of the domestic politics of Iran. It identifies the ways in which the country, often imagined as ‘isolated’, is actually integ...
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Contested sustainability
Richly detailed and timely study on conservation, development and sustainability in Tanzania.Provides valuable insights into the successes and failures of the management and governance of wildlife, forestry and coastal resources.Responding to the urgent need to examine the outcome of intervention...
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Controlling contagion
How human institutions—markets, states, communities, religions, guilds and families—have helped both to control and to exacerbate epidemics throughout history.How do societies tackle epidemic disease? In Controlling Contagion, Sheilagh Ogilvie answers this question by exploring seven centuries of...
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Corporate crime and punishment
The geopolitics of American law enforcement and how it changed corporate criminal accountability in other countriesOver the past decade, many of the world’s biggest companies have found themselves embroiled in legal disputes over corruption, fraud, environmental damage, tax evasion, or sanction v...
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Crisis and sequels
This volume brings together contributions which take up the key debates regarding the economic crash of 2007–8 and its sequels.
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Critical development studies
Development studies is typically used by agencies concerned on improving the living conditions of people across the world by advancing capitalism as the institutional and policy framework of the global development process. Veltmeyer and Delgado Wise, on the contrary, view capitalism as the proble...
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Critical explorations in social sciences
Consisting of invited contributions from scholars, this book celebrates two outstanding economists and public intellectuals in contemporary India.
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Crowds and democracy
Spanning aesthetics, cultural studies, intellectual history, and political theory, this volume unpacks the significance of the shadow agent known as “the mass” during a critical period in European history.
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Cultural differences between the west and east asia and their impacts on global economy
This book highlights the roles of culture and institutions on economic change. In particular, it compares cultures between the United States and China and examines their impacts on entrepreneurship, innovation capabilities, and economic and social changes. It also covers their impacts on everyday...
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Currency power
Why the dollar will remain the world's most powerful currencyMonetary rivalry is a fact of life in the world economy. Intense competition between international currencies like the US dollar, Europe's euro, and the Chinese yuan is profoundly political, going to the heart of the global balance of p...
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Dancing with dynamite
One step forward, two steps back: When social movements win state power.
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Dark commerce
A comprehensive look at the world of illicit tradeIn the past three decades, technology has changed the fundamentals of trade, in legitimate and illegal economies. The most advanced forms of illicit trade have broken with all historical precedents and operate as if on steroids, tied to computers ...
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Darkness by design
An exposé of fragmented trading platforms, poor governance, and exploitative practices in today's capital marketsCapital markets have undergone a dramatic transformation in the past two decades. Algorithmic high-speed supercomputing has replaced traditional floor trading and human market makers, ...
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Democracy and prosperity
A groundbreaking historical analysis of how global capitalism and advanced democracies mutually support each otherIt is a widespread view that democracy and the advanced nation-state are in crisis, weakened by globalization and undermined by global capitalism. Torben Iversen and David Soskice arg...
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Democratic capitalism at the crossroads
An incisive history of the changing relationship between democracy and capitalismThe twentieth century witnessed the triumph of democratic capitalism in the industrialized West, with widespread popular support for both free markets and representative elections. Today, that political consensus app...
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Disassembly required
From money and markets to the subprime crisis, this anti-capitalist pocket guide explains capitalism and its crises, and suggests alternatives.
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Disposable futures
A dazzling exploration of the seduction of violence and spectacle in politics, culture, entertainment and everyday life
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Dying for an iphone
A harrowing look at the lives and struggles of a new generation of Chinese workers confronting the Apple-Foxconn empire and the Chinese state.
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Earth for all
Earth For All is an antidote to despair. Combining the global economy, population, inequality, food, and energy in a state-of-the art computer model, a leading group of scientists and economists present a plan of five system-shifting steps to achieve prosperity for all within planetary limits in ...
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Economic thought
In this concise history, Heinz D. Kurz selects major moments in the development of economic ideas to portray how insights are acquired, lost, and reborn. He focuses on the dynamic individuals who give old ideas new life and the historical events that provoke the combination and recombination of d...
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Economy for and against democracy
Economic inequality is the antithesis of democracy, but the conditions for achieving economic democracy are rarely discussed. The book moves from showing how economy subverts democracy today through people’s struggles to realize democracy in practice to more abstract visions of possible ...
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Efficiency, finance, and varieties of industrial policy
This volume revisits the role of industrial policy, discussing the most effective use of industrial policies in learning economies, development finance, and promoting investment in regional and global contexts. Also included are in-depth case studies of Japan and India’s experience with industria...
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Energy and change
Clayton Crockett offers an innovative philosophy of energy that cuts across a number of leading-edge disciplines. Drawing from contemporary philosophies of New Materialism, non-Western traditions, and the sciences, he develops a comprehensive vision of energy as a material process spanning physic...
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Environmental anarchy?
What does it mean to be secure in the 21st century? Mark Beeson argues that some of the most influential ideas about national and even global security reflect untenable, anachronistic strategic views that are simply no longer appropriate for contemporary international circumstances. At a time wh...
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Escape from overshoot
An excellent primer on key insights and questions in ecological economics from a celebrated pioneer of the field. —Jason Hickel, author, Less is More Earth is in overshoot. The juggernaut of economic growth rolls on, consuming the biosphere, breaking planetary boundaries, and stretching inequali...
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Escaping dystopia
Multiple crises have led many to conclude that the current economic and political system is broken. The present and future look increasingly precarious – if not outright dystopian Stephen McBride calls for radical solutions to these crises to provide a more rational and sustainable future. He cr...
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Europe and the british left
This book argues that the debate over the European question is rooted in a flawed analysis of the nature of the global political economy, the EU, and of Britain’s place within both. They make the case for an approach that is critical of the European Union yet pragmatically embraces its potential ...
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Europe in revolt
A gripping and authoritative account of the uprisings against extreme austerity that have shaken Europe.
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Evolution of the hungarian economy, 1848-1998
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Exploring the poverty question
The author argues that the claim that South Asia has seen a large reduction in poverty over the last three decades is a spurious claim. Using nearly 50 years of data from India’s National Sample Survey, she shows that applying a constant nutrition standard over time, poverty had worsened consider...
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Fields of resistance
A firsthand account of the modern-day slavery faced by migrant laborers and their inspiring struggle against inhuman conditions.
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Finance capital today
This book presents a rich new analysis of the specific features of contemporary capitalism, notably its global nature and financialization.
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Finntopia
What is it about Finland that makes the country so successful and seemingly such a great place to live? Danny Dorling and Annika Koljonen explore what we might learn from Finnish success and what they might usefully learn from us.
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Fintech capital
A thorough examination of the worldwide digital transformation of people’s everyday monetary and financial relations driven by the emergence of FinTechHow people pay, make savings and investments, buy insurance, and take on debt is undergoing digital transformation across the globe. This book arg...
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Free gifts
A timely new critique of capitalism’s persistent failure to value natureCapitalism is typically treated as a force for relentless commodification. Yet it consistently fails to place value on vital aspects of the nonhuman world, whether carbon emissions or entire ecosystems. In Free Gifts, Alyssa ...
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Free, fair, and alive
Free, Fair, and Alive is a penetrating cultural critique, table-pounding political treatise, and practical playbook for "commoning" — free, self-organizing systems ranging from alternative currencies to open-source everything. It presents a bold and compelling alternative to the dead-end, predato...
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From click to boom
How the world’s largest e-commerce market highlights a digital path to developmentHow do states build vital institutions for market development? Too often, governments confront technical or political barriers to providing the rule of law, contract enforcement, and loan access. In From Click to Bo...
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From corporate globalization to global co-operation
This book is about the need for an alternative to capitalism. But what does that alternative look like? And given the ever-increasing wealth and power of the 1 percent and the fact that corporations are given carte blanche to turn natural resources into profit, is an alternative possible?Tom Webb...
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From marx to gramsci
A comprehensive course in the contributions of key figures to the Marxist tradition.
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From reversal of fortune to economic resurgence
This book examines Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy and most populous country, and five selected Asian countries in comparative development and sectoral perspectives. It employs quantitative and qualitative methods, including case studies and statistical/econometric methods, to analyze factors t...
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Global discord
How to sustain an international system of cooperation in the midst of geopolitical struggleCan the international economic and legal system survive today’s fractured geopolitics? Democracies are facing a drawn-out contest with authoritarian states that is entangling much of public policy with glob...
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Global governance under fire
How international organizations can combat populist opposition—and the implications for institutional resilience, legitimacy, and accountabilityPopulist leaders around the world increasingly reject international organizations, decrying them as constraints on state power and rallying followers aga...
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