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Many on the Left see the European Union as a fundamentally benign project with the potential to underpin ever greater cooperation and progress. If it has drifted rightward, the answer is to fight for reform from within. In this iconoclastic polemic, economist Costas...
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Polity
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2018-12-05
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Over the last few decades, politics in India has moved steadily in a pro-business direction. This shift has important implications for both government and citizens. In Business and Politics in India, leading scholars of Indian politics have gathered to offer an...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-12-03
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Throughout the Western world, a whole generation is being priced out of the housing market. For millions of people, particularly millennials, the basic goal of acquiring decent, affordable accommodation is a distant dream. Leading economist Josh Ryan-Collins argues that...
Editeur :
Polity
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2018-11-26
Collection :
The Future of Capitalism
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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 are closer than you might think. The...
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Polity
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2018-11-26
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Wages for the majority have been stagnant for decades, but a lucky few have enjoyed a pay bonanza. Top company bosses take home in several days as much as most people earn in a whole year. In this hard-hitting book, Deborah Hargreaves explains why pay for the top 0.1%...
Editeur :
Polity
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2018-11-26
Collection :
The Future of Capitalism
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This book provides a brief history of the notion of development and related policies. Readers will find an overview of the main development notions and debates from 1950 to the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals. The author argues that sustainable development is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-24
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This open access book asks why and how some of the developing countries have “emerged” under a set of similar global conditions, what led individual countries to choose the particular paths that led to their “emergence,” and what...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-11-19
Collection :
Emerging-Economy State and International Policy Studies
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This book follows up on the author’s popular previous volume on Indian development planning and policy, published under the UNU WIDER series in development economics. It first introduces an evaluation of the newly mandated policy body of India, National Institution for...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-11-02
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Economics
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In recent years a global network of science has emerged as a result of thousands of individual scientists seeking to collaborate with colleagues around the world, creating a network which rises above national systems. The globalization of science is part of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-25
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This book explains how to bring about institutional change and foster new institutional structures (institution building) by resolving power inequities in a rural ecosystem in India, and advocates the identification of an appropriate institutional champion to make this...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-08
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The book provides insights into the development of special economic zones, which are an important factor in the political and economic reforms in China. It discusses a number of topics, including the history and the modernization of special economic zones in China, the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-10-05
Collection :
Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path
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Economists have long sought to maximise economic growth, believing this to be their best contribution to improving human welfare. That approach is not sustainable in the face of ongoing issues such as global climate change, environmental damage, rising inequality and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-11
Collection :
Wellbeing in Politics and Policy
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This book is a major contribution to the study of political economy. With chapters ranging from the origins of political economy to its most exciting research fields, this handbook provides a reassessment of political economy as it stands today, whilst boldly gesturing...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-16
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This book is devoted to analyzing contemporary capitalism both in Japan and in the world economy by using the theoretical framework of the French régulation theory and by revisiting the theory of civil society in postwar Japan. The Japanese theory of civil society...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-08-15
Collection :
Evolutionary Economics and Social Complexity Science
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The economic policies of reactive states such as Turkey and Greece, both of which have shown limited ability to implement institutional reforms in recent years, have paved the way for deep crises.The crises are devastating for both societies’ social fabric, but they...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-07
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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Swiss citizens approve of their government and the way democracy is practiced; they trust the authorities and are satisfied with the range of servicesSwiss governments provide. This is quite unusual when compared to other countries. This open access book provides...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-07
Collection :
Governance and Public Management
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This book clarifies the misconceptions and misinterpretations of the Chinese Path through historical and market logic. The author begins with a historical review of Chinese institutions from their cultural origins to their modern connotations: Chinese regard unity over...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-08-06
Collection :
China Insights
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This book figures out that network security and informatization have entered a development stage of greater permeation and deeper integration into all aspects of the economy and society. In particular since the 2008 financial crisis, the world’s major economies have...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-07-30
Collection :
Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path
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This book discusses the experiences of cooperative enterprises in India that have been operated by or influenced to a significant extent by trade unions. It describes the origins of these movements in India presenting a political-strategic view of their development and,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-09
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