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The social foundations of global finance
A fresh collection of original contributions from a range of scholars inspired by the work of Tim Sinclair that critically engages and further applies the social foundations approach to global finance.
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The handbook of labour unions
This collection of newly commissioned essays from an international cast of contributors provides an authoritative assessment of the continued economic, social and political relevance of labour unions and their potential to bring about progressive societal change.
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Whatever it takes
Europe is at a crossroads: a restructuring at the very least, if not a new settlement of power, is in the cards. This book attempts to understand what "post-crisis Europe" will look like, and what the opportunities are to rethink its economic, social, and institutional architecture as well as to ...
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Central bank digital currencies
In this wide-ranging review, Michael Lloyd explores the potential opportunities and threats that the advent of CBDCs will have for commercial banking, business, individuals and the central banks themselves, as well as the world’s monetary system.
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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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Heralds of a democratic europe
Detailed research that challenges the received wisdom in European integration history that, long before the EU was plagued by Euroscepticism and other forms of contestation, there was a "permissive consensus" between European elites and the general public, which allowed European integration to mo...
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Macroeconomic policy since the financial crisis
Starting from the premise that all models are wrong, but some are useful, Iannizzotto introduces and explains the working of the various macroeconomic models available for policymaking. Students are challenged to consider the strengths and weaknesses of each model so that they develop their own c...
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A troubled constitutional future
This book offers a cautionary warning about how Brexit and its fallout may lead to contested constitutional upheaval on the island of Ireland.
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The new age of genocide
With recent events in Gaza, Martin Shaw seeks to restore the idea of genocide to its central place in thinking about mass atrocities, to apply it to neglected cases, and ultimately to settle the question of ‘What is genocide’?
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Civil economy
Luigino Bruni and Stefano Zamagni, advocate for a civil economy, which places well-being, virtue, and the common good alongside more familiar economic goals. This book explores the civil economy approach's origins and development, examines its pioneers and main representatives, and explains the m...
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Behavioural economics
This book introduces behavioral economics, explaining its approach and methodology and assessing its successes and weaknesses. Graham Mallard explores how it has advanced our understanding of human preferences and decision making and the ways in which findings from behavioral economics have been ...
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The wealth of cities and the poverty of nations
A corrective to the view that cities are only ever "good", arguing that the same urban properties which make cities so extraordinarily proficient at producing the “good” innovations also provides fertile ground for the development of the “bad” ones, on which urban elites have syphoned off wealth ...
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Political football
This book argues that the modern-day complexities of the beautiful game – corruption in the international governing body and the sport’s symbiotic relationship with gambling – together with its sheer economic size require more attention from government.
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The economics of fund management
Suitable for students of business and finance, the book offers readers a balanced and considered guide to the economics of the fund management industry and a critical appraisal of the sector's future.
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What matters most
This collection of philosophical conversations invite us to think anew about the complexities and challenges involved in living a good life in a world characterized by uncertainty and change.
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Coronations and defenestrations
How do Conservative Party leaders get the job? Lee Evans examines the Tories leadership election rules and asks whether they are the source of the party’s current decline, and what a more effective process might be for choosing and deposing their leader while in opposition or in office.
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Angrynomics
Mark Blyth and Eric Lonergan explore the rising tide of anger, sometimes righteous and useful, sometimes destructive and ill-targeted, and propose radical new solutions for an increasingly polarized and confusing world. Angrynomics is for anyone wondering, where the hell do we go from here?
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The new politics of nationalism in contemporary europe
This book brings together experts to analyse nine countries that contribute specific aspects to the study of nationalism in Europe.
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The spectre of price inflation
An accessible and authoritative overview of the role of inflation in the modern economy, from its place in monetary policy and in money supply to its effects on everyday business.
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Growth, democracy or climate action?
Governments are confronted with a tradeoff between growth, liberal democracy and effective climate action. They cannot achieve all three objectives at the same time. The authors consider which one has to give.
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The federal reserve and its founders
Richard A. Naclerio investigates the events that surrounded the U.S. Federal Reserve's creation and the bankers, financiers, and economists who shaped its role over the next century. He sheds new light on the making of one of the world's most important financial institutions and how it came to ha...
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The doreen massey reader
Doreen Massey (1944–2016) changed geography. Her ideas on space, region, labour, identity, ethics and capital transformed the field itself, while also attracting a wide audience in sociology, planning, political economy, cultural studies, gender studies and beyond. The significance of her contrib...
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The economics of music
The second edition of this popular introduction to the economic workings of the music business explores the impact of the pandemic at every level of the sector and considers how the business model may need to change going forward as different stakeholder positions shift.
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Cryptocurrencies
Oonagh McDonald examines the challenges, opportunities and threats that cryptocurrencies pose to cash and to existing fiat currencies and their potential to change how global finance operates.
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Learning and sustainability in dangerous times
Stephen Sterling is a pioneer in sustainability education. This collection of his essential writings is freshly curated by the author and offers a new overview and chapter by chapter introductions that link together his thinking to inform the growing and urgent debate on the role and nature of ed...
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The japanese economy
Hiroaki Richard Watanabe examines the ups and downs of Japan’s postwar economic history to offer an up-to-date and authoritative guide to the workings of Japan’s economy. He highlights the country’s distinct modes of business networks and Japan’s state–market relationship.
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Credit rating agencies
This short book introduces and explores the complex world of the credit rating industry: how it works, how it has evolved, the role it played in the financial crisis, and how it is regulated. Giulia Mennillo shows, as constitutive actors of global financial capitalism, CRAs have a social and poli...
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Flawed capitalism
Flawed Capitalism traces the history of the U.S. and UK economies through their New Deal and then Reaganite and Thatcherite periods, showing how the weakening of labor and deregulation of business culminated in the financial crisis. David Coates makes the case for the transatlantic creation of a ...
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China's hong kong
In this new edition, Tim Summers brings his analysis of the politics of Hong Kong fully up to date and discusses the ramifications for the city of the mass demonstrations of June 2019 and the intensifying confrontational politics that has culminated in China’s new security laws effectively crimin...
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Resilient welfare states in the european union
Examines the nature of European welfare provision and the untruths that surround it. They examine the impact of the austerity measures that followed the Great Recession, and consider its future design to equip European societies to face social change, global competition and external shocks.
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The rise of the platform music industries
A critical appraisal of the latest round of platform intermediation, centred on MusicTech, social media platforms and user-generated content, live streaming, crowdfunding and gamification, that is reshaping the contemporary music industry.
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Slipping loose
Martin Westlake argues that focus on the short-term causes of the Brexit vote has overshadowed a series of longer-term trends that were leading or pushing the UK away from full membership of the European Union. He shows that the UK was an increasingly semi-detached member, requiring ever more ela...
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Central bank independence and the future of the euro
Over the past decade central banks have taken on new and expanded roles in an attempt to manage the global financial crisis. Panicos Demetriades, former governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus during the country's bailout in 2013, examines the role of the ECB and its adoption of these new powers.
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Capitalism's handmaidens
Melissa Langworthy offers a political economy of women’s entrepreneurship that moves beyond the input-output perspectives that have consistently positioned female entrepreneurs as underperforming relative to their male counterparts.
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Productivity
Mike Haynes provides a detailed examination of the concept of productivit and why it is held by economists to be so important in evaluating the health of modern economies. He maintains that too little attention is paid to why productivity grows or fails to grow in certain contexts as well as the ...
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Pandemonium
The last decade has seen the EU beset by crisis and Covid-19 has presented yet another threat to its existence. Luuk van Middelaar assesses the EU's response and how it has been shaped by it.
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An economic history of europe since 1700
Vera Zamagni provides a new economic history of Europe from the birth of industrialization to the financial crisis and its aftermath. The remarkable story of European economic growth is set within the wider context of world economic progress and alongside developments in Asia, Eastern Europe, and...
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British business banking
The UK business banking sector is unique in the EU in probiding most SME funding via bank overdrafts and credit cards rather than long-term loan finance. This book explores British banks’ attitude towards SME finance and the roots of their risk aversion.
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Rights versus antitrust
A challenging critique of the prevailing notion that upholding fair competition is one of the foundations of a market economy. Drawing on concepts from economics, philosophy and law, White argues that the pre-eminent status accorded to the regulation of competition should be reconsidered by any g...
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The economics of airlines
This updated and expanded third edition explains the economic realities of the airline industry and the challenges that the sector now faces to decarbonise aviation.
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The conservative challenge to globalization
Ray Kiely examines the conservative discourse of “winners” and “losers” of globalization that has emerged since the financial crisis. He provides a detailed examination of new US and UK conservative movements and how these have shaped responses to globalization that challenge neoliberal and third...
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Driving change
Over recent decades, the UK’s transport system has undergone radical changes. David Metz examines the role new business models and government policies have played in these changes, highlighting many of the unforeseen consequences for transport development and for future outcomes.
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Collective bargaining and gender equality
Collective bargaining has been a major force in delivering social justice and decent work in the workplace. However, the role of collective bargaining in achieving gender equality in the workplace is relatively under-researched.In this book, Jane Pillinger and Nora Wintour investigate the complex...
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Taiwan
As a top 20 global economy and tech powerhouse, a liberal democracy on the frontline of autocratic pressure and a pivotal component in the free and open Indo-Pacific, the future security of Taiwan has enormous ramifications for today’s global order. Sullivan and Nachman consider what's at stake.
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Divided they fell
This book examines the failures of mainstream politics, and in particular the inability of the centre-left – the UK Labour Party and France's Parti Socialiste – to respond to the Great Recession more effectively.
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Politicians and economic experts
In recent years politics has seen an increasing role in economic policy-making for a technocracy of experts. How do politicians feel about this and how do they balance their political and ethical aims with economic expertise?
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Grand strategy and the rise of china
This book explores the uncertainties and dilemmas China’s rise has fuelled for both the US-sponsored liberal order and the Chinese communist elites that are responsible. It provides the tools to understand the contemporary political and media turmoil about China, its causes and its trajectories.
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Sovereign wealth funds
An incisive discussion of the development of this class of investor, how they have become legitimate actors in global financial markets, and their role as providers of capital and in economic development at home and abroad.
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The kurds
A contemporary overview and critical analysis of the Kurds quest for national identity and statehood from the end of the Ottoman Empire to the modern day.
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Social preferences
An introdution to one of the key areas of behavioural economics – social preferences – which explains in clear, untechnical language how experimental research in this area has provided economists with much greater understanding of economic behaviour.
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Disease
Access to many of the things that make and keep us healthy are not evenly distributed in the population. Achieving good health is deeply entwined with all aspects of society and it has never been clearer that these determinants are not only social or physiological, but also political.
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The french economy
The first general economic history of France since 2004 and the first to include the impact of the global financial crisis.
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Debt trap nation
This blistering expose takes the reader inside England's national scandal of homelessness to reveal how government choices have forced single mothers and their families into impossible hardship with hundreds of thousands of children living in temporary accommodation for months, years and sometime...
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The economy of the gulf states
The six Arab monarchies of the Persian Gulf – Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – have a disproportionate importance in the global economic system because of their enormous reserves of oil and gas.Matthew Gray provides a brief yet comprehensive profile of the...
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Geoliberal europe and the test of war
Richard Youngs examines the policy challenges and choices now facing Europe in the wake of Russia's war with Ukaraine.
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Sustainable development and water security
This book uses Sustainable Development Goal 6 to consider the concept of sustainable water resources management and how to improve global water security. It provides a critical synthesis of water resources planning and management issues across all water-using sectors.
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The urban field
This book is a critical examination of the relationship between capital and the state, and the generation of an urban governmentality centered on the economization of knowledge and technology. A rethinking of the role of contemporary urbanism in today’s knowledge-intensive capitalism.
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The diane elson reader
This volume brings together seminal papers and contributions from Diane Elson’s extensive back catalogue. The collection reflects the author’s enduring fascination with the interaction of gender, development and economics and the relevance of her thinking for tackling inequality and economic prob...
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London
London has become one of the fastest growing cities in Europe and its expansion has generated many planning challenges. This book examines the tensions, complexities and difficulties in mobilizing policy agendas in the city, and the market-led development of London that has led to the widescale p...
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Banking on the state
Germany’s Sparkassen are publicly held savings banks. No other advanced industrial economy relies as heavily on such small, publicly-owned financial institutions to fuel its economy. Mark Cassell explores the unique entity that is the German public banking system and the lessons it offers to bank...
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Corbynism in perspective
Jeremy Corbyn has proved to be one of Labour’s most popular and yet one of its most divisive leaders among the membership. In this carefully researched collection of essays, Corbyn’s influence on and legacy for the party are assessed.
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