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The south african economy
An economic history of postwar South Africa, with particular focus on the modern post-apartheid period.
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The mexican economy
A concise and up to date analysis of Mexico’s economic development and the country’s political economy suitable for a range of courses in Latin American studies and Development Studies.
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The habitation society
A compelling analysis of our transition from an industrial economy to a habitation economy, which maps out how this new economy can work more effectively for people, their families and their communities.
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Financial inclusion
Employs a range of case studies to examine the success and failure of financial inclusion policy implementations and considers the social impact and efficacy of such economic intervention.
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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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The economics of fishing
A comprehensive and rigorous guide to the economic considerations motivating the industry and highlights the environmental challenges facing the sector as global consumption of fish continues to rise.
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The informal economy
An authoritative introduction to economic activity and income outside of government regulation, taxation and observation. The books examines its importance and characteristics in developed, developing and transitional economies, and its role as a driver of economic growth.
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The italian economy
A concise overview of the workings of the modern Italian economy and its unique characteristics from the doyenne of Italian economic historians.
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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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Freeing trade in north america
A concise analysis and overview of the trilateral trade agreements – NAFTA and its successor USCMA – that have created one of the largest trade blocs in the world.
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New york
A comprehensive analysis of the political, economic and social dynamics that have made New York a megacity today.
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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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The living wage
This short primer traces the origins of the concept of the living wage and seeks to explain its current rise in fortune as an economic instrument with a social objective. It examines its impact on labour markets and wage levels, explores how it has been applied, and assesses whether it is an effe...
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Alarums and excursions
A revealing and candid portrayal of a Europe improvising its way through a series of crises. Forced into action by a tidal wave of emergencies, Europe has had to reinvent itself, casting off its legal straitjacket and confronting hard issues that threaten its own political identity.
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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 politics of trade
A penetrating analysis of the complexities of the TTIP negotiations, which explores why they proved so difficult to conclude, what motivated the different parties concerned and what implications there have been for future trade deals, especially for the UK in its post-Brexit negotiations.
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European studies
This volume brings together some of the most influential Europeanists writing today to take stock of the subject and to consider the most fruitful avenues for future research.
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Sustainable human settlements within the global urban agenda
The UN's urban sustainability goal (#11) is fundamental to the global sustainable development agenda. David Simon explains the anatomy and dynamics of SDG 11, and critically assess how it is being used and understood in different local, regional and national contexts.
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The south korean economy
Charts the astonishing economic development of South Korea and explains the country's remarkable transformation to a highly innovative economy based on advanced technologies and infrastructure in spite of a postcolonial legacy of military leaders in suits and the absence of fully developed free m...
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The price of football
This revised and updated second edition of the bestselling guide to understanding football club finance includes analysis of the most recent club accounts, as well as the impact of Covid-19 on the game's finances, the latest legal rulings on club affairs, and expanded coverage of "creative accoun...
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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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Heterodox economics
Andrew Trigg traces the heterodox tradition in economics from its origins in the anti-capitalism ideas of the first half of the nineteeth century, through to Keynes and the present day and considers the methodological challenge they present to mainstream economics.
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Taiwan
Taiwan’s history and future are intimately tied to democratization, decolonialism, national identity, economic interdependence, multiculturalism and modern values – all set against an ever-present security dimension. This short book illuminates how its fate will determine the direction of today’s...
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Belt and road
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is one of the most talked about and little understood policy initiatives of China. This short book offers a comprehensive, balanced and policy-oriented analysis of the BRI and what it means for western businesses and polities.
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Want
Helen Barnard asks what it takes to slay "Want" in modern Britain and explores what we can learn from our past to build a better, fairer, more equal and more hopeful society.
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Post-keynesian theory revisited
An original analysis of post-Keynesianism's contributions to such central issues as the fundamental uncertainty in economic decisions, the theory of liquidity preference, effective demand and nominal contracts.
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Evolving regional economies
Martin Henning explores why economic growth and transformation is essentially a regionally based and spatially dependent process and introduces the core ideas involved in understanding the dynamics of regional economies drawing on case studies to illuminate these ideas in practice.
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Common boundaries
How do we – and how should we – engage with the natural environment through the concepts of rights and responsibilities? Michael Cox develops a theory and practice of environmental property rights, moving beyond simplistic assumptions that do not reflect the diversity of arrangements we see in th...
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Productivity
A detailed examination of the much used and little understood concept of productivity -- how it is used, and why it is held by economists to be so important in evaluating the health of modern economies.
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The political economy of housing financialization
Greg Fuller explores the importance and growing role of mortgage markets in the macroeconomy and provides a comparative analysis of housing finance across a number of European national economies, including the UK, as well as the United States.
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The future of uk-china relations
At a time when both China’s role in the world is becoming the focus of international business strategy and Brexit is pushing the UK to look to the rest of the world for trade and investment, Kerry Brown assesses the potential for a new "golden age" of UK–China relations.
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Blockchain and the digital economy
Non-technical and accessible, this book seeks to demystify the functionalities of blockchains, their potential as well as their likely socio-economic impacts.
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Reflections on the future of the left
These essays from leading left intellectuals reflect on the scale and nature of the task that the Left now faces and, together, offer a major statement on the future for centre-left politics in advanced capitalism, and a frank appraisal of the Left’s current capacity to keep conservatism at bay.
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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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The market
A major contribution to our understanding of the dominant economic language of our time, which unpacks the concept of "the market" to reveal exactly what it means to defer to the “logic of the market” and to submit to "market forces".
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Logos
Raymond Tallis steps into the gap between mind and world to explore what is at stake in our attempts to make sense of our world. He reveals how philosophers, theologians and scientists have sought to demystify our extraordinary sense-making capabilities and how their attempts are of little help i...
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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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Rethinking global labour
Ronaldo Munck examines how globalization has created a new global working class and suggests that we are at the beginning of a new era for workers and their organizations, in which they will begin to impact decisively on the new global order that they have helped to create.
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Circling round explicitness
With characteristic erudition and acuity across a breathtaking range of subjects, Ray Tallis explores how explicitness connects with fundamental ontological, metaphysical and epistemological questions that takes us closer to understanding what it is to be, to be human, and our connection with the...
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Essays on civil war, inequality and underdevelopment
These essays are a significant contribution to understanding the failure of sustainable economic development and the armed conflict that it spawns in developing states.
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Supercharge me
Almost everyone agrees on the need to transition the global economy to net zero. But how do we do it? And how do we do it faster? This book provides answers – and ones that don’t involve punishing lifestyle changes, the end of capitalism, or a much higher tax bill.
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Unfinished empire
An essential primer for the reader looking to understand the consequences of the war with Ukraine for Russia's regional relationships with bordering countries and Russia’s place in the world beyond the binary East–West tensions.
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The economics of construction
Contributing around 10 per cent of world GDP, the construction sector is one of the biggest industries in the world. Stephen Gruneberg and Noble Francis, two of the UK’s leading construction economists, present an up-to-date analysis of the construction industry’s business model and the challenge...
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Market/place
This collection of new essays from leading economic geographers addresses the contested place of markets in a physical setting and explore how the impact of political, social and economic factors determine the shape of a particular market space.
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General equilibrium
Written by one of the key pioneers in the field, this book, suitable for undergraduate courses, offers an accessible introduction to general equilibrium theory and some of its most important developments of the past fifty years, including the sunspot model, the overlapping generations model and t...
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Unhappy families
Adam Ferner's short, engaging book explores the ethical and political dimensions of parenthood, childcare and reproduction, and the dominant ethos of the family, in a world riven by conflict, inequality and the absence of hope.
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Warmonger
Ukraine is the latest of Putin’s wars of aggression following Chechnya, Georgia, Crimea and Syria. This book examines each external military intervention to show how Russia rebuilt itself after the 1990s, how it embraced Putinism and an imperial vision through a series of bloody conflicts.
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The history of economics
A magisterial overview of the history of economic thought from the seventeenth century to the present day, one that emphasizes a diversity of economic argument that it sometime suppressed in more conventional textbooks, which tend to organize their histories into sequences fo schools of thought.
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Owning the city
Privately-held property (land and buildings) and the growth of the propertied middle class presents an anomaly in authoritarian states. This book unravels the puzzle that is the growth of private property in tandem with political support for authoritarian regimes.
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Central bank independence and the future of the euro
The former Governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus examines the role of the European Central Bank in the euro crisis and what role it should play in the future.
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The economics of arms
An authoritative, non-technical introduction to the economics of the arms industry by one of the world's leading defence economists.
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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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Demography and the making of the modern world
How has demography shaped the Arab Spring, migrant flights from Africa to Europe, budget negotiations in the USA, immigration debates in Japan and economic growth in India and Brazil, among others? John Rennie Short explores the wide-ranging economic, social and public policy implications of popu...
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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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Banking on the state
Mark Cassell explores the unique entity that is the German public banking system and the lessons it offers to banking systems worldwide.
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The war on terror
An enduring feature of American foreign policy for over two decades. This book shows how the War on Terror has changed global politics, why it has been fought and why it has proven so difficult to end despite multiple failed attempts at course correction.
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The european social question
This analysis of EU social policy-making asks whether the EU's efforts contribute to social cohesion or, on the contrary, undermine it, and whether its action in the social realm should be intensified, or curtailed.
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The magic money tree and other economic tales
A lively analysis of how mistakes in economic policy-making are increasingly made for political reasons and typically in the run up to a crisis when the constraints on the economy are ignored.
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The cultural infrastructure of cities
This collection of essays offers a fresh perspective on infrastructure, inviting readers to (re)consider the ways that culture is produced and expressed within cities by examining the geographies of its spaces, venues, performances and embodiments.
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Pessimism, quietism and nature as refuge
How do we, as individuals, accommodate a pessimistic and misanthropic view of the world? If the human condition is impossible to ameliorate, then how should we live? To bring about the wellbeing and happiness we seek, argues Cooper, requires a quietism that seeks refuge from the everyday human wo...
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The sex economy
A major challenge to the view that prostitution and the "sex economy" can ever be normalised as a legitimate economic business in which women have control, and as employment comparable to other forms of low-paid work.
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New world new rules
The world needs collective action, but existing arrangements are unravelling or outmoded. Two of Europe's most-experienced policymakers tackle global governance across climate, health, trade, banking and finance, big business, migration and the digital economy, to establish what works and what do...
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Of time and lamentation
A bold, original and thought-provoking exploration of the nature and meaning of time. Tallis, with characteristic fearlessness, seeks to reclaim time from the jaws of physics, arguing that time as it is lived, the long narrative of our human journey, can not be told by caesium clocks and Lorentz ...
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The chinese economy
Stephen Morgan provides a comprehensive analysis of China's unprecedented economic transformation and the specifics of its development, including issues such as well-being and human capital, inequality, ageing, urbanization and sustainability, consumerism, health, education and the environment.
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The gig economy
Alex de Ruyter and Martyn Brown explain the key facets of the gig economy and explore the dangers and potential it affords. Drawing on recent case-studies from the UK, Europe and the USA, it offers an authoritative guide through the theories and issues that surround the gig economy and the ramifi...
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Financialization
An unrivalled analysis of the pervasive forms that financialization has taken, its rise as a global phenomenon, its impact on economic growth, its transformative effect on businesses and the costs that we pay as consumers. Has finance become a burden to growth and what, if anything, can be done t...
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Turkey in the global economy
Bulent Gokay examines Turkey’s recent remarkable political and economic transformation within the context of broader regional and global change to offer new insight into the functioning of Turkey’s political economy and the successes and failures of its ruling party’s economic management.
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Political economy and crisis
A comprehensive exposition and assessment of the main traditions of political economy and their competing approaches to understanding and defining capitalism, in particular, how they interpret economic and political crisis in contemporary capitalism.
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London
As one of the fastest growing cities in Europe London's 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 that has led to widescale privatization of the city’s d...
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Social movements in latin america
A comprehensive survey of Latin American social movements, which are likely to be at the centre of any future progressive politics in Latin America.
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The political economy of brexit
These essays explore the ramifications of the Brexit decision for the UK and European economies, in particular, on manufacturing, regional development, labour regulations, financial services and Northern Ireland.
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Advances in sports economics
A wide-ranging collection of newly commissioned essays which examine the multifaceted field of sports economics in baseball, basketball, cricket, football, Gaelic games, horse racing, rugby and tennis.
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Europe's brexit
What the rest of Europe thinks about Brexit . . . An in-depth, ground-up analysis of the attitudes and opinions of the other 27 EU member states towards Britain's decision to leave.
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Pyromania
Fire is a key physical process on earth, one that humans alone have worked out how to partly control. The combustion of fossil fuels is causing the climate to change rapidly. In this accessible book, Dalby argues our challenge is to create a new economy for life after fossil fuels.
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Deglobalization
Edward Ashbee guides the reader through the intricate web of processes and forces of globalization that have shaped the world’s politics and economics over the last 40 years. This is an invaluable overview of one of the most important phenomena of our age.
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Inside the deal
This frank and uncompromising account gives the inside view from the EU side of what it was really like to negotiate the Brexit agreement with the UK.
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Nudging
Whitehead and Jones examine the history and use of nudging as a policy tool and consider when and where they are best deployed, if at all.
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In defence of philanthropy
An impassioned defence of the role of philanthropy in society.
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The strongmen
How the disruptive policies and behaviour of Xi, Trump, Putin and Erdogan are confounding and frustrating Europe and what Europe needs to do to better handle them.
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The economy's other half
James Heintz tackles the shortcomings of macroeconomic policies in relation to gender dynamics, such as ignoring the valuable and quantifiable role that the unpaid work of women for their families contributes to the economy, and suggests new ways of framing macroeconomic concepts.
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Corbynism in perspective
This carefully researched collection of essays assesses the influence and legacy on the Labour Party of one of its most popular and yet divisive leaders.
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