Forensic cultures in modern europe

This book makes an important contribution to our knowledge of modern European forensic practices. It shows how the performance of forensic scientists has been shaped by political regimes, law and ideology, leading to different forensic cultures.

Cold, hard steel

Cold, hard steel anatomises the surgical stereotype in modern and contemporary Britain. It offers a new social, cultural and emotional history of this specialty, explores the development of its professional identity and foregrounds experiences of surgeons at work.

Assemblages of cancer

A qualitative, social science study using multi-sited ethnography and qualitative interviews with patients and medical professionals that analyses breast cancer experiences and how they are shaped by the interaction with biomedical, institutional and cultural contexts in the UK, France and Italy.

‘everyday health’, embodiment, and selfhood since 1950

The volume explores the shaping of ‘everyday health’ in different contexts since 1950. It shows how different aspects of identity affected experiences of health and wellbeing.

Caryl phillips, david dabydeen and fred d'aguiar

This book focuses on representations of slavery in the works of contemporary British authors Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D’Aguiar, specifically exploring how racial anxieties in twenty-first century Britain may be seen as legacies of this largely ignored, but deeply significant, past.

Safe as houses

As the tragedy of the Grenfell tower fire has slowly revealed a shadowy background of outsourcing, private finance initiatives and a council turning a blind eye to health and safety concerns, many questions need answers.Stuart Hodkinson has those answers.

Getting the measure of money

In focus

From crisis to confidence

Living with leviathan

Pension provision

This monograph surveys the results of government intervention in the market for retirement income provision throughout the world. The authors begin by looking at high-income democracies in which governments have, to a large degree, taken over the function of providing pensions. They find that sta...

The henry fords of healthcar

How can health services in the UK and Europe be improved?

Should we have faith in central banks?

Having your say

The theory of dynamic efficiency

This book gathers a collection of English language essays by Jes�s Huerta de Soto over the past ten years, examining the dynamic processes of social cooperation which characterize the market, with particular emphasis on the role of both entrepreneurship and institutions. The author's multidiscipl...

Why study languages?

Introduction to trade and globalisation

Education, war and peace

This is an inspiring story of entrepreneurs stepping into the breach and providing effective low-cost private schooling to large numbers of children in conflict-affected areas of the world, where government was not working well and basic infrastructure had been destroyed.

A better politics

Digital transformation at scale: why the strategy is delivery

Notre avenir européen

Le monde est confronté à de nombreux grands défis : des pandémies au changement climatique, de l’accroissement des inégalités aux problèmes liés à la numérisation. Dans un nouveau paysage mondial en rapide mutation, l’Europe doit chercher des solutions à ces difficultés pour donner suite à son im...

The currency cold war: cash and cryptography, hash rates and hegemony

Why study geography?

Federal britain

Misguided virtue

An introduction to entrepreneurship

Bastiat's 'the law'

Frederic Bastiat, who was born two hundred years ago, was a leader of the French laissez-faire tradition in the first half of the nineteenth century. He was influenced by Cobden's Anti-Corn Law League and became a convinced free trader. Joseph Schumpeter described Bastiat as 'the most brilliant e...

The minimum wage

CONTENTS: Introduction; Poverty Alleviation; Efficiency; Conclusions; Summary.

Why study mathematics?

Catholic social thought, the market and public policy

The last few decades have seen huge reductions in global poverty; improvements in education and healthcare; and, perhaps surprisingly to some, dramatic reductions in global inequality. We now seem to be entering a different era. Economic progress in richer countries seems to have stalled – not le...

An introduction to entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs play a pivotal role in boosting progress, productivity and prosperity. They drive economic growth and create new opportunities. Their innovations transform people's lives. Yet their enormous contribution is not widely understood - and is often completely overlooked in economics text...

Education, war and peace

Sea change

After decades of mismanagement under the Common Fisheries Policy, Brexit represents a major opportunity to adopt an economically rational approach that benefits the fishing industry, taxpayers and consumers.

Hayek's the constitution of liberty

F A Hayek's 'The Constitution of Liberty' has a profound effect on the thinking of a generation of scholars, students and even politicians. There is a sense in which it is regarded as a manifesto of traditional liberalism. But the book has a complex underlying argument, and the philosophy is ofte...

Why fight poverty?

School of thought

School choice around the world

Trade policy, new century

In recent years, debates on international trade policy have focused on the role of the World Trade Organization and the two big political and economic powers - the USA and the EU. In this book, the author, an expert in trade policy, argues that this focus must change. Large supra-national institu...

An introduction to taxation

Eamonn Butler provides a jargon-free guide to taxation, its history, its aims and purposes, and its impact on individuals and economies. He puts forward different ways of funding public services, whilst exploring the principles that would make for a much better – and much simpler – tax system.