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The size of government
What is the optimum size of government? And how does it relate to economic growth? Indeed, how do we measure it? This book explores the growing economic power of government across the EU and offers an insightful analysis of public sector dynamics and the shortcomings of official statistics.
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Poverty and the world order
A critical examination of the promise and reality of the UN Sustainable Development Goal (#1) that seeks to eradicate poverty.
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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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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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How to save the city
Paul Chatterton engages, inspires and empowers the reader to take action to make cities more sustainable, liveable and safer places. He guides the reader through a sequence of challenges, strategies, players, moves and practical tactics of how to save their city.
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Sustainable development, education and learning
The UN’s Sustainable Development Goal #4 focuses on "inclusive, quality education", galvanising efforts for substantial educational reform around the globe. Victoria Thoresen considers the goals and challenges iterated in the SDG.
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Labour regimes and global production
The book considers a range of conceptual debates around labour regimes and global production relating to issues of scale, informality, race, social reproduction, the labour process and migration as well as in relation to methods, theory and research practice.
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The return of the state
Bringing together some of the brightest and most-engaged scholars and thinkers in the UK, this book offers solutions and suggestions for how to re-establish the strong state, how to generate a new social settlement and how to manage a long-term and equitable economic recovery post-pandemic.
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Liberalism
A short history of liberalism since the 1820s, one rooted in practical politics rather than abstract theorising. Liberalism is shown to be best understood as a political tradition that has been profoundly shaped by Britain’s unique and evolving political culture and by political realities.
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Circling round explicitness
Explicitness is one of the fundamental mysteries in which our lives are wrapped. Our capacity, as conscious subjects, to make things explicit, so that what-is presents itself as “that-it-is” or “that-it-is-the-case” is at the heart of the mystery of human being. Circling Round Explicitness is an...
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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 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 japanese economy
A concise and up-to-date survey of Japan’s recent economic history, the economy's characteristic features and the challenges it continues to face, from economic stagnation to an ageing population.
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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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Paris
An authoritative analysis of Paris's position, both globally and nationally, and the challenges that face its governance.
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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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Killing the trade
The book sets out a workable holistic strategy to address the underlying causes of the illegal wildlife trade and provide policymakers, NGOs and other stakeholders with an action plan to help bring the multi-billion-dollar trade to an end.
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Behavioural economics
An introduction to the topic of behavioural economics for a beginning readership. It explains its approach and methodology and assesses its successes and weaknesses.
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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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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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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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North korea
North Korea is an anomaly in the international system. Deliberately isolated, it survives through the sale of weapons to enemies of the United States. In this book, Pacheco Pardo offers insight into the country today and seeks to answer what level of threat it poses to global security.
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Feminist political economy
A much-needed introduction to key topics in feminist political economy, this book takes a global perspective and engages in debates that are relevant for the Global North and/or the Global South. Essential reading for a deeper and more nuanced understanding of power relations in the economy.
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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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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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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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In defence of philanthropy
An impassioned defence of the role of philanthropy in society.
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Timber!
Planting trees is not enough to reduce carbon. Counterintuitive as it may seem, we must also cut them down and start using wood as a construction material. With the built environment responsible for 40 per cent of the world’s carbon emissions, Brannen's message is clear: we must change how we build.
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The indian economy
This new title in the World Economies series charts and explains the development of the Indian economy since independence and partition and provides a unique up-to-date overview of the contemporary Indian economy and the reasons it has assumed its current form.
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The political economy of industrial strategy in the uk
The collection of essays explores the political and institutional foundations of industrial policy, the value of "foundational" economic practices, the challenge of greening capitalism and addressing regional inequalities, and the new financial and corporate governance structures required to radi...
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Industrial policy
Focuses on the formulation and application of industrial policy in late capitalist societies, drawing on economic theory and country-specific case studies to assess future possibilities for effective policy implementation.
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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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Squalor
Increasingly divided into the haves and the have-nots, housing epitomises the divisions and social inequalities found in Britain today. This book exposes the history of the British problem of squalor and the government’s repeated failures to grasp the nettle when it comes to fair and just solutio...
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Proprietary settler colonialism and the making of north america
A fascinating examination of the activities of the joint-stock royal charter companies that established settlements in the British North American colonies and which were pivotal in shaping the political-economic transformation of early America and its capitalist evolution.
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False prophets of economics imperialism
In this deeply researched and wide-ranging intellectual history, Matthew Watson exposes the essential flaw in the claims of economics imperialists. Their market models reveal mathematical truths only about themselves, not social truths related to the world of directly lived experiences.
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Freedom
Tallis brings his familiar erudition and insight to this most intriguing and important philosophical question – the nature of our freedom – one that impacts most directly on our lives and takes us to the heart of what we are.
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The anthropocene
An authoritative desk-top reference work for students of geography, the environment and sustainability, which through a series of 101 interconnected questions and answers spanning ten thematic sections, provides a comprehensive survey of humankind's impact on the global environment from the Late ...
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Marginalism
The notion of marginalism, central to modern economic theory, emerged in the 1870s and underpinned the change from classical economics to modern (micro)economics. This book explores the concept's development and role in modern economics and shows why the marginalist approach is much more than a s...
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The urban field
A critical examination of the relationship between capital and the state, and the generation of an urban governmentality centred 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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Getting over new labour
To understand the Labour Party today one needs to appreciate how people in the party have reacted to the New Labour legacy. Karl Pike examines the efforts each of the three leaders have made in reforming the party’s ideology, its democracy and organization and their political style and approach t...
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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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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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Terrorist financing
A clear and rigorous survey of terrorist financing and the international efforts to combat it suitable for a range of courses in international relations, politics and global political economy.
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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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