Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
Economies of Recycling
The Global Transformation of Materials, Values and Social Relations
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
For some, recycling is a big business; for others a moralised way of engaging with the world. But, for many, this is a dangerous way of earning a living. With scrap now being the largest export category from the US to China, the sheer scale of this global trade has not yet been clearly identified...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This Handbook is the first volume to analyse the International Political Economy, the who-gets-what-when-and-how, of global energy. Divided into five sections, it features 28 contributions that deal with energy institutions, trade, transitions, conflict and justice. The chapters span a wide range...
The Child in International Political Economy
A Place at the Table
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2008
This pioneering volume argues for the inclusion of children, and the structure known as ‘childhood’, as a permanent social category worthy of continued study within the discipline of international political economy (IPE). Fundamentally, and very simply, IPE is concerned with the dynamics of interaction...
by Martin P. A. Craig
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Critically synthesising a range of disparate literatures and debates, this book asks what is at stake in mounting a decisive response to the ‘socio-ecological crisis’ - a crisis of humanity’s relationship with the rest of nature that places social life as we know it in jeopardy. Martin Craig...
Back to Work
Growing with Jobs in Europe and Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Over the last decade, significant global and regional forces including changes in technology, trade patterns, and business practices, with a steady shift in value added production and employment toward knowledge-intensive activities and services such as finance, the hospitality industry, and the retail...
Public–Private Partnerships
Policy and Governance Challenges Facing Kazakhstan and Russia
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This innovative new book examines government approaches to Public-private partnership (PPP) formation. It explores the management experience and challenges that key stakeholders involved in PPP governance face in Russia and Kazakhstan. An increasingly common method of delivering public services, PPP...
New South African Review 5
Beyond Marikana
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This fifth volume in the New South African Review series takes as its starting point the shock wave emanating from the events at Marikana on 16 August 2012 and how it has reverberated throughout politics and society. Some of the chapters in the volume refer directly to Marikana. In others, the infl...
The New Power of American Women
The Essential Survival Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
After 20 years of dedicated research and hundreds of personal interviews concerning the increasing, global power of women, this timely work is finally available. If you've read "Lean In" by Sheryl Sandberg or "The End of Men - The Rise of Women" by Hanna Rosin, The "New Power...
Football Supporters and the Commercialisation of Football
Comparative Responses across Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
As football clubs have become luxury investments, their decisions increasingly mirror those of any other business organisation. Football supporters have been encouraged to express their club loyalty by ‘thinking business’ - acting as consumers and generating money deemed necessary for their clubs...
by Samir Amin
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Renowned political economist Samir Amin, engaged in a uniquelifelong effort both to narrate and affect the human condition on aglobal scale, brings his analysis up to the present—the world of2013. The key events of our times—financial crisis, the emergingnations, globalization, financialization, political Islam, Eurozoneimplosion—are related in a coherent, historically based, account.
Rural Poverty Determinants in the Remote Rural Areas of Kyrgyzstan
A Production Efficiency Impact on the Poverty Level of a Rural Household
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book is a study about rural poverty in the remote rural area of Kyrgyzstan. It analyses the linkage of poverty with the limits of production frontier efficiency of the rural households in the selected area. A field survey of the cross-section random sample collects primary information about 297...
Jesus Was a Democrat
The Moral Dichotomies of Republicanism and the Coming Democratic Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Since the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, conservatives have sought to impose an ideology upon the American people that has not intentionally, but inherently oppressed the middle class. As Newton proposed For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, while conservative political initiatives...
by Caf Dowlah
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
The study provides an in-depth, up-to-date, and scholarly analysis of the liberation war and the Sheikh Mujib Regime of Bangladesh. Situating the emergence of Bangladesh in the broader historical context of the partition of British India in 1947, the study re-examines: a) how Mujib successfully galvanized...
Resource Communities in a Globalizing Region
Development, Agency, and Contestation in Northern British Columbia
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Northern British Columbia has always played an important role in Canada’s economy, but for many Canadians it also existed as an almost forgotten place: a vast territory where only a few roads, some railroad tracks, and a ferry system connected small cities, towns, and villages to the outside world....