Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
Credo Credit Crisis
Speculations on Faith and Money
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Money facilitates the rites and rituals we perform in everyday life. More than a mere medium of exchange or a measure of value, it is the primary means by which we manifest a faith unique to our secular age.
But what happens when individual belief (credo, ‘I’ believe) and the systems into...
The International Political Economy of Communication
Media and Power in South America
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
This collection reflects on the international political economy of media and the valuable lessons to be learned from the media reforms currently taking place across South America. The contributors present a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives on the ongoing battle for media space in South America, and the volume includes a foreword by Ernesto Laclau.
Agribusiness and Society
Corporate Responses to Environmentalism, Market Opportunities and Public Regulation
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This volume examines how far agribusiness corporations are responding to the opportunities and pressures resulting from emerging environmental awareness. In particular, in what ways are they changing their R & D and business practices in order to develop new environmentally oriented products,...
Haiti
Hope for a Fragile State
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
“This book...avoids the political debates about Jean-Bertrand Aristide that dominate so many current writings about Haiti. Its focus is the society itself, the sources of difference, the origins of violence, and the possibility of change....The superb work done by the editors has established a high...
The Diversity of Emerging Capitalisms in Developing Countries
Globalization, Institutional Convergence and Experimentation
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
This book presents the results of a collective and original empirical investigation of the institutional systems underlying the capitalisms that are coming to the fore in developing nations. While varieties of industrialized countries’ capitalisms are extensively scrutinized, those of developing...
Globalizing Oil
Firms and Oil Market Governance in France, Japan, and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Oil is the world's most important commodity. It is also one of the most politicized, with national oil companies controlling most of the world's reserves. Contrary to conventional wisdom, Llewelyn Hughes shows that governments across the advanced industrial states responded to the politicization of...
by Tadeusz Kowalik
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
In the 1980s and 90s, renowned Polish economist Tadeusz Kowalik played a leading role in the Solidarity movement, struggling alongside workers for an alternative to "really-existing socialism" that was cooperative and controlled by the workers themselves. In the ensuing two decades, "really-existing"...
European Union and New Regionalism
Competing Regionalism and Global Governance in a Post-Hegemonic Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Stemming from an international and multidisciplinary network of leading specialists, this best-selling text is fully updated with new chapter additions. With the first edition prepared at the end of the last century and the second edition adding inter-regional relations, this new edition focuses on...
The Political Works of Daniel Defoe
Including The True-Born Englishman, An Essay upon Projects, The Complete English Tradesman & The Biography of the Author
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Political Works of Daniel Defoe” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The True-Born Englishman An Essay upon Projects The Complete English Tradesman Everybody's Business Is Nobody's Business Second Thoughts are Best...
by Luc Boltanski, Eve Chiapello
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
New edition of this major work examining the development of neoliberalism
In this established classic, sociologists Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello get to the heart of contemporary capitalism. Delving deep into the latest management texts informing the thinking of employers, the authors trace...
by The School of Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
It is quite normal to feel frustrated and sorrowful about aspects of modern capitalism, but realistic hope of change can seem either utopian or demented. In fact, the way that capitalism works is inherently open to alteration and improvement. This is because the problems of capitalism are, in their...
President Barack Obama's 2 New Doctrines.
SHORT STORY # 57. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
President Barack Obama’s 2 New Doctrines: “World Disorder,” and “National Disorder” are discussed in this story.
The Americans, disappointed with failing policies of President George W. Bush, elected new leader—President Barack Obama.
To fill in the wants, needs, and aspirations...
by Melissa M. Smith, Larry Powell
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
More than two billion dollars. That’s how much money was spent in the 2012 presidential campaign—the most expensive campaign in history. Each party raised and spent more than one billion dollars as the traditional boundaries of campaign financing were ignored. Both parties could do so because...
by Haddad Mona; Shepherd Ben
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
The global financial crisis triggered a broad reassessment of economic integration policies in developed and developing countries worldwide. The crisis-induced collapse in trade was the sharpest ever since World War II affecting all countries and all product categories. A huge shock to the trading system...