Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
Unemployment's Shocking Truth
Its Outrageous Causes and Consequences and Its Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
About the Book
This book does not take a neutral stand on the issue of mass unemployment. It is an effort to expose capitalism's most outrageous feature - its compulsive need to use unemployment and the fear of unemployment to ensure the docility and subservience of its workers. Under the capitalist...
by Edward H. Shaffer
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
This volume, originally published in 1983, analyses the extent to which American dominance in world affairs is based on the control of oil resources and the changes which will inevitably take place with the end of the oil era. The author concludes that the USA will be forced to take part in a struggle...
Cross-border Oil and Gas Pipelines and the Role of the Transit Country
Economics, Challenges and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
With frequent discoveries of energy resources in remote and undeveloped areas, the importance of transnational oil and gas pipelines is set to grow ever more prominent. This study dissects the diplomacy and bargaining power of the transit country and the shifting economic relations involved in cross-border energy transportation.
Scandinavian Common Sense
Policies to Tackle Social Inequalities in Health
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
At a time when austerity is claimed by some to be the only answer to today’s economic woes, a close look at the best practices used in Scandinavia is edifying. Decision makers everywhere dispose of ample evidence showing that social determinants have an impact on health and wellbeing. Yet governments...
Development and the African Diaspora
Place and the Politics of Home
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
There has been much recent celebration of the success of African 'civil society' in forging global connections through an ever-growing diaspora. Against the background of such celebrations, this innovative book sheds light on the diasporic networks - 'home associations' - whose economic contributions...
Africa in the Age of Globalisation
Perceptions, Misperceptions and Realities
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This is a collection of bold and visionary scholarship that reveals an insightful exposition of re-visioning African development from African perspectives. It provides educators, policy makers, social workers, non-governmental agencies, and development agencies with an interdisciplinary conceptual...
Shared Society or Benign Apartheid?
Understanding Peace-Building in Divided Societies
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2010
This book analyses the role power sharing, social movements, economic regeneration, urban space, memorialisation and symbols play in transforming divided societies into shared peaceful ones. It explains why some projects are counterproductive while others assist peace-building.
African Youth Cultures in a Globalized World
Challenges, Agency and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
All over the world, there is growing concern about the ramifications of globalization, late-modernity and general global social and economic restructuring on the lives and futures of young people. Bringing together a wide body of research to reflect on youth responses to social change in Africa, this...
Who Really Rules America
'Hawks' and 'Doves' Have One Master...
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2017
Never has capital in the united States beeen so concentrated. Today in the hands of an extremely small number of finaciers run the threads of the entire imperialist economy. From the corner gas station to a copper mine in Chile extends an empire controlled by a handful of closely allied...
The EUChina Relationship: European Perspectives
A Manual for Policy Makers
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
This book brings together 30 papers commissioned from 2011 to 2013 by the EU-funded Europe–China Research and Advice Network (ECRAN). These papers, thematically grouped in sections on economics, society and politics, were written by some of the world's leading China experts in Europe, and give a...
Colombia's Political Economy at the Outset of the Twenty-First Century
From Uribe to Santos and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This volume examines Colombia’s political economy at the outset of the twenty-first century. A group of leading experts explores various issues, such as drug trafficking, organized crime, economic performance, the internal armed conflict, and human rights. The experts highlight the various challenges...
Managing Indonesia's Transformation
An Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Managing Indonesia's Transformation: An Oral History is an account of Ginandjar Kartasasmita's career in the Indonesian government, both under President Suharto and in the post-Suharto era. Based on all the ministerial positions in which Kartasasmita has served the government, the book provides readers...
Don't Be Evil
How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles -- and All of Us
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
A penetrating indictment of how today’s largest tech companies are hijacking our data, our livelihoods, our social fabric, and our minds—from an acclaimed Financial Times columnist and CNN analyst
“Don’t be evil” was enshrined as Google’s corporate mantra back in its early days,...
The Turkish Economy in Crisis
Critical Perspectives on the 2000-1 Crises
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This book provides a set of critical perspectives on the economic crises of 2000 and 2001 focusing on both the origins and consequences of the crises. Attention is drawn to the role of domestic actors as well as key external actors such as the International Monetary Fund in precipitating the twin crises.