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Paperback. Once deemed a dysfunctional democracy with a feckless set of political institutions and a drunk economy, today s Brazil has undergone a complete reversal of fortune. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JP; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 228 x 19. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745661650
- ISBN
- 9780745661650
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.82
€ 25.82
Hardcover. In a world of increasing austerity measures, democratic politics comes under pressure. With the need to consolidate budgets and to accommodate financial markets, the responsiveness of governments to voters declines. However, democracy depends on choice. Editor(s): Streeck, Wolfgang; Schafer, Armin. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JH; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745661681
- ISBN
- 9780745661681
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.17
€ 79.17
Paperback. The Politics of Global Supply Chains analyses the changing politics of power and distribution within contemporary global supply chains. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFFS; JP; KCLT; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 418.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745661711
- ISBN
- 9780745661711
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.74
€ 25.74
Paperback. Consumption practices in China have been transformed at an unprecedented pace. Num Pages: 176 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFT; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 306.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745669717
- ISBN
- 9780745669717
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.41
€ 23.41
Hardcover. * Colin Crouch has recently become one of the world's leading voices on neoliberalism and the financial takeover of social values * In this new book, Crouch continues to explore the themes of his previous successful books: Post-Democracy, The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism and Making Capitalism Fit For Society. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JHB; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 260 x 21. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745669854
- ISBN
- 9780745669854
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.10
€ 66.10
Paperback. Fewer than 12 percent of U.S. workers belong to unions, and union membership rates are falling in much of the world. Series: Social Movements. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures, graphs. BIC Classification: JHB; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 211 x 19. Weight in Grams: 354.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745670607
- ISBN
- 9780745670607
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.74
€ 25.74
Paperback.
In a world of high finance, unprecedented technological change, and cyber billionaires, it is easy to forget that a major source of global wealth is, literally, right under our noses. Series: Polity Resources Series. Num Pages: 208 pages, figures. BIC Classification: KCN; KNAC; TVK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745670775
- ISBN
- 9780745670775
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.51
€ 19.51
Hardcover. Long known as the world s factory, China is the largest manufacturing economy ever seen, accounting for more than 10% of global exports. China is also, of course, home to the largest workforce on the planet, the crucial element behind its staggering economic success. Series: China Today. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JHBL; JP; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 150. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745671741
- ISBN
- 9780745671741
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
Paperback. Long known as the world s factory, China is the largest manufacturing economy ever seen, accounting for more than 10% of global exports. China is also, of course, home to the largest workforce on the planet, the crucial element behind its staggering economic success. Series: China Today. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JHBL; JP; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 150. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745671758
- ISBN
- 9780745671758
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.29
€ 23.29
Paperback. Critical social theorist and philosopher David Theo Goldberg is one of the defining figures in critical race theory. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: KCA; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 139 x 215 x 18. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745671796
- ISBN
- 9780745671796
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.98
€ 21.98
Hardcover. Capitalism is the only complex system known to us that can provide an efficient and innovative economy, but the financial crisis has brought out the pernicious side of capitalism and shown that it remains dependent on the state to rescue it from its own deficiencies. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745672229
- ISBN
- 9780745672229
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
Hardcover. We need a world trade organization. We just don't need the one that we have. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JPSN; KCLT1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 203 x 23. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745672458
- ISBN
- 9780745672458
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
Paperback. We need a world trade organization. We just don't need the one that we have. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: JPSN; KCLT1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 201 x 18. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745672465
- ISBN
- 9780745672465
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.23
€ 23.23
Paperback. This new book by two leading economists is a far-reaching analysis of the role and organization of the financial system in the aftermath of the economic crisis. The authors argue that the financial markets, as currently organized, hinder genuine market transactions and therefore harm the economy, along with any chance of sustained recovery. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: KCA; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745672564
- ISBN
- 9780745672564
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.23
€ 23.23
Hardcover. The West has long defined the pursuit of happiness in economic terms but now, in the wake of the 2007-8 financial crisis, it is time to think again about what constitutes our happiness. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: KCA; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 181 x 221 x 19. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745680125
- ISBN
- 9780745680125
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.06
€ 19.06
Hardcover. If you look carefully at how things are actually made in China - from shirts to toys, apple juice to oil rigs - you see a reality that contradicts every widely-held notion about the world's so-called economic powerhouse. From the inside looking out, China is not a manufacturing juggernaut. It's a Lilliputian. Nor is it a killer of American jobs. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; KCLT; KCP; KND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 31. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745684017
- ISBN
- 9780745684017
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.46
€ 19.46
Hardcover. At a recent meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, it was reported that a ghost was haunting the deliberations of the assembled global elite D that of the renowned social scientist and economic historian, Karl Polanyi. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: KCA; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745684437
- ISBN
- 9780745684437
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.21
€ 72.21
Hardcover. Twenty-five years after the end of the Cold War, a new Cold War is being waged in our societies. During the Cold War a theoretical model of man was developed by economists and the military, an egotistical being interested only in his own benefit and in duping his opponents to achieve his ends: a modern homo oeconomicus. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: KCA; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 27. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745686868
- ISBN
- 9780745686868
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.43
€ 17.99
€ 15.43
Hardcover.
Today Europe finds itself in a crisis that casts a dark shadow over an entire generation. The seriousness of the crisis stems from one core political contradiction at the heart of the European project: namely, that what urgently needs to be done is also extremely unpopular and therefore virtually impossible to do democratically. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JPSN2; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 176 x 17. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745687513
- ISBN
- 9780745687513
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.45
€ 23.45
Hardcover. Recent years have seen an enormous increase in protests across the world in which citizens have challenged what they see as a deterioration of democratic institutions and the very civil, political and social rights that form the basis of democratic life. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: JPWF; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745688589
- ISBN
- 9780745688589
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.21
€ 72.21
Hardcover. "For more than a century, the United States has been the world s most powerful state. Now some analysts predict that China will soon take its place. Series: Global Futures. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPS; KCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 135 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745690063
- ISBN
- 9780745690063
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 40.92
€ 52.99
€ 40.92
Hardcover. As we struggle with the legacy of the crisis and with the prospect of accelerating environmental degradation, it is time to ask not what we can do for capitalism but what capitalism can do for us, as citizens of a democratic society. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: KCP; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745692067
- ISBN
- 9780745692067
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.37
€ 53.37
Hardcover. * A robust and unflinching account of the ongoing take-over of politics by global corporations * Lifts the lid on the world of lobbying, trade negotiations and treaties, in particular the controversial TTIP and its likely ramifications for national sovereignty in Europe and in the US. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JPWD; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 147 x 53. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745697819
- ISBN
- 9780745697819
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.06
€ 60.06
Hardcover. After the most serious economic crash since the 1930s and the slowest recovery on record, austerity rules. Spending on the welfare state did not cause the crisis, but deep cuts in welfare budgets has become the default policy response. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: JKSB; JPQB; KCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 190 x 130. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745698731
- ISBN
- 9780745698731
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.83
€ 53.83