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Description for Crisis
Paperback. We are living in a time of crisis which has cascaded through society. Financial crisis has led to an economic crisis of recession and unemployment; an ensuing fiscal crisis over government deficits and austerity has led to a political crisis which threatens to become a democratic crisis. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JP; KCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 229 x 22. Weight in Grams: 340.
We are living in a time of crisis which has cascaded through society. Financial crisis has led to an economic crisis of recession and unemployment; an ensuing fiscal crisis over government deficits and austerity has led to a political crisis which threatens to become a democratic crisis. Borne unevenly, the effects of the crisis are exacerbating class and gender inequalities. Rival interpretations a focus on austerity and reduction in welfare spending versus a focus on financial crisis and democratic regulation of finance are used to justify radically diverse policies for the distribution of resources and strategies for economic growth, ... Read more
We are living in a time of crisis which has cascaded through society. Financial crisis has led to an economic crisis of recession and unemployment; an ensuing fiscal crisis over government deficits and austerity has led to a political crisis which threatens to become a democratic crisis. Borne unevenly, the effects of the crisis are exacerbating class and gender inequalities. Rival interpretations a focus on austerity and reduction in welfare spending versus a focus on financial crisis and democratic regulation of finance are used to justify radically diverse policies for the distribution of resources and strategies for economic growth, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Polity Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745647616
SKU
V9780745647616
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Ref
99-18
About Sylvia Walby
Sylvia Walby is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and holder of the UNESCO Chair in Gender Research at Lancaster University, UK
Reviews for Crisis
This extraordinary book gives us a sharp and illuminating examination of a condition that it is easy to think we understand until we read this book. We may all be touched by it but Walby shows us all that is actually mobilized in producing the outcomes. Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, author of Expulsions Sylvia Walby's new complexity theory ... Read more