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  • Embedded Autonomy

    Financing a Resilient Local Government Effectively

    by Kevin Muldoon-Smith, Mark Sandford, Greg Stride, Andrew Walker ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book addresses the sustained failure to properly fund local government in England. While there has been plenty of rhetoric and policy initiatives around devolution of power to local authorities in recent decades, continuing recently with the English Devolution Bill, there has been far less attention paid to how these endeavours will be practically delivered and, most importantly, funded. In ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

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  • Free Lunch Thinking

    8 Economic Myths and Why Politicians Fall for Them

    by Tom Bergin ...
    Countries with smaller governments grow faster.Tobacco taxes are the best way to cut smoking.Government regulation discourages entrepreneurshi****p.Award-winning investigative journalist Tom Bergin digs into eight mantras widely accepted by Western governments and, by talking to the people who promote those ideas and the workers, businesspeople and consumers who have felt their impacts, finds they ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

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  • At the Pleasure of the Crown

    The Politics of Bureaucratic Appointments

    by Christopher A. Cooper ...
    Unlike most public servants, top administrators – those who manage thousands of personnel and oversee millions of dollars in public spending – are appointed by the head of government. At the Pleasure of the Crown is a detailed exploration of this central but overlooked aspect of governing.Christopher A. Cooper analyzes the appointment of deputy ministers in Canada’s provincial bureaucracies over ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Enough

    Why It's Time to Abolish the Super-Rich

    by Luke Hildyard ...
    'A pragmatic focus on how much better and fairer our economy would be if fewer resources were controlled by the super-rich' 'Financial Times'**‘This, right now, with no excuses, no delays,**no equivocation, no loop-holes, no moaning’ Danny Dorling‘A concise, sharp book that makes an incontrovertible case for a profound redistribution of wealth; and a rousing call to arms to take on the super-rich ... Read more

    $9.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Precariat Charter

    From Denizens to Citizens

    by Prof. Guy Standing ...
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Guy Standing's immensely influential 2011 book introduced the Precariat as an emerging mass class, characterized by inequality and insecurity. Standing outlined the increasingly global nature of the Precariat as a social phenomenon, especially in the light of the ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Corporate Power in a Globalizing World

    by William Carroll ...
    Winner of the Porter Prize, this classic study thoroughly profiles the corporate elite of late twentieth-century Canada, within a global context. It traces the fundamental changes in the structure of corporate power in Canada since the mid-1970s and highlights such key issues as the place of Canadian corporate power in global context, the westward shift of Canadian corporate power, and the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Tax and Government in the 21st Century

    by Miranda Stewart ...
    Series series Law in Context
    With an accessible style and clear structure, Miranda Stewart explains how taxation finances government in the twenty-first century, exploring tax law in its historical, economic, and social context. Today, democratic tax states face an array of challenges, including the changing nature of work, the digitalisation and globalisation of the economy, and rebuilding after the fiscal crisis of the ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Return of the State

    Restructuring Britain for the Common Good

    Edited by Patrick Allen, Dr. Suzanne J. Konzelmann, Prof. Jan Toporowski ...
    Pushed by the Covid-19 crisis, the UK government has borrowed massively to save jobs, businesses and the economy from collapse, making a mockery of the austerity policies that it had championed for a decade. As a result, the role of the state is now in sharp focus. The contributors to this volume assess what that role should be and how it should be harnessed for the good of the British people in ... Read more

    $26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rise and Fall of Ireland's Celtic Tiger

    Liberalism, Boom and Bust

    by Seán Ó Riain ...
    In 2008 Ireland experienced one of the most dramatic economic crises of any economy in the world. It remains at the heart of the international crisis, sitting uneasily between the US and European economies. Not long ago, however, Ireland was celebrated as an example of successful market-led globalisation and economic growth. How can we explain the Irish crisis? What does it tell us about the ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Employment in the Lean Years:Policy and Prospects for the Next Decade

    Policy and Prospects for the Next Decade

    Edited by David Marsden ...
    Over the last fifteen years, the deregulation of Britain's labour market has led to economic growth, employment opportunities, and a more diverse workforce: the 'fat years'. However, now as Britain faces its lean years with job cuts, rising unemployment, income insecurity, and related social strains, how can and should the government and key labour market policy makers ensure the labour market ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Basic Income

    A Guide for the Open-Minded

    by Guy Standing ...
    Shouldn’t everyone receive a stake in society's wealth? Could we create a fairer world by guaranteeing income to all? What would this mean for our health, wealth, and happiness? Basic income is a revolutionary idea that guarantees regular, unconditional cash transfers from the government to all citizens. It is an acknowledgement that everyone plays a part in generating the wealth currently enjoyed ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Unions Renewed

    Building Power in an Age of Finance

    by Alice Martin, Annie Quick ...
    Unions face a once in a generation opportunity for renewal. Decades of decline have been compounded by a global elite who increasingly generate profit from financial engineering in ways that side-step labour and undermine the power of organised workers.However, as this economic system begins to falter, there are signs of a renewed union movement emerging. Debt-laden firms – from supermarkets and ... Read more

    $16.00 USD