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  • The Oxford Handbook of Social Policies in the Global South

    by Prof Armando Barrientos, Prof Matthew Carnes, Prof Huck-ju Kwon, Prof Herbert Obinger, Prof Leila Patel, Prof Carina Schmitt ...
    The Oxford Handbook of Social Policies in the Global South offers a comprehensive set of contributions assessing the current state of research on social policies and institutions in place outside the advanced capitalist countries. They are written by researchers with a deep knowledge of developments in the Global South. Collectively, the contributions consider three main research questions: What ... Read more

    $211.49 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State

    Edited by Kimberly J. Morgan, Herbert Obinger, Christopher Pierson, Daniel Béland ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This is the comprehensively-revised second edition of a volume that was welcomed at its first appearance as 'the most authoritative survey and critique of the welfare state yet published'. Its fifty-one chapters have been written by acknowledged experts in the field from across Europe, Australia, and North America. Some chapters are brand new; all have been systematically revised, and they are ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • Warfare and Welfare

    Military Conflict and Welfare State Development in Western Countries

    Edited by Herbert Obinger, Klaus Petersen, Peter Starke ...
    While the first half of the 20th century was characterized by total war, the second half witnessed, at least in the Western world, a massive expansion of the modern welfare state. A growing share of the population was covered by ever more generous systems of social protection that dramatically reduced poverty and economic inequality in the post-war decades. With it also came a growth in social ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • International Impacts on Social Policy

    Short Histories in Global Perspective

    Edited by Frank Nullmeier, Delia González de Reufels, Herbert Obinger ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book consists of 39 short essays that exemplify how interactions between inter- and trans-national interdependencies and domestic factors have shaped the dynamics of social policy in various parts of the world at different points in time. Each chapter highlights a specific type of interdependence which has been identified to provide us with a nuanced understanding of specific ... Read more

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    The Clash that Defined Modern Economics

    by Nicholas Wapshott ...
    “I defy anybody—Keynesian, Hayekian, or uncommitted—to read [Wapshott’s] work and not learn something new.”—John Cassidy, The New YorkerAs the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore balance to economies gone awry. John Maynard Keynes, the mercurial Cambridge economist, believed that government had a duty to spend when ... Read more

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  • The Killing Fields of Inequality

    by Göran Therborn ...
    Inequality is not just about the size of our wallets. It is a socio-cultural order which, for most of us, reduces our capabilities to function as human beings, our health, our dignity, our sense of self, as well as our resources to act and participate in the world. This book shows that inequality is literally a killing field, with millions of people dying premature deaths because of it. These ... Read more

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    The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War

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    The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism

    by Quinn Slobodian ...
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  • Equity, Diversity & Canadian Labour

    by Gerald Hunt, David Rayside ...
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