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  • The Fault Lines of Inequality

    COVID 19 and the Politics of Financialization

    This book examines how decisions made by the Conservative government during the COVID19 pandemic have increased economic inequality in the UK. Decades of austerity, asset-based welfare and financialization had already exacerbated social divisions in the UK prior to the pandemic. The political blueprint behind these measures combined Privatized Keynesianism and the Asset Economy. To explain, ... Read more

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  • The Bank Culture Debate

    Ethics, Values, and Financialization in Anglo-America

    by Huw Macartney ...
    The period since the Global Financial Crisis and numerous scandals have exposed some areas of serious illegal and unethical conduct within western banking systems. Despite extensive reforms it is increasingly apparent however that there is a persistent problem with the 'culture' of banking in Anglo-America. US and UK state managers made substantial efforts to reform the culture of their banking ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Supranational Banking Supervision in Europe

    Edited by David Howarth, Huw Macartney ...
    Series series West European Politics
    Europe’s sovereign debt crisis and the accompanying national bank crises in the European Union brought bank regulation and supervision to the top of the EU policy agenda. In a few short years, we have witnessed a ‘great leap forward’ for European integration marked by over a dozen pieces of EU legislation shaping the operation of banks, rules on bank capital, reconfigured supervisory agencies, and ... Read more

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  • Critical International Political Economy

    Dialogue, Debate and Dissensus

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Amidst the continued debate surrounding the foundations of IPE, coupled with recent methodological and theoretical divides this book argues that an attempt should be made to re-visit the notion of the 'critical'. The challenge posed by contributors to this volume is to assess the development of so-called critical IPE and interrogate whether the theoretical foundations it was built upon have ... Read more

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  • Variegated Neoliberalism

    EU varieties of capitalism and International Political Economy

    by Huw Macartney ...
    Series series RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
    We know from the cost of the 2007-09 crisis that transnational finance does not operate in a realm removed from our everyday lives.Variegated Neoliberalism explains why its inequalities persist and how they undermine more social-minded policies towards finance in the EU.The book suggests that large financial groups capitalize on broader changes in capitalism and emerging assumptions about what ... Read more

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    The Shifting Boundaries between Economics and other Social Sciences

    Series series Economics as Social Theory
    Is or has economics ever been the imperial social science? Could or should it ever be so? These are the central concerns of this book. It involves a critical reflection on the process of how economics became the way it is, in terms of a narrow and intolerant orthodoxy, that has, nonetheless, increasingly directed its attention to appropriating the subject matter of other social sciences through ... Read more

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  • Market Society

    Markets and Modern Social Theory

    Market Society provides an original and accessible review of changing conceptions of the market in modern social thought. The book considers markets as social institutions rather than simply formal models, arguing that modern ideas of the market are based on critical notions of social order, social action and social relations. Examining a range of perspectives on the market from across different ... Read more

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  • Inequality

    What Can Be Done?

    Winner of the Richard A. Lester Award for the Outstanding Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, Princeton UniversityAn Economist Best Economics and Business Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Economics Book of the YearInequality is one of our most urgent social problems. Curbed in the decades after World War II, it has recently returned with a vengeance. We all know the scale of ... Read more

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  • Sociology: The Key Concepts

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    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    An essential A-Z guide to the full range of sociological thought, Sociology: The Key Concepts is an important addition to the established and successful Key Concepts series.Fully cross-referenced with an extensive glossary, this accessible text also includes:alphabetical listings of key concepts for ease of usesuggestions for further reading to enhance understanding of areas coveredentries on ... Read more

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  • A History of Economic Thought

    This critical study of the development of systematic economic ideas explores them in both historical and contemporary contexts.Many of the issues that faced economists in the past are still with us. The theories and methods of such men as Adam Smith, T. R. Malthus, David Ricardo, J.S. Mill, Karl Marx, Alfred Marshall, and J. M. Keynes are often relevant to us today. As the Great Recession taught ... Read more

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  • Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing

    Why are house prices in many advanced economies rising faster than incomes? Why isn't land and location taught or seen as important in modern economics? What is the relationship between the financial system and land?In this accessible but provocative guide to the economics of land and housing, the authors reveal how many of the key challenges facing modern economies - including housing crises, ... Read more

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  • Theories of International Relations

    This introductory textbook on international relations theory brings together a selection of leading experts to offer an unparalleled insight into the main paradigms and latest developments in the discipline.Presenting a full range of theories, from realism and liberalism to institutionalism and green theory, the sixth edition of this book has been extensively revised to offer a more global ... Read more

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