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  • Constructuring The Countryside

    An Approach To Rural Development

    by Terry Marsden, Jonathon Murdoch, Philip Lowe, Richard C Munton, Andrew Flynn ...
    As the first book in the Restructuring Rural Areas series, "Constructing the countryside" presents a new methodological approach to the analysis of rural change. The authors seek to link wider developments in the global political economy to the behaviour of local actors and, in so doing, they place research into rural studies much more firmly than hitherto in the mainstream of social science ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • A Brief History of Neoliberalism

    by David Harvey ...
    Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Its spread has depended upon a reconstitution of state powers such that privatization, finance, and market processes are emphasized. State interventions in the economy are ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Global Distributive Justice

    An Introduction

    by Chris Armstrong ...
    Global distributive justice is now part of mainstream political debate. It incorporates issues that are now a familiar feature of the political landscape, such as global poverty, trade justice, aid to the developing world and debt cancellation. This is the first textbook to focus exclusively on issues of distributive justice on the global scale. It gives clear and up-to-date accounts of the major ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

  • Visiting Grandchildren

    Economic Development in the Maritimes

    by Donald Savoie ...
    During his successful campaign to become Conservative Party leader in the spring of 2004, Stephen Harper said of the Maritime provinces, "We will see the day when the region is not the place where you visit your grandparents, but instead more often than not the place where you visit your grandchildren." In Visiting Grandchildren, esteemed policy analyst and scholar Donald J. Savoie explores how ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Trade Unions and the State

    The Construction of Industrial Relations Institutions in Britain, 1890-2000

    by Chris Howell ...
    The collapse of Britain's powerful labor movement in the last quarter century has been one of the most significant and astonishing stories in recent political history. How were the governments of Margaret Thatcher and her successors able to tame the unions?In analyzing how an entirely new industrial relations system was constructed after 1979, Howell offers a revisionist history of British trade ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Free Trade

    Myth, Reality and Alternatives

    by Graham Dunkley ...
    Series series Global Issues
    In this book Australian economist, Graham Dunkley, explains and critiques the crucial concept of free trade. A policy of free trade is central to today's world-dominating globalization project. The more euphoric globalists uncritically assume that it has universal and unequivocal benefits for all people and countries. And the perpetual negotiations of the World Trade Organization are wholly based ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Challenges of Globalization

    Immigration, Social Welfare, Global Governance

    Edited by Andrew Sobel ...
    This book offers a significant contribution to the globalization debate, and examines the complexities surrounding modern globalization. It will be of great interest to scholars of international political economy, international relations and globalization studies. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Planning and Housing in the Rapidly Urbanising World

    by Paul Jenkins, Harry Smith, Ya Ping Wang ...
    Series series Housing, Planning and Design Series
    Written specifically as a teaching text and authored by a team of leading academics in the field, this is the first book to bring together the key issues of rapid urbanisation with approaches to planning and housing.Outlining and explaining core concepts from ‘informal settlements’ to ‘sustainability’, it focuses on the rapid urbanization of developing countries with case studies from Latin ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • A Dictionary of Globalization

    by Jens-Uwe Wunderlich, Meera Warrier ...
    Globalization has become one of the most important topics within politics and economics. This new title explains some of the related terminology, summarizes the surrounding theories and examines the international organizations involved.With the proliferation of communications and the rise of the multi-national corporation, the concept of globalization is vitally important to the modern political ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Labour, Globalization and the State

    Workers, Women and Migrants Confront Neoliberalism

    Edited by Debdas Banerjee, Michael Goldfield ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    This book explores the impact of neoliberal globalization on labour markets and the state in the developed and developing world. It focuses especially on the United States and the economies of Asia – in particular, India. Liberalized trade and investment are thought by neoliberals to be the best levers for raising labour standards, provided labour market flexibility and capital market ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Human Rights and Foreign Aid

    For Love or Money?

    by Bethany Barratt ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Human Rights
    By trying to alleviate poverty abroad, foreign development assistance tries to meet, among other things, basic human needs, which some schools of thought classify as basic human rights. However, because development abroad has often been treated as a tool for the pursuit of donor interests, rather than as an end to itself, it often ends up not only neglecting basic human rights, but making them ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Global Social Policy and Governance

    by Bob Deacon ...
    `This primer on the global politics of social policy … is essential reading for students as well as others seriously interested in improving the human condition. Nuanced and critical, Deacon′s book offers a much needed and constructive guide to the complex supra-national debates over rights, regulation and redistribution impinging on social welfare all over the world′ - Jomo K.S., United Nations ... Read more

    $93.59 USD