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  • Foundational Economy

    The infrastructure of everyday life

    by Mick Moran, The Foundational Economy Collective ...
    Series series Manchester Capitalism
    Privatisation, market choice, outsourcing: these are the watchwords that have shaped policy in numerous democratic states in the last generation. The end result is the degradation of the foundational economy. The foundational economy encompasses the material infrastructure at the foundation of civilised life – things like water pipes and sewers – and the providential services like education, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The spatial contract

    A new politics of provision for an urbanized planet

    by Alex Schafran, Matthew Noah Smith, Stephen Hall, Karel Williams, Mick Moran ...
    Series series Manchester Capitalism
    Housing. Water. Energy. Transport. Food. Education. Health care. These are the core systems which make human life possible in the 21st century. Few of us are truly self-sufficient – we rely on the systems built into our cities and towns of all shapes and sizes in order to survive, let alone thrive.Despite how important these systems are, and how much we rely on them, contemporary politics and ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Reckless opportunists

    Elites at the end of the Establishment

    by Aeron Davis, Mick Moran ...
    Series series Manchester Capitalism
    Aeron Davis takes a close look at the state of elites today. He argues that the Brexit vote and 2017 election outcome are signs of a deeper leadership crisis that has been developing over decades. The great transformations of the 1980s onwards have not only upended societies, they have reshaped elite rule itself. Too many leaders today, regardless of intent, are ignorant, precarious, rootless and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The end of the experiment?

    From competition to the foundational economy

    by Andrew Bowman, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Mick Moran, John Law, Adam Leaver, Karel Williams ...
    Series series Manchester Capitalism
    For thirty years, the British economy has repeated the same old experiment of subjecting everything to competition and market because that is what works in the imagination of central government. This book demonstrates the repeated failure of that experiment by detailed examination of three sectors: broadband, food supply and retail banking. The book argues for a new experiment in social licensing ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • What a waste

    Outsourcing and how it goes wrong

    Edited by Andrew Bowman, Ismail Ertürk, Peter Folkman, Julie Froud, Colin Haslam, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver, Mick Moran, Nick Tsitsianis, Karel Williams ...
    Series series Manchester Capitalism
    This is the first ever book to analyse outsourcing – contracting out public services to private business interests. It is an unacknowledged revolution in the British economy, and it has happened quietly, but it is creating powerful new corporate interests, transforming the organisation of government at all levels, and is simultaneously enriching a new business elite and creating numerous fiascos ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • After the Great Complacence

    Financial Crisis and the Politics of Reform

    by Ewald Engelen, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver, Mick Moran, Adriana Nilsson, Karel Williams, Ismail Ertürk ...
    What is the relationship between the financial system and politics? In a democratic system, what kind of control should elected governments have over the financial markets? What policies should be implemented to regulate them? What is the role played by different elites - financial, technocratic, and political - in the operation and regulation of the financial system? And what role should citizens ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

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  • Capitalism without Capital

    The Rise of the Intangible Economy

    by Jonathan Haskel, Stian Westlake ...
    The first comprehensive account of the growing dominance of the intangible economyEarly in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, R&D, and software, than in tangible assets, like machinery, buildings, and computers. For all sorts of businesses, from tech firms and ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • WTF?

    The bestselling personal, hopeful manifesto for British politics from ITV's political editor Robert Peston

    by Robert Peston ...
    **The acclaimed account of post-Brexit British politics: a must-read for understanding how we've got to where we are today.'Richly argued and brilliantly written... a deeply thoughtful analysis that should be mandatory reading for anyone seeking to understand where we have gone wrong.' - FINANCIAL TIMES**In WTF? Robert Peston draws on his years of experience as a political, economics and business ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • The Fish Rots From The Head

    The Crisis in our Boardrooms: Developing the Crucial Skills of the Competent Director

    by Bob Garratt ...
    As a Chinese proverb says 'The fish rots from the head' and so it is with businesses and other organisations - the buck starts and stops in the boardroom. This third edition of Bob Garratt's bestselling book that highlights the importance of effective corporate governance has been extensively updated following the corporate scandals of the early 2000s - Enron, WorldCom, Tyco - and the abysmal ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Paint Your Town Red

    How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too

    by Rhian Jones, Matthew Brown ...
    Paint Your Town Red tells the story of how one city in the north of England decided to level up without waiting for Whitehall.Across the world, there is a growing recognition that a new kind of economy is needed: more democratic, less exploitative, less destructive of society and the planet. Paint Your Town Red looks at how wealth can be generated and shared at a local level through the experience ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Gen F'd?

    How Young Australians Can Reclaim Their Uncertain Futures

    by Alison Pennington ...
    Series series The Crikey Read
    In Gen F'd? economist Alison Pennington shows how the most educated generation in Australia’s history stands to be the first generation worse off than their parents, and gives young people the tools to create the change we need. This is the fifth book in The Crikey Read series from Crikey and Hardie Grant Books.Young people today are digital natives, encouraged to market their own uniqueness and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Simple Tools and Techniques for Enterprise Risk Management

    by Robert J. Chapman ...
    Your business reputation can take years to build—and mere minutes to destroyThe range of business threats is evolving rapidly but your organization can thrive and gain a competitive advantage with your business vision for enterprise risk management. Trends affecting markets—events in the global financial markets, changing technologies, environmental priorities, dependency on intellectual property ... Read more

    $111.00 USD