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  • Taxation and Social Policy

    by Carlene Wynter, Kevin Caraher, Enrico G. Reuter, Micheál Collins, Milena Buchs, Paul Bridgen, Steve D. McKay, Kevin Farnsworth, Susan Himmelweit, Michael Orton, Sally Ruane, Karen Rowlingson, James Gregory, Chris Pond ...
    This book is about tax and social policy and how they interact with each other.The impact of taxation as an instrument of social policy is central in influencing redistribution and behaviour. This broad-based edited collection fills a significant gap in both literatures, bringing together disparate debates in this emerging area of analysis.It guides readers through the key interactions of tax and ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Postgrowth and Wellbeing

    Challenges to Sustainable Welfare

    by Milena Büchs, Max Koch ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents a detailed and critical discussion about how human wellbeing can be maintained and improved in a postgrowth era. It highlights the close links between economic growth, market capitalism, and the welfare state demonstrating that, in many ways, wellbeing outcomes currently depend on the growth paradigm. Here the authors argue that notions of basic human needs deserve greater ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Eco-Social Polity?

    Theoretical, Conceptual and Empirical Issues

    by Teea Kortetmäki, Tuuli Hirvilammi, Katharina Bohnenberger, Martin Fritz, Kajsa Emilsson, Jayeon Lee, Laua Wiman, Steffen Lange, Raphael Kaufmann, Daniel Hausknost, Vincent Gengnagel, Bianca Luna Fabris, Philippe Pochet, Jan Pollex, Adeline Otto, Dimitri Gugushvili, Benedetta Cotta, Katirn Uba, Nicolas Jager, Milena Buchs, Sebastiano Sabato, Matteo Mandelli, Jeroen Candel, Miriam Hartlapp, Nessa Winston, Orla Dingley, Jesper Ole Jensen, Jeroen van der Heijden, Xira Ruiz-Campillo, Paul Bridgen, Luca Cigna, Elke Heins, Philip Rathgeb, Torben Fischer, Emina Hasanagic ...
    The devastating effects of climate change are undeniable. Fires rage and waters rise in every corner of the globe. In light of these changes to our planet, the issue of social and environmental wellbeing has gained prominent attention from both academia and policy makers. Scholarly research on the interaction between social and employment policy domains has flourished. Academics now reflect on the ... Read more

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    What Can Be Done?

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    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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  • Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing

    by Josh Ryan-Collins, Toby Lloyd, Laurie Macfarlane ...
    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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  • The Future is Degrowth

    A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism

    by Matthias Schmelzer, Aaron Vansintjan, Andrea Vetter ...
    We need to break free from the capitalist economy. Degrowth gives us the tools to bend its bars.Economic growth isn’t working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in the context of colonialism, fossil-fueled industrialization, and capitalist modernity, The Future Is Degrowth argues that the ideology of growth conceals the rising inequalities and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Free Lunch Thinking

    8 Economic Myths and Why Politicians Fall for Them

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    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

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  • Key Concepts in Economic Geography

    by Yuko Aoyama, Susan Hanson, James T Murphy ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Human Geography
    "A comprehensive and highly readable review of the conceptual underpinnings of economic geography. Students and professional scholars alike will find it extremely useful both as a reference manual and as an authoritative guide to the numerous theoretical debates that characterize the field."- Allen J. Scott, University of California"Guides readers skilfully through the rapidly changing field of ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • The Financial Crisis

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    by Howard Davies ...
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  • Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development

    by Ian Scoones ...
    The message of Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development is clear: livelihoods approaches are an essential lens on questions of rural development, but these need to be situated in a better understanding of political economy. The book looks at the role of social institutions and the politics of policy, as well as issues of identity, gender and generation. The relationships between ... Read more

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  • Safety Net

    The Future of Welfare in Australia

    by Daniel Mulino ...
    The welfare state is one of the crowning achievements of the twentieth century, giving citizens access to healthcare, pensions, disability and unemployment benefits. This unprecedented expansion of the state was a product of the postwar period of the late 1940s, when governments ramped up investment in this grand safety net. By the 1970s, half of all government spending went towards social-welfare ... Read more

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  • The Companion to Development Studies

    Edited by Vandana Desai, Rob Potter ...
    The Companion to Development Studies contains over a hundred chapters written by leading international experts within the field to provide a concise and authoritative overview of the key theoretical and practical issues dominating contemporary development studies. Covering a wide range of disciplines the book is divided into ten sections, each prefaced by a section introduction written by the ... Read more

    $115.99 USD