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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “nicholas hildyard”
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  • Ecological Solidarity and the Kurdish Freedom Movement

    Thought, Practice, Challenges, and Opportunities

    by Azize Aslan, Ercan Ayboga, Fabiana Cioni, Dilsa Deniz, Pinar Dinc, Laurent Dissard, Ceri Gibbons, Ahmet Kerim Gultekin, Cihad Hammy, Allan Hassaniyan, Nicholas Hildyard, Domenico Patassini, Marlene A. Payva Almonte, Thomas James Phillips, Michel P. Pimbert, Clémence Scalbert-Yucel, Engin Sustam, Kumru Toktamis, Federico Venturini, Isabel David ...
    Series series Environment and Society
    Ecological Solidarity and the Kurdish Freedom Movement: Thought, Practice, Challenges, and Opportunities is a pioneering text that examines the ideas about social ecology and communalism behind the evolving political structures in the Kurdish region. The collection evaluates practical green projects, including the Mesopotamian Ecology Movement, Jinwar women’s eco-village, food sovereignty in a ... Read more

    $34.89 USD

  • Licensed larceny

    Infrastructure, financial extraction and the global South

    by Nicholas Hildyard ...
    Series series Manchester Capitalism
    The growing wealth gap is best viewed as a proxy for how for how effectively elites have constructed institutions that extract value from the rest of society. For inequality is not just a problem of poverty and the poor; it is as much a problem of wealth and the rich. The provision of public services is one area which is increasingly being reconfigured to extract wealth upward to the one per cent, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Politics of Industrial Agriculture

    by Tracey Clunies-Ross, Nicholas Hildyard ...
    Series series Natural Resource Management Set
    In the last forty years, agriculture in the industrialised countries has undergone a revolution. That has dramatically increased yields, but it has also led to extensive rural depopulation; widespread degradation of the environment; contamination of food with agrochemicals and bacteria; more routine maltreatment of farm animals; and the undermining of Third World economies and livelihoods through ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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    Why rentiers thrive and work does not pay

    by Guy Standing ...
    Politicians, financiers and bureaucrats claim to believe in free competitive markets, yet they have built the most unfree market system ever created. In this Gilded Age, income is funnelled to the owners of property – financial, physical and intellectual – at the expense of society. Wages stagnate as labour markets are transformed by outsourcing, automation and the on-demand economy, generating ... Read more

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  • A Time Traveller's Guide to Our Next Ten Years

    by Frans Cronje ...
    Picture South Africa ten years from now: Are the angry poor rising up and seizing land and businesses? Or has economic reform created jobs and growth? Is an increasingly desperate government clamping down on freedoms? Or do the middle classes still braai in suburban bliss? South Africa is at a tipping point, and small shifts in political and economic conditions can bring about dramatic changes. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The European Union

    Economics and Policies

    by Ali M. El-Agraa ...
    The European Union has established itself as a leading text that provides readers from all disciplines with a sound understanding of the economics and policies of the EU. Its wealth of information, detail and analysis has ensured that previous editions have been read by a generation of students, researchers and policy makers. It covers all major EU policy areas as well as theories of economic ... Read more

    $91.09 USD

  • Making Africa Work

    A Handbook

    by Greg Mills, Olusegun Obasanjo, Jeffrey Herbst, Dickie Davis ...
    Sub-Saharan Africa faces three big inter-related challenges over the next generation. It will double its population to two billion by 2045. By then more than half of Africans will be living in cities. And this group of mostly young people will be connected with each other and the world through mobile devices. Properly harnessed and planned for, this is a tremendously positive force for change. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • TTIP

    The Truth about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

    by Ferdi De Ville, Gabriel Siles-Brügge ...
    The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has stirred passions like no other trade negotiation in recent history. Its supporters maintain that TTIP will produce spectacular growth and job creation; claims that are wholeheartedly rejected by its critics, who regard TTIP as a direct assault on workers' rights, health and safety standards and public services.In this incisive analysis, ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

  • Share the Wealth!

    How we can tax Canada’s super-rich and create a better country for everyone

    by Jonathan Gauvin, Angella MacEwen ...
    Canada is a rich country getting richer. But over the past 20 years, a huge portion of the country’s wealth increase has gone to a small handful of the super-rich. Canada’s one per cent have seen their share of Canada’s wealth grow by almost six times since 1999 to $2,203,000,000,000 USD today. Meanwhile, half of all Canadian families experience income insecurity and can’t get the support they ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Scramble for Africa in the 21st Century

    by Harry Stephan, Michael Power ...
    “[This new edition of] The Scramble for Africa uses tools of international political economy to clarify the challenges of development in today’s Africa from managing mounting demand for the region’s natural resources and land, to navigating the turbulence of global capital and trade flows. It critically analyses the sources and sustainability of the current African growth path and explains why ... Read more

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  • Municipalities and Finance

    A Sourcebook for Capacity Building

    by Nick Devas ...
    Series series Municipal Capacity Building Series
    Finance is a critical issue for municipal governments around the world, and a major constraint on the delivery of pro-poor services at the local level. In many countries, decentralisation has brought the issue of municipal finance to the fore. This sourcebook provides a framework for analysing municipal finance capacity and ways of addressing financial constraints.The ideas come from real-life ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

  • The Great Brexit Swindle

    Why the mega-rich and free market fanatics conspired to force Britain from the European Union

    by T. J. Coles ...
    In his urgent new book, T. J. Coles uncovers the forces seeking to uncouple Britain from the European Union. Allied to an expanding core of free market fanatics in the Conservative party is a powerful group of globalists and financial traders. Their political ideology is neoliberalism – a worldwide agenda that seeks to deregulate markets and maximize profits for global elites at the expense of ... Read more

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