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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “peter w roberts”
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  • From Supply and Demand to Numbers, Networks, and Narratives

    Confronting the Commodification of Specialty Coffee Producers

    by Peter W. Roberts ...
    This book poses an important question for economic sociologists: as expanding specialty coffee markets call for higher-quality coffees produced and transacted in certain ways, why is there not a widespread expectation that the producers who grow these differentiated coffees should receive prices that are commensurate with the economic value they create? Moving past an overly simple economics, ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

  • Environment and the City

    by Joe Ravetz, Clive George, Joe Howe ...
    Series series Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts
    For the first time at the beginning of the twenty-first century, urban dwellers outnumber rural residents and this trend is set to continue. Consequently one of the most pressing issues of our time is how to square the social and economic development of cities with their environmental limits and those of the wider environment. The theme of the environment and city is topical at every level, from ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Observing Acceleration

    Uncovering the Effects of Accelerators on Impact-Oriented Entrepreneurs

    by Peter W. Roberts, Saurabh A. Lall ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book summarizes five years of learning from data collected as part of the Global Accelerator Learning Initiative. The authors present data describing impact-oriented ventures and accelerators that operate in both high-income countries and in emerging markets. Blending survey data with insights from sector experts, their various analyses shed light on the basic structure of accelerators, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • Nudge

    The Final Edition

    by Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein ...
    **An essential new edition―revised and updated from cover to cover―of one of the most important books of the last two decades, by Nobel Prize winner Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein* More than 2 million copies sold* New York Times bestseller**Since the original publication of Nudge more than a decade ago, the title has entered the vocabulary of businesspeople, policy makers, engaged citizens ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Paths to a Green World, second edition

    The Political Economy of the Global Environment

    by Jennifer Clapp, Peter Dauvergne ...
    A new edition of a book that takes a comprehensive look at the ways economic processes affect global environmental outcomes.This comprehensive and accessible book fills the need for a political economy view of global environmental politics, focusing on the ways international economic processes affect environmental outcomes. It examines the main actors and forces shaping global environmental ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Power of Unreasonable People

    How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World

    by John Elkington, Pamela Hartigan ...
    Series series Leadership for the Common Good
    Renowned playwright George Bernard Shaw once said "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." By this definition, some of today's entrepreneurs are decidedly unreasonable--and have even been dubbed crazy. Yet as John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan argue in The Power ... Read more

    $25.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Environment and International Relations

    by Kate O'Neill ...
    Series series Themes in International Relations
    The new edition of this exciting textbook introduces students to the ways in which the theories and tools of international relations and other social science disciplines can be used to analyse and address global environmental problems. Kate O'Neill develops an innovative historical and analytical framework for understanding global environmental issues, integrating insights from different ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Completing Capitalism

    Heal Business to Heal the World

    by Bruno Roche, Jay Jakub, Lim Siong Guan ...
    Two leading economists present a new model for sustainable capitalism based on the economics of mutuality.For decades, leaders in the business world have believed that their sole responsibility is to maximize profit for shareholders. But this obsessive focus was a major cause of the abuses that nearly sunk the global economy in 2008. While books like Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Global Environmental Politics

    Problems, Policy and Practice

    by Hayley Stevenson ...
    Concern about humanity's impact on the planet has never been greater, but what are the drivers of environmental change? This wide-ranging introductory textbook outlines the competing explanations of why environmental problems occur and examines the different political approaches taken to address them. Adopting a case study approach, Hayley Stevenson enables students to gain a detailed ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Alternative

    How to Build a Just Economy

    by Nick Romeo ...
    Winners Take All meets Nickel and Dimed in this provocative debunking of accepted wisdom, providing the pathway to a sustainable, survivable economy.Confronted by the terrifying trends of the early twenty-first century – widening inequality, environmental destruction, and the immiseration of millions of workers around the world – many economists and business leaders still preach dogmas that lack ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Local and Regional Development

    by Andy Pike, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, John Tomaney ...
    Actors and institutions in localities and regions across the world are seeking prosperity and well-being amidst tumultuous and disruptive shifts and transitions generated by: an increasingly globalised, knowledge-intensive capitalism; global financial instability, volatility and crisis; concerns about economic, social and ecological sustainability, climate change and resource shortages; new multi ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Big Business

    A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero

    by Tyler Cowen ...
    The New York Times–bestselling economist "mounts a compelling defense of big business, finance, and the tech industry" in this timely book (Walter Frick, Harvard Business Review).We love to hate the 800-pound gorilla. Walmart and Amazon destroy communities and small businesses. Facebook turns us into addicts while putting our personal data at risk. Across the board, it seems that belief in big ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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