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  • Spaces of Urban Platformisation

    Airbnb and Coworking in Berlin

    Series series The Refiguration of Space
    This book uses Berlin as a pivotal case study to analyse the transformation of urban spaces under the combined influences of financialisation and platformisation. By examining Airbnb’s impact on housing and the development of coworking spaces, it provides a detailed exploration of how digital platforms are reshaping fundamental urban sites of production and reproduction within the broader context ... Read more

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  • Creative Construction

    Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond

    Series series Alternatives to Capitalism in the 21st Century
    Democratic planning allows us to effectively address the multiple crises of our time through cooperative modes of collective coordination. Given the destructive consequences of contemporary capitalism, such a structural alternative to market economies is needed more than ever.This accessible work examines various approaches that theorise, practise and nurture a creative construction towards ... Read more

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    Corporate Power in the 21st Century

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  • Post-Fordism

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    Series series IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
    Part analysis of contemporary change and part vision of the future, post-Fordism lends its name to a set of challenging, essential and controversial debates over the nature of capitalism's newest age. This book provides a superb introduction to these debates and their far-reaching implications, and includes key texts by post-Fordism's major theorists and commentators. ... Read more

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  • Power and Influence of Economists

    Contributions to the Social Studies of Economics

    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
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  • The Creative Capital of Cities

    Interactive Knowledge Creation and the Urbanization Economies of Innovation

    Series Book 79 - IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
    This book challenges the new urban growth concepts of the creative class and creative industries from a critical urban theory perspective.Critiques Richard Florida's popular books about cities and the creative classPresents an alternative approach based on analyses of empirical research data concerning the German urban system and the case study regions**,** Hanover and BerlinUnderscores that the ... Read more

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  • Regional and Local Development in Times of Polarisation

    Re-thinking Spatial Policies in Europe

    Edited by Thilo Lang, Franziska Görmar ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Despite the emphasis of the European Regional Policy on territorial cohesion, regional disparities have been increasing within Europe in the past years. The metropolitan areas in almost all countries are considerably growing while regions outside of agglomerations are stagnating or even declining. Against this background this book aims to provide an understanding of the underlying processes of ... Read more

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    A Critique of Social Theory and Political Economy in Neoliberal Times

    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    Neoliberalism has been one of the most hotly contested themes in academic and political debate over the last 30 years. Given the global and persistent influence of neoliberal ideas on contemporary styles of governance, social-service provision, and public policy, this intensive interest is understandable. At the same time, the use of the term has become loose, vague, and over-extended, ... Read more

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    What Economics Is, and What It Should Be

    by Diane Coyle ...
    How economics needs to change to keep pace with the twenty-first century and the digital economyDigital technology, big data, big tech, machine learning, and AI are revolutionizing both the tools of economics and the phenomena it seeks to measure, understand, and shape. In Cogs and Monsters, Diane Coyle explores the enormous problems—but also opportunities—facing economics today and examines what ... Read more

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  • Conceptualizing Capitalism

    Institutions, Evolution, Future

    "Erudite and thought-provoking. . . . a stimulating, historically grounded exploration of the subject . . . rewarding." — Financial TimesA few centuries ago, capitalism set in motion an explosion of economic productivity. Markets and private property had existed for millennia, but what other key institutions fostered capitalism's relatively recent emergence?With Conceptualizing Capitalism, ... Read more

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  • Late Soviet Britain

    Why Materialist Utopias Fail

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    Why has the United Kingdom, historically one of the strongest democracies in the world, become so unstable? What changed? This book demonstrates that a major part of the answer lies in the transformation of its state. It shows how Britain championed radical economic liberalisation only to weaken and ultimately break its own governing institutions. The crisis of democracy in rich countries has ... Read more

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