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  • The World of Indicators

    The Making of Governmental Knowledge through Quantification

    Edited by Richard Rottenburg, Sung-Joon Park, Johanna Mugler, Sally E. Merry ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    The twenty-first century has seen a further dramatic increase in the use of quantitative knowledge for governing social life after its explosion in the 1980s. Indicators and rankings play an increasing role in the way governmental and non-governmental organizations distribute attention, make decisions, and allocate scarce resources. Quantitative knowledge promises to be more objective and ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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  • Cogs and Monsters

    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

    $13.69 USD

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  • Policy Analysis

    Concepts and Practice

    by David L. Weimer, Aidan R. Vining ...
    Often described as a public policy “bible,” Weimer and Vining remains the essential primer it ever was. Now in its sixth edition, Policy Analysis provides a strong conceptual foundation of the rationales for and the limitations to public policy. It offers practical advice about how to do policy analysis, but goes a bit deeper to demonstrate the application of advanced analytical techniques through ... Read more

    $150.00 USD

  • The Economics of Poverty

    History, Measurement, and Policy

    by Martin Ravallion ...
    There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities in access to key resources threaten to stall growth and poverty reduction in many places. The world's poorest have made only a small absolute gain over those 30 years. Progress has been slow against relative ... Read more

    $62.09 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • New Financial Ethics

    A Normative Approach

    by Aloy Soppe ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    Following the internationalisation, globalisation and deregulation of the financial market over the last few decades, the financial sector has evolved from a servicing industry into an initiating and leading sector in the international industrialised economy. The power of the financial sector, including Credit Rating Agencies, determines the creditworthiness of companies and countries. Today’s ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Money Talks

    Explaining How Money Really Works

    Edited by Nina Bandelj, Frederick F. Wherry, Viviana A. Zelizer ...
    The world of money is being transformed as households and organizations face changing economies, and new currencies and payment systems like Bitcoin and Apple Pay gain ground. What is money, and how do we make sense of it? Money Talks is the first book to offer a wide range of alternative and unexpected explanations of how social relations, emotions, moral concerns, and institutions shape how we ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Uncertain Futures

    Imaginaries, Narratives, and Calculation in the Economy

    Edited by Jens Beckert, Richard Bronk ...
    Uncertain Futures considers how economic actors visualize the future and decide how to act in conditions of radical uncertainty. It starts from the premise that dynamic capitalist economies are characterized by relentless innovation and novelty and hence exhibit an indeterminacy that cannot be reduced to measurable risk. The organizing question then becomes how economic actors form expectations ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Periphery and Small Ones Matter

    Interplay of Policy and Social Capital

    by Iwan J. Azis ...
    This open access book analyzes the dualism and inequality insofar as how it is manifested in interregional disparity and small enterprises. Using the case of Indonesia, the author considers how the general direction of policy should be to mitigate the effects of agglomeration forces leading towards concentration, and exploit the same forces by encouraging small businesses to operate in a cluster ... Read more

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  • Designing in Ethics

    Edited by Jeroen van den Hoven, Seumas Miller, Thomas Pogge ...
    Many of our interactions in the twenty-first century - both good and bad - take place by means of institutions, technology, and artefacts. We inhabit a world of implements, instruments, devices, systems, gadgets, and infrastructures. Technology is not only something that we make, but is also something that in many ways makes us. The discipline of ethics must take this constitutive feature of ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • New Public Management

    An Introduction

    by Jan-Erik Lane ...
    New public management is a topical phrase to describe how management techniques from the private sector are now being applied to public services. This book provides a completely up-to-date overview of the main theoretical models of public sector management, and examines the key changes that have occurred as more and more public services are contracted out to private organisations, as the public ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Sociology of Economic Life

    by Mark Granovetter, Richard Swedberg ...
    This book incorporates classic and contemporary readings in economic sociology and related disciplines to provide students with a broad understanding of the many dimensions of economic life. It discusses Max Weber's key concepts in economics and sociology. ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

  • The Regional Integration Manual

    Quantitative and Qualitative Methods

    Edited by Philippe De Lombaerde, Renato Flores, Lelio Iapadre, Michael Schulz ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Globalisation
    The Regional Integration Manual brings together different methods for monitoring and analysing regional integration processes in a systematic way. Employing a multi-disciplinary approach, it seeks to provide officials in regional organisations, researchers in think tanks, academics and students worldwide with an accessible set of both quantitative and qualitative tools, useful in their day-to-day ... Read more

    $77.99 USD