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  • Understanding the policy process

    Analysing welfare policy and practice

    by John Hudson, Stuart Lowe ...
    Series series Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
    This book draws on the latest and best social science to explain how and why social policy change occurs. Focusing on the policy making process as the key to change, it uses core concepts of policy analysis, one in each chapter, to build up a fully worked explanation of social policy change and to equip readers with knowledge that can be applied to any aspect of welfare policy and public and ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • The Private Rented Housing Market

    Regulation or Deregulation?

    by Stuart Lowe, David Hughes ...
    The privately rented housing market has largely catered for young, mobile people and students since it was deregulated in the UK. In this volume, key writers provide timely insights into this rapidly evolving market. This volume is based on new, original research which brings together specialists in housing policy and legal studies, with their common and increasingly interdependent knowledge base ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Social Policy in an Era of Competition

    From Global to Local Perspectives

    by Zoë Irving, Kevin Farnsworth, Stefan Kühner, Kate Brown, Peter Dwyer, John Hudson, Chris Holden, Neil Lunt, Stuart Lowe, Theo Papadopoulos0, Antonios Roumpakis1, Naomi Finch2 ...
    Welfare states globally have been subjected to reform agendas that have stressed economic competitiveness but how has global competition reshaped welfare states in practice?Providing a new cross-national and international narrative this book captures the complexity of social policy reform process that have taken place over the past 25 years. Drawing on data relating to multiple countries the ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Housing Change in East and Central Europe

    Integration or Fragmentation?

    by Sasha Tsenkova ...
    Ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, patterns of change to the former communist nations of Europe are now discernible in a way that was impossible to see in the initial years. This insightful book focuses on the case of changes in housing based on evidence collected from across the Central and Eastern European region. The volume adopts a conceptual framework and provides cross-regional ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The housing debate

    by Stuart Lowe ...
    Series series Policy and Politics in the Twenty-First Century
    The emergence of Britain as a fully fledged home-owning society at the end of the 20th century has major implications for how houses are used not just as a home but as an asset. The key debate in this important and timely book is whether social policy and people's homes should be so closely connected, especially when housing markets are so volatile. It will be essential reading for all students ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • Globalization and Its Discontents

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    This powerful, unsettling book gives us a rare glimpse behind the closed doors of global financial institutions by the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics.When it was first published, this national bestseller quickly became a touchstone in the globalization debate. Renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz had a ringside seat for most of the major economic events of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Why Capitalism?

    by Allan H. Meltzer ...
    A review of the headlines of the past decade seems to show that disasters are often part of capitalist systems: the high-tech bubble, the Enron fraud, the Madoff Ponzi scheme, the great housing bubble, massive lay-offs, and a widening income gap. Disenchantment with the market economy has reached the point that many even question capitalism itself. Allan H. Meltzer disagrees, passionately and ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Tax Systems and Tax Reforms in New EU Member States

    Edited by Luigi Bernardi, Mark Chandler, Luca Gandullia ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    Building on the work carried out in the 2004 Routledge book, Tax Systems and Tax Reforms in Europe, an international team of contributors now turn their attention to the new EU member states. The book compares conditions in the new and potential EU Member states to those in the long-standing EU countries. Topics covered include:* A Comparative View of Taxation in the EU and in New Members* Tax ... Read more

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  • Western Europe in Transition: Impact of Opening Up Eastern Europe

    by International Monetary Fund ...

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  • Rural Transition in Azerbaijan

    by Zvi Lerman, David Sedik ...
    Series series Rural Economies in Transition
    In 1995–96 the President of Azerbaijan, Heydar Alieyev, launched a program of agrarian reforms that caused a sweeping and irreversible shift from Soviet-style collective agriculture to individual farming in his country. These reforms led to an impressive recovery and substantial productivity improvements in agriculture. The agrarian transition in Azerbaijan contrasts with that in Russia, Ukraine, ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Economy

    Edited by Michael Alexeev, Shlomo Weber ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    By 1999, Russia's economy was growing at almost 7% per year, and by 2008 reached 11th place in the world GDP rankings. Russia is now the world's second largest producer and exporter of oil, the largest producer and exporter of natural gas, and as a result has the third largest stock of foreign exchange reserves in the world, behind only China and Japan. But while this impressive economic growth ... Read more

    $172.79 USD

  • Europe in Crisis

    Bolt from the Blue?

    by Ivan Berend ...
    This book analyzes the European Great Recession of 2008-12, its economic and social causes, its historical roots, and the policies adopted by the European Union to find a way out of it. It contains explicit debates with several economists and analysts on some of the most controversial questions about the causes of the crisis and the policies applied by the European Union.It presents the cases of ... Read more

    $54.99 USD