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  • Murky water

    Challenging an unsustainable system

    by Luca Calafati, Julie Froud, Colin Haslam, Sukhdev Johal, Karel Williams ...
    Series series Manchester Capitalism
    Essential reading for anyone concerned with the future of our most vital resource.Our water system is a mess. Rising bills and rivers full of sewage grab the headlines, but the greater threat is climate crisis, bringing increased drought and flooding.This book exposes the many problems with our unsustainable water system. Unfair charges limit spending on infrastructure, while financial extraction ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • When nothing works

    From cost of living to foundational liveability

    by Luca Calafati, Julie Froud, Colin Haslam, Sukhdev Johal, Karel Williams ...
    Series series Manchester Capitalism
    It’s hard to escape the feeling that in Britain today nothing works. In the face of mounting inflation and widespread industrial action, this book offers an incisive analysis of the UK’s problems and a new approach to tackling them.Economic growth and higher wages, the traditional responses of mainstream politicians, are simply not enough. This is because the so-called ‘cost of living crisis’ is ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • What a waste

    Outsourcing and how it goes wrong

    Edited by Andrew Bowman, Ismail Ertürk, Peter Folkman, Julie Froud, Colin Haslam, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver, Mick Moran, Nick Tsitsianis, Karel Williams ...
    Series series Manchester Capitalism
    This is the first ever book to analyse outsourcing – contracting out public services to private business interests. It is an unacknowledged revolution in the British economy, and it has happened quietly, but it is creating powerful new corporate interests, transforming the organisation of government at all levels, and is simultaneously enriching a new business elite and creating numerous fiascos ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Alternatives to Neoliberalism

    Towards Equality and Democracy

    by Karel Williams, Sukhdev Johal, Jeremy Gilbert, Colin Crouch, Andrew Cumbers, Michael Moran, Grahame Thompson, Zoë Irving, Kevin Farnsworth, Ted Benton, Anna Coote ...
    In this collection, innovative and eminent social and policy analysts, including Colin Crouch, Anna Coote, Grahame Thompson and Ted Benton, challenge the failing but still dominant ideology and policies of neo-liberalism.The editors synthesise contributors’ ideas into a revised framework for social democracy; rooted in feminism, environmentalism, democratic equality and market accountability to ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The end of the experiment?

    From competition to the foundational economy

    by Andrew Bowman, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Mick Moran, John Law, Adam Leaver, Karel Williams ...
    Series series Manchester Capitalism
    For thirty years, the British economy has repeated the same old experiment of subjecting everything to competition and market because that is what works in the imagination of central government. This book demonstrates the repeated failure of that experiment by detailed examination of three sectors: broadband, food supply and retail banking. The book argues for a new experiment in social licensing ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Financialization and Strategy

    Narrative and Numbers

    by Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver, Karel Williams ...
    Considering the recent impact of the capital market on corporate strategy, this text analyzes, through argument and supportive case studies, how pressures from the capital bull market of the 1990s and bear market of the early 2000s, have reshaped management action and calculation in large, publicly quoted US and UK corporations.Beginning with the dissatisfaction with classical strategy and its ... Read more

    $96.99 USD

  • After the Great Complacence

    Financial Crisis and the Politics of Reform

    by Ewald Engelen, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver, Mick Moran, Adriana Nilsson, Karel Williams, Ismail Ertürk ...
    What is the relationship between the financial system and politics? In a democratic system, what kind of control should elected governments have over the financial markets? What policies should be implemented to regulate them? What is the role played by different elites - financial, technocratic, and political - in the operation and regulation of the financial system? And what role should citizens ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

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  • Breadline Britain

    The Rise of Mass Poverty

    by Stewart Lansley, Joanna Mack ...
    Poverty in Britain is at post-war highs and - even with economic growth -is set to increase yet further. Food bank queues are growing, levels of severe deprivation have been rising, and increasing numbers of children are left with their most basic needs unmet.Based on exclusive access to the largest ever survey of poverty in the UK, and its predecessor surveys in the 1980s and 1990s, Stewart ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Mission-Oriented Finance for Innovation

    New Ideas for Investment-Led Growth

    Edited by Mariana Mazzucato, Caetano C.R. Penna ...
    The role of the state in modern capitalism has gone beyond fixing market failures. Those regions and countries that have succeeded in achieving “smart” innovation-led growth have benefited from long-term visionary “mission-oriented” policies—from putting a man on the moon to tackling societal challenges such as climate change and the wellbeing of an ageing population. This book collects the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Post-Growth Project

    How the End of Economic Growth Could Bring a Fairer and Happier Society

    Edited by John Blewitt ...
    This book challenges the assumption that it is bad news when the economy doesn’t grow. For decades, it has been widely recognized that there are ecological limits to continuing economic growth and that different ways of living, working and organizing our economies are urgently required. This urgency has increased since the financial crash of 2007–2008, but mainstream economists and politicians are ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Urban Planning and Real Estate Development

    by John Ratcliffe, Michael Stubbs, Miles Keeping ...
    Series series Natural and Built Environment Series
    This fourth edition of Urban Planning and Real Estate Development guides readers through the procedural and practical aspects of developing land from the point of view of both planner and developer. The twin processes of planning and property development are inextricably linked – it is not possible to carry out a development strategy without an understanding of the planning process, and, equally, ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • It's The Economy, Stupid

    Economics for Voters

    by Vicky Pryce ...
    Pollsters are constantly worrying about our perceptions of politicians. What do their other halves look like? Who looks best when eating a bacon sandwich? Should they even be eating bacon sandwiches in the first place? For the voter, though, it all comes down to one thing: the economy. While good economic news can send popularity sky-rocketing, bad performance can blight a party's election chances ... Read more

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