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  • Moral Economies of Distribution and Redistribution in Africa

    The Right and Wrong of Who Gets (and Gives) What and Why

    Edited by Tijo Salverda, Cristiano Lanzano, Jörg Wiegratz ...
    This book examines how moralities of distribution and redistribution operate and intertwine in everyday African economic life, enhancing current understandings of capitalism on the continent. Through rich ethnographic studies spanning eight countries—Ghana, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, and Zimbabwe—the volume reveals how these moral perspectives of right and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Services and Employment

    Explaining the U.S.-European Gap

    Edited by Mary Gregory, Ronald Schettkat, Wiemer Salverda ...
    Why is Europe's employment rate almost 10 percent lower than that of the United States? This "jobs gap" has typically been blamed on the rigidity of European labor markets. But in Services and Employment, an international group of leading labor economists suggests quite a different explanation. Drawing on the findings of a two-year research project that examined data from France, Germany, the ... Read more

    $95.09 USD

  • The Anthropology of Elites

    Power, Culture, and the Complexities of Distinction

    Edited by J. Abbink, T. Salverda ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Offering insightful anthropological-historical contributions to the understanding of elites worldwide, this book helps us grasp their ways of life and role in times of contested global inequalities. Case studies include the Polish gentry, the white former colonial elite of Mauritius, professional elites, and transnational (financial) elites. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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    What do we mean by development? How can citizens, governments and the international community foster development? The process by which nations escape poverty and achieve economic and social progress has been the subject of extensive examination for hundreds of years.The notion of development itself has evolved from an original preoccupation with incomes and economic growth to a much broader ... Read more

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  • The Value of Everything

    Making and Taking in the Global Economy

    by Mariana Mazzucato ...
    The award-winning author of The Entrepreneurial State and Mission Economy offers a scathing indictment of a global financial system that incentivizes taking over making and extraction over creation.“A stimulating analysis of the underlying causes of inequality and growth which forces us to confront long-held beliefs about how economies work and who benefits.” —Martin Wolf,... ... Read more

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  • Configuring the World: A Critical Political Economy Approach

    by Richard T. Griffiths ...
    I truly believe Griffiths’ new introduction in international political economy is unparalleled! It is amazing how different theoretical perspectives, together with their methodological approaches, are lucidly presented… and supported by extraordinarily well-chosen cases examples. First rate; a masterpiece really! Anton Hemerijck, Professor of Institutional Policy Analysis, Vrije Universiteit ... Read more

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  • Mismeasuring Our Lives

    Why GDP Doesn't Add Up

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Amartya Sen, Jean-Paul Fitoussi ...
    In February of 2008, amid the looming global financial crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France asked Nobel Prize-winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, along with the distinguished French economist Jean Paul Fitoussi, to establish a commission of leading economists to study whether Gross Domestic Product (GDP)—the most widely used measure of economic activity—is a reliable ... Read more

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  • The Political Origins of Inequality

    Why a More Equal World Is Better for Us All

    by Simon Reid-Henry ...
    This far-reaching study examines how political policies and paradigms have deepened global inequality, and how to reframe the debate to address it.Inequality is the defining issue of our time—one in which the global 1% now owns half the world's wealth. In this magisterial study, Simon Reid-Henry rewrites the story of globalization as one about the management of inequality. Reaching back to the ... Read more

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  • Theories and Practices of Development

    by Katie Willis ...
    Series series Routledge Perspectives on Development
    The newly updated third edition provides a clear and user-friendly introduction to the complex debates around how development has been understood and achieved. It has been fully updated and expanded to reflect global political and economic shifts, as well as new approaches to development.The book deals with the evolution of development ideas and policies, focusing on economic, political, social, ... Read more

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  • Economics for the Common Good

    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    by Jean Tirole ...
    From Nobel Prize–winning economist Jean Tirole, a bold new agenda for the role of economics in societyWhen Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street by complete strangers and asked to comment on issues of the day, no matter how distant from his own areas of research. His transformation from academic economist to public intellectual ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Capitalism

    Economics and Policy for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth

    Edited by Michael Jacobs, Mariana Mazzucato ...
    Series series Political Quarterly Monograph Series
    "Thought provoking and fresh - this book challenges how we think about economics.”Gillian Tett, Financial TimesFor further information about recent publicity events and media coverage for Rethinking Capitalism please visit http://marianamazzucato.com/rethinking-capitalism/Western capitalism is in crisis. For decades investment has been falling, living standards have stagnated o... ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Rent

    by Joe Collins ...
    Series series What is Political Economy?
    The problem of rent is at the root of vital social concerns in the twenty-first century, ranging from the climate emergency and spiralling economic inequality to the repercussions of global economic crises. But while many of us may be familiar with rent (especially paying it), how should we really understand it?Examining both concrete contexts and complex concepts, in this book Joe Collins ... Read more

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