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  • Containing Big Tech

    How to Protect Our Civil Rights, Economy, and Democracy

    by Tom Kemp ...
    The path forward to rein in online surveillance, AI, and tech monopoliesTechnology is a gift and a curse. The five Big Tech companies—Meta, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google—have built innovative products that improve many aspects of our lives. But their intrusiveness and our dependence on them have created pressing threats to our civil rights, economy, and democracy.Coming from an extensive ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Activism and the Detention of Migrants

    The Law and Politics of Immigration Detention

    by Tom Kemp ...
    Series series Social Justice
    This book is an empirically grounded, critical engagement with the politics of immigration detention and deportation.Focusing on the constitutive tensions and political generativity within the activist practices of the anti-detention movement, this book examines the distinction between representational and post-representational political sensibilities. Representational politics centres on ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Industrialization in Nineteenth Century Europe

    by Tom Kemp ...
    Written for the layman as well as the economic historian this famous and much-used book not only presents a general synthesis of the pattern of European industrialisation; it also provides material for a comparative study by illustrating, in separate case studies, the specific characteristics of development in Britain, France, Germany, Russia and Italy. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Climax of Capitalism

    The U.S. Economy in the Twentieth Century

    by Tom Kemp ...
    How did the United States become the twentieth century's dominant economy? What is special about America and the American way of capitalism, that favoured such a rapid climb to wealth and power? And, as the old postwar certainties begin to crumble, is the climax of American capitalism already over? These are the themes addressed in this engrossing book, which gives a chronological, analytical ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Industrialisation in the Non-Western World

    by Tom Kemp ...
    This new edition is fully updated and revised, incorporating the massive changes in the USSR and China in the 1980's. It offers a series of case-studies charting the progress and assessing the achievement of six industrializing countries outside the Western World. It covers the whole range of economic approaches, from those depending wholly on market forces to those that are completely planned. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Historical Patterns of Industrialization

    by Tom Kemp ...
    Industrialization is still the factor that distinguishes the modern world from the past, and advanced countries from undeveloped ones. In this revised and expanded edition, Tom Kemp uses the historical record of industrialization to explore key questions about its impact and the significance we assign to it. The book adopts a thematic approach to examine the roles of technology, banking, transport ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

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    Containing Big Tech

    How to Protect Our Civil Rights, Economy, and Democracy

    by Tom Kemp ...
    Narrated by Dave Clark ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 42 min

    The path forward to rein in online surveillance, AI, and tech monopoliesTechnology is a gift and a curse. The five Big Tech companies—Meta, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google—have built innovative products that improve many aspects of our lives. But their intrusiveness and our dependence on them have created pressing threats to our civil rights, economy, and democracy.Coming from an extensive ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Chaos Machine

    The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

    by Max Fisher ...
    Narrated by Peter Ganim ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 55 min

    From a New York Times investigative reporter, this “authoritative and devastating account of the impacts of social media” (New York Times Book Review)tracks the high-stakes inside story of how Big Tech’s breakneck race to drive engagement—and profits—at all costs fractured the world, and is “an essential book for our times” (Ezra Klein).We all have a vague sense that social media is bad for our ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth

    by Benjamin M. Friedman ...
    From the author of Day of Reckoning, the acclaimed critique of Ronald Reagan’s economic policy (“Every citizen should read it,” said The New York Times): a persuasive, wide-ranging argument that economic growth provides far more than material benefits.In clear-cut prose, Benjamin M. Friedman examines the political and social histories of the large Western democracies–particularly of the United ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?

    by Robert Kuttner ...
    **“Democracy is no longer writing the rules for capitalism; instead it is the other way around. With his deep insight and wide learning, Kuttner is among our best guides for understanding how we reached this point and what’s at stake if we stay on our current path.”—Heather McGhee, president of DemosWith a new Afterword**In the past few decades, the wages of most workers have stagnated, even as ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Cambridge History of Capitalism: Volume 2, The Spread of Capitalism: From 1848 to the Present

    Edited by Larry Neal, Jeffrey G. Williamson ...
    The second volume of The Cambridge History of Capitalism provides an authoritative reference on the spread and impact of capitalism across the world, and the varieties of responses to it. Employing a wide geographical coverage and strong comparative outlook, a team of leading scholars explore the global consequences that capitalism has had for industry, agriculture, and trade, along with the ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • The Populist Temptation

    Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era

    by Barry Eichengreen ...
    Populism of the right and left has spread like wildfire throughout the world. The impulse reached its apogee in the United States with the election of Trump, but it was a force in Europe ever since the Great Recession sent the European economy into a prolonged tailspin. In the simplest terms, populism is a political ideology that vilifies economic and political elites and instead lionizes 'the ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

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