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  • Flaws and Ceilings

    Price Controls and the Damage They Cause

    by Christopher Coyne, Rachel Coyne, Philip Booth, Ryan Bourne, Stephen Davies, Robert Miller, Colin Robinson, Steven Schwartz, W. Stanley Siebert, Christopher Snowdon, Richard Wellings ...
    Series series Hobart Paperback
    Price controls across many sectors are currently being hotly debated. New controls in the housing market, more onerous minimum wages, minimum prices for alcohol, and freezes on energy prices are very high up the agenda of most politicians at the moment. Even without any further controls, wages, university fees, railway fares and many financial products already have their prices at least partly ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • House of Debt

    How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again

    by Atif Mian, Amir Sufi ...
    "A concise and powerful account of how the great recession happened and what should be done to avoid another one . . . well-argued and consistently informative." — Wall Street JournalThe Great American Recession of 2007-2009 resulted in the loss of eight million jobs and the loss of four million homes to foreclosures. Is it a coincidence that the United States witnessed a dramatic rise in ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Economy of Ireland

    National and Sectoral Policy Issues

    Edited by John W. O'Hagan, Carol Newman ...
    An essential book for students of economics as well as economists and policymakers. The twelfth edition of this enduring and popular book surveys all major changes in the Irish economy in the past fifteen years, with particular emphasis on the last five years. In this new edition, the authors examine: - The broad historical context to a study of the Irish economy. - Ireland's hard landing, ... Read more

    $29.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lost Children of Wilder

    The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care (National Book Award Finalist)

    by Nina Bernstein ...
    In 1973 Marcia Lowry, a young civil liberties attorney, filed a controversial class-action suit that would come to be known as Wilder, which challenged New York City’s operation of its foster-care system. Lowry’s contention was that the system failed the children it was meant to help because it placed them according to creed and convenience, not according to need. The plaintiff was thirteen-year ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Understanding Disorganized Attachment

    Theory and Practice for Working with Children and Adults

    by David Shemmings, Yvonne Shemmings ...
    Disorganized attachment, the most extreme form of insecure attachment, can develop in a child when the person who is normally meant to protect them is a source of danger. This usually leads to 'fear without solution' and the effects can be lasting and damaging.This book is a comprehensive and accessible text on disorganized attachment. It outlines what it is, how it can be identified and the key ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Reproduction, Globalization, and the State

    New Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectives

    by Rayna Rapp, Susan L. Erikson ...
    Reproduction, Globalization, and the State conceptualizes and puts into practice a global anthropology of reproduction and reproductive health. Leading anthropologists offer new perspectives on how transnational migration and global flows of communications, commodities, and biotechnologies affect the reproductive lives of women and men in diverse societies throughout the world. Based on research ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Evidence-based Policy Making in Labor Economics

    The IZA World of Labor Guide 2015

    by Klaus F. Zimmermann, Alexander S. Kritikos ...
    IZA World of Labor distils and condenses the best thinking and research on labor economic issues to enable decision-makers make better informed policy decisions. Written by well-known labor economists worldwide, the findings on each topic are presented in a compact and readable format, as distillations of comprehensive evidence-based research. The IZA World of Labor Policy Handbook brings together ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Multicultural Social Work Practice

    A Competency-Based Approach to Diversity and Social Justice

    by Derald Wing Sue, Mikal N. Rasheed, Janice Matthews Rasheed ...
    A thorough exploration of diversity and social justice within the field of social workMulticultural Social Work Practice: A Competency-Based Approach to Diversity and Social Justice, 2nd Edition has been aligned with the Council on Social Work Education's 2015 Educational Policy and Standards and incorporates the National Association of Social Workers Standards of Cultural Competence. New chapters ... Read more

    $90.00 USD

  • Struggle Within

    Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States

    by Dan Berger, dream hampton ...
    The Struggle Within is an accessible yet wide-ranging historical primer about how mass imprisonment has been a tool of repression deployed against diverse left-wing social movements over the last fifty years. Berger examines some of the most dynamic social movements across half a century: black liberation, Puerto Rican independence, Native American sovereignty, Chicano radicalism, white antiracist ... Read more

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  • Civil Society Organizations, Unemployment, and Precarity in Europe

    Between Service and Policy

    by Simone Baglioni ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a Europe-wide comparative analysis of the role of civil society organizations active in the field of unemployment and precarity. It illustrates how crucial civil society organizations are for the inclusion of the young unemployed, mainly in two ways: by delivering services and by advocating policy. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Foster Placements

    Why They Succeed and Why They Fail

    by Ian Gibbs, Ian Sinclair, Kate Wilson ...
    Series series Supporting Parents
    How can we determine success in foster placements? Based on exhaustive research, the authors discuss the primary concerns in foster placement planning, considering the high frequency of placement breakdowns, their impact on the child's behaviour and school performance, and the challenges this places on foster families.The specific needs of the foster child are given close attention in determining ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Managing Social Change and Social Policy in Greater China

    Welfare Regimes in Transition

    Edited by Ka-Ho Mok, Maggie K. W. Lau ...
    Series series Routledge Research On Public and Social Policy in Asia
    East Asia is at the heart of the global economic transformation, and the countries of the region are witnessing rapidly changing labour markets, alongside the pressure to cut production costs and lower taxes in order to become successful ‘competition states’. These changes have resulted in increased welfare demands which governments, organizations and agencies across the region have had to address ... Read more

    $48.99 USD