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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “christoph sorg”
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  • Social Movements and the Politics of Debt

    Transnational Resistance against Debt on Three Continents

    by Christoph Sorg ...
    Series series Protest and Social Movements
    It would have been hard to miss the pivotal role debt has played for contentious politics in the last decades. The North Atlantic Financial Crisis, Global Recession and European Debt Crisis - as well as the recent waves of protest that followed them - have catapulted debt politics into the limelight of public debates. Profiting from years of fieldwork and an extensive amount of empirical data, ... Read more

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  • Law and Technology in a Global Digital Society

    Autonomous Systems, Big Data, IT Security and Legal Tech

    Edited by Georg Borges, Christoph Sorge ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book examines central aspects of the new technologies and the legal questions raised by them from both an international and an inter-disciplinary perspective. The technology revolution and the global networking of IT systems pose enormous challenges for the law. Current areas of discussion relate to autonomous systems, big data and issues surrounding legal tech. Ensuring data protection and ... Read more

    $217.79 CAD

  • The Changing Politics and Policy of Austerity

    by Sebastian Bödeker, Jim Stanford, Christoph Sorg, Hans-Jürgen Bieling, Ingo Schmidt, James Watson, Moritz Neujeffski, Joy Schnittker, John Shields, Meghan Joy, Chandrima Roy, Philip James, Ian Cunningham, Donna Baines, Steffen Lehndorff, Sebastian Botzem, Heather Whiteside ...
    This collection of original essays explores the myriad expressions of austerity since the 2008 financial crisis.Case studies drawn from Canada, Australia and the European Union provide extensive comparative analysis of fiscal consolidation and the varied political responses against austerity. Contributions examine such themes as privatization, class mobilization and resistance, the crisis of ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • Creative Construction

    Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond

    by Heide Lutosh, James Muldoon, Samuel Decker, Jakob Heyer, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Elena Hofferberth, Cédric Durand, Matthias Schmelzer, Matthias Neumann, Gabriele Winker, Dougie Booth, Rabea Berfelde, Philipp Möller, Nancy Fraser, Samia Mohammed, Stefan Meretz, Simon Sutterlütti, Evgeny Morozov, Eva von Redecker, Audrey Laurin-Lamothe, Frédéric Legault, Simon Tremblay-Pepin, Simon Schaupp, Kohei Saito ...
    Series series Alternatives to Capitalism in the 21st Century
    Democratic planning allows us to effectively address the multiple crises of our time through cooperative modes of collective coordination. Given the destructive consequences of contemporary capitalism, such a structural alternative to market economies is needed more than ever.This accessible work examines various approaches that theorise, practise and nurture a creative construction towards ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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    Corporate Power in the 21st Century

    by William K. Carroll ...
    Throughout the world, there has been a growing wave of interest in global corporate power and the rise of a transnational capitalist class, triggered by economic and political transformations that have blurred national borders and disembedded corporate business from national domiciles. Using social network analysis, William Carroll maps the changing field of power generated by elite relations ... Read more

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  • Democracy and Prosperity

    Reinventing Capitalism through a Turbulent Century

    by Torben Iversen, David Soskice ...
    A groundbreaking new historical analysis of how global capitalism and advanced democracies mutually support each otherIt is a widespread view that democracy and the advanced nation-state are in crisis, weakened by globalization and undermined by global capitalism, in turn explaining rising inequality and mounting populism. This book, written by two of the world’s leading political economists, ... Read more

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  • Migration Research in a Digitized World

    Using Innovative Technology to Tackle Methodological Challenges

    Edited by Steffen Pötzschke, Sebastian Rinken ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores implications of the digital revolution for migration scholars’ methodological toolkit. New information and communication technologies hold considerable potential to improve the quality of migration research by originating previously non-viable solutions to a myriad of methodological challenges in this field of study. Combining cutting-edge migration scholarship and ... Read more

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  • Conceptualizing Capitalism

    Institutions, Evolution, Future

    by Geoffrey M. Hodgson ...
    "Erudite and thought-provoking. . . . a stimulating, historically grounded exploration of the subject . . . rewarding." — Financial TimesA few centuries ago, capitalism set in motion an explosion of economic productivity. Markets and private property had existed for millennia, but what other key institutions fostered capitalism's relatively recent emergence?With Conceptualizing Capitalism, ... Read more

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  • The Quest for Good Governance

    How Societies Develop Control of Corruption

    by Alina Mungiu-Pippidi ...
    Why do some societies manage to control corruption so that it manifests itself only occasionally, while other societies remain systemically corrupt? This book is about how societies reach that point when integrity becomes the norm and corruption the exception in regard to how public affairs are run and public resources are allocated. It primarily asks what lessons we have learned from historical ... Read more

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  • The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

    A Practical Guide

    by Paul Voigt, Axel von dem Bussche ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book provides expert advice on the practical implementation of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and systematically analyses its various provisions. Examples, tables, a checklist etc. showcase the practical consequences of the new legislation. The handbook examines the GDPR’s scope of application, the organizational and material requirements for data protection, ... Read more

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  • Big Data in Context

    Legal, Social and Technological Insights

    Edited by Thomas Hoeren, Barbara Kolany-Raiser ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book sheds new light on a selection of big data scenarios from an interdisciplinary perspective. It features legal, sociological and economic approaches to fundamental big data topics such as privacy, data quality and the ECJ’s Safe Harbor decision on the one hand, and practical applications such as smart cars, wearables and web tracking on ... Read more

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  • Inventing the Future

    Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

    by Nick SRNICEK, Alex Williams ...
    This major new manifesto offers a “clear and compelling vision of a postcapitalist society” and shows how left-wing politics can be rebuilt for the 21st century (Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism)Neoliberalism isn’t working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite ... Read more

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