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  • Globalization and the Decline of American Power

    The Political Economy of the American Fall

    by Cyrus Bina ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    This book explores America’s decline as a global power, arguing that the implosion of Pax Americana was initiated by the process of globalization, preceding the collapse of the Soviet Union by nearly a decade. The era of Pax Americana, and with it American hegemony, is conclusively passed, and will not return in current global conditions.There is a stark contrast between the present epoch and the ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Beyond Survival

    Wage Labour and Capital in the Late Twentieth Century

    by Cyrus Bina, Laurie M. Clements, Chuck Davis ...
    This text uses an innovative approach to the dynamics of labour's decline and proposes policy initiatives necessary for its revitalization. The book emphasises the need for restructuring of capitalism on a global scale and challenges traditional economic and industrial relations wisdom. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Labor and Capital in the Age of Globalization

    The Labor Process and the Changing Nature of Work in the Global Economy

    by Marina A. Adler, Cyrus Bina, Chuck Davis, Julia D. Fox, David Gartman, John C. Leggett, Ife Modupe, Robert E. Parker, Harland Prechel, Jerome Scott, Behzad Yaghmaian, Walda Katz-Fishman, Jerry Lembcke ...
    This book offers a timely analysis of work and labor processes and how they are rapidly changing under globalization. The contributors explore traditional sectors of the U.S. and world economies - from auto to steel to agriculture - as well as work under new production arrangements, such as third world export processing zones. Many chapters analyze changing dynamics of gender, nationality, and ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Alternative Theories of Competition

    Challenges to the Orthodoxy

    Edited by Jamee K. Moudud, Cyrus Bina, Patrick L. Mason ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics
    The history of policymaking has been dominated by two rival assumptions about markets. Those who have advocated Keynesian-type policies have generally based their arguments on the claim that markets are imperfectly competitive. On the other hand laissez faire advocates have argued the opposite by claiming that in fact free market policies will eliminate "market imperfections" and reinvigorate ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

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  • Economics Rules

    The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science

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