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  • Debt and Imperialism in the Mediterranean

    Politics of Default and Diplomacy in the 19th Century

    by Giampaolo Conte ...
    Series series Perspectives in Economic and Social History
    Tracing the bankruptcies and subsequent financial receiverships of Mediterranean countries, this book examines sovereign debt crises during the classical era of imperialism leading up to the First World War.Focusing on the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Tunisia, and Greece, this book aims to highlight the political, diplomatic, and economic history of public debt management and the operation of ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • A History of Capitalist Transformation

    A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms

    by Giampaolo Conte ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms highlights how, since the recent financial crises, the expression ‘liberal reform’ has entered common parlance as an evocative image of austerity and economic malaise, especially for the working classes and a segment of the middle class. But what exactly does ‘liberal reform’ refer to? The research analyzes the ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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  • A Brief History of Equality

    by Thomas Piketty ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year“A profound and optimistic call to action and reflection. For Piketty, the arc of history is long, but it does bend toward equality. There is nothing automatic about it, however: as citizens, we must be ready to fight for it, and constantly (re)invent the myriad of institutions that will bring it about. This book is ... Read more

    $21.39 CAD

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  • The Great Global Transformation

    The United States, China, and the Remaking of the World Economic Order

    by Branko Milanovic ...
    From the essential chronicler of the world economy, a portrait of the Great Powers in transition.The world’s two great economic powers are on opposite trajectories. In the United States, decades of neoliberal policies produced a small class of rich elites and gutted the middle class. In China, the same global forces have created a massive new upper class. The result is the greatest reshuffling of ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The New Imperialism

    by David Harvey ...
    Series series Clarendon Lectures in Geography and Environmental Studies
    People around the world are confused and concerned. Is it a sign of strength or of weakness that the US has suddenly shifted from a politics of consensus to one of coercion on the world stage? What was really at stake in the war on Iraq? Was it all about oil and, if not, what else was involved? What role has a sagging economy played in pushing the US into foreign adventurism and what difference ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism

    by Gosta Esping-Andersen ...
    Few discussions in modern social science have occupied as much attention as the changing nature of welfare states in western societies. Gosta Esping-Andersen, one of the most distinguished contributors to current debates on this issue, here provides a new analysis of the character and role of welfare states in the functioning of contemporary advanced western societies.Esping-Andersen distinguishes ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Economics

    by Shalini Saxena ...
    Series series The Britannica Guide to the Social Sciences
    The effects of economic decision making are far-reaching. Economics is more than just business—the course of government, society, and more has been determined, to a large degree, by economic players. This comprehensive volume takes a three-pronged approach to introduce readers to the essentials of economics: after providing an overview of basic economic concepts, it chronicles the development of ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • After Hegemony

    Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy

    by Robert O. Keohane ...
    This book is a comprehensive study of cooperation among the advanced capitalist countries. Can cooperation persist without the dominance of a single power, such as the United States after World War II? To answer this pressing question, Robert Keohane analyzes the institutions, or "international regimes," through which cooperation has taken place in the world political economy and describes the ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Globalization and Capitalist Geopolitics

    Sovereignty and state power in a multipolar world

    by Daniel Woodley ...
    Globalization and Capitalist Geopolitics is concerned with the nature of corporate power against the backdrop of the decline of the West and the struggle by non-western states to challenge and overcome domination of the rest of the world by the West. This book argues that although the US continues to preside over a quasi-imperial system of power based on global military preponderance and financial ... Read more

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  • Inequality

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by James K. Galbraith ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Over the past thirty years, the issue of economic inequality has emerged from the backwaters of economics to claim center stage in the political discourse of America and beyond---a change prompted by a troubling fact: numerous measures of income inequality, especially in the United States in the last quarter of the twentieth century, have risen sharply in recent years. Even so, many people remain ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Master's Tools

    How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan to Rebuild It)

    by Michael McCarthy ...
    Finance serves the rich and powerful. We need to democratize it.**Winner of the 2026 Outstanding Contribution to Political Sociology Book Award from the American Sociological Association****Winner of The Theory Prize, American Sociological Association.**Why is democracy so broken and how might it be fixed? In The Master's Tools, award-winning author Michael A. McCarthy argues the answer can be ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Blue Labour

    The Politics of the Common Good

    by Maurice Glasman ...
    Labour has been on a wild ride over the past thirty years. New Labour argued that we had no choice but to accept a globalized free market economy in which the race was to the swift, the open and the flexible. Corbynism reacted against this with a jumble of old school statism and identity politics. Both ultimately failed.In this book, Maurice Glasman takes the axe to the soulless utilitarianism and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD