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  • Business and Society

    A Critical Introduction

    by Kean Birch, Mark Peacock, Richard Wellen, Caroline Hossein, Sonya Scott, Alberto Salazar ...
    Corporations dominate our societies. They employ us, sell to us and influence how we think and who we vote for, while their economic interests dictate local, national and global agendas.Written in clear and accessible terms, this much-needed textbook provides critical perspectives on all aspects of the relationship between business and society: from an historical analysis of the spread of ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Business and Society

    A Critical Introduction

    Edited by Sonya Scott, Kean Birch, Richard Wellen, Audrey Laurin-Lamothe ...
    Corporations dominate our worlds. They employ us, sell to us and influence how we think and who we vote for.All aspects of this relationship are explored, from an historical analysis of the spread of capitalism to the regulation, ethics and exclusionary implications of business in contemporary society. The book also examines how corporate power and capitalism might be resisted and outlines a range ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • We Have Never Been Neoliberal

    A Manifesto for a Doomed Youth

    by Kean Birch ...
    A number of people have claimed that the ongoing financial crisis has revealed the problems with neoliberal thought and neoliberal policies in the 'Atlantic Heartland'. However, if we look at the history of the 'Heartland' economies then it becomes evident that they were never neoliberal in the first place - that is, the economic policies and discourses in these countries did not follow neoliberal ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Data Enclaves

    by Kean Birch ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book focuses on our increasing dependence upon Big Tech to live, manage, and enjoy our lives. The author examines how we freely exchange our personal data for access to online platforms, services, and devices without proper consideration of the implications of this trade. Our personal data is the defining resource of the emerging digital economy, and it is increasingly concentrated in a few ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Neoliberal Bio-Economies?

    The Co-Construction of Markets and Natures

    by Kean Birch ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In this book, Kean Birch analyses the co-construction of markets and natures in the emerging bio-economy as a policy response to global environmental change. The bio-economy is an economic system characterized by the use of plants and other biological materials rather than fossil fuels to produce energy, chemicals, and societal goods. Over the last decade or so, numerous countries around the world ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • A Research Agenda for Neoliberalism

    by Kean Birch ...
    Series series Elgar Research Agendas
    Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.At a time when neoliberalism has become an accepted term in public debate to refer to the current state of modern societies and their political economies, Kean ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Innovation, Regional Development and the Life Sciences

    Beyond clusters

    by Kean Birch ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    The life sciences is an industrial sector that covers the development of biological products and the use of biological processes in the production of goods, services and energy. This sector is frequently presented as a major opportunity for policy-makers to upgrade and renew regional economies, leading to social and economic development through support for high-tech innovation.Innovation, Regional ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • The Handbook of Neoliberalism

    Edited by Simon Springer, Kean Birch, Julie MacLeavy ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Neoliberalism is easily one of the most powerful discourses toemerge within the social sciences in the last two decades, and the number of scholars who write about this dynamic and unfolding process of socio-spatial transformation is astonishing. Even more surprising though is that there has, until now, not been an attempt to provide a wide-ranging volume that engages with the multiple registers ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • Assetization

    Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism

    Edited by Kean Birch, Fabian Muniesa ...
    Series series Inside Technology
    How the asset--anything that can be controlled, traded, and capitalized as a revenue stream--has become the primary basis of technoscientific capitalism.In this book, scholars from a range of disciplines argue that the asset--meaning anything that can be controlled, traded, and capitalized as a revenue stream--has become the primary basis of technoscientific capitalism. An asset can be an object ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • The Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism

    The Collapse of an Economic Order?

    by Tony Bebbington, Doctor Paul Chatterton, Doctor Paul Routledge, Doctor Adam Swain, Adam Tickell, Doctor David Tyfield, Elisa van Waeyenberge, Ben Fine, Doctor David Miller, Jean Shaoul, Shaun French, Leonith Hinojosa, Professor Bob Jessop, Larry Lohmann, Julie MacLeavy ...
    The recent, devastating and ongoing economic crisis has exposed the faultlines in the dominant neoliberal economic order, opening debate for the first time in years on alternative visions that do not subscribe to a 'free' market ethic.Bringing together the work of distinguished scholars and dedicated activists, The Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism presents critical perspectives of neoliberal ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

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  • Key Concepts in Economic Geography

    by Yuko Aoyama, Susan Hanson, James T Murphy ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Human Geography
    "A comprehensive and highly readable review of the conceptual underpinnings of economic geography. Students and professional scholars alike will find it extremely useful both as a reference manual and as an authoritative guide to the numerous theoretical debates that characterize the field."- Allen J. Scott, University of California"Guides readers skilfully through the rapidly changing field of ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • State Management

    An Enquiry into Models of Public Administration & Management

    by Jan-Erik Lane ...
    State Management offers a comprehensive yet concise introduction to the new field of state management, presenting an analysis of basic questions within the theories of bureaucracy, policy-making, principal-agent modelling and policy networks. Focussing upon recent state transformation, it illuminates public sector reform strategies such as New Public Management as well as incorporation, tendering ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD