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  • Social Innovation for Real-World Transformation

    Roadmaps for Changing the World

    by Julie Chateauvert, Philippe Dufort, Jonathan Durand Folco, Christopher Gunter, Krys Maki, Anahi Morales Hudon, Philippe Néméh-Nombré, Julie Paquette, Jamel Stambouli, Simon Tremblay-Pepin, Amanda Wilson ...
    Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.In an era where ‘social innovation’ is often used as a buzzword, this book challenges readers to rethink its true potential for addressing the systemic roots of our most pressing social and environmental crises.The authors present a practical and visionary approach to social innovation and provide a comprehensive set of tools and strategies ... Read more

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  • 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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  • Geopolitics of the Knowledge-Based Economy

    by Sami Moisio ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    We live in the era of the knowledge-based economy, and this has major implications for the ways in which states, cities and even supranational political units are spatially planned, governed and developed. In this book, Sami Moisio delves deeply into the links between the knowledge-based economy and geopolitics, examining a wide range of themes, including city geopolitics and the university as a ... Read more

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  • Politics and the Economy

    by Lisa Herzog ...
    Series series Elements in Political Philosophy
    In today's societies, political and economic issues are closely intertwined, and political philosophy has turned more and more to economic issues. This Element introduces some key questions of economic philosophy: How to think about the relation between political and economic power? Can markets be 'tamed'? Which values are embedded in the economy and how do those relate to political values? It ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Remaking Market Society

    A Critique of Social Theory and Political Economy in Neoliberal Times

    by Antonino Palumbo, Alan Scott ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    Neoliberalism has been one of the most hotly contested themes in academic and political debate over the last 30 years. Given the global and persistent influence of neoliberal ideas on contemporary styles of governance, social-service provision, and public policy, this intensive interest is understandable. At the same time, the use of the term has become loose, vague, and over-extended, ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Community Development in an Uncertain World

    Vision, Analysis and Practice

    by Jim Ife ...
    In Community Development in an Uncertain World, Jim Ife draws on the principles of social justice, ecological responsibility and post-Enlightenment and Indigenous perspectives to advance new holistic approaches to community development. The book explores the concept of community development on a local and international scale in the context of globalisation and postcolonial theory. Students will ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • 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

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Exploring Degrowth

    A Critical Guide

    by Vincent Liegey, Anitra Nelson ...
    Series series FireWorks
    A sense of urgency pervades global environmentalism, and the degrowth movement is bursting into the mainstream. As climate catastrophe looms closer, people are eager to learn what degrowth is about, and whether we can save the planet by changing how we live. This book is an introduction to the movement.As politicians and corporations obsess over growth objectives, the degrowth movement demands ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $20.99 CAD

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  • The Black Hole of Public Administration

    by Ruth Hubbard, Gilles Paquet ...
    Series series Governance Series
    Public administration in Canada needs to change. A handful of scholars across Canada have been sounding the alarm for years but to no avail. Talented young bureaucrats have been joining the public service with fresh ideas capable of creating real change, but the black hole consumes all.In The Black Hole of Public Administration, experienced public servant Ruth Hubbard and public administration ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Future is Degrowth

    A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism

    by Matthias Schmelzer, Aaron Vansintjan, Andrea Vetter ...
    We need to break free from the capitalist economy. Degrowth gives us the tools to bend its bars.Economic growth isn’t working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in the context of colonialism, fossil-fueled industrialization, and capitalist modernity, The Future Is Degrowth argues that the ideology of growth conceals the rising inequalities and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Pathways to Industrialization and Regional Development

    Edited by Allen J. Scott, Michael Storper ...
    The world has seen a shift in socio-economic relations, in the patterns and processes of industrialization and regional development. The social regulation of the economic order, flexible production organization and industrial district formation have brought periods, places and pathways to the heart of economic debate.Pathways to Industrialization and Regional Development provides a platform from ... Read more

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