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“professor andrew cumbers”

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  • Reclaiming Public Ownership

    Making Space for Economic Democracy

    by Professor Andrew Cumbers ...
    *** Winner of the Myrdal Prize for Evolutionary Political Economy ***The last few years have seen the spectacular failure of market fundamentalism in Europe and the US, with a seemingly never-ending spate of corporate scandals and financial crises. As the environmental limits and socially destructive tendencies of the current profit-driven economic model become daily more self-evident, there is a ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • Fixing Failed States

    A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World

    by Ashraf Ghani, Clare Lockhart ...
    Today between forty and sixty nations, home to more than one billion people, have either collapsed or are teetering on the brink of failure. The world's worst problems--terrorism, drugs and human trafficking, absolute poverty, ethnic conflict, disease, genocide--originate in such states, and the international community has devoted billions of dollars to solving the problem. Yet by and large the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Bolivia

    Processes of Change

    by John Crabtree, Ann Chaplin ...
    Since Evo Morales was elected president in 2006 as leader of the MAS, the first social movement to achieve political power in Latin America, Bolivia has seen radical changes and continues to generate huge interest worldwide. In this revealing new book, Crabtree and Chaplin show how ordinary people have responded to the processes of change that have taken place in the country over the last few ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Water Resources and Development

    by Clive Agnew, Philip Woodhouse ...
    Series series Routledge Perspectives on Development
    Since the start of the twenty-first century there has been an unprecedented focus upon water as a key factor in the future of both society and environment. Water management lies at the heart of strategies of development as does the added the hazard of climate change.Water Resources and Development provides a stimulating interdisciplinary introduction to the role of water resources in shaping ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • The Transformation of Agri-Food Systems

    Globalization, Supply Chains and Smallholder Farmers

    Edited by Ellen B. McCullough, Prabhu L. Pingali, Kostas G. Stamoulis ...
    'There should be a good market for this book. The topic is very timely and a major theme of the new World Development Report 2008. The editors and contributors are world class.'Derek Byerlee, World Bank'This is a topic of wide interest and high policy importance. The depth of coverage and excellent synthesis should ensure that the book will have a substantial market in high-level undergraduate and ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD

  • English and Development

    Policy, Pedagogy and Globalization

    Edited by Elizabeth J. Erling, Philip Seargeant ...
    Series Book 17 - Critical Language and Literacy Studies
    This book investigates the relationship between English and personal and national development, as this is both discursively promoted (particularly through language policy) and practically realized in developing societies. It addresses the effects that the increased use of English and the promotion of English-language education are having in developmental contexts, and their impact on broader ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Why Cooperate?

    The Incentive to Supply Global Public Goods

    by Scott Barrett ...
    Climate change, nuclear proliferation, and the threat of a global pandemic have the potential to impact each of our lives. Preventing these threats poses a serious global challenge, but ignoring them could have disastrous consequences. How do we engineer institutions to change incentives so that these global public goods are provided? Scott Barrett provides a thought provoking and accessible ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Researching Sustainability

    A Guide to Social Science Methods, Practice and Engagement

    Edited by Alex Franklin, Paul Blyton ...
    This book is for students and researchers across the social sciences who are planning, conducting and disseminating research on sustainability-related issues. Real-world sustainability problems cross many boundaries, and this is the first book to guide students and practitioners through the practical and theoretical challenges of doing interdisciplinary research in this vital and emerging area ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Quality Management and Managerialism in Healthcare

    A Critical Historical Survey

    by Matthias Beck, Sara Melo ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Quality Management and Managerialism in Healthcare creates a comprehensive and systematic international survey of various perspectives on healthcare quality management together with some of their most pertinent critiques. It reviews the factors which have underpinned the managerialist trajectory of healthcare management over the past decades. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • The Political Economy of State-owned Enterprises in China and India

    Edited by X. Yi-chong ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Focused on unique features of economic development, this edited volume examines the nature and structure of corporate governance of several key state-owned enterprises in China and public sector units in India in five strategic sectors: oil and natural gas, steel, coal, electricity generation, and banking industries. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Cultural Perspectives on Development

    Edited by Vincent Tucker ...
    What does cultural analysis have to offer development studies? Is culture a new paradigm for the study of development or a minefield of theoretical confusion? Can we move beyond notions of global culture' and local culture' to a more refined notion of cultural processes? This collection of articles addresses these issues providing a diversity of approaches. Two themes in particular run through the ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Reviving Democracy

    Citizens at the Heart of Governance

    by Barry Knight, Rajesh Tandon, Hope Chigudu ...
    The aim of this text is to analyze the conditions for a good society and, from extensive international research, to show how citizens can be put at the centre of the political process. This has enormous importance for future policy which the authors explore. With support from the Commonwealth Foundation, the book sets out to change the current political consensus and demonstrate the route forward ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD