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Rethinking Globalizations eBook Series

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  • Development in an Era of Neoliberal Globalization

    Edited by Henry Veltmeyer ...
    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    This book analyses the progress and failures of capitalist development against the backdrop of an increasingly globalised world economy organised on neoliberal principles. It brings together eminent writers on the political economy of international development such as Kari Polanyi-Levitt, Norman Girvan, Osvaldo Sunkel, Paul Bowles, Manfred Bienefeld and Walden Bellos, toexamine from a critical ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

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  • A Brief History of Neoliberalism

    by David Harvey ...
    Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Its spread has depended upon a reconstitution of state powers such that privatization, finance, and market processes are emphasized. State interventions in the economy are ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Neoliberalism

    by Damien Cahill, Martijn Konings ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    For over three decades neoliberalism has been the dominant economic ideology. While it may have emerged relatively unscathed from the global financial crisis of 2007-8, neoliberalism is now - more than ever - under scrutiny from critics who argue that it has failed to live up to its promises, creating instead an increasingly unequal and insecure world.This book offers a nuanced and probing ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Planning and Housing in the Rapidly Urbanising World

    by Paul Jenkins, Harry Smith, Ya Ping Wang ...
    Series series Housing, Planning and Design Series
    Written specifically as a teaching text and authored by a team of leading academics in the field, this is the first book to bring together the key issues of rapid urbanisation with approaches to planning and housing.Outlining and explaining core concepts from ‘informal settlements’ to ‘sustainability’, it focuses on the rapid urbanization of developing countries with case studies from Latin ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Institutional Pathways To Equity: Addressing Inequality Traps

    by Walton Michael; Bebbington Anthony J.; Dani Anis A.; de Haan Arjan ...
    Questions of equity and inequality have moved to the center of debates on development and poverty reduction. This reflects growing awareness that even countries with high rates of growth can experience stagnating or increasing inequality, and that inequality can itself limit the poverty reducing effects of growth. Indeed, recent work indicates that, in addition to its intrinsic value, equity ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

  • The Gendered Impacts of Liberalization

    Towards "Embedded Liberalism"?

    Edited by Shahra Razavi ...
    Series series Routledge/UNRISD Research in Gender and Development
    In the last two decades public policies have reflected a drive for accelerated global economic integration ("globalization"), associated with greater economic liberalization. The outcomes have been largely disappointing, even in the estimate of their designers. Rural livelihoods have become more insecure, and the expected growth has rarely materialized. Insecurity is also etched into the growth of ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • 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

  • Governing under Stress

    Middle Powers and the Challenge of Globalization

    Edited by Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Stephen Clarkson ...
    Series series Globalization and the Semi-Periphery
    This volume is the first work to emerge from a major international comparative research project exploring the political economy of globalization. This inter-disciplinary team of scholars is focusing on the semi-periphery of world power. Whether defined in social, cultural, economic or simply spatial terms, 'semi-peripheral' countries share two qualities: they are conscious of their subordination ... Read more

    $37.09 CAD

  • Imperialism and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century

    A System in Crisis

    by James Petras, Henry Veltmeyer, Humberto Márquez ...
    Series series Globalization, Crises, and Change
    We live in a time of dynamic, but generally regressive regime change-a period in which major political transformations and a rollback of a half-century of legislation are accelerated under conditions of a prolonged and deepening economic crisis and a worldwide offensive against the citizenry and the working class. Written by two of the world’s leading left-wing thinkers, Imperialism and Capitalism ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Water on Tap

    Rights and Regulation in the Transnational Governance of Urban Water Services

    by Bronwen Morgan ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    In the 1990s and mid-2000s, turbulent political and social protests surrounded the issue of private sector involvement in providing urban water services in both the developed and developing world. Water on Tap explores examples of such conflicts in six national settings (France, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, South Africa and New Zealand), focusing on a central question: how were rights and regulation ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • State of the World's Cities 2010/11

    Cities for All: Bridging the Urban Divide

    by United Nations Human Settlements Programme (Un-Habitat) ...
    The world's urban population now exceeds the world's rural population. What does this mean for the state of our cities, given the strain this global demographic shift is placing upon current urban infrastructures?Following on from previous State of the World's Cities reports, this edition uses the framework of 'The Urban Divide' to analyse the complex social, political, economic and cultural ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Understanding Development

    Theory And Practice In The Third World

    by John Rapley ...
    First published in 1997. An introduction to the theory and practices of development in the third world, tracing the evolution of development theory over 40 years, and examining why so many of the benefits of development are still not shared by millions. ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD