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  • Western capitalism in transition

    Global processes, local challenges

    Edited by Alberta Andreotti, David Benassi, Yuri Kazepov ...
    Since its emergence at the end of the seventeenth century, industrial capitalism as a specific form of social organisation has set recurrent challenges to its own persistence, and until today, it has proved to be successful to develop new ways of accumulation based on its capacity of adaptation. Is this process of transition now accelerating or reaching an end point? This book is a critical ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Globalised Minds, Roots in the City

    Urban Upper-middle Classes in Europe

    by Alberta Andreotti, Francisco Javier Moreno-Fuentes, Patrick Le Galès ...
    Series series IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
    Globalised Minds, Roots in the City utilises empirical evidence from four European cities to explore the role of urban upper middle classes in the transformations experienced by contemporary European societies.Presents new empirical evidence collected through an original comparative research about professionals and managers in four European cities in three countriesFeatures an innovative ... Read more

    $29.00 USD

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  • War is a Racket

    by Smedley Butler ...
    War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book, by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his career military experience, Butler frankly discusses how business interests commercially benefit (including war profiteering) from warfare. He had been appointed commanding officer of the Gendarmerie during the United States ... Read more

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  • The Making of Global Capitalism

    The Political Economy Of American Empire

    by Sam Gindin, Leo Panitch ...
    The all-encompassing embrace of world capitalism at the beginning of the twenty-first century was generally attributed to the superiority of competitive markets. Globalization had appeared to be the natural outcome of this unstoppable process. But today, with global markets roiling and increasingly reliant on state intervention to stay afloat, it has become clear that markets and states aren’t ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Losing Control

    by Stephen D. King ...

    $14.99 USD

  • Sugar

    by Ben Richardson ...
    Series series Resources
    There is more sugar in the world's diet than ever before, but life is far from sweet for the exploited producers making nature's 'white gold' and the unhealthy consumers eating it.Why has the billion-dollar sugar trade created such inequities? In this insightful analysis, Ben Richardson argues that the most compelling answers to this question can be found in the dynamics of global capitalism. Led ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Globalization, Poverty and Inequality

    Between a Rock and a Hard Place

    by Raphael Kaplinsky ...
    Globalization is characterised by persistent poverty and growing inequality. Conventional wisdom has it that this global poverty is residual – as globalization deepens, the poor will be lifted out of destitution. The policies of the World Bank, the IMF and the WTO echo this belief and push developing countries ever deeper into the global economy.Globalization, Poverty and Inequality provides an ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

  • Key Concepts in Migration

    by David Bartram, Maritsa Poros, Pierre Monforte ...
    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    "Demonstrates that the study of international migration has really come of age. From acculturation to undocumented immigration, the authors consider more than three dozen concepts at the heart of migration studies. Clearly written in a highly readable style, the book is a valuable resource for students and scholars alike."- Nancy Foner, City University of New York"This very useful and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • History of the Future

    The Shape of the World to Come Is Visible Today

    by Max Singer ...
    History of the Future presents a set of ideas about where we are in history. It focuses on the great majority of people in each society, and shows that life in the modern world will be almost completely different from all previous human experience. The present time is best understood as a period of transition during which one country after another is following along parallel paths from traditional ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Trade and Globalization

    An Introduction to Regional Trade Agreements

    by David A. Lynch ...
    To access the additional resources mentioned in this book, Click Here.Regional trade agreements (RTAs) are not new, but their importance in global economics and politics has grown exponentially in the past two decades. At the same time, RTAs have become increasingly controversial as their number, scope, and cross-cutting memberships become so complex that many fear they will undermine the World ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Group of 7/8

    by Hugo Dobson ...
    Series series Global Institutions
    Part of Routledge’s leading Global Institutions Series, this book is a highly accessible, up-to-date introduction to the history, present and future of the G7/8 summits, exploring the role that the G8 plays and will play in global governance.Hugo Dobson examines the G8 and its position in global governance in terms of its relationship to the more formal and truly institutionalized mechanisms of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Globalization, Democracy and Oil Sector Reform in Nigeria

    by Adeoye O. Akinola ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The Nigerian state has been oil-rich for decades, and yet perennially incapable of converting its oil resources into wealth for ordinary Nigerians. Adeoye O. Akinola tackles this “vexed” oil question by examining the political economy of efforts to deregulate the Nigerian downstream oil industry. Focusing on themes of globalization and democratization, this book considers how a resource-rich ... Read more

    $107.99 USD