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This book comprehensively addresses the economic and social implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. In each chapter of the book, the effects of the pandemic on different economic and financial sectors are discussed.The book tackles many topics and issues that are of...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-01-19
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Is work a primordial curse? Or a spiritual calling? Or is it a tedious necessity that technology will abolish, freeing us to indulge lives of leisure? In this book David A. Spencer argues that work is only an alienating burden because of the nature of work under...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-01-19
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This edited volume presents the conference papers from the 1st International Conference on Business, Economics, Management, and Sustainability (BEMAS), organized by the Centre for International Trade and Business in Asia (CITBA) at James Cook University.This book...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-01-12
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This two-volume book examines the most important global problem—the recovery of the social-economic crises due to the COVID-19 pandemic.This economic crisis has its own basis and differs from others by the lockdown of most businesses on the decision of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-12
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This book examines the rise, spread and decline of participatory budgeting in Brazil. In the last decade of the twentieth century Brazil became a model of participatory democracy for activists, practitioners, and scholars. However, some thirty years later participatory...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-03
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This two-volume book examines the most important global problem—the recovery of the social-economic crises due to the COVID-19 pandemic.This economic crisis has its own basis and differs from others by the lockdown of most businesses on the decision of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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The problem of rent is at the root of vital social concerns in the twenty-first century, ranging from the climate emergency and spiralling economic inequality to the repercussions of global economic crises. But while many of us may be familiar with rent (especially...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-12-07
Collection :
What is Political Economy?
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This book collects articles on the achievements and experience of special economic zones during the China’s Reform and Opening-up in the past 40 years. The topics ranges from a historical summary of the development in special economic zones to its future prospect. Most...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-11-30
Collection :
Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path
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In 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the wall of Wittenberg church. He argued that the Church’s internally consistent but absurd doctrines had pickled into a dogmatic structure of untruth. It was time for a Reformation. Half a millennium later, Steve Keen...
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Polity
Parution :
2021-11-11
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The volume on China:The Bankable State rejects neoliberal consensus and focuses on crucial contributions of the Chinese state in shaping Chinese economy. This book makes crucial theoretical contributions to the study of local political economy of China. This...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-11-09
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Das Integrationsprojekt der Europäischen Union ist über seine wirtschaftlichen Erfolge noch nicht weit hinausgekommen, die ursprüngliche Idee einer politischen Union ist nach den Krisen des vergangenen Jahrzehnts in weite Ferne gerückt. Globalisierung, Migration,...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2021-11-02
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This book highlights the notion of Circular Economy under the umbrella of Sustainability because of the widespread momentum it is gaining. Today the whole world is certainly in emergent need of an alternative system to traditional economy which is linear, i.e. make, use...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-09-27
Collection :
Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes
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We were drowning in in record levels of debt before the COVID-19 crisis, and we are now deluged in it. U.S. private-sector loans have tripled relative to income since 1950 – and government debt is also at an all-time high. Soaring debt burdens individuals, stifles...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-09-21
Collection :
The Case For
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Traditional economics is built on the assumption of self-interested individuals seeking to maximize personal gain, but that is far from the whole story. Sharing, caring, and a desire to uphold the collective good are also powerful motives. In a world wracked by...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-09-03
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This book describes the institutions and process through which the Georgia General Assembly adopts a budget, the executive-legislative branch politics that transpire during the process and the tax and spending policies that the process produces. It argues that the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-08-31
Collection :
Studies in Public Budgeting
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China has gone from being a marginal to a leading power in Africa in just over two decades. Its striking ascendancy in the continent is commonly thought to have been primarily driven by economic interests, especially resources like oil. This book argues instead that...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-08-25
Collection :
China Today
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This volume analyses the process and structure of ecotaxes in India to bring forth its rationale, application and incidence on emerging environmental problems on the backdrop of the environmental issues confronted by the Indian economy. Being at infant stage in India,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-07-08
Collection :
India Studies in Business and Economics
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This book propounds the thesis that it was the dysfunction of globalization and liberalism that prompted the rise of nationalism and populism. Recent developments in global affairs are challenging assumptions and the basis upon which international relations, as a broad...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-06-25
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We think our wealth today comes from productive corporations and workers, but they merely add icing to a cake baked long ago. In this provocative book, Peter Barnes argues that most of today's wealth is co-inherited from nature and past human efforts, not individually...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-06-11
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Does work give our lives purpose, meaning and status? Or is it a tedious necessity that will soon be abolished by automation, leaving humans free to enjoy a life of leisure and basic income? In this erudite and highly readable book, Jon Cruddas MP argues that it is...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-04-08
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