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States, Banks and Crisis: Emerging Finance Capitalism in Mexico and Turkey by Thomas Marois 9780857938572
$221.78Thomas Marois' groundbreaking interpretation of banking and development in Mexico and Turkey builds on a Marxian-inspired framework premised on understanding states and banks as social relationships alongside crisis and labor as vital to finance today... -
The Rise of Asia: The 'Flying-Geese' Theory of Tandem Growth and Regional Agglomeration by Terutomo Ozawa 9780857935908
RRP: $77.60$72.03Terutomo Ozawa introduces a newly reformulated theory of `flying-geese' economic development, exploring Asia's dynamic growth and financial development. This unique book shows how the flying-geese theory can be expanded and applied to both the real- and... -
The Crime of Maldevelopment: Economic Deregulation and Violence in the Global South by Maria Laura Boehm 9780815353775
RRP: $283.50$246.29This book explores the causal relationship between the deregulation of international economic interests and the forms of violence that prevail in a large part of the Global South. More specifically, this book tells the story of how transnational... -
Blind Spot: Illuminating the Hidden Value in Business by Steve Diller 9781933820699
RRP: $56.68$54.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933820699Author Steve DillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Rosenfeld MediaPublisher Rosenfeld Media -
Religion and Society in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia by Carole Rakodi 9781138685307
RRP: $283.50$246.29This book analyses how religion is entangled in people's lives in Sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia. It provides an introduction to the teachings, practices and values promoted by the main religious traditions in these regions and an overview of the... -
Beat Stress at Work: How to Balance Your Ambition with Your Anxiety by Mark Simmonds 9781837963201
RRP: $27.28$18.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781837963201Author Mark SimmondsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Trigger PublishingPublisher Trigger Publishing -
Climate Change and Industry Structure in China: CO2 Emission Features by Chu Wei 9781138330771
RRP: $283.50$246.29As carbon dioxide is the most significant source of greenhouse gases today, its emission quantity has become a primary focus of governments, scholars and the general public. From the perspective of industrial structure, the book mainly explores the... -
The Transformation of Rural Africa by T. S. Jayne 9781138325494
RRP: $283.50$246.29Contemporary discussions of Africa's recent growth have largely interpreted such growth in terms of structural transformation, based mainly on national- and sectoral-level data. However, the micro-level processes driving this transformation are still... -
The Development Dictionary @25: Post-Development and its consequences by Aram Ziai 9781138323476
RRP: $283.50$247.13Few books in the history of Development Studies have had an impact like The Development Dictionary - A Guide to Knowledge as Power, which was edited by Wolfgang Sachs and published by Zed Books in 1992. The Development Dictionary was crucial in... -
The Political Economy of China's Great Transformation by Xingyuan Feng 9781138317031
RRP: $58.78$50.99The Political Economy of China's Great Transformation consists of three parts: first, covering the current political transformation, providing a general political background for the socio-economic, fiscal and urban and rural transformation. The... -
The Affordable Housing Market in India: Institutional Constraints, Informal Sector and Privatisation by Padmini Ram 9780367634223
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book examines the housing crisis in India and underlines the need for formal affordable housing markets. India is home to the world’s largest population of slum dwellers. The book examines actual causes of the problem, and the financial and... -
China’s Economic Reform and Development during the 13th Five-Year Plan Period by Debu Gao 9781138090057
RRP: $283.50$246.29"Five-Year Plans" have been a cornerstone of Chinese social and economic development initiatives since 1953. During the thirteenth of these periods between 2016 and 2020, the global economy has experienced instability after the financial crisis, as well... -
Development and Territorial Restructuring in an Era of Global Change: Theories, Approaches and Future Research Perspectives by Elisabeth Peyroux 9781786306531
RRP: $277.20$239.84Thinking about development and the environment simultaneously is one of the biggest scientific and societal challenges of the 21st century. Understanding the interactions between biophysical systems and human activities in an era of global change... -
Economic Nationalism And Development: Central And Eastern Europe Between The Two World Wars by Jan Kofman 9780367011956
RRP: $283.50$247.13In art era of ever-increasing national consciousness combined, paradoxically, with pressures for regional economic integration, this thought-provoking and exhaustively researched volume will challenge readers' assumptions about optimal paths to national... -
The Repugnant Conclusion: A Philosophical Inquiry by Christopher Cowie 9781032570457
RRP: $41.98$37.15The Repugnant Conclusion is a controversial theorem about population size. It states that a sufficiently large population of lives that are barely worth living is better than a smaller population of high quality lives. This is highly counter-intuitive... -
The Dual-Entity of Market Competition: Establishment and Development of Mezzoeconomics by Yunxian Chen 9781032155913
RRP: $83.98$73.63i) This title approaches the relationship between the government and the market from the perspective of mezzoeconomics in an effort to fill up some gaps in this regard by building a new economic model in theory and clarifying economic operation in... -
DIY Urbanism in Africa: Politics and Practice by Stephen Marr 9781786999016
RRP: $136.50$127.13Protracted economic crises, accelerating inequalities, and increased resource scarcity present significant challenges for the majority of Africa's urban population. Limited state capacity and widespread infrastructure deficiencies common in cities across... -
The Dynamics of Human Development: A Partial Mobility Perspective by Atanu Sengupta 9780367673512
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book studies the dynamic aspects of the Human Development Index (HDI) through a partial mobility perspective. It offers a new axiomatic structure and a set of mobility indices to discuss partial trends and interrogate the human development status at... -
DIY Urbanism in Africa: Politics and Practice by Stephen Marr 9781786999023
RRP: $46.18$40.49Protracted economic crises, accelerating inequalities, and increased resource scarcity present significant challenges for the majority of Africa's urban population. Limited state capacity and widespread infrastructure deficiencies common in cities across... -
Sex Work, Labour, and Empowerment: Lessons from the Informal Entertainment Sector in Nepal by Sutirtha Sahariah 9780367742546
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book presents an analysis of the concepts of female empowerment and resilience against violence in the informal entertainment and sex industries.Generally, the key debates on sex work have centred on arguments proposed by the oppressive and... -
The Political Economy of Bilateral Aid: Implications for Global Development by Peter Blunt 9781032256412
RRP: $262.50$226.51The social and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and of extreme climate events have brought into sharp relief the serious deficiencies of our political economies. The dominant global ideology of neoliberalism and its architects and... -
Education, Innovations, and Agricultural Development: A Study of North India (1961-72) by D. P. Chaudhri 9781032172286
$196.56First published in 1979, Education, Innovations, and Agricultural Development investigates the effect of education on agricultural productivity and innovations that took place in the wake of the Green Revolution in North India, using a simultaneous... -
Transformation of Rural Spaces in Mozambique by Cecilia Navarra 9781786999252
$51.77Despite the persistence of poverty in Mozambique important investments have been made in rural areas, at the level of extractive industry or agribusiness, resulting in both transformation of these areas and a new set of tensions and conflicts related to... -
Beneficial Property Taxation for Emerging Market Countries: Financing Sustainable Development and Post-Pandemic Recovery by S. Ehtisham Ahmad 9783031086113
RRP: $83.98$73.94This book presents a new approach to recurrent property taxation based on occupancy, size, and location, that will strengthen local governments. Reflecting on the concept of "beneficial property taxation" first proposed by Alfred Marshall, the... -
Small Change, Big Deal: Money as If People Mattered by Jennifer Kavanagh 9781780993133
RRP: $25.18$21.32As we consider the plight of our consumer-driven economy, it is easy to forget that money is about relationship: between individuals and between communities. In our current financial mess, it is worth reminding ourselves of community-based alternatives,... -
Networks, Governance and Economic Development: Bridging Disciplinary Frontiers by Mari Jose Aranguren Querejeta 9781847202710
$232.28This compact and authoritative book brings together the topical themes of networks and governance to advance understanding of the determinants of local economic development in the context of increasingly global relationships. Analyzing the governance of... -
How to Be an Architect Developer by Amanda Baillieu 9781914124938
RRP: $73.50$60.52How many times have you spotted an empty site and dreamt about developing it? And how many times have you given up because you didn't know where to start? Perhaps you couldn't track down the landowner or you didn't have the money? Many architects have... -
Financing our Future: Unveiling a Parallel Digital Currency System to Fund the SDGs and the Common Good by Stefan Brunnhuber
RRP: $62.98$58.38The monetary system is the indispensable missing link in the debate of sustainability, and whether the current financial system can handle these evolved needs. To date, the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) primarily have been financed either... -
Japan in the 21st Century: Environment, Economy, and Society by Pradyumna P. Karan
RRP: $94.50$78.02Chains carved from a single block of wood, cages whittled with wooden balls rattling inside -- all "made with just a pocketknife" -- are among our most enduring folk designs. Who makes them and why? what is their history? what do they mean for... -
An Essay on Yugoslav Society by Branko Horvat
RRP: $283.50$246.29This title was first published in 1967Book InformationISBN 9781138037342Author Branko HorvatFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 522g -
Ideology and Social Change in Latin America by June C. Nash
RRP: $92.38$80.72First published in 1977, this reissue contains original articles by contemporary leading scholars in the field of Latin American politics on a range of topics including: working class organisation, populism and US labour imperialism. It will be of... -
The Political Economy of Underdevelopment and Poverty in Nepal by Sri Ram Poudyal
RRP: $262.50$226.51This book argues that mainstream economics cannot explain the underdevelopment and poverty of Nepal, neither can it be explained in terms of economics alone nor capital inadequacy even, as is conventionally believed. The author asserts that Nepal's... -
The Digitalization Conundrum in India: Applications, Access and Aberrations by Keshab Das
RRP: $146.98$139.29This book examines the nature, extent and implications of rapid strides digitalization has made in India since the turn of the millennium. These have been examined not merely in the sphere of information and communication technology (ICT) but its... -
Business and Politics in India by Stanley A. Kochanek
RRP: $88.20$68.10This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices... -
The Affordable Housing Market in India: Institutional Constraints, Informal Sector and Privatisation by Padmini Ram
RRP: $283.50$246.29This book examines the housing crisis in India and underlines the need for formal affordable housing markets. India is home to the world’s largest population of slum dwellers. The book examines actual causes of the problem, and the financial and... -
The Nature of Japanese Governance and Seikai-Tensin in Postwar Japan by Nara Park
RRP: $96.58$84.27What shapes characteristics and types of state governance in a specific country? How do they change over time? More importantly, what will they look like in the near and far future? This book addresses these fundamental yet timely questions by... -
Assessing the Demographic Impact of Development Projects: Conceptual, methodological and policy issues by A. S. Oberai
RRP: $193.18$157.21First published in 1992, Assessing the Demographic Impact of Development Projects based on studies in developing countries focuses on conceptual, methodological and policy issues related to development projects. It considers whether demographic effects... -
China's Economic Development and Democratization by Yanlai Wang
RRP: $48.28$42.34China's Economic Development and Democratization examines China's transformation from an institutional perspective. It proposes an analytical framework comprising six macro institutional environments: international, ideological, political, economic,... -
The Rural World: Education and Development by Louis Malassis
RRP: $92.38$80.72First published in 1976, this book examines the issue of rural education, an all-important problem for the less developed countries in the world. Louis Malassis proposes that all citizens should be made aware of the role of agriculture in the economy and... -
Flirting with the Uninterested: Innovating in a Sold, Not Bought Category by Maria Ferrante-Schepis
RRP: $46.18$36.12Does anyone else smell shift? Do you sense that the insurance industry is headed for an upheaval? Do you suspect that there is some brilliant, forward-thinking entrepreneur in a garage somewhere about to reinvent the game? Do you find it hard to make...