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Human Geography and Professional Mobility: International Experiences, Critical Reflections, Practical Insights by Weronika A. Kusek 9781032088549
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book explores an innovative set of critical narratives, accounts and engagements by different authors about their professional mobility and how that relates to the discipline and their life experiences. Human Geography and Professional Mobility... -
The Economics of Food Loss in the Produce Industry by Travis Minor 9781032085166
RRP: $51.59$45.23Food loss is a serious issue in the United States. It affects all aspects of the supply chain, from farmers to consumers. While much is already known about loss at the consumer level, our understanding of the amount of food that never makes it to this... -
Base of the Pyramid Markets in Affluent Countries: Innovation and challenges to sustainability by Stefan Gold 9781032008790
RRP: $47.72$41.96The Frugal Innovation and Bottom of the Pyramid Markets series comprises four volumes, covering theoretical perspectives, themes and various aspects of interest across four key geographical regions where BOP markets are located - South America, Asia,... -
The Great Recession and the Contradictions of Contemporary Capitalism by Riccardo Bellofiore 9780857938527
$136.24The Great Recession has punctuated the long history of capitalism and is a necessary outcome of contemporary capitalism's great contradictions, both in its Anglo-Saxon configuration and European neo-mercantilism posture. To be properly understood it is... -
Regulatory Failure and the Global Financial Crisis: An Australian Perspective by Mohamed Ariff 9780857935328
$136.24This fascinating book presents a lively discussion of key issues resulting from the recent financial crisis. The expert contributors explore why the global financial crisis occurred, how it destroyed wealth, triggered mass unemployment and created an... -
The Impact of the Economic Crisis on East Asia: Policy Responses from Four Economies by Daigee Shaw 9780857931696
$129.79This insightful book explores the economic conditions and policy response of four major East Asian economies in the wake of the 2008 global economic crisis. Written by a distinguished group of Asian social scientists, this study summarizes and... -
The Mirage of China: Anti-Humanism, Narcissism, and Corporeality of the Contemporary World by Xin Liu 9780857456113
RRP: $36.06$29.13Good books capture critical moments. Liu has captured one here. Asian Anthropology The book as a piece of writing is fluid and graceful. Liu's ethnographic accounts are indeed masterly--deftly weaving dialogue, observation, metaphor, and analysis in a... -
Economic Dimensions of Security in Central Asia by Sergej Mahnovski 9780833038661
RRP: $19.34$16.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833038661Author Sergej MahnovskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 222g -
Gold, Credit and Employment: Four Essays for Laymen by G. D. H. Cole 9780815370543
RRP: $47.72$41.96Originally published in 1930, the essays in this book discuss some of the leading financial controversities of the early 1930s in non-technical language. Rationalisation, the Gold Standard and the problems of currency and credit in their relation to... -
Unmade in China: The Hidden Truth about China's Economic Miracle by Jeremy R. Haft 9780745684017
RRP: $16.76$15.40If you look carefully at how things are actually made in China - from shirts to toys, apple juice to oil rigs - you see a reality that contradicts every widely-held notion about the world's so-called economic powerhouse. From the inside looking out,... -
The Seven Years War and the Old Regime in France: The Economic and Financial Toll by James C. Riley 9780691610108
RRP: $49.02$38.71Taking French participation in the Seven Years War as a case study, this book examines the effects of war on the economy and on government finance, finding that the economic toll has usually been exaggerated and the financial toll seriously... -
The European Economy in Perspective by Jeffery Round 9780708312407
RRP: $6.44$5.60A varied and wide-ranging set of perspectives on economic policy past, present and future. The papers are grouped into six sections each representing a different perspective: money, structure, sectors, regions, international and political economy.Book... -
Rise And Fall Of Global Austerity, The by E. Ray Canterbery 9789814603485
RRP: $129.00$112.38Since its onset in late 2007, few expected the Great Recession to be protracted for over half a decade across the world. The Rise and Fall of Global Austerity explains the origins and history of austerity, severe implications of the idea of it and how... -
Singapore Perspectives 2009: The Heart Of The Matter by Tan Tarn How 9789814280624
RRP: $50.31$44.34The Singapore Perspectives series is a yearly publication that provides critical analysis of emerging trends and issues Singapore faces in terms of social, economic and political development. It is a quick and essential reference for understanding the... -
The Mirage of China: Anti-Humanism, Narcissism, and Corporeality of the Contemporary World by Xin Liu 9781845455453
RRP: $127.71$102.98Today's world is one marked by the signs of digital capitalism and global capitalist expansion, and China is increasingly being integrated into this global system of production and consumption. As a result, China's immediate material impact is now felt... -
The German Economy During the Nineteenth Century by Toni Pierenkemper 9781571810649
RRP: $30.90$25.14"For some time to come, this book will guarantee that the knowledge of German industrialization and the latest information on German research will be much improved and up to date abroad." For some time to come, this book will guarantee that the... -
Selling the Economic Miracle: Economic Reconstruction and Politics in West Germany, 1949-1957 by Mark E. Spicka 9781845452230
RRP: $127.71$102.98Through an examination of election campaign propaganda and various public relations campaigns, reflecting new electioneering techniques borrowed from the United States, this work explores how conservative political and economic groups sought to construct... -
The Power of Entrepreneurs: Politics and Economy in Contemporary Spain by Mercedes Cabrera 9781845451851
RRP: $127.71$102.98Although Spain is an important member of the EU, relatively little is known about its economy and its interrelationship with political forces. This book, the first of its kind, offers a long-term view and analyzes this ever-changing relationship... -
Oikos and Market: Explorations in Self-Sufficiency after Socialism by Stephen Gudeman 9781785338366
RRP: $36.06$29.13Self-sufficiency of the house is practiced in many parts of the world but ignored in economic theory, just as socialist collectivization is assumed to have brought household self-sufficiency to an end. The ideals of self-sufficiency, however, continue to... -
Economy for and Against Democracy by Keith Hart 9781785337475
RRP: $36.06$29.13Political constitutions alone do not guarantee democracy; a degree of economic equality is also essential. Yet contemporary economies, dominated as they are by global finance and political rent-seekers, often block the realization of democracy. The... -
Economy for and Against Democracy by Keith Hart 9781782388449
RRP: $127.71$102.98Political constitutions alone do not guarantee democracy; a degree of economic equality is also essential. Yet contemporary economies, dominated as they are by global finance and political rent-seekers, often block the realization of democracy. The... -
Oikos and Market: Explorations in Self-Sufficiency after Socialism by Stephen Gudeman 9781782386957
RRP: $127.71$102.98Self-sufficiency of the house is practiced in many parts of the world but ignored in economic theory, just as socialist collectivization is assumed to have brought household self-sufficiency to an end. The ideals of self-sufficiency, however, continue to... -
The Challenges of Globalization: Economy and Politics in Germany, 1860-1914 by Cornelius Torp 9781782385028
RRP: $138.03$111.68In the mid nineteenth century a process began that appears, from a present-day perspective, to have been the first wave of economic globalization. Within a few decades global economic integration reached a level that equaled, and in some respects... -
Morality and Economic Growth in Rural West Africa: Indigenous Accumulation in Hausaland by Paul Clough 9781782382706
RRP: $170.28$137.26The land, labor, credit, and trading institutions of Marmara village, in Hausaland, northern Nigeria, are detailed in this study through fieldwork conducted in two national economic cycles - the petroleum-boom prosperity in 1977-1979, and the... -
Coral Battleground by Judith Wright 9781742199061
RRP: $25.74$16.56The book documents the fight that was put up by a group of poets, artists and ecologists to save the Great Barrier Reef from oil drilling. It's a remarkable story being re-published in the midst of another attack on the Reef as oil tankers and an... -
European Business, Dictatorship, and Political Risk, 1920-1945 by Christopher Kobrak 9781571816290
RRP: $127.71$102.98For much of the twentieth century, the prevalence of dictatorial regimes has left business, especially multinational firms, with a series of complex and for the most part unwelcome choices. This volume, which includes essays by noted American and... -
French Intellectuals Against the Left: The Antitotalitarian Moment of the 1970s by Michael Scott Christofferson 9781571814272
RRP: $36.06$29.13" ...an exceptionally fine text - one that could only have been written by an author mercifully free, for whatever reason of the phobias and philias about French intellectual life of previous generations." - New Left Review "This book is... -
Oil In The World Economy by R. W. Ferrier 9781138648456
$143.98This book discusses the oil industry and its impact on the world economy in the twentieth century. It examines the importance of oil in different sectors, from 1900-1973 and stresses the relevance of oil as a factor in modern economic history not only in... -
Oil and the British Economy by Stephen Hall 9781138644472
RRP: $16.76$15.40The impact of North Sea oil and gas on the British economy is examined thoroughly in this book. It explores why the early years of the 1980s, when oil production had risen to the level of self-sufficiency and beyond were years of recession and... -
The United States and the Control of World Oil by Edward H. Shaffer 9781138643956
RRP: $32.24$28.13This volume, originally published in 1983, analyses the extent to which American dominance in world affairs is based on the control of oil resources and the changes which will inevitably take place with the end of the oil era. The author concludes that... -
The Second Great Crash by Frances Cairncross 9781138641860
$143.98Using highly-readable, non-technical language, the authors, both professional economists, describe all the major global economic forces at work in the 1970s and forecast the kind of future which such forces are creating (and which has indeed been the... -
Making Up Accountants: The Organizational and Professional Socialization of Trainee Chartered Accountants by Fiona Anderson-Gough 9781138327498
RRP: $125.12$108.42First published in 1998, this organizational and professional socialization of trainee chartered accountants reports the findings of an ICAEW funded research project which explored the training and socialization of trainee accountants in two Big Six... -
The Political Economy of Germany under Chancellors Kohl and SchrAder: Decline of the German Model? by Jeremy Leaman 9781845456016
RRP: $127.71$102.98While unification has undoubtedly had major effects on Germany's political economy, the pattern of current policy-making preferences was established at an earlier stage, in particular, at the beginning of the 'Kohl-era' in 1982. This essentially... -
Pax Japonica: The Resurrection of Japan by Takeo Harada 9781911498223
RRP: $25.79$17.22Japan, the world's third largest economy and its largest creditor nation, has been in crisis for more than two decades. Its economy has been depressed or in recession in much of that period, its banking sector in a critical state, and its public sector... -
The Workplace of the Future: The Fourth Industrial Revolution, the Precariat and the Death of Hierarchies by Jon-Arild Johannessen 9780367584849
RRP: $54.17$47.41The Fourth Industrial Revolution is a global development that shows no signs of slowing down. In his book, The Workplace of the Future: The Fourth Industrial Revolution, the Precariat and the Death of Hierarchies, Jon-Arild Johannessen sets a chilling... -
Minidragons: Fragile Economic Miracles In The Pacific by Steven M. Goldstein 9780367004194
RRP: $174.15$151.29The purpose of this book is to introduce one of the most significant international developments of the post World War II era-the dramatic socio-economic transformation achieved by Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. In less than three decades,... -
Buen Vivir and the Challenges to Capitalism in Latin America by Henry Veltmeyer 9780367550035
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book explores the battleground between neoliberal capitalist development processes in Latin America and the challenges to these systems that can be found through innovative community-driven buen vivir/vivir bien initiatives.In the current climate of... -
The Economics of Digital Transformation: The Disruption of Markets, Production, Consumption, and Work by Katarzyna Śledziewska 9780367700447
RRP: $51.59$45.23The unprecedented Covid-19 crisis revealed the scale and scope of a new type of economy taking shape in front of our very eyes: the digital economy. This book presents a concise theoretical and conceptual framework for a more nuanced analysis of the... -
Contemporary Issues in Business, Economics and Finance by Simon Grima 9781839096051
RRP: $100.61$83.81This special edition of Contemporary Studies in Economics and Financial Analysis offers a selection of carefully curated chapters from invited participants in the International Applied Social Science Congress 4-6 April 2019. In these chapters, expert... -
Economic Equality in the Co-Operative Commonwealth by H. Stanley Jevons 9781032434537
RRP: $118.67$102.94Originally published in 1933 in the midst of the Great Depression, this book discussed the possibility of a new and orderly economic system to realize social justice. The author argued that nothing but the complete equality of reward could ensure a...