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Post-Democracy by Colin Crouch 9780745633152
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $17.14Post-Democracy is a polemical work that goes beyond current complaints about the failings of our democracy and explores the deeper social and economic forces that account for the current malaise. ... -
Analyse Your Chess by Colin Crouch 9781857446708
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.07Leading chess author Colin Crouch believes that the key to sustained chess improvement lies in the critical analysis and assessment of your own games. Each and every game you play provides a... -
Why We Lose at Chess by Colin Crouch 9781857446364
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.07The main reason why we lose at chess is no big secret: we all make unnecessary mistakes! But simply acknowledging this fact isn't enough to help us improve. The big question is, how can we eliminate... -
The Globalization Backlash Colin Crouch (London School of Economics) 9781509533770
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $17.14Globalization, heralded for decades as a harbinger of prosperity, faces a huge backlash. Derided by right-wing nationalists as a 'globalist' plot to undermine traditional communities, and by... -
Will the gig economy prevail? Colin Crouch (London School of Economics) 9781509532445
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.89Increasingly, employees are being falsely treated as 'self-employed'. This phenomenon - the 'gig economy' - is seen as the inevitable shape of things to come. In this book, Colin Crouch takes a step... -
Neoliberalism Damien Cahill 9780745695532
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.56For 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... -
The World After GDP: Politics, Business and Society in the Post Growth Era Lorenzo Fioramonti 9781509511358
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.56GDP is much more than a simple statistic. It has become the overarching benchmark of success and a powerful ordering principle at the heart of the global economy. But the convergence of major... -
Saving the Market from Capitalism: Ideas for an Alternative Finance Massimo Amato (Bocconi University) 9780745672564
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.56This new book by two leading economists is a far-reaching analysis of the role and organization of the financial system in the aftermath of the economic crisis. The authors argue that the financial... -
Inequality and the Labyrinths of Democracy by Göran Therborn 9781788738996
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.51Classical liberalism regarded universal suffrage as a mortal threat to property. So what explains the advent of liberal democracy, and how stable today is the marriage between representative... -
In the King's Shadow Philip Manow (University of Konstanz) 9780745647678
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.56It is commonly assumed that the rise of modern democracies put an end to the spectacular and ceremonial aspects of political rule that were so characteristic of monarchies and other earlier regimes... -
The Metric Society: On the Quantification of the Social Steffen Mau 9781509530410
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.56In today's world, numbers are in the ascendancy. Societies dominated by star ratings, scores, likes and lists are rapidly emerging, as data are collected on virtually every aspect of our lives. From... -
Ethical Violence by Carlo Bordoni 9781509561025
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.84Human civilization is founded on ethical principles, norms of behaviour that have accumulated over time. Perhaps the oldest of ethical principles is the rejection of violence, which includes the... -
Ego: The Game of Life Frank Schirrmacher 9780745686868
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.25Twenty-five years after the end of the Cold War, a new Cold War is being waged in our societies. During the Cold War a theoretical model of man was developed by economists and the military, an... -
Homo Economicus: The (Lost) Prophet of Modern Times Daniel Cohen 9780745680125
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $17.14The West has long defined the pursuit of happiness in economic terms but now, in the wake of the 2007-8 financial crisis, it is time to think again about what constitutes our happiness.In this... -
Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism by Wolfgang Streeck 9781786630711
Booksplease Price: $33.35The financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 still has the world on tenterhooks. The gravity of the situation is matched by a general paucity of understanding about what is happening and how... -
Europe Entrapped Claus Offe (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany) 9780745687520
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.89Today Europe finds itself in a crisis that casts a dark shadow over an entire generation. The seriousness of the crisis stems from one core political contradiction at the heart of the European... -
Europe Entrapped Claus Offe (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany) 9780745687513
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $21.69Today Europe finds itself in a crisis that casts a dark shadow over an entire generation. The seriousness of the crisis stems from one core political contradiction at the heart of the European...