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This book focuses on building regional resilience by comprehensively improving regional assets. Regional vulnerability depends on the availability of regional assets for the population, as well as the population’s ability to access those assets. Such assets include the...
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Springer
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2019-07-26
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New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives
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In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, central banks created trillions of dollars of new money, and poured it into financial markets. ‘Quantitative Easing’ (QE) was supposed to prevent deflation and restore economic growth. But the money didn’t go to ordinary...
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Polity
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2019-07-26
Collection :
The Case For
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Dieser Sammelband gibt einen Überblick über die Herausforderungen für Organisationen im Wirtschaftsschutz im Alltag und stellt Ansätze und Szenarien vor, die für Unternehmen und andere Einrichtungen eine hohe Relevanz haben und die Fähigkeit zur Resilienz erhöhen. Der...
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Springer
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2019-07-24
Collection :
Sicherheit – interdisziplinäre Perspektiven
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Advocated (and attacked) by commentators across the political spectrum, paying every citizen a basic income regardless of their circumstances sounds utopian. However, as our economies are transformed and welfare states feel the strain, it has become a hotly debated...
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Polity
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2019-07-20
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The supreme challenge of our time is tackling climate change. We urgently need to curtail our use of fossil fuels – but how can we do so in a just and feasible way? In this compelling book, leading economist James Boyce shows that the key to solving this conundrum is to...
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Polity
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2019-07-20
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“Dowding and Taylor offer student and scholar alike a clear and compelling perspective on the foundations of political economy. Their narrative coherently frames the scholarship of the last half century, and persuasively applies it to the recurring problems facing...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2019-07-09
Collection :
Foundations of Government and Public Administration
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The economy has been brutal to American workers for several decades.The chance to give one's children a better life than one's own -- the promise at the heart of the American Dream -- is withering away. While onlookers assume those suffering in marginalized...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-07-03
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Why did the West become so rich?Why is inequality rising? How ‘free’ should markets be? And what does sex have to do with it? In this passionate and skilfully argued book, leading feminist Victoria Bateman shows how we can only understand the burning economic issues of...
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Polity
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2019-07-01
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Dieses Buch analysiert die deutsche Migrationspolitik aus ökonomischer Sicht umfassend und systematisch. Der Autor spannt dabei einen weiten Bogen: von der aktuellen Flüchtlingskrise über die Einwanderungspolitik bis zu den Zwängen des Europarechts und der Zukunft des...
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Springer
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2019-06-28
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This book introduces the “Belt and Road” in its entirety, including what it is, what it aims to do, what it can do and how.This book can serve as a helpful resource for the general public, it can improve their understanding about the “Belt and Road” and its relative...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-06-27
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The objective of this book is to take stock of the research Paolo Urio has conducted since 1997 on the rise of modern China, with emphasis on strategic public management.The starting point of the book is China’s will to recover world power status. This objective is of...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-06-27
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This interdisciplinary edited collection explores the dynamics of global capitalist expansion through the concept of the ‘commodity frontier’. Applying an inductive approach rather than starting at the global level, as most meta-narratives have done, this book sheds...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-19
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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"If one wants to understand why, from its modest beginnings, the European Parliament has become a major player in EU decision-making, look no further than this book. It presents, to date, the theoretically most compelling, methodologically disciplined and empirically...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-08
Collection :
European Administrative Governance
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This book discusses policy strategies for the effective management of natural resources in Africa within the context of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). While natural resource wealth has the potential to lift many out of poverty, sustain...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-06-07
Collection :
Natural Resource Management and Policy
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Increasingly, 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 back and questions this logic. He shows how the idea of an employee – a...
Editeur :
Polity
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2019-06-07
Collection :
The Future of Capitalism
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The popular uprisings in 2011 that overthrew Arab dictators were also a rebuke to crony capitalism, diverted against both rulers and their allied businessmen who monopolize all economic opportunities. While the Middle East has witnessed a growing nexus between business...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-23
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During the last few decades, the gap between the incomes, wealth and living standards of rich and poor people has increased in most countries. Economic inequality has become a defining issue of our age. In this book, leading political economist Frank Stilwell provides a...
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Polity
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2019-05-10
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Much of our life involves working, preparing for work, searching for work, or thinking and worrying about work. Whether paid or unpaid, free or coerced, full-time, part-time, or zero-hours, work defines us and helps shape our behavior both on and off the job. In this...
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Polity
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2019-05-07
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We live in a culture of credit. As wages have stagnated, we’ve seen a dramatic surge in private borrowing across the western world; increasing numbers of households are sucked into a hopeless vortex of spiralling debt, fuelled by exploitative lending. In this book...
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Polity
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2019-05-07
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This book explicitly addresses policy options in a democratic society regarding cognitive enhancement drugs and devices. The book offers an in-depth case by case analysis of existing and emerging cognitive neuroenhancement technologies and canvasses a distinct political...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-04-29
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