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G. D. H. Cole: Early Pamphlets & Assessment
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 130.00This volume of extremely rare pamphlets spans over thirty years of prolific output by G D H Cole. It encompasses the challenges of full employment and the role re-armament in achieving that, nationalizing industries, the principles of socialism and the welfare state. more...
Development and International Relations
Wiley 2013; US$ 24.95This introductory textbook examines the role of the Third World and the processes of development from the study of international politics and argues that in an increasingly globalized world development can no longer be seen as an isolated practice. more...
Working Lives
Wiley 2013; US$ 99.50Full of unique and compelling insights into the working lives of migrant women in the UK, this book draws on more than two decades of in-depth research to explore the changing nature of women’s employment in post-war Britain. A first-rate example of theoretically located empirical analysis of labour market change in contemporary Britain Includes... more...
Public Policy beyond the Financial Crisis
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 145.00The economic crisis of 2008-2009 and beyond has provided the greatest challenge to public policy in the developed world since the Second World War, as the use of public monies to support banks and declining tax revenues have resulted in rising government borrowing and national debt. This book evaluates the failures of public policy in the half decade... more...
Capitalism
Wiley 2013; US$ 24.95Now with a substantial new postscript on the financial crisis This book provides a basic introduction to the 'nuts and bolts' of capitalism. It starts by examining the classic accounts of capitalism found in the works of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Joseph Schumpeter, and John Maynard Keynes. Each placed emphasis on different institutional... more...
Texas Labor History
Texas A&M University Press 2013; US$ 35.00Too often, observers and writers of Texas history have accepted assumptions about labor movements in the state?both organized and not?that do not bear up under the light of careful scrutiny. Offering a scholarly corrective to such misplaced suppositions, the studies in Texas Labor History provide a helpful new source for scholars and teachers who... more...
Resistance in the Age of Austerity
Zed Books 2013; US$ 24.95The 1999 battle in Seattle came to be seen as the starting point for resistance to neoliberal capitalism. Yet the years since have seen little progress in formulating a coherent alternative, a failure that is particularly poignant now that the neoliberal mandate has been resurgent through the post-crisis age of austerity. This... more...
Someplace Like America
University of California Press 2013; US$ 24.95In Someplace Like America , writer Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael S. Williamson take us to the working-class heart of America, bringing to life?through shoe leather reporting, memoir, vivid stories, stunning photographs, and thoughtful analysis?the deepening crises of poverty and homelessness. The story begins in 1980, when the authors joined... more...
A Neo-Classical Theory of Economic Growth (Routledge Revivals)
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 42.95First published in 1960, this seminal work illuminates the interrelations of the various approaches to the theory of economic growth. Professor Meade seeks to understand the factors which determine the speed of economic growth and outlines the ways in which classical economic analysis may be developed for application to the problem of economic growth.... more...
Das Zeitalter von Herbert Giersch
Mohr Siebeck 2013; US$ 63.63Hauptbeschreibung Am 11. Mai 2011 wäre Herbert Giersch 90 Jahre alt geworden. Er lehrte von 1955 bis 1969 an der Universität des Saarlandes und von 1969 bis zu seiner Emeritierung 1989 als Präsident des Instituts für Weltwirtschaft an der Universität Kiel. Zudem war Giersch Gründungsmitglied des Sachverständigenrats zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen... more...









