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  • A Permanent Crisis

    The Financial Oligarchy’s Seizing of Power and the Failure of Democracy

    by Marc Chesney ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This short book describes the role big banks played in the financial crisis of 2008 while denouncing the financial oligarchy’s seizing of power and the dangers it represents for democracy today. There have been many books since the financial crisis that have considered historical events leading up to the crisis but few that consider a solution. Ten years after the great financial crash, this book ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Environmental Finance and Investments

    by Marc Chesney, Jonathan Gheyssens, Luca Taschini ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The current economic and environmental situation poses fundamental questions that this book aims to answer: Under which conditions could a market-based approach contribute to a decrease in emissions? How are abatement and investment strategies generated or promoted under permit regimes like the European Union Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS)? In the context of the EU ETS, what is the trade-off ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Environmental Finance and Investments

    by Marc Chesney, Jonathan Gheyssens, Anca Claudia Pana, Luca Taschini ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This textbook provides an introduction to environmental finance and investments. The current situation raises fundamental questions that this book aims to address. Under which conditions could carbon pricing schemes contribute to a significant decrease in emissions? What are the new investment strategies that the Kyoto Protocol and the emerging carbon pricing schemes around the world should ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Invisible Punishment

    The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment

    Edited by Marc Mauer, Meda Chesney-Lind ...
    In a series of newly commissioned essays from the leading scholars and advocates in criminal justice, Invisible Punishment explores, for the first time, the far-reaching consequences of our current criminal justice policies. Adopted as part of "get tough on crime" attitudes that prevailed in the 1980s and '90s, a range of strategies, from "three strikes" and "a war on drugs," to mandatory ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Invisible Punishment

    The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment

    Edited by Meda Chesney-Lind, Marc Mauer ...
    In a series of newly commissioned essays from the leading scholars and advocates in criminal justice, Invisible Punishment explores, for the first time, the far-reaching consequences of our current criminal justice policies. Adopted as part of “get tough on crime” attitudes that prevailed in the 1980s and '90s, a range of strategies, from “three strikes” and “a war on drugs,” to mandatory ... Read more

    $13.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The History of a Dangerous Idea

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    Conservatives today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse. In contrast, they have advanced a policy of draconian budget cuts--austerity--to solve the financial crisis. We are told that we have all lived beyond our means and now need to tighten our belts. This view conveniently forgets where all ... Read more

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  • The End of Policing

    by Alex S. Vitale ...
    **The best-selling bible of the movement to defund the police in an updated edition"Urgent, provocative, and timely, The End of Policing will make you question most of what you have been taught to believe about crime and how to solve it."—James Forman Jr., author of Locking Up Our Own**The massive uprising that followed the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020— by some estimates ... Read more

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  • The New Jim Crow

    Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

    by Michelle Alexander ...
    One of the New York Times's Best Books of the 21st CenturyNamed one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly' Slate' Chronicle of Higher Education' Literary Hub, Book Riot' and ZoraA tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller—"one of the most influential books of the past 20 years," according to the Chronicle of Highe... ... Read more

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  • Policing the Black Man

    Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment

    Edited by Angela J. Davis ...
    A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation’s most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal scholars.“Somewhere among the anger, mourning and malice that Policing the Black Man documents lies the pursuit of justice. This powerful book demands our ... Read more

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  • The End of Alchemy

    Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy

    by Mervyn King ...
    “If [The End of Alchemy] gets the attention it deserves, it might just save the world.” —Michael Lewis, Bloomberg ViewSomething is wrong with our banking system. We all sense that, but Mervyn King knows it firsthand; his ten years at the helm of the Bank of England, including at the height of the financial crisis, revealed profound truths about the mechanisms of our capitalist society. In The End ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Open Season

    Legalized Genocide of Colored People

    by Ben Crump ...
    "A deft and unflinching exposé on America's treatment of people of color" from the attorney who took on the George Floyd and Breonna Taylor cases ( Kenya Barris, creator of Black-ish).As seen on CBS This Morning, award-winning attorney Ben Crump exposes a heinous truth in Open Season: Whether with a bullet or a lengthy prison sentence, America is killing black people and justifying it legally. ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Locked In

    The True Causes of Mass Incarceration-and How to Achieve Real Reform

    by John Pfaff ...
    **A groundbreaking reassessment of the American prison system, challenging the widely accepted explanations for our exploding incarceration rates“A must-read for anyone who dreams of an America that is not the world’s most imprisoned nation.” —Chris Hayes, host of MSNBC’s All In**In Locked In, John Pfaff argues that the factors most commonly cited to explain mass incarceration -- the failed War on ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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