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  • Fictions of Financialization

    Rethinking Speculation, Exploitation and Twenty-First-Century Capitalism

    by Nick Bernards ...
    ‘Incisive, politically engaged, and theoretically sophisticated … A must-read for anyone concerned with the prospects of a liveable and sustainable future for all on this planet’ Ilias Alami, author of Money Power and Financial Capital in Emerging Markets‘A comprehensive critique of the financialization discourse, offering vital insights’ Jack Copley, author of Governing FinancializationFor ... Read more

    $27.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Critical History of Poverty Finance

    Colonial Roots and Neoliberal Failures

    by Nick Bernards ...
    'The definitive account of the history of poverty finance' - Susanne SoederbergFinance, mobile and digital technologies - or 'fintech' - are being heralded in the world of development by the likes of the IMF and World Bank as a silver bullet in the fight against poverty. But should we believe the hype?A Critical History of Poverty Finance demonstrates how newfangled 'digital financial inclusion' ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Global Governance of Precarity

    Primitive Accumulation and the Politics of Irregular Work

    by Nick Bernards ...
    Series series RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
    ‘Standard’ employment relationships, with permanent contracts, regular hours, and decent pay, are under assault. Precarious work and unemployment are increasingly common, and concern is also growing about the expansion of informal work and the rise of ‘modern slavery’. However, precarity and violence are in fact longstanding features of work for most of the world’s population. Lamenting the ‘loss’ ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    Addicted to Mediocrity

    20th Century Christians and the Arts

    by Francis A. Schaeffer ...
    Narrated by Nick Bernard ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 22 min

    In this provocative book, Franky Schaeffer shows how Christians today have sacrificed the cultural prominence they enjoyed for so many centuries, settling instead for mediocrity. This sad state of affairs is evidenced by the kind of cheap kitsch that represents Christianity today: trinkets, tee shirts, and bumper stickers that put the name of the Creator of the universe on the same level as a soda ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by David Harvey ...
    "What I am seeking here is a better understanding of the contradictions of capital, not of capitalism. I want to know how the economic engine of capitalism works the way it does, and why it might stutter and stall and sometimes appear to be on the verge of collapse. I also want to show why this economic engine should be replaced, and with what." --from the Introduction To modern Western society, ... Read more

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  • The Story of Capital

    What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works

    by David Harvey ...
    The world's leading Marxist geographer and economist guides general readers through major concepts in capitalism and Marx's masterworkFor decades, David Harvey has been teaching Marx's work, particularly Capital, to great acclaim. He has analysed chapter by chapter - sometimes line-by-line - Marx's three volumes and the Grundrisse. This new book opens up the mental universe of that work for a ... Read more

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  • Contested Federalism

    by Herman Bakvis, Gerald Baier, Douglas Brown ...
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    $36.99 USD

  • International Law, International Relations and Global Governance

    by Charlotte Ku ...
    Series series Global Institutions
    International Relations and International Law have developed in parallel but distinctly throughout the 20th Century. However in recent years there has been recognition that their shared concerns in areas as diverse as the environment, transnational crime and terrorism, human rights and conflict resolution outweigh their disciplinary and methodological divergences.This concise and accessible volume ... Read more

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  • Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason

    by David Harvey ...
    Karl Marx's Capital is one of the most important texts written in the modern era. Since 1867, when the first of its three volumes was published, it has had a profound effect on politics and economics in theory and practice throughout the world. But Marx wrote in the context of capitalism in the second half of the nineteenth century, and his assumptions and analysis need to be updated in order to ... Read more

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  • Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants?

    by Christopher Bertram ...
    States claim the right to choose who can come to their country. They put up barriers and expose migrants to deadly journeys. Those who survive are labelled ‘illegal’ and find themselves vulnerable and unrepresented. The international state system advantages the lucky few born in rich countries and locks others into poor and often repressive ones.In this book, Christopher Bertram skilfully weaves a ... Read more

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  • A Theory of Fields

    by Neil Fligstein, Doug McAdam ...
    Finding ways to understand the nature of social change and social order-from political movements to market meltdowns-is one of the enduring problems of social science. A Theory of Fields draws together far-ranging insights from social movement theory, organizational theory, and economic and political sociology to construct a general theory of social organization and strategic action. In a work of ... Read more

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  • Parliamentary Democracy in Crisis

    Edited by Peter H. Russell, Lorne Sossin ...
    In November 2008, as the economic decline was being fully realized, Canada's newly elected minority government, led by Conservative Stephen Harper, presented a highly divisive fiscal update in advance of a proposed budget. Unable to support the motion, the Liberal and New Democratic Parties, with the backing of the Bloc Québécois, formed a coalition in order to seek a no-confidence vote and to ... Read more

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