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  • How to Build a Stock Exchange

    The Past, Present and Future of Finance

    by Philip Roscoe ...
    Why is finance so important? How do stock markets work and what do they really do? Most importantly, what might finance be and what could we expect from it?Exploring contemporary finance via the development of stock exchanges, markets and the links with states, Roscoe mingles historical and technical detail with humorous anecdotes and lively portraits of market participants.Deftly combining ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • What Are Markets For?

    by Philip Roscoe ...
    Series series What Is It For?
    A new perspective on the role of the market, and its future place in society.Markets are apparently straightforward: they connect buyers to sellers. But their operation is complex, depending on places, things, networks and performances. Belief in markets is a cultural and political ideology. They are a means of governance in modern society, linked to individualistic self-responsibility.But markets ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Creating Economy

    Enterprise, Intellectual Property, and the Valuation of Goods

    by Barbara Townley, Philip Roscoe, Nicola Searle ...
    Creativity is at the vanguard of contemporary capitalism, valorised as a form of capital in its own right. It is the centrepiece of the vaunted 'creative economy', the creative industries, and is increasingly a focus of public policy. But what is economic about creativity? How can creative labour become the basis for a distinctive global industry? And how has the solitary artist, a figment of the ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • Market Studies

    Mapping, Theorizing and Impacting Market Action

    Edited by Susi Geiger, Katy Mason, Neil Pollock, Philip Roscoe, Annmarie Ryan, Stefan Schwarzkopf, Pascale Trompette ...
    Market studies is a newly emerging field dedicated to understanding the origins, core concepts, theories and methods currently being used and developed to examine markets in the making. Providing a unique overview that introduces, positions and develops this highly fertile area of research, Market Studies is the first book to consolidate its themes, tools and methods in a single, comprehensive ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

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  • Cogs and Monsters

    What Economics Is, and What It Should Be

    by Diane Coyle ...
    How economics needs to change to keep pace with the twenty-first century and the digital economyDigital technology, big data, big tech, machine learning, and AI are revolutionizing both the tools of economics and the phenomena it seeks to measure, understand, and shape. In Cogs and Monsters, Diane Coyle explores the enormous problems—but also opportunities—facing economics today and examines what ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Ethics, Technology, and Engineering

    An Introduction

    by Ibo van de Poel, Lamber Royakkers ...
    Featuring a wide range of international case studies, Ethics, Technology, and Engineering presents a unique and systematic approach for engineering students to deal with the ethical issues that are increasingly inherent in engineering practice.Utilizes a systematic approach to ethical case analysis -- the ethical cycle -- which features a wide range of real-life international case studies ... Read more

    $119.00 USD

  • Transforming the Future

    Anticipation in the 21st Century

    Edited by Riel Miller ...
    People are using the future to search for better ways to achieve sustainability, inclusiveness, prosperity, well-being and peace. In addition, the way the future is understood and used is changing in almost all domains, from social science to daily life.This book presents the results of significant research undertaken by UNESCO with a number of partners to detect and define the theory and practice ... Read more

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  • Governing the Sustainable Development Goals

    Quantification in Global Public Policy

    by Justyna Bandola-Gill, Sotiria Grek, Marlee Tichenor ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book conceptualises the Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures that connect numbers, networks and governing paradigms.The book approaches quantification not merely as a tool for governing, but rather as a broader epistemic system through which global public policy is produced. This book focuses on the role of international organisations in shaping and ... Read more

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  • Another Economy is Possible

    Culture and Economy in a Time of Crisis

    by Manuel Castells ...
    Throughout the Western world, governments and financial elites responded to the financial crisis of 2008 by trying to restore the conditions of business as usual, but the economic, social and human damage inflicted by the crisis has given rise to a reconsideration of the inevitability of unfettered capitalism as a fact of life. A number of economic practices and organizations emerged in Europe and ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • The Changing Economic Geography of Globalization

    by Giovanna Vertova ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Global Competition
    The process of globalization has had profound, often destabilizing, effects on space, at all levels (i.e. local, regional, national, international). This revealing book analyzes, both theoretically and empirically, the effects of globalization over space. It considers, through a dialogue among different paradigms, the ways in which space has become more important in the global economy ... Read more

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  • Other People's Money

    The Real Business of Finance

    by John Kay ...
    The finance sector of Western economies is too large and attracts too many of the smartest college graduates. Financialization over the past three decades has created a structure that lacks resilience and supports absurd volumes of trading. The finance sector devotes too little attention to the search for new investment opportunities and the stewardship of existing ones, and far too much to ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Knowledge and Institutions

    Edited by Johannes Glückler, Roy Suddaby, Regina Lenz ...
    Series Book 13 - Knowledge and Space
    This open access book bridges the disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences to explore the role of social institutions in shaping geographical contexts, and in creating new knowledge. It includes theorizations as well as original empirical case studies on the emergence, maintenance and change of institutions as well as on their constraining and enabling effects on innovation, ... Read more

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