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Cover Platform Economy Puzzles
Platform Economy Puzzles
A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Gig Work
Editors: Jeroen Meijerink, Giedo Jansen, and Victoria Daskalova
Searching for paid tasks via digital labour platforms, such as Uber, Deliveroo and Fiverr, has become a global phenomenon and the regular source of income for millions of people. In the advent of digital labour platforms, this insightful book sheds new light on familiar questions about tensions between competition and cooperation, short-term gains and long-term success, and private benefits and public costs. Drawing on a wealth of knowledge from a range of disciplines, including law, management, psychology, economics, sociology and geography, it pieces together a nuanced picture of the societal challenges posed by the platform economy.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
17 Aug 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839100284
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Political Science and Public Policy 2021
Cover The Crisis of Risk
The Crisis of Risk
Subprime Debt and US Financial Power from 1944 to Present
Scott M. Aquanno
For the last decade, progressive scholars determined to understand the 2008 financial crisis have examined the growth of US subprime mortgage debt in the period leading up to the collapse and how government policy supported this accumulation. However, the long history of the subprime crisis, its connection to the patterns of financial risk designated by the postwar international monetary system, has been all too often overlooked. This book explores the long history of the subprime crisis through an original theoretic lens that sheds light on the institutional basis of global debt markets and the role of US Treasury debt in the international financial system.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
06 Aug 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800370838
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Political Science and Public Policy 2021
Cover Handbook of Business and Public Policy
Handbook of Business and Public Policy
Editors: Aynsley Kellow, Tony Porter, and Karsten Ronit
This comprehensive Handbook provides an analysis of the key issues, accomplishments, and challenges of research and practices related to the interactions between business and public policy.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
06 Aug 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788979122
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Political Science and Public Policy 2021
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MNCs in Global Politics
Pathways of Influence
Editors: John Mikler and Karsten Ronit
This authoritative book examines the power of multinational corporations (MNCs) to exert influence in global politics. Focusing on the actions and motivations of MNCs, it explores how they attempt to shape the political issues that affect them.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
08 Dec 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789903232
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Energy Transitions in Mediterranean Countries
Energy Transitions in Mediterranean Countries
Consumption, Emissions and Security of Supplies
Silvana Bartoletto
This illuminating book analyses energy transitions, carbon dioxide emissions and the security of energy supply in Mediterranean countries. Unpacking the history of energy transitions, from coal to oil and natural gas, and from non-renewable to renewable energy sources, Silvana Bartoletto offers a comparative approach to the major trends in energy consumption, production, trade and security in Mediterranean countries in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
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Publication Date:
06 Oct 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788977555
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover A Research Agenda for Corporations
A Research Agenda for Corporations
Christopher May
This exciting Research Agenda offers a multi-disciplinary and historically informed programme for the further investigation of the global political economy of the corporate sector. It tackles the question, can and should the corporation be reformed? Christopher May develops a range of intersecting areas for research while also offering an account of the possibilities for the reform of the global corporation.
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06 Oct 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788977531
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover The Infrastructured State
The Infrastructured State
Territoriality and the National Infrastructure System
Colin Turner
At the core of the logic of this book is that states engage in infrastructuring as a means of securing and enhancing their territoriality. By positioning infrastructure as a system, there is a presumption that all infrastructures exhibit some degree of mutual dependence. As such, a National Infrastructure System (NIS) is not simply about conventional conceptions of infrastructure based on those that support economic activity (i.e. energy, transport and information) but also about broader hard and soft structures that both enable and are supported by the aforementioned economic infrastructures. Consequently, this book offers an ambitious holistic view on the form of NIS arguing that the infrastructural mandate requires a conception of the state that encapsulates themes from both the competition and the welfare states in infrastructure provision.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
04 Feb 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788970310
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover The Handbook of Globalisation, Third Edition
The Handbook of Globalisation, Third Edition
Editor: Jonathan Michie
The past 30 years are often depicted as an era of globalisation, and even more so with the recent rise of global giants such as Google and Amazon. This updated and revised edition of The Handbook of Globalisation offers novel insights into the rapid changes our world is facing, and how best we can handle them.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
26 Apr 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788118606
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Economics 2019
Cover The Ethics of Competition
The Ethics of Competition
How a Competitive Society is Good for All
Christoph Lütge
The concept of competition is frequently regarded with ambivalence. While its champions wholeheartedly endorse it for reasons of efficiency, critics believe competition undermines ethics. They denounce competitive thinking, call for modesty in profit-making, and rail against economisation. However, Christoph Lütge argues convincingly that intensified competition can work in favour of ethical goals, and that many criticisms of competition stem from an inadequate understanding of how modern societies and economies function. The author illustrates his view with examples from ecology, healthcare and education, and concludes with a call for more entrepreneurial spirit.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
22 Feb 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788972994
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Economics 2019
Cover Regional Infrastructure Systems
Regional Infrastructure Systems
The Political Economy of Regional Infrastructure
Colin Turner
As the international economy globalises, there is a need for national infrastructure systems to adapt to form a global infrastructure system. This network of networks aids mobility between national systems as a means of supporting their territorial needs and preferences. This reflects a strategic approach to state infrastructuring as nations seek to utilise these physical systems to support and enhance their territoriality. Providing a thorough examination through the lens of economic infrastructure, the book addresses the forces of integration and fragmentation in global networks.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
28 Sep 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786430588
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Social and Political Science 2018