The Globalization of Inequality (Bourguignon Franois)(Paperback)

The Globalization of Inequality (Bourguignon Franois)(Paperback)

Why national and international equality matter and what we can do to ensure a fairer world In The Globalization of Inequality, distinguished economist and policymaker Fran ois Bourguignon examines the complex and paradoxical links between a vibrant world economy that has raised the living standard

Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization (Milanovic Branko)(Paperback)

Winner of the Bruno Kreisky Prize, Karl Renner InstitutA Financial Times Best Economics Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of the Year A Livemint Best Book of the Year One of the world's leading economists of inequality, Branko Milanovic presents a bold new account of the dynamics that drive

Theorizing Globalization: A Critique of the Mediatization of Social Theory (Ampuja Marko)(Paperback)

Theorizing Globalization offers a reassessment of mainstream perspectives on globalization, providing essential insights into an enormously popular field of

The Globalization of Wine (Inglis David)(Paperback)

The Globalization of Wine is a definitive guide to understanding wine across the world today. Examining recent developments in the wine industry, it considers the social, cultural, economic, political, and geographical dimensions of wine globalization and investigates how large-scale changes in

The Globalization of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of the Spirit (Alexander Bruce)(Paperback)

'The Globalization of Addiction' presents a radical rethink about the nature of addiction. Scientific medicine has failed when it comes to addiction. There are no reliable methods to cure it, prevent it, or take the pain out of it. There is no durable consensus on what addiction is, what causes it,

Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited - Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump (Stiglitz Joseph)(Paperback / softback)

Globalization and the Linkage of Trade and Environmental Issues (Grossman Perry)(Paperback)

The effects of globalization on the environment are a pressing concern and in order to understand globalization we need to understand how both freer trade and environment protection measures emerge. This book analyses the dynamic interactions between corporations, social movements and state actors

Inequality: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) (Galbraith James K.)(Paperback)

Over the past thirty years, the issue of economic inequality has emerged from the backwaters of economics to claim center stage in the political discourse of America and beyond---a change prompted by a troubling fact: numerous measures of income inequality, especially in the United States in the

Why Globalization Works (Wolf Martin)(Paperback)

A powerful case for the global market economy The debate on globalization has reached a level of intensity that inhibits comprehension and obscures the issues. In this book a highly distinguished international economist scrupulously explains how globalization works as a concept and how it operates

A Discourse on Inequality (Rousseau Jean-Jacques)(Paperback)

In A Discourse on Inequality, Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man's natural happiness and freedom by creating artificial inequalities of wealth, power and social privilege. Contending that primitive man was equal to his fellows, Rousseau believed that as

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (Rousseau Jean-Jacques)(Paperback / softback)

Globalization and Crime (Franko Katja)(Paperback)

Now in its third edition, Globalization & Crime provides students with a comprehensive overview of the essential themes and conceptual debates surrounding globalization and global criminology. It examines established topics such as human trafficking and smuggling, migration and organised crime. But

Intercultural Communication: Globalization and Social Justice (Sorrells Kathryn)(Paperback)

Intercultural Communication: Globalization and Social Justice introduces students to the study of communication among cultures within the broader context of globalization. Author Kathryn Sorrells highlights history, power, and global institutions as central to understanding the relationships and

An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization (Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty)(Paperback)

The Wombs of Women: Race, Capital, Feminism (Vergs Franoise)(Paperback)

In the 1960s thousands of poor women of color on the (post)colonial French island of Reunion had their pregnancies forcefully terminated by white doctors; the doctors operated under the pretext of performing benign surgeries, for which they sought government compensation. When the scandal broke in

Development and Underdevelopment - The Political Economy of Global Inequality (Seligson Mitchell A.)(Paperback / softback)

The History of Civilization in Europe (Guizot Franois)(Paperback)

Originally given as a series of lectures at the Sorbonne, Fran ois Guizot's History of Civilization in Europe was published to great acclaim in 1828 and is now regarded as a classic in modern historical research. History was particularly influential on Karl Marx, John Stuart Mill, and Alexis de

Creative Justice: Cultural Industries, Work and Inequality (Banks Mark)(Paperback)

Creative Justice examines issues of inequality and injustice in the cultural industries and cultural workplace. It first aims to 'do justice' to the kinds of objects and texts produced by artists, musicians, designersand other kinds of symbol-makers - by appreciating them as meaningful goods with

The Politics of Inequality (David Pettinicchio)(Pevná vazba)

In The Politics of Inequality, David Pettinicchio has gathered an interdisciplinary team of leading experts to make a valuable contribution to the existing inequalities literature through a political sociology lens. Broad social, political and economic forces associated with neoliberalism and

The Economics of Inequality (Piketty Thomas)(Pevná vazba)

Thomas Piketty--whose Capital in the Twenty-First Century pushed inequality to the forefront of public debate--wrote The Economics of Inequality as an introduction to the conceptual and factual background necessary for interpreting changes in economic inequality over time. This concise text has

The First Age of Industrial Globalization: An International History 1815-1918 (Abbenhuis Maartje)(Paperback)

The Nature of Space (Santos Milton)(Paperback)

In The Nature of Space, pioneering Afro-Brazilian geographer Milton Santos attends to globalization writ large and how local and global orders intersect in the construction of space. Santos offers a theory of human space based on relationships between time and ontology. He argues that when

The New Rulers of the World (Pilger John)(Paperback)

Pilger tackles the injustices and double standards inherent in the politics of globalization and exposes the terrible truth behind the power and wealth of states and corporations John Pilger is one of the world's renowned investigative journalists and documentary filmmakers. In this classic book,

The Sociology of Globalization (Martell Luke)(Paperback)

The new edition of this accessible and wide-ranging book demonstrates the distinctive insights that sociology has to bring to the study of globalization. Taking in the cultural, political and economic dimensions of globalization, the book provides a thorough introduction to key debates and