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A revealing and candid portrayal of a Europe improvising its way through a series of crises. Forced into action by a tidal wave of emergencies, Europe has had to reinvent itself, casting off its legal straitjacket and confronting hard issues that threaten its own political identity.

Ronaldo Munck examines how globalization has created a new global working class and suggests that we are at the beginning of a new era for workers and their organizations, in which they will begin to impact decisively on the new global order that they have helped to create.

An authoritative introduction to economic activity and income outside of government regulation, taxation and observation. The books examines its importance and characteristics in developed, developing and transitional economies, and its role as a driver of economic growth.

What is the optimum size of government? And how does it relate to economic growth? Indeed, how do we measure it? This book explores the growing economic power of government across the EU and offers an insightful analysis of public sector dynamics and the shortcomings of official statistics.

The solidarity of Europe, the driving force behind social and economic integration, has given way to suspicion and nationalism. If Europe, as a common project, is to continue a restructuring is required, if not a new settlement of power within the Union. This book explores what a "post-crisis Europe" might look like.

A clear and rigorous guide to the principles and mechanisms of austerity economics, which offers a balanced point of reference for anyone keen to understand the economic thinking behind key policy decisions in the wake of the financial crisis.

A significant critique of neoliberal economics that shows how the free market perspective is tied up with an androcentric understanding of the economy which overlooks the role of social reproduction. The book identifies alternatives for a more gender equitable, environmentally and socially sustainable progressive economic policy.

Written by one of the key pioneers in the field, this book, suitable for undergraduate courses, offers an accessible introduction to general equilibrium theory and some of its most important developments of the past fifty years, including the sunspot model, the overlapping generations model and the model with financial assets

Catherine Fieschi examines why populism and populist parties have become a feature of our politics. Populism's appeal, she argues, needs to be understood as a response to the fundamental reshaping of our political, economic and social spheres through globalization and the digital revolution.

Westlake argues that Brexit should be seen as a series of longer-term trends that were inexorably leading, or pushing, the UK away from full membership of the European Union, rather than as a sudden, impulsive act of rejection.

In Seeing Ourselves, humanist philosopher and neuroscientist Raymond Tallis goes in search of what kind of beings we are, and where we might find meaning in our lives. If we reject religion, asks Tallis, what should we put in its place? How do we ensure, if we accept the death of God, that something within us does not also die? And where do we find meaning if, as some scientists claim, we are simply organisms shaped by the forces of evolution, with no reason to exist and with no objective value? Tallis begins his quest by establishing what it is we know of our fundamental nature. He examines our relationship to our own bodies, to time, our selfhood and our agency - all manifestations of the unique nature of human consciousness - and shows why human beings are like nothing else in the universe. Having revealed our nature in all its glory, he then addresses what is unresolved in the human condition - our hunger for meaning and purpose - and the search for something that matches the profundity of religion. He shows that it is the actuality of human transcendence and the needs it awakens that must be the bridge across the divide between believers and non-believers. The book is ultimately a celebration. Behind the philosophical arguments is a hunger for more wakefulness inspired by a feeling of wonder and gratitude for the mystery of the most commonplace manifestations of our humanity. Tallis's endeavour in Seeing Ourselves is to illuminate how we see our everyday world and to think more clearly about who we are. It is only when we have woken from dogmatic religion and scientistic naturalism, he argues, that we will find ourselves at the threshold of an unfettered inquiry - into ourselves, the world we have built and the universe into which we have built it - and then there may be some hope for salvation.

An authoritative introduction to one of the most perplexing issues of economic growth: the notion that developing countries rich in natural resources perform less well economically than countries with fewer natural resources.

James Heintz tackles the shortcomings of macroeconomic policies in relation to gender dynamics, such as ignoring the valuable and quantifiable role that the unpaid work of women for their families contributes to the economy, and suggests new ways of framing macroeconomic concepts.

Contributing around 10 per cent of world GDP, the construction sector is one of the biggest industries in the world. Stephen Gruneberg and Noble Francis, two of the UK's leading construction economists, present an up-to-date analysis of the construction industry's business model and the risks and challenges the industry faces in the twenty-first century.

A major challenge to the view that prostitution and the "sex economy" can ever be normalised as a legitimate economic business in which women have control, and as employment comparable to other forms of low-paid work.

Alex de Ruyter and Martyn Brown explain the key facets of the gig economy and explore the dangers and potential it affords. Drawing on recent case-studies from the UK, Europe and the USA, it offers an authoritative guide through the theories and issues that surround the gig economy and the ramifications of an increasingly insecure workforce.

A new economic history and political economy of the Gulf States -- Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and UAE.

The notion of marginalism, central to modern economic theory, emerged in the 1870s and underpinned the change from classical economics to modern (micro)economics. This book explores the concept's development and role in modern economics and shows why the marginalist approach is much more than a set of mathematical rules.

A major new work that charts the historical development of a postcolonial settlement that has given rise to a racialized distintion between the "deserving" and "undeserving" poor, the latest incarnation of which is a distinction between a deserving, neglected white working class and "others" who are undeserving, not indigenous, and not white.

A concise overview of the workings of the modern Italian economy and its unique characteristics from the doyenne of Italian economic historians.

Our sense-making capabilities and the relationship between our individual and collective intelligence and the comprehensibility of the world is both remarkable and deeply mysterious. Our capacity to make sense of the world and the fact that we pass our lives steeped in knowledge and understanding, albeit incomplete, that far exceeds what we are or even experience has challenged our greatest thinkers for centuries. In Logos, Raymond Tallis steps into the gap between mind and world to explore what is at stake in our attempts to make sense of our world and our lives. With his characteristic combination of scholarly rigour and lively humour he reveals how philosophers, theologians and scientists have sought to demystify our extraordinary capacity to understand the world by collapsing the distance between the mind that does the sense-making and the world that is made sense of. Such strategies - whether by locating the world inside the mind, or making the mind part of the world - are shown to be deeply flawed and of little help in explaining the intelligiblity of the world. Indeed, it is the distance that we need, argues Tallis, if knowledge is to count as knowledge and for there to be a distinction between the knower and the known. Tallis brings his formidable analysis to bear on the many challenges we face when trying to make sense of our sense-making and showcases his enviable knack of making tricky philosophical arguments cogent and engaging to the non-specialist and his remarkable ability to help us see humankind more clearly. For anyone who has shared Einstein's observation that "e;the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility"e;, the book will be fascinating and insightful reading.

A story of vested interest and the pursuit of power and profit that brought about America's first central bank. Naclerio sheds new light on the creation of one of the world'smost important financial institutions and how it came to have the national and international influence it exerts today.

Mary Murphy offers a detailed and in-depth analysis of Northern Ireland's relationship with the EU, the role the EU has played in rebuilding the region after the Troubles, and the challenges and opportunities that Brexit might offer Northern Ireland in terms of its fragile politics and economy.

What the rest of Europe thinks about Brexit . . . An in-depth, ground-up analysis of the attitudes and opinions of the other 27 EU member states towards Britain's decision to leave.

An in-depth examination of one of the defining issues that separates capitalism from socialism - the system of ownership, or property rights - which, when explored, highlight fundamental problems in the model of market socialism.

An international team of contributors explores the challenges of money laundering in the digital age and how best to regulate it in a globalized world.

This introduction to the topic of "degrowth", an increasingly influential idea within ecological economics, assesses what it would take for an economy to transition to a position that enabled it to prosper without growth.

A short, non-technical guide to the workings of a fast-moving industry that remains of huge importance to the global economy and continues to be a national barometer of economic success and failure.

A major contribution to our understanding of the dominant economic language of our time, which unpacks the concept of "the market" to reveal exactly what it means to defer to the "logic of the market" and to submit to "market forces".

An engaging and rigorous introduction and synthesis for students and the general reader looking to understand what's at stake when the rewards of capitalism are distributed unjustly.