Economic systems and structures

Everything drug cartels do to survive and prosper they ve learnt from big business brand value and franchising from McDonald s, supply chain management from Walmart, diversification from Coca-Cola.

From the early barter system, through the Industrial Revolution, to the emergence of globalization, economics has defined our lives.

In economics, money illusion refers to the tendency of people to think of currency in nominal, rather than real, terms.

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory and Bewilderment, a visionary novel about the failings of the American dream.

Flash Foresight offers seven radical principles you need to transform your business today.

Modern Tribal Politics points out that the American capitalistic society is superior to European tribal socialism and is the ultimate in social organization.

In this important new book, Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi take a fresh look at the big questions surrounding the peculiar social form known as capitalism, upending many of our commonly held assumptions about what capitalism is and how to subject it to critique.

Traditional theories of development continue to come up short in Africa, and it's time to explore different models to achieve success.

The contemporary debate on economic policy is dominated by the issue of 'which model of capitalism works best'.

How the largest social movement in history is making the world a better place.

The Cold War was a series of momentous worldwide events and Capitalism Vs Communism is designed to give an introductory overview, while also providing context for more recent political moments.

How the largest social movement in history is making the world a better place.

Back to the City

For almost 10,000 years of recorded history, most people had to eke out a living in pain and difficulty.

As we struggle with the legacy of the crisis and with the prospect of accelerating environmental degradation, it is time to ask not what we can do for capitalism but what capitalism can do for us, as citizens of a democratic society.

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In principle the advanced, market-driven world in which we now live is fuelled by knowledge, information and transparency, but in practice the processes that produce this world systematically corrupt and denigrate knowledge: this is the powerful and provocative argument advanced by Colin Crouch in his latest exploration of societies on the road to post-democracy.

In what ways are cities central to the evolution of contemporary global capitalism?

Capitalism is the only complex system known to us that can provide an efficient and innovative economy, but the financial crisis has brought out the pernicious side of capitalism and shown that it remains dependent on the state to rescue it from its own deficiencies.

In this stimulating and highly original work, Kevin Doogan looks at contemporary social transformation through the lens of the labour market.

We are told that this is a new world, with which old theories cannot cope.

Recent years have seen an enormous increase in protests across the world in which citizens have challenged what they see as a deterioration of democratic institutions and the very civil, political and social rights that form the basis of democratic life.

Analyses the European Union''s constitutional transformation during the euro crisis, especially the interaction between politics and the ECJ in its materialization.