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Seeing Race Again: Countering Colorblindness across the Disciplines

University of California Press, 2019

Every academic discipline has an origin story complicit with white supremacy. Racial hierarchy and colonialism structured the very foundations of most disciplines’ research and teaching paradigms. In the early twentieth century, the academy faced rising opposition and correction, evident in the intervention of scholars including W. E....

The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe: Volume 2, 1870 to the Present

Cambridge University Press, 2010

Unlike most existing textbooks on the economic history of modern Europe, which offer a country-by-country approach, The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe rethinks Europe's economic history since 1700 as unified and pan-European, with the material organised by topic rather than by country. This second volume tracks Europe's...

The Politics of Operations: Excavating Contemporary Capitalism

Duke University Press, 2019

In The Politics of Operations Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson investigate how capital reshapes its relation with politics through operations that enable the extraction and exploitation of mineral resources, labor, data, and cultures. They show how capital—which they theorize as a direct political actor—operates...

International Political Economy

Routledge, 2018

Local developments reflect global forces, and global forces are in turn shaped by these local developments. Consider the Trump administration that entered office in January 2017. It seems clear that Trump’s somewhat surprising victory was due in part to support from workers in key Rust Belt states who had seen their jobs...

Venture Work: Employees in Thinly Capitalized Firms

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book contributes to the ongoing discussion around so-called precarious or venture work, as the proportion of those employed by start-ups and thinly-capitalized firms continues to grow. Filling a gap in literature, the author explores the relationship between venture co-workers and examines how they cope with economic...

Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World

Cambridge University Press, 2010

Over the past decade there has been a growing public fascination with the complex connectedness of modern society. This connectedness is found in many incarnations: in the rapid growth of the Internet, in the ease with which global communication takes place, and in the ability of news and information as well as epidemics and financial crises...

A History of Interest Rates, Fourth Edition (Wiley Finance)

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

A History of INTEREST RATES

The late Sidney Homer published the First Edition of A History of Interest Rates in 1963 because he believed that a comprehensive history of this universal and basic economic and commercial price was necessary. Now in its Fourth Edition, A History of Interest Rates has become a classic in the fields of...

Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis (Disaster Risk Management)

World Bank Publications, 2005

Earthquakes, floods, drought, and other natural hazards cause tens of thousands of deaths, hundreds of thousands of injuries, and billions of dollars in economic losses each year around the world. Many billions of dollars in humanitarian assistance, emergency loans, and development aid are expended annually. Yet efforts to reduce the risks of...

Materials and Innovative Product Development: Using Common Sense

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2009

Harness the power of materials R&D within the design cycle and realize the massive economic benefits of new materials and innovation with traditional materials.

Innovation in product design starts with materials. Developing successful commercial products demands a sound understanding of the materials that go into those...

Market Liberalism and Economic Patriotism in the Capitalist World-System (International Political Economy Series)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This volume broadens the scope of 'comparative capitalism' within the Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) tradition. It endorses the employment of multiple perspectives, including critical political economy, institutionalist systems of capitalism, structuralist-dependency scholarship and world-systems theory. The contributors deal with the...

Mobile Satellite Communication Networks

John Wiley & Sons, 2001

Until very recently, geostationary satellites have been used as a sole basis for the provision of mobile satellite services. However, the launch of satellite personal communication services (S-PCS), which make use of non-geostationary satellites, has provided a new dimension to the mobile satellite communications industry. The introduction of S-PCS...

Obtaining the Best from Regulation and Competition (Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy)

Springer, 2005

This book is the result of two Research Seminars at the Center for
Research in Regulated Industries‚ Rutgers—The State University of New
Jersey on October 24‚ 2003‚ and May 7‚ 2004. Twenty six previous
seminars in the same series resulted in Problems in Public Utility Economics
and Regulation...

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