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Taylor & Francis The State of Labour
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Chinas Crisis Management China Policy Series
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Taylor & Francis Financial Stability and Growth
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Taylor & Francis Innovation and Economic Crisis Lessons and Prospects from the Economic Downturn Routledge Studies in Global Competition
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Contagion of Bank Failures RLE Banking Finance The Relation to Deposit Insurance and Information Routledge Library Editions Banking Finance
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Taylor & Francis Institutions and Development After the Financial Crisis 179 Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
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Taylor & Francis The Political Economy of Global Capitalism and Crisis RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Political Economy of Global Capitalism and Crisis RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Recession Prevention Handbook Eleven Case Studies 19482007
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Taylor & Francis Growth Crisis and the Korean Economy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Aviation in Crisis
Book SynopsisThis title was first published in 2003. The events of 11 September 2001 defy modern economic theory when addressed in aviation terms. Economic theory would suggest that, once the impact of such events are a thing of the past, and economies are restored to their status quo ante, a rise in the gross domestic product of States to earlier levels would almost inevitably result in increased consumption. This in turn would mean that the demand for air travel would rise to earlier proportions and consumption in terms of air transport services would be restored to normalcy. However, the September attacks on United States'' property introduced a unique characteristic through the fear factor that directly impacts the future development of air transport. As a result, the grim task of restoration of passenger confidence stands in the way of economic revival of the air transport industry. Aviation was always in crisis. The air transport industry, even prior to 11 September 2001, although seeminglTable of Contents1: Introduction; 2: The Commercial Crisis; 3: The Security Crisis; 4: The Insurance Crisis; 5: The Environmental Crisis; 6: Conclusion
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Cambridge University Press Financial Crises MSH Colloques
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Cambridge University Press Financial Crises in Emerging Markets
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Cambridge University Press Market Liquidity
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Cambridge University Press The Rise and Fall of Irelands Celtic Tiger
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Cambridge University Press Financial Stability Economic Growth and the Role of Law
Book SynopsisThis book examines international and domestic responses to financial crises while providing an agenda for financial development to support economic growth. The volume provides the first comprehensive analysis of the role of law and institutions in financial stability and development.Table of ContentsPart I. Finance and the International Financial Architecture: 1. Law, finance, and development; 2. Financial stability and the international financial architecture; Part II. Foundations of Finance: 3. Preconditions for and institutional underpinnings of finance; 4. Central banking and financial policy; 5. Financial infrastructure; Part III. Financial Regulation and Supervision: 6. Banking: regulation, supervision, and development; 7. Non-bank finance: securities, insurance, pensions, and microfinance; 8. Financial liberalization, financial conglomerates and financial regulatory structure; Part IV. Looking Forward: 9. The international financial architecture; 10. Reforming financial systems.
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Cambridge University Press Oil Dollars Debt and Crises
Oil Dollars Debt and Crises by Mahmoud A. El-Gamal
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Cambridge University Press The IMF and Global Financial Crises
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Cambridge University Press When States Go Broke
Book SynopsisWhen States Go Broke discusses the ongoing fiscal crisis among the American states. No one disagrees with the idea that the states face enormous political and fiscal challenges. This volume fills an important gap in the dialogue by offering an academic analysis of the many issues broached by these debates.Trade Review"Well-written and cohesive....Editors Conti-Brown and Skeel did a fine job ensuring that a diversity of perspectives were represented, both disciplinary (economists, political scientists, lawyers) and professional/political (academics, a union lawyer, a conservative think tank scholar....Recommended." --ChoiceTable of ContentsPart I. The Problem: The States in Fiscal Crisis: 1. Fiscal constitutions and fiscal crises: a history Isabel Rodriguez-Tejedo and John Wallis; 2. Obligations without the power to fund them: the origins, consequences, and possible solution to the fiscal crisis of the states Damon Silvers; 3. Public pension pressures in the United States Olivia Mitchell; 4. Structural challenges in state budgeting Josh Barro; Part II. The Legal and Political Context of Public Debt: 5. What states can learn from municipal insolvency Clayton Gillette; 6. Market discipline and US federalism Jonathan Rodden; 7. American states and sovereign debt restructuring: lessons and cautionary tales Adam Feibelman; Part III. Evaluating Solutions: 8. State bankruptcy from the ground up David Skeel; 9. Fiscal federalism and the limits of bankruptcy Adam Levitin; 10. Extending bankruptcy law to states: is it constitutional? Michael McConnell; 11. Bankruptcy for the states and by the states George Triantis; 12. Labor and the states' fiscal problems: not the problem but perhaps part of the solution Catherine Fisk and Brian Olney.
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Cambridge University Press Principles of Banking Regulation
An accessible, comprehensive analysis of the main principles and rules of banking regulation in the post-crisis regulatory reform era, this textbook looks at banking regulation from an inter-disciplinary perspective across law, economics, finance, management and policy studies. It provides detailed coverage of the most recent international, European and UK bank regulatory and policy developments, including Basel IV, structural regulation, bank resolution and Brexit, and considers the impact on bank governance, compliance, risk management and strategy.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Price of Prosperity Why Rich Nations Fail and
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSure, The Price of Prosperity is about economics--sort of. But that's just a jumping-off point for this fascinating romp through sociology, anthropology, politics, and above all history. Buchholz's big lesson is that prosperity is not enough to hold a country together; we need culture, community, patriotism--and babies! But he draws readers to that conclusion with a crackling good read--a tour de force that leaps through time and space and is as entertaining as it is educational. -- Alan S. Blinder, former Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve Board and professor of economics at Princeton University A 'must read' for anyone searching for a path to American economic renewal. The elephant in the room in the 2016 presidential campaign is the question of whether America is in decline. In this powerful and provocative book, Todd Buchholz recalls stumbles of other rich nations in history, and he offers a clear roadmap for America to regain her footing today. -- Glenn Hubbard, former chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisers and Dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Business A lively, well-documented and important book. For at least a century, intellectuals have been heralding the death of the nation state, and often applauding it. But Todd Buchholz thinks it would be a disaster. He explains that the economic successes of our nations in some ways undermine them from within. But rather than regretting the past or lamenting the present, this book suggests important things we can do - above all by strengthening the symbols and histories that create identity and help us face the future together -- Lawrence H. Summers, former U.S. Treasury Secretary and President Emeritus of Harvard University A lively, well-documented and important book. For at least a century, intellectuals have been heralding the death of the nation state, and often applauding it. But Todd Buchholz thinks it would be a disaster. He explains that the economic successes of our nations in some ways undermine them from within. But rather than regretting the past or lamenting the present, this book suggests important things we can do - above all by strengthening the symbols and histories that create identity and help us face the future together -- Robert Tombs, professor of history at Cambridge University and author of The English and Their History Todd Buchholz's The Price of Prosperity is loaded with witty and provocative insight into the vexing question of our era: where do the prosperous nations go from here? Inevitable collapse, perpetual stagnation, or renewed purpose and prosperity? -- Michael J. Boskin, former chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisers and professor of economics at Stanford University A refreshing book that offers an alternative to the failing shibboleths of the day. -- Kirkus Reviews ... An interesting view on what makes-and breaks-a wealthy nation. -- Publishers Weekly Targeting a general audience with clarity and humor, Buchholz's insights will interest readers concerned about sustaining national unity. -- Library Journal In sum, this isn't your typical economics tome. But it is typical of Buchholz. His books are always entertaining, often insightful, and sometimes downright scary. What they never are is boring. -- Weekly Standard "highly entertaining, far-sighted, and enjoyably acerbic". -- Sunday Times (London) Buchholz is surely right that fostering a stronger sense of common identity is likely to be part of the answer to sustaining public support for open trade and borders. -- Financial Times
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University of Chicago Press Housing and the Financial Crisis
Book SynopsisConventional wisdom held that housing prices couldn't fall. This book looks at what happened to prices and construction both during and after the housing boom in different parts of the American housing market, accounting for why certain areas experienced less volatility than others. It then examines the causes of the boom and bust.
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The University of Chicago Press Measuring Wealth and Financial Intermediation and
Book SynopsisMore than half a decade has passed since the bursting of the housing bubble and the collapse of Lehman Brothers. This book identifies measurement problems associated with the financial crisis and improvements in measurement that may prevent future crises.
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University of Chicago Press Front Page Economics
Book SynopsisWhen pundits constantly decry bias in the media, we have naturally become skeptical of the news. But the bluntness of such critiques masks the sophisticated way in which the media frame important stories. This title examines the coverage of two major economic crashes - in 1929 and 1987 - in order to break down the way newspapers normalize crises.Trade Review"While the economy is well covered by the news media, that coverage has not been subjected to the level of scholarly scrutiny warranted by its importance as an aspect of public affairs. Carefully researched and clearly written, Front Page Economics offers an insightful analysis of the business beat and the explanatory strategies its journalists employ." - James S. Ettema, Northwestern University"
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Random House USA Inc 13 Bankers
Book SynopsisIn spite of its key role in creating the ruinous financial crisis of 2008, the American banking industry has grown bigger, more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever. Anchored by six megabanks whose assets amount to more than 60 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, this oligarchy proved it could first hold the global economy hostage and then use its political muscle to fight off meaningful reform. 13 Bankers brilliantly charts the rise to power of the financial sector and forcefully argues that we must break up the big banks if we want to avoid future financial catastrophes. Updated, with additional analysis of the government’s recent attempt to reform the banking industry, this is a timely and expert account of our troubled political economy.
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WW Norton & Co The Big Short
Book SynopsisThe #1 New York Times bestseller: a brilliant account—character-rich and darkly humorous—of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff.Trade Review"No one writes with more narrative panache about money and finance than Mr. Lewis....[he] does a nimble job of using his subjects’ stories to explicate the greed, idiocies and hypocrisies of a system notably lacking in grown-up supervision....Writing in faintly Tom Wolfe-ian prose, Mr. Lewis does a colorful job of introducing the lay reader to the Darwinian world of the bond market." -- Michiko Kakutani - The New York Times"Superb: Michael Lewis doing what he does best, illuminating the idiocy, madness and greed of modern finance. . . . Lewis achieves what I previously imagined impossible: He makes subprime sexy all over again." -- Andrew Leonard - Salon.com"One of the best business books of the past two decades." -- Malcolm Gladwell - New York Times Book Review"I read Lewis for the same reasons I watch Tiger Woods. I’ll never play like that. But it’s good to be reminded every now and again what genius looks like." -- Malcolm Gladwell - New York Times Book Review"I recommend everyone within the sound of my voice to read [this] book." -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.)"I’ve joined a lot of other people in just finishing Michael Lewis’s book, The Big Short, and it’s really an eye-opener of what was going on at the time that this real estate bubble was created." -- Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.)"I read it, marked it up for my staff, underlined it, made copies and asked them to read it." -- Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich.)"[A]n incredible piece of commentary on Wall Street." -- Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.)"If you’re wondering if there’s importance or an urgency to this issue, read the book The Big Short by Michael Lewis, and then, when you’re finished reading, come back to the floor and say that you support this amendment [on financial reform]." -- Senator Byron Dorgan (D-North Dakota)
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The University of Michigan Press Curbing Bailouts
Book SynopsisDo democratic governments and authoritarian regimes respond to banking crises in the same way? Banking crises threaten the stability and growth of economies around the world. This title presents a comparative analysis of late 20th-century banking crises and identifies political regime type as the determining factor.Trade Review"Rosas's compelling theory and wide-ranging empirical evidence yield a persuasive but surprising conclusion in light of the financial meltdown of 2008-9. In the event of banking crises, not only do elected governments treat taxpayers better and force bankers and their creditors to pay more for their mistakes, but bankers in democracies are more prudent as a consequence... essential reading for all interested in the political economy of crisis and in the future of banking regulation." - Philip Keefer, Lead Economist, Development Research Group, The World Bank "Rosas convincingly demonstrates how democratic accountability affects the incidence and resolution of banking crises. Combining formal models, case studies, and cutting-edge quantitative methods, Rosas's book represents a model for political economy research." - William Bernhard, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois"
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Pluto Press From the Local to the Global
Book SynopsisA completely revised third edition of a classic development studies textbookTrade Review'An ideal lift off point for anyone interested in the issues that underpin poverty and injustice at local and global levels. It combines accessible, informative writing on the most essential international development issues' -- Marina Sitrin, author of They Can't Represent Us: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy (with Dario Azzellini, Verso, 2014) and Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina (Zed Books, 2012).'Of global value to a radically changing world. It is essentially a survey of all the issues that affect the global South and shape the global North' -- Hector Maldonado Felix, Faculty of Social Sciences, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru, and founder of the NGO Asociacion Gestion Salud y Poblacion.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Creating New Paradigms for Development - Stephen McCloskey Part I: Development Discourse and Definitions 1. Measuring Human Development - Andy Storey 2. A Human Rights Based Approach to Development - Máire Braniff and Paul Hainsworth Part II: The Economics of Development 3. Overseas Development Aid: Is It Working? - Patrick Marren 4. Trade, Development and Inequality - Denis O’Hearn 5. Debt Injustice in the Global North and South - Nessa Ni Chasaide Part III: Development Policy 6. Climate Change: Reorienting the Development Agenda - David Selby 7. Europe, Development and the Colonial Legacy - Gerard McCann 8. Post-2015 Development Assessment: Proposed Goals and Indicators - Walden Bello 9. Women Contributing to Gender-Just, Equitable and Sustainable Development - Patricia Muñoz-Cabrera 10. The Complexity of Migration - Michal Cenker Part IV: Regional Development 11. Rethinking Latin America: Back to the Future? - Ronaldo Munck 12. The Arab Spring: Trading Development for Stability - Heba M. Khalil 13. China: The New Face of Development - Russell Duncan 14. Meaningful Development Goals and Sub-Saharan Africa - Chrispin R. Matenga Part V: Human Development 15. Children, Childhood and Work: Perceptions and Practices - Madeleine Leonard 16. Development Education as an Agent of Social Change - Stephen McCloskey Conclusion: Neoliberal Decline and International Development Post-2015 - Gerard McCann Notes on Contributors Index
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Seagull Books London Ltd A World Without Wall Street
Book SynopsisAs the aftershocks of the economic meltdown reverberate throughout the world, and people organize to physically occupy the major financial centers of the West, few experts and even fewer governments have dared to consider a world without the powerful markets that brought on the crash. The author offers a way forward.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Economic Modeling in the Post Great Recession Era
Book SynopsisReality-based modeling for today''s unique economic recovery Economic Modeling in the Post Great Recession Era presents a more realistic approach to modeling, using direct statistical applications to address the characteristics and trends central to current market behaviors. This book''s unique focus on the reality of today''s markets makes it an invaluable resource for students and practitioners seeking a comprehensive guide to more accurate forecasting. While most books treat the economy as if it were in a vacuum, building models around idealized or perception-biased behaviors, this book deals with the economy as it currently standsin a state of recovery, limited by financial constraints, imperfect information, and lags and disparities in price movements. The authors identify how these characteristics impact various markets'' behaviors, and quantify those behaviors using SAS as the primary statistical tool. Today''s economy bears a number of unique attrTable of ContentsPreface/Justification xiii Acknowledgments xxi Chapter 1 Setting the Context 1 The Problem with Uncritical Assumptions in a Less-Than-Perfect Economy 2 The Problem with Models in an Imperfect Economy 3 Four Characteristics of a Less-Than-Perfect Economy 4 Economic Policy Inconsistencies—The Parable of Strange Bedfellows 13 Chapter 2 Dynamic Adjustment in an Economy: Frictions Matter 15 Introduction 16 Quantifying Frictions: Is the Long-Run Average a Useful Guide for the Future? 32 Modeling Dynamic Adjustment due to Economic Frictions: Decision Making in an Evolving World 49 Dynamic Economic Adjustment: An Evolution unto Itself 67 Appendix 68 A Case for the Multiple Markets: 1983–2008 68 The Labor Market: 1983–2008 70 Chapter 3 Information: Past Imperfect, Present Incomplete, Future Uncertain 73 Story Behind the Numbers 76 Conclusion 103 Chapter 4 Price Adjustment and Search for Equilibrium 105 What Barriers Are There to Perfectly Flexible Prices? 107 Implications 112 Finding Dynamic Adjustment in the Data 116 Conclusion 121 Chapter 5 Business Investment: This Time Is Different 123 Drivers of Business Spending 125 Putting It All Together: Explaining Slow Recovery in Capital Investment 134 Chapter 6 Corporate Profits: Reward, Incentive, and That Standard of Living 135 Introduction: Profits as Essential Partner 136 The Role of Profits in the Economic Cycle: Five Drivers 137 The Role of Profits: Incentives and Rewards 140 Concluding Remarks: Modeling Profits 167 Chapter 7 Labor Market Evolution: Implications for Private-Sector and Public-Policy Decision Makers 169 Part I: Labor Market Imperfections 171 Part II: Heterogeneity in the Labor Market 182 Part III: How Do Secular Labor Market Trends Impact Economic Policy? 196 Chapter 8 Inflation: When What You Get Isn’t What You Expect 205 Introduction 206 What Is Inflation? 207 Why Does Inflation Matter? 208 What Determines Inflation? 212 Inflation after the Great Recession 219 Application: Predicting if Central Banks Can Achieve Price Stability 230 Chapter 9 Interest Rates and Credit: Capital Markets in the Post–Great Recession World 235 Imperfect Guidance in an Uncertain World 236 A Look at Actual History over the Long Run 247 Credit and Administered Rates 250 Imperfect Information and Credit 255 Conclusion: Shift from Historical Benchmarks 280 Chapter 10 Three-Dimensional Checkers: Open Economy, Capital Flows, and Exchange Rates 281 Newton’s Third Law 282 Introducing a New Price to the Analysis: The Role of Exchange Rates 289 Three-Dimensional Checkers on an International Playing Field 295 A Perfect Model in an Imperfect World 298 Concluding Remarks: Future Looks Different 330 Chapter 11 Assessing Economic Policy in an Imperfect Economy 331 Generalized Policy Model 333 Rules and Reputation: Beyond Economic Benchmarks 338 Confronting Our Three Market Imperfections 340 Economic Policy in the Context of an Imperfect Economy 359 About the Authors 361 Index 363
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MP-WBK World Bank Group Publ Employment in Crisis
Book SynopsisThis report estimates how crises change labour market flows, assesses how these changes affect people, and discusses the key policy responses. A better policy framework for preventing, managing, and helping people recover from crises is crucial to lifting long-term growth and livelihoods in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Bloomberg Press Complicit: How Greed and Collusion Made the
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Reaktion Books The Global Economic Crisis A Chronology
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Europe Reset: New Directions for the EU
Book SynopsisIn the last decade, the EU has been hit by a series of crises, most recently the UK's decision to leave the union following the Brexit referendum. In light of this, questions have been raised about the need to reform the whole model of European integration, with the aim of making the union more flexible and more accountable. In this book, Richard Youngs proposes an alternative vision of European co-operation and shows how the EU must re-invent itself if it is to survive. He argues that citizens should play a greater role in European decision-making, that there should be radically more flexibility in the process of integration and that Europe needs to take a new, more coherent, approach to questions of defence and security. In proposing this model for a `reset' version of Europe, Youngs reinvigorates the debate around the future of Europe and puts forward a new agenda for the future of the EU.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Confusion’s Masterpiece: The EU’s Poly-Crisis 3. False solutions 4. The democracy problem 5. Europe as a citizens’ project 6. A Compact for European Citizens 7. Divergent Europe: towards radical flexibility 8. A secure Europe? 9. The long road to solidarity
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Verso Books The Return of the Public: Democracy, Power and
Book SynopsisUnder the incurious gaze of the major media, the political establishment and the financial sector have become increasingly deceitful and dangerous in recent years. At the same time, journalists at Rupert Murdoch's News International and elsewhere have been breaking the law on an industrial scale. Now we are expected to stay quiet while those who presided over the shambles judge their own conduct.In The Return of the Public, Dan Hind argues for reform of the media as a necessary prelude to wider social transformation. A former commissioning editor, Hind urges us to focus on the powers of the media to instigate investigations and to publicize the results, powers that editors and owners are desperate to keep from general deliberation.Hind describes a programme of reform that is modest, simple and informed by years of experience. It is a programme that much of the media cannot bring themselves even to acknowledge, precisely because it threatens their private power. It is time the public had their say.Trade ReviewA superb analysis of the way in which citizens have lost power in a political and economic system built around the free market. -- Roy Greenslade * Guardian *A book marked by a somber and scathing rhetoric that recalls the Frankfurt School critique of thinkers such as Adorno and Marcuse. -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent *In his ingenious and quietly passionate argument, Dan Hind shows how we could take democracy into the media so that it becomes something regular people can shape-a part of how we rule ourselves instead of stealing democracy from us. -- Anthony Barnett, founder, openDemocracyDrawing on history and democratic theory, this book offers a powerful indictment of public exclusion. It is also original, breaking with standard corporatist approaches to reform. Well written, eloquent and very well worth reading. -- James Curran, co-author of Power Without ResponsibilityA persuasive and vital analysis. -- David Cromwell, co-editor of Media Lens * Times Higher Education Supplement *Winner, 2011 Best Book of Ideas * Bristol Festival of Ideas *
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Kapitalismus: Historische Annäherungen
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Institutional Congruence: The Riddle of Leviathan
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