"Trade unions worldwide face a powerful paradox at this critical juncture: collective organisations for workers are urgently needed and yet there are serious pressures undercutting the legitimate role of trade unions. The aim of this book is to examine how trade unions can effec…
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Trade unions worldwide face a powerful paradox at this critical juncture: collective organisations for workers are urgently needed and yet there are serious pressures undercutting the legitimate role of trade unions. The aim of this book is to examine how trade unions can effect…
"Globalization has reconfigured both the external institutional framework and the intrinsic operating mechanisms of capitalism. The global triumph of capitalism implies the embracing of the market by the state in all its variants, and that global capitalism is not confined to th…
This is a well-structured book on a complex question that has been relevant for centuries leading up to the actual crisis in the EU and the international financial markets. The book offers a rich picture of empirics, and discusses, explains and criticizes a number of classical t…
La 4e de couverture indique : "Capitalism is driven by technological revolutions, leading to alternating periods of regulation and deregulation in leading economies. Technologically backward countries face a different situation as they have to catch up with the leaders. Against …
This book examines the electoral successes of anti-system forces in the rich democracies. It explains the rise of anti-system politicians and parties in terms of two separate but closely related developments: the rise of economic inequality and insecurity over the last four deca…
"Is it possible for businesses to have a bottom line that is not profit and endless growth, but human dignity, justice, sustainability and democracy? Or an alternative economic model that is untainted by the greed and crises of current financial systems? Christian Felber says it…
"The financial crisis keeps us on edge and creates a diffuse sense of helplessness. Well-nigh unfathomable problems lead to measures that seem like emergency operations on the open heart of the Western world, performed with no knowledge of the patient's clinical history. The gra…
The author explores the connection between public debt and democracy beginning in Biblical times through the present looking at why governments borrow, why did bond markets develop, and why only in Europe?
The author explores the connection between public debt and democracy beginning in Biblical times through the present looking at why governments borrow, why did bond markets develop, and why only in Europe?
This book is about how the rise of democracy has transformed economics over the past 150 years. As voting was expanded to the masses in the late 19th Century, political leaders faced new pressures to deliver prosperity to their newly enfranchised populations. This led to the ris…
This book is about how the rise of democracy has transformed economics over the past 150 years. As voting was expanded to the masses in the late 19th Century, political leaders faced new pressures to deliver prosperity to their newly enfranchised populations. This led to the ris…
Developments across the millennia suggest that, even though democracies and free market economies are continuously challenged by crises and disturbances, such as natural disasters, wars, or technological revolutions, in the countries where they take roots civil liberties deepen …
