Political economy Books

This guide refreshes the procurement specialist as well as the experienced contractor, and prepares the beginner. The text serves as an excellent primer for qualified companies both inside and outside the U.S. that may bid on U.S. funded work. It gives a...

How human institutions-markets, states, communities, religions, guilds and families-have helped both to control and to exacerbate epidemics throughout history.How do societies tackle epidemic disease? In Controlling Contagion, Sheilagh Ogilvie answers...

Tadeusz Kowalik lived through ten decades and three economic and political systems in Poland. He combined his academic study of economic ideas with his socialist ideals of building a fairer and more just society. This book covers the intellectual and...

The aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis produced diverse solutions, from nationalising banks to increasing government spending and taxing capital. However, these proposals all faced significant obstacles in being realised. Industry lobbying has since...

What the opioid epidemic teaches us about the addiction at the root of our social life-and how we free ourselves from it.How To Break An Addiction paints an original and dynamic portrait of the nature of the opioid crisis while offering original...

Axiom Award Gold Medalist for Business Theory Finance expert, law professor, and fellow overwhelmed consumer Kathryn Judge investigates the surprising ways that middlemen have taken control of the economy at the expense of the rest of us, and provides...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘An outstanding exposé of Putin and his criminal pals … [A] long-awaited, must read book’ SUNDAY TIMES‘Books about modern Russia abound … Belton has surpassed them all. Her much-awaited book is the best and most important on...

With over three decades of experience in public sector HR, Bob Lavigna gives managers the tools they need to leverage the talents of government's most important resource: its people.You know firsthand that your government workers are not underworked,...

Professor Marcia Langton's 2012 Boyer Lectures discuss the dependency of Aboriginal businesses and not-for-profit corporations on the resources industry and their resultant vulnerability to economic downturns. 'My aim with the 53rd Boyer Lectures has...

A visual guide to how the world really works, through stunning infographics and data visualisations, thoroughly revised, recalculated and reimagined for this new edition. We are overwhelmed by information – from our phones, our televisions, our...

This book documents a remarkable yet little-examined time for Canada's economy and the people who manage it, from the Y2K bug and dot-com boom through the "Great Moderation" of inflation, to the global recession of 2008 and the Covid recession of 2020...

On August 3, 1981, over 12,000 members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Association (PATCO) walked off their jobs, striking for higher pay, shorter hours, and increased benefits. Unexpectedly, President Ronald Reagan decided to fire the...

Public policy interventions aimed at encouraging, supporting and developing small businesses are important for understanding entrepreneurship and small business management. This textbook is the first to provide teachers and students with a resource that...