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  • Long-Term Consequences of Disasters

    The Reconstruction of Friuli, Italy, in Its International Context, 1976–1988

    by Robert Geipel ...
    Series series Springer Series on Environmental Management
    This series is dedicated to serving the growing community of scholars and prac titioners concerned with the principles and applications of enviromental manage ment. Each volume is a thorough treatmt'nt of a specific topic of importance for proper management practices. A fundamental objective of these books is to help the reader discern and implement man's stewardship of our environment and the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • The Capital Order

    How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism

    by Clara E. Mattei ...
    **A Financial Times Best Book of the Year"A must-read, with key lessons for the future."—Thomas PikettyA groundbreaking examination of austerity’s dark intellectual origins.**For more than a century, governments facing financial crisis have resorted to the economic policies of austerity—cuts to wages, fiscal spending, and public benefits—as a path to solvency. While these policies have been ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Modern Italy

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Anna Cento Bull ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The history of modern Italy is characterized by recurrent cultural and political projects of modernity, rejuvenation, and regeneration; projects which often had their roots in a widespread dissatisfaction with social and political reality, and perceived moral corruption. The Risorgimento, the movement leading to Italian Unification in 1861, explicitly linked the quest for national unity to a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Europe and problems of marketization: from Polanyi to Scharpf

    by Colin Crouch ...
    The author uses the theory of the 'Great Transformation' of the industrialisation of England developed by Karl Polanyi to describe the current situation in Europe. There is a strong marketisation of the economy and also of social life, but what is missing is the social policy that needs to accompany this process, if there are not to be major problems. From this perspective marketization and social ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trajectories of Neoliberal Transformation

    European Industrial Relations Since the 1970s

    by Lucio Baccaro, Chris Howell ...
    This book has both empirical and theoretical goals. The primary empirical goal is to examine the evolution of industrial relations in Western Europe from the end of the 1970s up to the present. Its purpose is to evaluate the extent to which liberalization has taken hold of European industrial relations and institutions through five detailed, chapter-length studies, each focusing on a different ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Politics and Finance in the European Union

    The Reasons for a Difficult Encounter

    by Francesco Capriglione ...
    The recent financial and sovereign debt crisis, while turning the spotlight into the degenerating effects of modern-day capitalism, has engendered a series of hard-to-control events that are severely testing the stability of the European institutions. The adjustments, to date, have proved unable to adequately tackle the financial turmoil that is undermining the construction of the EU. Hence the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Political Economy of Italy's Decline

    by Andrea Lorenzo Capussela ...
    Italy is a country of recent decline and long-standing idiosyncratic traits. A rich society served by an advanced manufacturing economy, where the rule of law is weak and political accountability low, it has long been in downward spiral alimented by corruption and clientelism. From this spiral has emerged an equilibrium as consistent as it is inefficient, that raises serious obstacles to economic ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Good Italy, Bad Italy

    Why Italy Must Conquer Its Demons to Face the Future

    by Bill Emmott ...
    Not long ago Italy was Europe's highly touted emerging economy, a society that blended dynamism and super-fast growth with a lifestyle that was the envy of all. Now it is viewed as a major threat to the future of the Euro, indeed to the European Union as a whole. Italy's political system is shorn of credibility as it struggles to deal with huge public debts and anemic levels of economic growth. ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Our Shrinking Planet

    Translated by David Broder ...
    by Massimo Livi-Bacci ...
    In the space of another generation, the population of the earth will rise by 2.5 billion. Yet the real problem we face is not so much the increase in numbers as the fact that growth will be highly uneven. Whereas rich countries will see aging populations with little growth, populations in poor countries will double or even triple, having a much higher percentage of young people.Against this ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Global Imperialism and the Great Crisis

    The Uncertain Future of Capitalism

    by Ernesto Screpanti ...
    In this provocative study, economist Ernesto Screpanti argues that imperialism—far from disappearing or mutating into a benign “globalization”—has in fact entered a new phase, which he terms “global imperialism.” This is a phase defined by multinational firms cut loose from the nation-state framework and free to chase profits over the entire surface of the globe. No longer dependent on nation ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Austerity vs Stimulus

    The Political Future of Economic Recovery

    by Robert Skidelsky, Nicolò Fraccaroli ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This timely book debates the economic and political logic of the austerity policies that have been implemented in the UK and in the Eurozone since 2010 and asks whether there is any alternative for these countries in the years ahead. The work reconsiders the austerity versus stimulus debate through the voices of those who proposed the successful idea of expansionary austerity and those who opposed ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Politics of Italy

    Governance in a Normal Country

    by James L. Newell ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Comparative Politics
    This innovative text offers a completely fresh approach to Italian politics by placing it in its historical, institutional, social and international contexts. Students will get to grips with the theories and concepts of comparative politics and how they apply specifically to Italy, while gaining real insight into more controversial topics such as the Mafia, corruption and the striking success of ... Read more

    $49.19 USD