All specialist economics students, plus students taking a non-specialist module, and social science students taking an economics module will need this book. It will equip them for all various styles of assessment they may face, including paper-based examinations involving longer or shorter questions.

All specialist economics students, plus students taking a non-specialist module, and social science students taking an economics module will need this book.

This title is designed to engage students with the research, debates, and practical applications of economics. The book will help build up student confidence in approaching exams and assignments.

A captivating economic history of government all over the world

Provides an engaging introduction to macroeconomics and then delves into more specific topics, such as business cycles, inflation, unemployment, domestic output, monetary policy, and much more. This book helps you find out how many different financial, business, consumer, and more.

This book addresses some of the many social challenges created by migration flows over the past decades. The volume brings together research from three different fields: economics, sociology and political science.

Why Chievo Verona, Unterhaching, and Scunthorpe United Will Never Win the Champions League, Why Manchester City, Roma, and Paris St. Germain Can,and Why Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, and Manchester United Cannot Be Stopped

We measure rainfall and radiation, the depths of space and the emptiness of atoms, calories and steps, happiness and fear. And when did measurement become ubiquitous? It is an incredible story that spans hunter-gatherer societies to ancient Egyptians, the French Revolution to the relentless quantification of the twenty-first century self.

Renowned political scientist Daniel W. Drezner argues that the Great Recession is in fact a global economic governance success story.

This volume brings together for the first time key papers from the the work of influential social theorists Peter Miller and Nikolas Rose, including those that set out the basic frameworks, concepts and ethos of their approach to the analysis of political power and the state.

In a new preface, Shiller reflects on some of the challenges facing narrative economics, discusses the connection between disease epidemics and economic epidemics, and suggests why epidemiology may hold lessons for fighting economic contagions.

A groundbreaking book on how and why the status quo of the 5-day week must change

Presents an analysis of the financial crisis, what has happened since and where we should go from here. Tackling a wider range of subjects than in Capital, from productivity in Britain to Barack Obama, this book deals with liberation.

Interconnected through blogs, wikis, chat rooms, and personal broadcasting, the Web is being reinvented to provide the global platform for collaboration in history. This work offers an investigation into how small businesses can achieve success by using an ecosystem of partners to co-create and peer-produce value in the networked economy.

A groundbreaking book by leading authors that fundamentally challenges the central tenets of development discourse - as relevant today as when it was originally published in 2004.

The global financial crisis has made it clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations. This title challenges the economic wisdom that got us into this mess, and puts forward a vision that transforms economics and restores prosperity. It asserts the necessity of an active government role in economic policymaking.

A powerful case for the global market economy

* Colin Crouch has recently become one of the world's leading voices on neoliberalism and the financial takeover of social values * In this new book, Crouch continues to explore the themes of his previous successful books: Post-Democracy, The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism and Making Capitalism Fit For Society.

Concise, engaging and highly intuitive, Economics: a primer equips you with an understanding of all the basic principles of economics.

Once called the "dismal science," economics now offers prescriptions for improving people's happiness. In this book Richard Easterlin, the "father of happiness economics," draws on a half-century of his own research and that conducted by fellow economists and psychologists to answer in plain language questions like: Can happiness be measured?