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The corruption scandals that have engulfed many western states and the efforts of the international political community to find ways to counteract them have compelled economists, anthropologists, and
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Most economics is a top-down analysis that simplifies and reduces the huge varieties among individuals to a predictable range of characteristics that lend themselves to systematic analysis. This book
The term "degrowth" has emerged within ecological and other heterodox schools of economics as a critique of the idea (and ideology) of economic growth. Instead, degrowth advocates a contraction of eco
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Doreen Massey (1944-2016) was one of the most influential geographers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Her ideas on space, region, identity, ethics, and capital transformed the
Most economics is a top-down analysis that simplifies and reduces the huge varieties among individuals to a predictable range of characteristics that lend themselves to systematic analysis. This book
The corruption scandals that have engulfed many western states and the efforts of the international political community to find ways to counteract them have compelled economists, anthropologists, and
