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  • Counting on Marilyn Waring

    New Advances in Feminist Economics

    Edited by Margunn Bjørnholt, Ailsa McKay ...
    This edited volume maps new advances in theories and practices in feminist economics and the valuation of women, care and nature since Marilyn Waring's 1988 groundbreaking critique of the system of national accounts, If Women Counted. It features theoretical, practical and policy oriented contributions, empirical studies, and new conceptualizations, theorizations and problematizations of defining ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Counting on Marilyn Waring

    New Advances in Feminist Economics Second Edition

    Edited by Margunn Bjørnholt, Ailsa McKay ...
    This second edition, which includes an epilogue by Marilyn Waring, maps new advances in theories and practices in feminist economics and the valuation of women, care and nature since Marilyn Waring’s 1988 groundbreaking critique of the system of national accounts, If Women Counted. It features theoretical, practical and policy oriented contributions, empirical studies, and new conceptualizations, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Future of Social Security Policy

    Women, Work and A Citizens Basic Income

    by Ailsa McKay ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    Current debates concerning the future of social security provision in advanced capitalist states have raised the issue of a citizen’s basic income (CBI) as a possible reform package: a proposal based on the principles of individuality, universality and unconditionality which would ensure a minimum income guaranteed for all members of society. Implementing a CBI, would consequently entail radical ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

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    How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It

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  • Identity Economics

    How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being

    by George A. Akerlof, Rachel E. Kranton ...
    Identity Economics provides an important and compelling new way to understand human behavior, revealing how our identities--and not just economic incentives--influence our decisions. In 1995, economist Rachel Kranton wrote future Nobel Prize-winner George Akerlof a letter insisting that his most recent paper was wrong. Identity, she argued, was the missing element that would help to explain why ... Read more

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  • The XX Factor

    How The Rise Of Working Women Has Created A Far Less Equal World

    by Alison Wolf ...
    For most of history, being female defined the limits of a woman’s achievements. But now women can be successful careerists equal to men. In Norway, women legally must constitute a third of all boards; in the U.S.A., women have gone from being 3 percent of practising lawyers in 1970 to 40 percent today. Currently, more than seventy million educated women work alongside men. ... Read more

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  • Families and Households Revision Notes for AS and A Level Sociology - AQA Focus

    by Karl Thompson ...
    Families and Households Revision Notes for AS and A Level Sociology. Fully updated for the 2015 Specification. I use these notes with my students, produced for the AS Sociology 7191 Module. The notes Cover the following topics:50 Pages of extensive AS Sociology revision notes covering all of the main topics in the AQA Families and Households Syllabus. Topics included are(1) perspectives(2) ... Read more

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  • The Cult of Efficiency

    by Janice Gross Stein ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    We live in an age dominated by the cult of efficiency. Efficiency in the raging debate about public goods is often used as a code word to advance political agendas. When it is used correctly, efficiency is important: it must always be part of the conversation when resources are scarce and citizens and governments have important choices to make among competing priorities.Even when the language of ... Read more

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  • The Real Wealth of Nations

    Creating a Caring Economics

    by Riane Eisler ...
    The author of The Chalice and the Blade proposes a new economics based on care in this "impressive work that's . . . well argued, insightful and hopeful" ( Publishers Weekly).Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations provided the first explanation of the workings of modern economics. But with his focus on "the market" as the best mechanism for producing and distributing the necessities of life, Smith's ... Read more

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  • Choices and Constraints in Family Life 2e

    by Maureen Baker ...
    Designed specifically for sociology of the family courses, this text examines the choices and constraints placed on individuals, relationships, and marriages in light of both family circumstances and societal expectations. Using an interdisciplinary approach that draws on the latest research in sociology, psychology, anthropology, and social history, the author explores emerging patterns in family ... Read more

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  • About Canada: Childcare

    by Martha Friendly, Susan Prentice ...
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    In Canada, early childhood education and care includes childcare programs, kindergartens and nursery schools. When these programs are well-designed, they support children’s development and accommodate parents who work or study. About Canada: Childcare answers questions about early childhood education and childcare (ECEC) in Canada. Why doesn’t Canada have an ECEC system, even though other ... Read more

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  • Who Cares?

    How to Reshape a Democratic Politics

    by Joan C. Tronto ...
    Series series Brown Democracy Medal
    The 2015 winner of the Brown Democracy Medal, Joan C. Tronto, argues in Who Cares? that we need to rethink American democracy, as well as our own fundamental values and commitments, from a caring perspective.Asserting that Americans are facing a "caring deficit"—that there are simply too many demands on our time to care adequately for children, elderly people, and ourselves—she asks us to ... Read more

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