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“alistair sisson”

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  • The Data Politics of Housing, Property and Planning

    by Cian O'Callaghan, Kathleen Stokes, Maedhbh Nic Locklainn, Elsa Noterman, Claire Daniel, Daniël Bossuyt, Julien Migozzi, Scott Markeley, Diana Drogaris, Jillian Lee Crandall, Wonyoung So, Asya Aizman, Chenab Navalkha, Catherine D'Ignazio, Sophia Maalsen, Dallas Rogers, Peta Wolifson, Alistair Sisson, Alan Morris, Juliette Davret, Fiadh Tubridy ...
    Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.This groundbreaking book is the first to put housing, property and planning data at the centre of critical analysis. While such data shape key decisions about housing and urban development, little attention has been paid to the politics and praxes of their production and use.Bringing together international and interdisciplinary perspectives ... Read more

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  • Cogs and Monsters

    What Economics Is, and What It Should Be

    by Diane Coyle ...
    How economics needs to change to keep pace with the twenty-first century and the digital economyDigital technology, big data, big tech, machine learning, and AI are revolutionizing both the tools of economics and the phenomena it seeks to measure, understand, and shape. In Cogs and Monsters, Diane Coyle explores the enormous problems—but also opportunities—facing economics today and examines what ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • The Measure of Progress

    Counting What Really Matters

    by Diane Coyle ...
    Why do we use eighty-year-old metrics to understand today’s economy?The ways that statisticians and governments measure the economy were developed in the 1940s, when the urgent economic problems were entirely different from those of today. In The Measure of Progress, Diane Coyle argues that the framework underpinning today’s economic statistics is so outdated that it functions as a distorting lens ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Principles of Contemporary Corporate Governance

    by Jean Jacques du Plessis, Anil Hargovan, Jason Harris ...
    Now in its fourth edition, Principles of Contemporary Corporate Governance offers comprehensive coverage of the key topics and emerging themes in private sector corporate governance. It explains both the principles of corporate governance systems and their real-world application in an authoritative and engaging manner. This fully revised and updated text has four parts: basic concepts, board ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Bitcoin and Beyond

    Cryptocurrencies, Blockchains, and Global Governance

    Edited by Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn ...
    Since the launch of Bitcoin in 2009 several hundred different ‘cryptocurrencies’ have been developed and become accepted for a wide variety of transactions in leading online commercial marketplaces and the ‘sharing economy’, as well as by more traditional retailers, manufacturers, and even by charities and political parties.Bitcoin and its competitors have also garnered attention for their wildly ... Read more

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  • The Knowledge Corrupters

    Hidden Consequences of the Financial Takeover of Public Life

    by Colin Crouch ...
    In principle the advanced, market-driven world in which we now live is fuelled by knowledge, information and transparency, but in practice the processes that produce this world systematically corrupt and denigrate knowledge: this is the powerful and provocative argument advanced by Colin Crouch in his latest exploration of societies on the road to post-democracy.Crouch shows that executives in ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Urban Design in the Real Estate Development Process

    by Steve Tiesdell, David Adams ...
    Series Book 50 - Real Estate Issues
    Urban design enables better places to be created for people and is thus seen in Urban Design in the Real Estate Development Process as a place-making activity, rather than the application of architectural aesthetics. Urban design policy can change the 'decision environment' of developers, financiers, designers and other actors in the real estate development process to make them take place-making ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • The Evolution of Corporate Governance

    by Bob Tricker ...
    Series series Elements in Corporate Governance
    In this Element the origins of corporate governance are reviewed, recognising that corporate entities have always been governed, that important developments took place in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the huge significance of the invention of the joint-stock limited liability company. The development of corporate governance in the twentieth century around the world is explored, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Public Sector Management

    by Norman Flynn, Alberto Asquer ...
    The seventh edition of the bestselling Public Sector Management is a rich and insightful description, analysis and critique of the management of the public sector by the UK government.NEW to the seventh edition:Now set in an international context with comparative global examples throughoutThree new chapters covering: strategy and planning in the public sector; transparency, accountability and ... Read more

    $86.39 CAD

  • Digital Era Governance

    IT Corporations, the State, and e-Government

    by Patrick Dunleavy, Helen Margetts, Simon Bastow, Jane Tinkler ...
    Government information systems are big business (costing over 1 per cent of GDP a year). They are critical to all aspects of public policy and governmental operations. Governments spend billions on them - for instance, the UK alone commits £14 billion a year to public sector IT operations. Yet governments do not generally develop or run their own systems, instead relying on private sector computer ... Read more

    $54.39 CAD

  • Audit Culture

    How Indicators and Rankings are Reshaping the World

    by Cris Shore, Susan Wright ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    ‘A new and compelling argument for why so many institutions continue to be spellbound by rankings and metrics – despite the cultural carnage they cause. How can we halt this “death by audit”? The authors develop a radical agenda that will strike fear into number-loving technocrats around the world’ Peter Fleming, author of Dark Academia: How Universities Die‘A powerful and definitive critical ... Read more

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  • Global Developments in Public Infrastructure Procurement

    Evaluating Public–Private Partnerships and Other Procurement Options

    by Darrin Grimsey, Mervyn K. Lewis ...
    This book provides an up-to-date study of public infrastructure in terms of the selection, procurement and delivery of projects. There is widespread acceptance that infrastructure is vital and needs increasing, yet less agreement about how it should be funded and procured. This book assesses in detail the features of various procurement options while also providing a framework for comparing their ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD