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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “dave cowan”
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  • Ownership, Narrative, Things

    by Dave Cowan, Helen Carr, Alison Wallace ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book uses a case study of a low-cost home ownership initiative at the margins of renting and owning provided by social landlords – known as shared ownership – to challenge everyday assumptions held about the ‘social’ and the ‘legal’ in property. The authors provide a study of the construction of property ownership, from the creation of this idea through to the present day, and offer a fresh ... Read more

    $102.49 CAD

  • Pandemic Legalities

    Legal Responses to COVID-19 – Justice and Social Responsibility

    by Kathleen Lahey, Katie Bales, Sally Wheeler, Alison Struthers, Ed Kirton-Darling, Helen Carr, Rowan Alcock, Rosie Harding, Mark Flear, Ivanka Antova, Tamara Hervey, Albert Sanchez-Graells, Joe Tomlinson, Jed Meers, Suhraiya Jivraj, Foluke Adebisi, Linda Mulcahy, Nick Gill, Kathryn Hollingsworth ...
    Series series Law, Society, Policy
    The effects of COVID-19 are visited disproportionately on the already disadvantaged.This important text maps out ways in which those already disadvantaged have been affected by legal responses to COVID-19. Contributors tackle issues including virtual trials, adult social care, racism, tax and spending, education and more. They reflect on the implications of COVID-19 and express concerns with ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

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  • Breadline Britain

    The Rise of Mass Poverty

    by Stewart Lansley, Joanna Mack ...
    Poverty in Britain is at post-war highs and - even with economic growth -is set to increase yet further. Food bank queues are growing, levels of severe deprivation have been rising, and increasing numbers of children are left with their most basic needs unmet.Based on exclusive access to the largest ever survey of poverty in the UK, and its predecessor surveys in the 1980s and 1990s, Stewart ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Who Benefits from Privatisation?

    Edited by Moazzem Hossain, Justin Malbon ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    This edited collection examines the impact of privatisation and the lessons to be learnt from it for the purpose of regulatory reform. The contributors analyse the benefits and losses of privatisation in a variety of countries from economic, legal and consumer perspectives and address fundamental questions such as whether private ownership necessarily leads to better incentives for management and ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Keynes

    The Return of the Master

    by Robert Skidelsky ...
    In the current financial crisis Keynes has been taken out of his cupboard, dusted down, consulted, cited, invoked and appealed to about why events have taken the course they have and how a rescue operation can be effected. Why have we gone back so emphatically to the ideas of an economist who died fifty years ago?There are three main ideas of Keynes's worth thinking about now. The first is that ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing

    by Josh Ryan-Collins, Toby Lloyd, Laurie Macfarlane ...
    Why are house prices in many advanced economies rising faster than incomes? Why isn't land and location taught or seen as important in modern economics? What is the relationship between the financial system and land?In this accessible but provocative guide to the economics of land and housing, the authors reveal how many of the key challenges facing modern economies - including housing crises, ... Read more

    $24.49 CAD

  • Service Industries

    A Geographical Appraisal

    by Peter W. Daniels ...
    The first major synthesis of an emerging geography which is undoubtedly changing the way in which academics, planners and policy-makers identify and interpret the spatial development of cities and regions in the 1980s. ... Read more

    $48.08 CAD

  • Red Tory

    How Left and Right have Broken Britain and How we can Fix It

    by Phillip Blond ...
    Conventional politics is at a crossroads. Amid recession, depression, poverty, increasing violence and rising inequality, our current politics is exhausted and inadequate. In Red Tory, Phillip Blond argues that only a radical new political settlement can tackle the problems we face.Red Toryism combines economic egalitarianism with social conservatism, calling for an end to the monopolisation of ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Follow the Money

    'Gripping and horrifying... witty and brilliant. Buy it' The Times

    by Paul Johnson ...
    THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Gripping and horrifying... witty and brilliant. Buy it' The Times'A treasure trove of killer facts' Guardian'Read it, absorb it, and understand how the country works' Laura KuenssbergPaul Johnson and the enormously respected Institute for Fiscal Studies aim to hold Government to account - without which politicians will get away... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • How Good We Can Be

    Ending the Mercenary Society and Building a Great Country

    by Will Hutton ...
    Britain is beset by a crisis of purpose. For a generation we have been told the route to universal well-being is to abandon the expense of justice and equity and so allow the judgments of the market to go unobstructed. What has been created is not an innovative, productive economy but instead a capitalism that extracts value rather than creates it, massive inequality, shrinking opportunity and a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Taxation

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen Smith ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Taxation is crucial to the functioning of the modern state. Tax revenues pay for public services - roads, the courts, defence, welfare assistance to the poor and elderly, and in many countries much of health care and education too. More than one third of national income in the industrialized (OECD) countries is on average taken in taxation. Taxes affect individuals in many ways. Taxes paid on ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Masters of Nothing

    How the crash will happen again unless we understand human nature

    by Matthew Hancock ...
    Behaviour is important. Whether this be the behaviour of those who saw it coming, or of those who constantly berated them. The behaviour of those who rode the boom and switched at the tipping point to ride the bust, or the behaviour of those who held on to their principled as the system collapsed around them. It was human behaviour after all, that led us to construct a bubble nobody suspected was ... Read more

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