Palgrave Pivot imprint: 999 books
Congress’s Own Think Tank
Learning from the Legacy of the Office of Technology Assessment (1972-1995)
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Congress' Own Think Tank recaps the OTA experience?it's creation, operation, and circumstances of its closure? and that of organizations attempting to fill the gap since OTA's closure as well as a number of new forces shaping the current context for science and technology issues facing the Congress.
by S. Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Developing directly from Fuller's recent book Humanity 2.0, this is the first book to seriously consider what a 'post-' or 'trans'-' human state of being might mean for who we think we are, how we live, what we believe and what we aim to be.
by A. Link, J. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
In this exciting work, Link and Scott summarize more than a decade of their research on public support of R&D in small, entrepreneurial firms, concluding public R&D investments, primarily funded by the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, are indeed bending the arc of innovation....
by I. Harbaugh
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Smallholders and the Non-Farm Transition in Latin America explores the drivers of agricultural displacement in Latin America and argues that government support is essential to help small farmers gain the skills, financial capital, and opportunities needed to transition to a profitable alternative in the non-farm sector.
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
The Construction of Power and the Struggle for the East Asian International Order
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
This book assesses the strategic significance of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) by examining the logic of international power and order, historic trends in East Asian international relations, the AIIB's design in comparison to 'rival' financial institutions such as the World Bank and...
The Making of a Protest Movement in Turkey
#occupygezi
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
The aim of this collection of essays, the first academic book on the topic in English, is to offer a preliminary analysis of Gezi protests and address the following questions: 'How can we account for the protests?' and 'Who were the protesters?'
Policy and Political Theory in Trade Practice
Multinational Corporations and Global Governments
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
The book seeks to untangle the complexities of how America and the West work within emerging markets, addressing the political and diplomatic implications of investment alongside emerging theory within IPE and its implications for the USA.
The Climate Change Debate
An Epistemic and Ethical Enquiry
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Of the two kinds of philosophical questions – epistemic and ethical - raised by the public debate about climate change, professional philosophers have dealt almost exclusively with the ethical. This book is the first to address both and examine the relationship between them.
Gender Politics in US College Athletic Departments
The Case of the University of Minnesota Merger
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
This book examines the gendered politics in the context of a merger of the women’s and men’s athletic departments at the University of Minnesota over a ten year plus span. Examining the athletic department merger helps us understand women's continual under-representation in University athletics...
Power and Neoclassical Economics
A Return to Political Economy in the Teaching of Economics
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Mainstream economics almost completely ignores the role power plays in determining economic outcomes, which means it can only provide partial explanations of the distribution of wealth and income, and of the problems associated with inequality and poverty. For many, this is a fundamental failing that...
by Larry Patriquin
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
This book argues that ancient democracy did not stop at the door of economic democracy, and that ancient Athens has much to tell us about the relationship between political equality and economic equality. Athenian democracy rested on a foundation of general economic equality, which enabled citizens to challenge their exclusion from politics.
by John A. Mathews, Hao Tan, O''Faircheallaigh
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
The authors suggest that China's renewable energy system, the largest in the world, will quickly supersede the black energy system that has powered the country's rapid rise as workshop of the world and for reasons that have more to do with fixing environmental pollution and enhancing energy security than with curbing carbon emissions.
by V. Kostakis, M. Bauwens
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
This book builds on the idea that peer-to-peer infrastructures are gradually becoming the general conditions of work, economy, and society. Using a four-scenario approach, the authors seek to simplify possible outcomes and to explore relevant trajectories of the current techno-economic paradigm within and beyond capitalism.
John Maynard Keynes and the Economy of Trust
The Relevance of the Keynesian Social Thought in a Global Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Why does trust collapse in times of crisis? And when, instead, does it become a driver of growth, generating value? Through a sociological interpretation of the thought of John Maynard Keynes, Padua introduces the innovative concepts of Economy of Trust and Nominal Economy within the context of the 2008 financial crisis.