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    • Trusted Partner
      Business, Economics & Law
      July 2019

      Blockchain Wealth Revolution

      by LI Guangdou

      In recent years, an innovative technology that is as hot as the Internet technology of the 1970s is taking root. It has the potential to change finance, the way of life, and business forms. This new technology is the blockchain. Now for the blockchain, just like the Internet in 1969, a new force that changes the whole social formation is emerging quietly. This book will detail the emergency, development and raising of the blockchain and Bitcoin, and deeply analyze the new thinking logic and innovation opportunities brought by the blockchain and Bitcoin. Additionally, this book, starting with practical strategies, reveals how various industries can achieve blockchain+, how to nurture the new wealth from the digital currency and machine credit era. This book is a monograph, making systematic analysis of blockchain and digital currency, providing a theoretical and practical combination of system solutions, and suitable for the deep reading and thinking of Chinese entrepreneurs, and individuals from business researches.

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      September 2016

      The economics of disability

      Insights from Irish research

      by Rob Kitchin, John Cullinan, Seán Lyons, Brian Nolan

      This book brings together research relating to the economics of disability in Ireland. It addresses a range of issues of relevance to the economic circumstances of people with disabilities, considering topics such as social inclusion, poverty, the labour market, living standards and public policy. It also considers issues of specific relevance to children, working-age adults and older people with disabilities, providing important evidence that can help improve disability policies, services and supports. Each chapter presents a clear and relatively non-technical treatment of the specific topic under consideration, making it accessible to a greater number of interested readers. In doing so, it provides an important addition to our knowledge and understanding of the economics of disability and will serve as a useful and up-to-date resource for a range of interested parties both in Ireland and internationally.

    • Trusted Partner
      Business, Economics & Law
      July 2024

      Act now

      A vision for a better future and a new social contract

      by Common Sense Policy Group, Kate Pickett, Danny Dorling, Richard Wilkinson

      A stirring manifesto that offers a radical vision for our political future. We live in an age of crisis and decline. The right presents 'solutions' that only worsen the situation, driving a downward cycle in which desperation leads to despair. But the left is also to blame: progressive politicians have consistently failed to recognise both the urgency of people's need and their receptiveness to new solutions. In Act now, an extraordinary team of researchers presents a compelling and achievable vision for a progressive future. They outline clear policies for welfare, health and social care, education, housing and more. Arguing for a rolling forwards of the state, they call for a new era of active citizenship and economic democracy, grounded in robust and resilient institutions. Only a comprehensive and integrated approach, based on clear evidence of feasibility and popularity, can provide a pathway to the secure, democratic and prosperous Britain of tomorrow. This book is the blueprint. It calls on politicians, pundits and the British people to act now.

    • Trusted Partner
      Business, Economics & Law
      July 2024

      Act now

      A vision for a better future and a new social contract

      by Common Sense Policy Group, Kate Pickett, Danny Dorling, Richard Wilkinson

      A stirring manifesto that offers a radical vision for our political future. We live in an age of crisis and decline. The right presents 'solutions' that only worsen the situation, driving a downward cycle in which desperation leads to despair. But the left is also to blame: progressive politicians have consistently failed to recognise both the urgency of people's need and their receptiveness to new solutions. In Act now, an extraordinary team of researchers presents a compelling and achievable vision for a progressive future. They outline clear policies for welfare, health and social care, education, housing and more. Arguing for a rolling forwards of the state, they call for a new era of active citizenship and economic democracy, grounded in robust and resilient institutions. Only a comprehensive and integrated approach, based on clear evidence of feasibility and popularity, can provide a pathway to the secure, democratic and prosperous Britain of tomorrow. This book is the blueprint. It calls on politicians, pundits and the British people to act now.

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      July 2024

      A neoliberal revolution?

      Thatcherism and the reform of British pensions

      by Hugh Pemberton, James Freeman, Aled Davies

      This book examines the Thatcher government's attempt to revolutionise Britain's pensions system in the 1980s and create a nation of risk-taking savers with an individual stake in capitalism. Drawing upon recently-released archival records, it shows how the ideas motivating these reforms journeyed from the writings of neoliberal intellectuals into government and became the centrepiece of a plan to abolish significant parts of the UK's welfare state and replace these with privatised personal pensions. Revealing a government that veered between political caution and radicalism, the book explains why this revolution failed and charts the malign legacy left by the evolutionary changes that ministers salvaged from the wreckage of their reforms. The book contributes to understanding of policy change, Thatcherism, and international neoliberalism by showing how major reforms to social security could reflect neoliberal thought and yet profoundly disappoint their architects.

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      November 2022

      Imperial Inequalities

      The politics of economic governance across European empires

      by Gurminder Bhambra, Julia McClure

      Imperial inequalities takes Western European empires, and their legacies, as the explicit starting point for discussion of issues of taxation and welfare. Specifically, it addresses the institutional and fiscal processes involved in the modes of extraction, taxation, and the hierarchies of welfare distribution across Europe's global empires. It uses the idea of 'imperial inequalities' as a conceptual frame for thinking about the long-standing colonial histories that are responsible, in part at least, for the shape of present inequalities. The diverse contributions examine processes of fiscal governance that were not confined to either nations or colonies, but rather transcended the normative spatial and temporal boundaries of these units of analysis to provide new resources for how we think about issues of taxation and welfare across the longue durée.

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      November 2022

      Imperial Inequalities

      The politics of economic governance across European empires

      by Gurminder Bhambra, Julia McClure

      Imperial inequalities takes Western European empires, and their legacies, as the explicit starting point for discussion of issues of taxation and welfare. Specifically, it addresses the institutional and fiscal processes involved in the modes of extraction, taxation, and the hierarchies of welfare distribution across Europe's global empires. It uses the idea of 'imperial inequalities' as a conceptual frame for thinking about the long-standing colonial histories that are responsible, in part at least, for the shape of present inequalities. The diverse contributions examine processes of fiscal governance that were not confined to either nations or colonies, but rather transcended the normative spatial and temporal boundaries of these units of analysis to provide new resources for how we think about issues of taxation and welfare across the longue durée.

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      June 2025

      Imperial Inequalities

      The politics of economic governance across European empires

      by Gurminder Bhambra, Julia McClure

      Imperial Inequalities takes Western European empires and their legacies as the explicit starting point for discussion of issues of taxation and welfare. In doing so, it addresses the institutional and fiscal processes involved in modes of extraction, taxation, and the hierarchies of welfare distribution across Europe's global empires. The idea of 'imperial inequalities' provides a conceptual frame for thinking about the long-standing colonial histories that are responsible, at least in part, for the shape of present inequalities. This wide-ranging volume challenges existing historiographical accounts that present states and empires as separate categories. Instead, it views them as co-constitutive units by focusing upon the politics of economic governance across imperial spaces. Authors examine the fiscal innovations that enabled European empires to finance their expansion, the politics of redistribution that were important to constructing the veneer of legitimacy of taxation, and the fiscal mechanisms that were established to ensure that the imperial contours of inequality continued to define the postcolonial world. These diverse contributions provide new resources for how we think about issues of taxation and welfare across the longue durée. This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 10, Reduced inequalities

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      November 2022

      Imperial inequalities

      The politics of economic governance across European empires

      by Gurminder Bhambra, Julia McClure

      Imperial inequalities takes Western European empires, and their legacies, as the explicit starting point for discussion of issues of taxation and welfare. Specifically, it addresses the institutional and fiscal processes involved in the modes of extraction, taxation, and the hierarchies of welfare distribution across Europe's global empires. It uses the idea of 'imperial inequalities' as a conceptual frame for thinking about the long-standing colonial histories that are responsible, in part at least, for the shape of present inequalities. The diverse contributions examine processes of fiscal governance that were not confined to either nations or colonies, but rather transcended the normative spatial and temporal boundaries of these units of analysis to provide new resources for how we think about issues of taxation and welfare across the longue durée.

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