Land Transformations Along Urban Corridors in India
Sai Balakrishnan
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512825503
Pub Date: August 2023
Format: Paperback
240 Pages
In Shareholder Cities, Sai Balakrishnan argues that some of India's most decisive conflicts over its urban futures will unfold in the regions along the new economic corridors, such as the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, where electorally strong agrarian propertied classes directly encounter financially powerful incoming urban firms.
In this iconoclastic book, Richard Vague examines the assets, liabilities, and incomes of the United States, private and public sector, to reveal its net worth. His holistic analysis shows that the real factor that drives both financial crises and spiraling inequality—but also, paradoxically, economic growth—is ever rising private debt.
From Benjamin Franklin, Robert Morris, and Cornelius Vanderbilt to Steve Jobs, Oprah Winfrey, and Bill Gates, An Illustrated Business History of the United States is a sweeping, lively, and lushly illustrated history of American business from the nation's founding to the twenty-first century.
Disastrous Times explores how people across Asia live through and make sense of environmental transformation and asks how we might analyze this moment of disruption and risk.
The Employee examines how American businesses dominated and influenced labor law as they pushed for an ever-narrower definition of "employee" and maneuvered to exclude workers from the right to organize.
Capitalism's Hidden Worlds examines economic activities that occur in the concealed corners of the formal economy. Challenging common conceptions of capitalism as a system of transparent, open markets, essays reveal how capitalism depends upon, adapts to, and gains legitimacy from activities that occur outside the measured and the seen.
Health Care and Economic Transformation in Pittsburgh and Houston
Andrew T. Simpson
Price: $54.95
ISBN: 9780812251678
Pub Date: November 2019
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
The Medical Metropolis offers the first comparative, historical account of how big medicine shaped American cities in the postindustrial era. Taking Pittsburgh and Houston as case studies, Andrew T. Simpson traces the effects the changing business of American health care had on policy, privatization, and technological innovation.
Building on insights gleaned from many years of work in the banking industry and drawing on a vast trove of data, Richard Vague argues in A Brief History of Doom that financial crises follow a pattern that makes them both predictable and avoidable.
In China's Capitalism, Tobias ten Brink reveals how combinations of three heterogeneous actors—party-state institutions, firms, and workers—led to China's distinctive form of capitalism. Presenting a historically nuanced portrait, the book is essential reading for anyone interested in China's socioeconomic order and its future development.
The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store
Vicki Howard
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812224399
Pub Date: March 2019
Format: Paperback
304 Pages
Richly illustrated with archival photos, this comprehensive study of the American department store industry traces the changing economic and political contexts that brought about the decline of downtown shopping districts and the rise of big-box stores and suburban malls.
