Edited by Paolo Buonanno, Paolo Vanin, Juan Vargas
A Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime discusses the evolution of a field, whose growing relevance among scholars and policymakers is partly related to the persistence of crime and violence around the world and partly to the remarkable...
‘Over hundreds of years fairs have signified festivities and a break with the ordinary, and they have long been a site for social interaction between professionals and lay-people. In this timely and excellent volume, the focus is on trad...
Edited by Mi A. Schoyen, Bjørn Hvinden, Merethe Dotterud Leiren
‘This edited book should be applauded for insisting that environmental issues are racing up the agenda and must gain pride of place in future thinking. In particular, global heating and the climate crisis pose an existential threat to co...
‘Ginsberg and Paschall, two experts in their own right, have produced a provocative book about the role of expertise in politics and policy-making. Amidst a host of illuminating examples and serious arguments, a core insight leaps out at...
Edited by Katja Freistein, Bettina Mahlert, Sigrid Quack, Christine Unrau
‘This exciting collection combines sharp theoretical analysis with a rich array of illuminating case studies to show the powerful role played by creative human imagination in shaping transformative processes of global cooperation. In dep...
‘This book serves as testimony to the power of the historical imagination. Cerroni demonstrates a remarkable ability to navigate between the Ancient and Modern Canon. His reconstruction of the Greek myths compels us to rethink the sociol...
‘Recent years have witnessed the “Return of the State” after decades of spreading neo-liberalism and market ideology. Bent Greve’s book is a very well written text able to capture the old and new roles of the public sector in contemporar...
Edited by Roberta Comunian, Alessandra Faggian, Jarna Heinonen, Nick Wilson
'A Modern Guide to Creative Economies is essential reading for considering and reflecting on how we build healthy, equitable and sustainable conditions for the creation, celebration and exchange of human expression. The book, and its col...
‘A Research Agenda for COVID-19 and Society provides impressive critical analyses and innovative research reflections on the complex social consequences of the SARS-CoV 2 pandemic. The volume has compelling contributions from social scie...
‘At a time when welfare states are figuring out how to deal with the societal ravages of a pandemic crisis, participation income is an idea that needs to be given due attention. Leading social policy scholar Heikki Hiilamo has written th...
‘Zhu Qian provides an incredibly thorough treatment of property rights in China. Most importantly, this remarkable book investigates China’s urban transformation corresponding to changing property regimes. His explanations of the pivotal...
‘This book is a wonderful guide to how contemporary understandings of life (both biological and political) become central to its governance. This is all the more vital as biopolitics is at the moment perhaps the most dynamic field of tho...
