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Stephen McBride explores the multiple crises defining neoliberalism, identifying the linkages between them, and argues for radical solutions to revive our increasingly dystopian political and economic world.

This valuable handbook of essays charts the evolution of austerity politics and policy since the financial crisis of 2008. With perspectives from around the world, it provides comparative analysis of a complex and fast changing period, including expressions and responses to austerity, the crisis of liberal democracy and the rise of the far right and the potential legacies of COVID-19.

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So hat man die Welt von Star Wars noch nie gesehen. In zehn spektakulären Kurzgeschichten zeigen zahlreiche Konzeptkünstler, die an Episode III: Die Rache der Sith mitwirkten, ihre ganz eigenen Interpretationen der Helden des Star-Wars-Univerums.

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Recent history has witnessed what might be called a populist revolt, including the election of Donald Trump and the Brexit vote. These political moments re¿ect the alienation of large numbers of people, who feel left behind economically. How did we get here? And to what extent are Canadians "locked" into a given path? Award-winning academic Stephen McBride, whose expertise spans economics, policy, globalization, and labour studies, is an expan...

Before Dear Abby or Ann Landers, an advice columnist beloved as Dear Mrs. Griggs already had dispensed wisdom to millions of readers for decades. A form of community forum, the column provides a literal mother lode for research into her readers' letters on their daily lives and everyday concerns, in their own and often colourful words. The result is a unique social history of a region, a class, and a gender rarely represented in histories.

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The fall-out from the economic and financial crisis of 2008 had profound implications for countries across the world, leading different states to determine the best approach to mitigating its effects. In The Austerity State, a group of established and emerging scholars tackles the question of why states continue to rely on policies that, on many levels, have failed.After 2008, austerity policies were implemented in various countries, a fact th...

The Austerity State provides a critical examination of the accepted discourse around austerity measures and explores the reasons behind its continued prevalence in the world.

The volume explores the relationship between neo-liberalism, state power and global governance. It seeks to show how neo-liberalism has failed to deliver a framework for state power and global governance capable of delivering stability and enduring prosperity. It also contends that the role of politics in general, and the state and global governance in particular, should be defined more broadly than the simple neo-liberal construction of insti...

Stephen McBride is a professor of political science and Canada Research Chair in Public Policy and Globalization at McMaster University. He is the co-author (with Heather Whiteside) of Private Affluence, Public Austerity: Economic Crisis and Democratic Malaise in Canada, and co-editor (with Donna Baines) of Orchestrating Austerity: Impacts and Resistance.Rianne Mahon holds a CIGI chair in comparative social policy at the Balsillie School of In...

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The book is both timely and sorely needed. There is simply nothing like it. A brilliant and surprisingly clear analysis of the theory and practice of Canadian politics in the current conjuncture of capitalist development, the authors provide an exceptionally clear and most useful exposition of the forces at play, arising out of the propensity of capitalism towards crisis.

This was taken on the shuttle train on our way to Macon the day we left Camp Wheeler, Mary 8, 1918. It was taken on the back end of the train. We had 18 train cars stay there about an hour. Sgt. Lynn had gathered some berries, and he was eating them out of his hat. He is reordering for me. Ha! Ha! The wind was blowing my hair and tie. We were waiting on our Bakery outfit. We had a great day." "Someday, Sweetheart, we may make a trip to Macon, ...