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Institutions, Actors, Global Impact
Andreas Staab
"Readers in America and Europe alike will benefit from the very considerable expertise revealed in these pages."—Hugh Dykes, House of Lords, Liberal Democrat Spokesperson on the European Union
"A wonderful exposition of the European Union."—Ambassador Donato Chiarini, European Commission
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This brief and accessible introduction to the European Union is ideal for anyone who needs a concise overview of the structure, history, and policies of the EU. This updated edition includes new chapters on the Eurozone financial crisis
and background on the multiannual financial framework for 2014-20. Andreas Staab offers basic terms and interpretive frameworks for understanding the evolution of the EU; the overall structure, purpose, and mandate of its main constituent divisions; and key
policy areas, such as market unification and environmental policy.
Andreas Staab is the founder and director of EPIC—the European Policy Information Centre, a UK-based consultancy on the European Union. He teaches in the London programs of three North American
universities and is author of National Identity in Eastern Germany.
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America's
Poor and the Great Recession
Kristin
Seefeldt & John D. Graham
"This book is an important inquiry into the impact of 'The Great Recession' on America’s precious poor citizens. Don't miss it!" — Cornel West, Class of 1943 University Professor, Princeton University
"The Great Recession was long and deep and the recovery has been very slow for the unemployed and the poor. Instead of focusing on policies for promoting opportunity and reducing poverty, politicians have focused
only on reducing the long-run federal deficit. Seefeldt and Graham document how the public and private safety nets, especially the 2009 stimulus, responded to the Great Recession and kept poverty from rising even higher. Most importantly, they suggest many
promising policy options that would better protect the poor from the vagaries of the 21st-century economy." — Sheldon Danziger, H. J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan
Millions have entered poverty as a result of the Great Recession's terrible toll of long-term unemployment. Kristin Seefeldt and John D. Graham examine recent trends in poverty and assess the performance of America's
"safety net" programs. They consider likely scenarios for future developments and conclude that the well- being of low-income Americans, particularly the working poor, the near poor, and the new poor, is at substantial risk despite economic recovery.
Kristin S. Seefeldt is the author of
Working after Welfare: How Women Balance Jobs and Family in the Wake of Welfare Reform and Welfare Reform.
John D. Graham is author of
Bush on the Home Front: Domestic Policy Triumphs and Setbacks (IUP, 2010). From 2001 to 2006 he served as Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, White House Office of Management and Budget.
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Ethics,
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is a serious attempt to reformulate the significant narrative of our times and its historical emergence, leaving behind so many other issues that were purely a matter of intellectual fashion: this volume tells us of the predicament we have to get to grips
with." — Philip Goodchild, University of Nottingham, author of Theology of Money and
Capitalism and Religion: The Price of Piety
"Philosophically broad and deep at the same time.... [I]t's high time we rethought what we mean when we talk about debt. This is for the simple reason that the warm fuzzy ignorance enforced by neoliberalism has
contributed very significantly to the current ecological emergency, while on the other hand monetarism is now eating the societies that spawned it, a classic case of autoimmunity. That the editors think these two facts together is really, really good.... [T]he
most enjoyable collection of essays I've read in a while." — Timothy Morton, University of California, Davis, author of
The Ecological Thought and Ecology without Nature
From personal finance and consumer spending to ballooning national expenditures on warfare and social welfare, debt is fundamental to the dynamics of global capitalism. The contributors to this volume explore the
concept of indebtedness in its various senses and from a wide range of perspectives. They observe that many views of ethics, citizenship, and governance are based on a conception of debts owed by one individual to others; that artistic and literary creativity
involves the artist's dialogue with the works of the past; and that the spectre of catastrophic climate change has underscored the debt those living in the present owe to future generations.
Peter Y. Paik is author of
From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe and editor (with Marcus Bullock) of
Aftermaths: Exile, Migration, and Diaspora Reconsidered.
Merry Wiesner-Hanks is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her books include
The Renaissance and Reformation: A History in Documents, The Marvellous Hairy Girls: The Gonzales Sisters and Their Worlds, and
Religious Transformations in the Early Modern World: A Brief Study with Documents.
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