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Globalisation : a very short introduction
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ISBN: 9780192803597 Year: 2003 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford university press,

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Understanding globalization
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ISBN: 0761947949 0761947930 1446216551 1280369051 9786610369058 1412933390 9781412933391 9781446216552 9780761947943 9780761947936 9781280369056 6610369054 Year: 2003 Publisher: London : SAGE,

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Reviewing, historicizing and contextualizing contemporary discussions and debates about globalization, this text provides an introduction to the discourses, texts, practices technologies and politics that have been grouped together under the term 'globalization'.

The three waves of globalization : a history of a developing global consciousness.
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ISBN: 1856498611 1856498603 1552661008 Year: 2003 Publisher: London Zed

Global America? : the cultural consequences of globalization
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ISBN: 0853239282 0853239185 9781846313219 184631321X 9781781386668 1781386668 9780853239284 9780853239185 Year: 2003 Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,

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Many contemporary issues cannot be readily or fully understood at the level of the nation state and the concept of globalization is used to develop understanding through the analysis of global (transnational) processes. This volume explores the phenomenon of Americanization, and its worldwide impact, and the cultural consequences of globalization.

Risk and everyday life
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ISBN: 0761947582 1282262653 9786612262654 1849206562 9781849206563 9781446216392 144621639X 9781282262652 6612262656 0761947590 9780761947592 9780761947585 Year: 2003 Publisher: London : SAGE,

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The authors examine how people define risk and what risks they see as affecting them, for example in relation to immigration, employment and family life. They emphasise the need to take account of the cultural dimensions of risk and risk-taking to understand how risk is experienced as part of everyday life and consider the influence that gender, social class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, occupation, geographical location and nationality have on our perceptions and experience of risk.

Sweden's Welfare State : Can the Bumblebee Keep Flying?
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ISBN: 1589061586 1462320880 9786613850096 1451940041 1452740232 1283537648 9781451940046 9781589061583 Year: 2003 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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Sweden has long been viewed as epitomizing a particular approach to economic and social policy. To its advocates, the Swedish welfare state builds on a strong social consensus favoring extensive state intervention to ensure a high quality of life for all Swedes. To its critics, the Swedish system is marked by excessive government intervention and attendant inefficiencies. These contrasting views are captured in imagery used by Prime Minister Göran Persson: "Think of a bumblebee. With its overly heavy body and little wings, supposedly it should not be able to fly--but it does." The Swedish welfare state is the bumblebee that has managed to fly. This book draws on many years of IMF surveillance and policy advice to explain how it has done so, to assess the challenges that the Swedish model faces in the new century, to propose a strategy for dealing with those challenges, and to draw lessons for the many other countries that face similar challenges from globalization and demographics.

Limits to globalization : welfare states and the world economy
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ISBN: 0745628516 9780745628516 0745628508 9780745628509 Year: 2003 Publisher: Oxford Malden : Polity,

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