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urn:uuid:5d9e6da3-de96-4210-baf2-7e6eae1fbd64 03 01 01 urn:uuid:5d9e6da3-de96-4210-baf2-7e6eae1fbd64 15 9781911712398 06 10.31389/lsepress.nbw 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 01 01 Navigating the 21st Century Business World Case Studies in Management 1 B01 21 0000-0003-3411-4818 Dorottya Sallai 2 B01 21 0000-0003-4927-809X Alexander Pepper 3 Z01 Vida Vida 4 Z01 Luciano Andrenacci 5 Z01 Yally Avrahampour 6 Z01 Michael Barzelay 7 Z01 Rebecca Campbell 8 Z01 Aurelie Cnop 9 Z01 Christine Côté 10 Z01 Eleanor Cumpsty 11 Z01 Saul Estrin 12 Z01 Roger Fon 13 Z01 Ian Hill 14 Z01 Alfred Jasansky 15 Z01 Karin A. King 16 Z01 Lauren Oddoye 17 Z01 Geoffrey Owen 18 Z01 Daniel Shapiro 19 Z01 Emma Soane 20 Z01 Janna Wirth 01 eng 10 BUS041000 04 HD 93 KJ 93 KJMD 93 4T 01 06 03 00 Case studies have long been an integral part of business and management education. As artificial intelligence transforms teaching and learning, they are assuming even greater importance. Cases provide the opportunity to learn from real-life scenarios, equipping students with the analytical skills required to critically examine data, apply theory, and interpret complex situations in what is an increasingly noisy and uncertain world.Navigating the 21st Century Business World: Case Studies in Management is a fully open access collection of management cases, featuring examples from the health sector, media, oil and gas industries, fast fashion, financial services, and the public sector.Written by LSE academics and tested in the classroom, the case studies in this book challenge students to evaluate classic issues of management, such as corporate governance and leadership, and to address contemporary dilemmas, from considering a company’s responsibilities in the face of man-made climate change to how to create inclusive workforces. Each case details the core dilemmas raised and includes questions for students to consider when preparing the case. Academics and industry trainers can use the collection to make their lessons more hands-on and enhance their curriculum. The case studies provide practical examples of management decision-making to spark thought-provoking discussions for university students, experienced executives looking to improve their leadership skills, and entrepreneurs seeking a competitive edge. 01 00 03 02 https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.nbw_frontcover.jpg LSE Press 01 LSE Press London, UK 04 19 2025 06 15 9781911712381 06 15 9781911712398 06 15 9781911712404 06 15 9781911712411 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.nbw.pdf 99 04 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.31389/lsepress.nbw 99 04 urn:uuid:20c896aa-772c-4d01-8df6-d33476a9a1d8 03 01 01 urn:uuid:20c896aa-772c-4d01-8df6-d33476a9a1d8 15 9781911712565 06 10.31389/lsepress.noa 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 10 01 02 RGS-IBG book series 01 01 Nonauthoritarian Authority Cities, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Power 1 A01 21 0000-0002-2455-0504 Julian Brigstocke 01 eng 20 Authority 04 GN 93 RGC 10 SOC015000 10 POL062000 20 Speculative 20 Nonauthoritarian 20 Power 20 Pluralising worlds 20 Urban spaces 20 Cities 01 06 03 00 Authority is not a word with many positive connotations. It suggests power-hungry dictators, trigger-happy police, stifling bureaucracies, and monumental urban landscapes. In Nonauthoritarian Authority Julian Brigstocke argues that in these shattered times, anti-authoritarianism is not enough: a radical, speculative reinvention of authority is needed. He introduces the idea of non-authoritarian authority: a form of power that pluralises marginalised and hidden voices, recognises diverse agencies, and amplifies heterogeneous demands. Engaging with key philosophical debates around materiality, experience, feeling, agency, and landscape, Nonauthoritarian Authority stages a series of experiments with thinking, reading, researching, and writing non-authoritarian authority. Dramatising a speculative search for barely sensed, dispersed authorities, Brigstocke’s experiments in thinking explore the intrinsically spatial nature of authority, through empirical studies of violent urban borders in Rio de Janeiro, colonial material infrastructures in Hong Kong, monumental architecture in Paris, and everyday spaces of encounter in the UK. Offering an intricate and playful reflection on the relationship between authority, urban forms, and writing, each exercise in thinking links form and genre to a distinctive way of imagining authority. Each chapter simultaneously critiques a form of authoritarian authority and searches for a new, nonauthoritarian authority within the rubble of the old. 01 00 03 02 https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.noa_frontcover.jpg LSE Press 01 LSE Press 16 Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 01 grantnumber AH/N008855/1 16 Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 01 grantnumber AH/T000996/1 16 Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 01 grantnumber AH/L013282/1 London 04 19 2026 06 15 9781911712558 06 15 9781911712565 06 15 9781911712572 06 15 9781911712589 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.31389/lsepress.noa 99 04 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.noa.pdf 99 04 urn:uuid:d0a7c002-8e97-435d-9bbb-6b616bf84c4e 03 01 01 urn:uuid:d0a7c002-8e97-435d-9bbb-6b616bf84c4e 15 9781909890886 06 10.31389/lsepress.ppc 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 01 01 Pension Policy and Governmentality in China Manufacturing Public Compliance 1 A01 21 0000-0003-3214-4271 Yan Wang 01 eng 00 282 03 04 JQ 12 KFFP 93 KFFP 20 Pensions 10 POL027000 20 China 12 JPP 93 JPP 10 POL017000 12 KFFP 20 Social Security 12 1FPC 20 Statecraft 01 06 03 00 Rapid economic growth is often a disruptive social process threatening the social relations and ideologies of incumbent regimes. Yet far from acting defensively, the Chinese Communist Party has lead a major social and economic transformation over forty years, without yet encountering fundamental challenges subverting its rule. A key question for political sociology is thus - how have the logics of China’s governmentality been able to help maintain compliance from the governed while acting so radically to advance the state’s growth priorities? This book explores the issue by analysing the detailed trajectories, rationale, and effects of China’s pension reforms. It uses strong methods, including institutional analysis of resource allocation in the multiple pension schemes and programmes, and quantitative text analysis of the knowledge construction in official discourse along with the reforms. Causal identification estimates the effects of key policy instruments on public opinion about pension responsibility and political trust. Moving beyond the pension issues, the analysis discusses with qualitative evidence why falsified compliance might exist in China’s society and the mechanisms that may lie behind it. Where active counter-conduct (such as resistance) is confined, individuals may choose cognitive rebellion and falsify their public compliance.The Chinese state’s strategy to generate public compliance is hybrid, organic, and dynamic. The state rules society by its customised governance design and constant adjustments. Public compliance is not only acquired through ‘buying off’ the public with governmental performance and transfer benefits, but is also manufactured through achieving cultural changes and new ideological foundations for general legitimation. 01 00 03 02 https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.ppc_frontcover.jpg LSE Press 01 LSE Press London 04 19 2022 06 15 9781909890886 06 15 9781909890886 06 15 9781909890909 06 15 9781909890916 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.ppc.pdf 99 04 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.31389/lsepress.ppc 99 04 urn:uuid:8c854cfa-26a0-4f9f-a6be-340d988463d8 03 01 01 urn:uuid:8c854cfa-26a0-4f9f-a6be-340d988463d8 15 9781909890930 06 10.31389/lsepress.pop 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 01 01 Populism Origins and Alternative Policy Responses 1 B01 21 0000-0003-0441-5062 Andrés Velasco 2 B01 Irene Bucelli 3 Z01 Catherine E. De Vries 4 Z01 Sara B. Hobolt 5 Z01 Michael Ignatieff 6 Z01 Gilat Levy 7 Z01 Ronny Razin 8 Z01 Andrés Rodríguez-Pose 9 Z01 David Soskice 01 eng 00 161 03 20 Democracy; Populism; Identity politics; Liberal democracy 12 KC 10 POL007000 12 JPA 20 Liberal democracy 20 Identity politics 20 Populism 20 Democracy 01 06 03 00 Populist movements, parties and leaders have gained influence in many countries, disrupting long-established patterns of party competition, impugning the legitimacy of representative institutions and sometimes actively weakening or coarsening government capabilities. By positing an acute contrast between the will of the people and established elites, and advocating simplistic policy solutions careless of minority rights, populists have challenged the development and even the maintenance of liberal democracy on many fronts.Social scientists’ attention to populism has grown rapidly, although it remains somewhat fragmented across disciplines. Many questions remain. Are populism’s causes economic or cultural? National or local? Is populism a threat to liberal democracy? If so, what kind of threat? And what can be done about it? Employing a range of conceptual toolkits and methods, this interdisciplinary book addresses in a critical and evidence-based way the most common diagnoses of populism’s causes, consequences and policy antidotes. 01 00 03 02 https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.pop_frontcover.jpg LSE Press 01 LSE Press London 04 19 2022 06 15 9781909890930 06 15 9781909890930 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.pop.pdf 99 04 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/site/books/10.31389/lsepress.pop 99 04 urn:uuid:0a9846b7-0034-4a41-803a-19f19db22f8f 03 01 01 urn:uuid:0a9846b7-0034-4a41-803a-19f19db22f8f 15 9781909890732 06 10.31389/lsepress.cwr 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 01 01 Conflict, War and Revolution The problem of politics in international political thought 1 A01 Paul Kelly 01 eng 00 472 03 12 JPS 10 POL011000 20 Revolution 12 JPA 10 PHI019000 20 War 20 International Political Theory 20 International Relations 20 Political Ideas 01 06 03 00 Violence and war were ubiquitous features of politics long before the emergence of the modern state system. Since the late 18th century major revolutions across the world have further challenged the idea of the state as a final arbiter of international order. This book discusses ten major thinkers who have questioned and re-shaped how we think about politics, violence and relations between states – Thucydides, Augustine, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Clausewitz, Lenin and Mao, and Schmitt.Conflict, war and revolution have generally been seen in political thought as problems to be managed by stable domestic political communities. In different ways, all the paradigmatic thinkers here acknowledge them instead as inevitable dimensions of human experience, manifested through different ways of acting politically – while yet offering radically distinct answers about how they can be handled. This book dramatically broadens the canon of political thought by considering perspectives on the international system that challenge its historical inevitability and triumph.Drawing on history, theology, and law as well as philosophy, Paul Kelly introduces thinkers who challenge fundamentally the ways in which we should think about the nature and scope of political institutions and agents. He illuminates many troubling contemporary conflicts with a critical and historical perspective.This book is primarily intended for second year and upwards undergraduate students in general political theory and international theory, and advanced international relations students. Each chapter is also downloadable on its own for use in courses considering only some of the ten theorists covered.Written in an accessible way Conflict, War and Revolution will also interest advanced general readers with interests in the historical thought underpinnings of political ideas and today’s international politics. 01 00 03 02 https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.cwr_frontcover.jpg LSE Press 01 LSE Press UK: London 04 19 2022 06 15 9781909890725 06 15 9781909890732 06 15 9781909890749 06 15 9781909890756 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.cwr.pdf 99 04 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.cwr 99 04 urn:uuid:2f6323bb-bf0d-4036-9d9a-3d7fdbc0bba2 03 01 01 urn:uuid:2f6323bb-bf0d-4036-9d9a-3d7fdbc0bba2 15 9781909890770 06 10.31389/lsepress.cov 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 01 01 COVID-19 in Southeast Asia Insights for a post-pandemic world 1 B01 Murray Mckenzie 2 B01 21 0000-0002-1103-9221 Hyun Bang Shin 3 B01 21 0000-0001-5659-351X Do Young Oh 01 eng 00 342 03 20 Economy 12 JHM 10 SOC053000 12 RGCM 10 SOC015000 20 Urbanization 12 JHB 20 Migrants 10 SOC042000 12 2G 20 Mobilities 12 AMVD 20 Communities 20 Southeast Asia 20 COVID-19 01 06 03 00 COVID-19 has presented huge challenges to governments, businesses, civil societies, and people from all walks of life, but its impact has been highly variegated, affecting society in multiple negative ways, with uneven geographical and socioeconomic patterns. The crisis revealed existing contradictions and inequalities in society, compelling us to question what it means to return to “normal” and what insights can be gleaned from Southeast Asia for thinking about a post-pandemic world. In this regard, this edited volume collects the informed views of an ensemble of social scientists – area studies, development studies, and legal scholars; anthropologists, architects, economists, geographers, planners, sociologists, and urbanists; representing academic institutions, activist and charitable organisations, policy and research institutes, and areas of professional practice – who recognise the necessity of critical commentary and engaged scholarship. These contributions represent a wide-ranging set of views, collectively producing a compilation of reflections on the following three themes in particular: (1) Urbanisation, digital infrastructures, economies, and the environment; (2) Migrants, (im)mobilities, and borders; and (3) Collective action, communities, and mutual action. Overall, this edited volume first aims to speak from a situated position in relevant debates to challenge knowledge about the pandemic that has assigned selective and inequitable visibility to issues, people, or places, or which through its inferential or interpretive capacity has worked to set social expectations or assign validity to certain interventions with a bearing on the pandemic’s course and the future it has foretold. Second, it aims to advance or renew understandings of social challenges, risks, or inequities that were already in place, and which, without further or better action, are to be features of our “post-pandemic world” as well. This volume also contributes to the ongoing efforts to de-centre and decolonise knowledge production. It endeavours to help secure a place within these debates for a region that was among the first outside of East Asia to be forced to contend with COVID-19 in a substantial way and which has evinced a marked and instructive diversity and dynamism in its fortunes. 01 00 03 02 https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.cov_frontcover.jpg LSE Press 01 LSE Press UK: London 04 19 2022 06 15 9781909890763 06 15 9781909890770 06 15 9781909890787 06 15 9781909890794 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/site/books/10.31389/lsepress.cov 99 04 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.cov.pdf 99 04 urn:uuid:2f52138f-d56a-4c5b-bf02-abdd1dd81af3 03 01 01 urn:uuid:2f52138f-d56a-4c5b-bf02-abdd1dd81af3 15 9781911712190 06 10.31389/lsepress.wmf 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 01 01 Dead Men’s Propaganda Ideology and Utopia in Comparative Communications Studies 1 A01 21 0000-0002-5345-6699 Terhi Rantanen 01 eng 00 363 03 12 GTC 93 GTC 10 LAN004000 04 P 12 JHB 93 JHB 10 SOC026000 93 3MP 01 06 03 00 In Dead Men’s Propaganda: Ideology and Utopia in Comparative Communications Studies, Terhi Rantanen investigates the shaping of early comparative communications research between the 1920s and 1950s, notably the work of academics and men of practice in the United States. Often neglected, this intellectual thread is highly relevant to understanding the 21st-century’s challenges of war and rival streams of propaganda. Borrowing her conceptual lenses from Karl Mannheim and Robert Merton, Rantanen draws on detailed archival research and case studies to analyse the extent and importance of work outside and inside the academy, illuminating the work of pioneers in the field. Some of these were well-known academics such as Harold Lasswell and the authors of the seminal book Four Theories of the Press. Others operated in the world of news agencies, such as Associated Press's Kent Cooper, or were marginalised as émigré scholars, notably Paul Kecskemeti and Nathan Leites. Her study shows how comparative communications, from its very beginning, can be understood as governed by the Mannheimian concepts of ideology and utopia and the power play between them. The close relationship between these two concepts resulted in a bias in knowledge production, contributed to dominant narratives of generational conflicts, and to the demarcation of Insiders and Outsiders. By focusing on a generation at the forefront of comparative communications at this pivotal time in the 20th century, this book challenges orthodoxies in the intellectual histories of communication studies. 01 00 03 02 https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.wmf_frontcover.jpg LSE Press 01 LSE Press 16 The London School of Economics and Political Science UK: London 04 19 2024 06 15 9781911712183 06 15 9781911712190 06 15 9781911712206 06 15 9781911712213 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.wmf.pdf 99 04 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/site/books/m/10.31389/lsepress.wmf/ 99 04 urn:uuid:f8247f73-0f29-4090-9cfb-92d7d600d9d8 03 01 01 urn:uuid:f8247f73-0f29-4090-9cfb-92d7d600d9d8 15 9781909890855 06 10.31389/lsepress.dlg 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 01 01 Decentralised Governance Crafting effective democracies around the world 1 B01 21 0000-0002-7188-0098 Jean-Paul Faguet 2 B01 21 0000-0002-2225-4429 Sarmistha Pal 01 eng 00 390 03 20 Decentralisation 93 JPRB 12 JPRB 10 POL017000 04 Public administration 20 Government 93 JPP 12 JPP 10 POL028000 93 JKS 12 JKS 20 Local Government 10 POL048000 20 Democracy 20 Global South 01 06 03 00 For developing countries, decentralising power from central government to local authorities holds the promise of deepening democracy, empowering citizens, improving public services and boosting economic growth. But the evidence on when and how decentralisation can bring these benefits has been mixed. Under the wrong conditions, decentralised power can be captured by unrepresentative elites or undermined by corruption and the clientelistic distribution of public resources. The picture is complex, and we still do not understand enough about what factors can contribute to creating better local government, and to what effect. Decentralised Governance brings together a new generation of political economy studies that explore these questions analytically, blending theoretical insights with empirical innovation. Individual chapters provide fresh evidence from around the world, including broad cross-country data as well as detailed studies of Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, China, Indonesia, Ghana, Kenya and Colombia. They investigate the pros and cons of decentralisation in both democratic and autocratic regimes, and the effects of critical factors such as advances in technology, citizen-based data systems, political entrepreneurship in ethnically diverse societies, and reforms aimed at improving transparency and monitoring.This wide-ranging volume examines the conditions under which devolving power can intensify democratic competition, boost transparency, and improve local governance, providing examples of good and bad practice in both. It is essential reading for researchers investigating decentralised governance, development and democratisation, and for policymakers and practitioners drawing lessons for future reforms. 01 00 03 02 https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.dlg_frontcover.jpg LSE Press 01 LSE Press London 04 19 2023 06 15 9781909890848 06 15 9781909890855 06 15 9781909890862 06 15 9781909890879 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.dlg.pdf 99 04 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/site/books/10.31389/lsepress.dlg 99 04 urn:uuid:60b3fdb5-923d-44a7-9f9f-9dfb2811c393 03 01 01 urn:uuid:60b3fdb5-923d-44a7-9f9f-9dfb2811c393 15 9781911712350 06 10.31389/lsepress.hae 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 01 01 How Africa Eats Trade, Food Security and Climate Risks 1 B01 David Fashole Luke 01 eng 20 African trade 04 HD 93 RNFF 10 SOC055000 10 BUS070120 93 RNT 20 Trade policy 20 Climate change 93 KNAC 10 SCI092000 20 Agricultural trade 93 KCLT 93 1H 01 06 03 00 Why do images and reports of starving and malnourished Africans appear so often in the media? What are the actual dimensions of the problem? What has trade and climate got to do with it? In How Africa Eats: Trade, Food Security and Climate Risks, award-winning author David Luke and a team of researchers seek to answer these questions, to explain why Africa struggles with food security and what can be done about it. The intersection between trade, agriculture policies, and climate risks is fundamental to this enquiry. Using a data-led approach, this book examines in detail what Africa eats and where and how it is produced. It investigates how finance, investment, foreign aid, institutions, actors and capacities interact with policies in holding Africa back from becoming an agricultural powerhouse despite having 60 per cent of the world’s arable land area. The book evaluates how climate change exacerbates the continent’s challenges and scrutinises the sustainability of production systems in the face of environmental volatility. Experts in trade policy, international law and development unpack the barriers that currently limit the growth of intra-African food trade, including the role of the World Trade Organization (WTO), and model the expected impact of the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) on agricultural trade. The extent of food deprivation in Africa is sobering. The United Nations estimates that a fifth of the African population is undernourished, and a quarter live with the day-to-day experience of severe food insecurity. How Africa Eats provides a vital, open access resource for academics, policymakers and trade experts seeking to address the continent’s food insecurity in the face of urgent threats from climate change, trade barriers and complex policy challenges. 01 00 03 02 https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.hae_frontcover.jpg LSE Press 01 LSE Press London 04 19 2025 06 15 9781911712343 06 15 9781911712350 06 15 9781911712367 06 15 9781911712374 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.hae.pdf 99 04 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.31389/lsepress.hae 99 04 urn:uuid:3ff8cc27-66c3-40cd-b776-1f5bee1c5587 03 01 01 urn:uuid:3ff8cc27-66c3-40cd-b776-1f5bee1c5587 15 9781911712060 06 10.31389/lsepress.hat 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 01 01 How Africa Trades 1 B01 David Fashole Luke 01 eng 00 208 03 10 BUS069020 20 Economic transformation 12 LNTJ 10 BUS068000 20 Industrial development 12 KCD 20 Poverty reduction 20 AfCFTA 20 Trade flows 01 06 03 00 Trade is an essential driver of economic transformation, growth, and prosperity. At a time of global uncertainty and policy fluidity, this comprehensive volume demystifies African trade and trade policy to provide a deeper understanding of how trade impacts the lives of all Africans and the continent’s development aspirations.Featuring a wealth of data-driven evaluations of trade negotiations and policy choices, How Africa Trades is an invaluable open access resource for making sense of the continent’s major trade challenges, including commodity dependence, competitiveness, and how African countries engage with often unconducive international trade rules that distort global markets. In-depth analysis focuses on intra-African trade initiatives, including the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), trade between African countries and their major trading partners, and how the short-term shocks of Covid-19 restrictions brought about longer-term changes in informal and formal trade patterns, and sped-up shifts in digital trade.Edited by Professor David Luke, and featuring vital contributions on trade economics, international law and sustainable development, How Africa Trades draws on the research expertise of LSE’s Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa. This volume provides information, expertise and tools for policymakers, stakeholders and scholars with an interest in understanding the dynamics of trade and in making effective policy decisions that centre development and inclusivity for Africa and its people. 01 00 03 02 https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.hat_frontcover.jpg LSE Press 01 LSE Press UK: London 04 19 2023 06 15 9781911712060 06 15 9781911712060 06 15 9781911712084 06 15 9781911712091 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.hat.pdf 99 04 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/site/books/10.31389/lsepress.hat 99 04 urn:uuid:66de44e7-39e4-4b5a-90f6-090f12614667 03 01 01 urn:uuid:66de44e7-39e4-4b5a-90f6-090f12614667 15 9781911712114 06 10.31389/lsepress.hdb 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 01 01 How Did Britain Come to This? A century of systemic failures of governance 1 A01 21 0000-0003-2123-3770 Gwyn Bevan 01 eng 00 326 03 20 Governance 04 JN 12 JPQ 93 JPQ 10 POL058000 93 JPP 12 JPP 10 POL028000 20 Public policy 20 British politics 93 KCP 12 KCP 12 1DBK 93 1DDU 01 06 03 00 If every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets, what is wrong with the design of the systems that govern Britain? And how have they resulted in failures in housing, privatisation, outsourcing, education and healthcare? In How Did Britain Come to This? Gwyn Bevan examines a century of varieties of systemic failures in the British state. The book begins and ends by showing how systems of governance explain scandals in NHS hospitals, and the failures and successes of the UK and Germany in responding to Covid-19 before and after vaccines became available. <break/> <break/>The book compares geographical fault lines and inequalities in Britain with those that have developed in other European countries and argues that the causes of Britain’s entrenched inequalities are consequences of shifts in systems of governance over the past century. Clement Attlee’s postwar government aimed to remedy the failings of the prewar minimal state, while Margaret Thatcher’s governments in the 1980s in turn sought to remedy the failings of Attlee’s planned state by developing the marketised state, which morphed into the financialised state we see today. <break/> <break/>This analysis highlights the urgent need for a new political settlement of an enabling state that tackles current systemic weaknesses from market failures and over-centralisation. This book offers an accessible, analytic account of government failures of the past century, and is essential reading for anyone who wants to make an informed contribution to what an innovative, capable state might look like in a post-pandemic world. 01 00 03 02 https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.hdb_frontcover.jpg LSE Press 01 LSE Press UK: London 04 19 2023 06 15 9781911712107 06 15 9781911712114 06 15 9781911712121 06 15 9781911712138 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.hdb.pdf 99 04 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/site/books/m/10.31389/lsepress.hdb/ 99 04 urn:uuid:b9c0ce93-48ff-4dcc-98bf-d8e065873a99 03 01 01 urn:uuid:b9c0ce93-48ff-4dcc-98bf-d8e065873a99 15 9781909890954 06 10.31389/lsepress/eth 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 01 01 If You’re So Ethical, Why Are You So Highly Paid? Ethics, Inequality and Executive Pay 1 A01 21 0000-0003-4927-809X Alexander Pepper 01 eng 00 198 03 10 BUS008000 04 HD 12 KJG 93 KJG 20 Unequal pay 10 BUS071000 20 Business ethics 12 HPQ 93 QDTQ 10 BUS038020 12 KCF 93 KCF 20 Renumeration 20 Market failure 20 Pay inequality 20 Distributive justices 01 06 03 00 In the past 30 years, senior executive pay has increased dramatically in the UK, US and other developed countries, causing much debate and, at times, public outrage. In this book, Alexander (‘Sandy’) Pepper argues that this soaring inflation in high pay is the result of a market failure, leading to inefficient pay practices that are replicated across industries. Individual company’s renumeration committees face a prisoner’s dilemma, and so recommend over-the-odds payments in the vain hope of obtaining superior talent. For institutional investors, these developments have created a collective action problem, with many historically unwilling or unable to intervene to curtail excessive corporate pay.But are executives themselves really the greedy, self-interested, fat cats of popular culture? Based on a thought experiment and survey of beliefs of over a thousand senior executives from around the world, Pepper and his colleagues found that business executives in fact tend not to justify their pay levels as if they were ethical egoists entitled to act entirely in their own self-interest. Instead, they expressed support for a range of ethical beliefs on inequality and distributive justice. They can be categorised as either welfare liberals, relational egalitarians, meritocrats or free marketeers. Many believe that in a civilised society everyone has the right to an income that is sufficient for a dignified life, and that companies, not just governments, have responsibilities in this respect. So, Pepper argues, it is the market failure in executive pay that has created such wage inflation at the top, and this ultimately requires an ethical response from investors, companies and executives.This is a book for anyone who wishes to understand and tackle business’s role in the growing social inequality of advanced economies in an informed, fair and feasible way. 01 00 03 02 https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress_frontcover.jpg LSE Press 01 LSE Press 16 The London School of Economics and Political Science London 04 19 2022 06 15 9781909890947 06 15 9781909890954 06 15 9781909890961 06 15 9781909890978 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/site/books/10.31389/lsepress/eth 99 04 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.pdf 99 04 urn:uuid:91d4af40-32df-4d43-835b-248f429e81f2 03 01 01 urn:uuid:91d4af40-32df-4d43-835b-248f429e81f2 15 9781909890824 06 10.31389/lsepress.well 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 01 01 Wellbeing Alternative Policy Perspectives 1 B01 21 0000-0002-8923-6372 Timothy Besley 2 A01 Irene Bucelli 01 eng 00 218 03 10 HEA055000 12 JF 20 Wellbeing; Policy; Social justice; COVID-19; Inequality 20 COVID-19 12 JKS 10 PSY000000 12 JMAL 10 PHI000000 20 Wellbeing 12 JPA 20 Policy 20 Social justice 20 Inequality 01 06 03 00 Governments in liberal democracies pursue social welfare, but in many different ways. The wellbeing approach instead asks: Why not focus directly on increasing measured human happiness? Why not try to improve people’s overall quality of life, as it is subjectively seen by citizens themselves?The radical implications of this stance include shifting attention to previously neglected areas (such as mental health and ‘social infrastructure’ services) and developing defensible measures of overall wellbeing or quality of life indicators. Can one ‘master’ concept of wellbeing work to create more holism in policy-making? Or should we stick with multiple metrics? These debates have been live in relation to an alternative ‘capacities’ approaches, and they are well-developed in health policymaking. Most recently, the connections between wellbeing and political participation have come into sharper focus.Wellbeing remains a contested concept, one that can be interpreted and used differently, with consequences for how it is incorporated into policy decisions. By bringing together scholars from economics, psychology and behavioural science, philosophy and political science, the authors explore how different disciplinary approaches can contribute to the study of wellbeing and how this can shape policy priorities. 01 00 03 02 https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.well_frontcover.jpg LSE Press 01 LSE Press UK: London 04 19 2022 06 15 9781909890824 06 15 9781909890824 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.well.pdf 99 04 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/site/books/10.31389/lsepress.well 99 04 urn:uuid:87ba80cb-eebd-4576-a8c4-a82a1b5bf19a 03 01 01 urn:uuid:87ba80cb-eebd-4576-a8c4-a82a1b5bf19a 15 9781909890695 06 10.31389/lsepress.ame 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 01 01 Advanced Macroeconomics An Easy Guide 1 A01 Filipe Campante 2 A01 Federico Sturzenegger 3 A01 21 0000-0003-0441-5062 Andrés Velasco 01 eng 00 418 03 10 BUS039000 12 K 20 Macroeconomic Policy Discussions 20 Fiscal and Monetary Policy 12 KCA 20 Business Cycles 12 KCB 20 Economic Fluctuations 20 Economic Growth 20 Advanced macroeconomics 01 06 03 00 Macroeconomic policy is one of the most important policy domains, and the tools of macroeconomics are among the most valuable for policy makers. Yet there has been, up to now, a wide gulf between the level at which macroeconomics is taught at the undergraduate level and the level at which it is practiced. At the same time, doctoral-level textbooks are usually not targeted at a policy audience, making advanced macroeconomics less accessible to current and aspiring practitioners. This book, born out of the Masters course the authors taught for many years at the Harvard Kennedy School, fills this gap. It introduces the tools of dynamic optimization in the context of economic growth, and then applies them to a wide range of policy questions – ranging from pensions, consumption, investment and finance, to the most recent developments in fiscal and monetary policy. It does so with the requisite rigor, but also with a light touch, and an unyielding focus on their application to policy-making, as befits the authors’ own practical experience. Advanced Macroeconomics: An Easy Guide is bound to become a great resource for graduate and advanced undergraduate students, and practitioners alike. 01 00 03 02 https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.ame_frontcover.jpg LSE Press 01 LSE Press London 04 19 2021 06 15 9781909890688 06 15 9781909890695 06 15 9781909890701 06 15 9781909890718 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.31389/lsepress.ame 99 04 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.ame.pdf 99 04 urn:uuid:8375f936-b472-4ee5-98d4-69576359e240 03 01 01 urn:uuid:8375f936-b472-4ee5-98d4-69576359e240 15 9781909890985 06 10.31389/lsepress.afg 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 01 01 Afghanistan Long War, Forgotten Peace 1 B01 Michael Cox 01 eng 00 314 03 12 JPVH 20 Middle East 10 POL011000 20 Afghan conflict 12 JPS 10 POL012000 10 POL059000 20 Women’s rights 12 YXZW 20 International relations 20 Taliban 20 Afghanistan 01 06 03 00 Afghanistan has been in the headlines for many years – but tragically for all the wrong reasons. First invaded by the Soviets in 1979, the country then experienced the trauma of civil war followed by yet another intervention, this time by the United States and allies, which ended with the West’s ignominious withdrawal in August 2021. Afghanistan: Long War, Forgotten Peace</italic> examines multiple dimensions of what happened and why, and what the future holds for the country now the Taliban are back in power. Multidisciplinary in approach, this book features analysts from a variety of academic disciplines, including policy-makers and public intellectuals – many with direct experience of having lived and worked in Afghanistan. It explains why the Taliban finally triumphed, what this means for Afghan society, and how competing actors in the international system have reacted to the Taliban takeover. Questions include whether the West’s withdrawal represented a major or only a temporary setback for NATO and the United States, and whether and how there can be any amelioration of the situation in Afghanistan itself. The country and its people face multiple interrelated challenges, including those of women’s rights, the drugs economies and human trafficking and exploitation. This volume is essential reading for all those concerned with what happens in Afghanistan over the coming months and years, the consequences for the Afghan people – and for the rest of the world. <break/><h3>Early praise for Afghanistan</italic></h3>“In this superb volume, Michael Cox has brought together a distinguished and interdisciplinary group of scholars to reflect on Afghanistan’s troubled recent past. Chapters range widely, probing the social challenges and religious upheavals within Afghan society as well as the regional geopolitical struggles and military interventions that have left the country so desperately in need of a better future. The book is essential reading for both scholars and policy-makers.” <break/>Professor G.J. Ikenberry, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs</italic>“Published in the midst of ‘Putin's Afghanistan’ in Ukraine, this bracing, salutary collection of essays reminds us that the original Afghanistan continues to suffer from decades of misconceived, sometimes disastrous, foreign adventurism and internal misrule. Written by a group of expert and thoughtful authors – knowledgeable, and adept at teasing out the broader implications of the war – the volume never forgets to put Afghanistan and the Afghan people back at the centre of their own story.” <break/>Professor Gerry Simpson, FBA, Professor of International Public International Law, LSE Law School</italic>“Afghanistan Long War, Forgotten Peace provides a unique, multidisciplinary approach employing different perspectives to explain how the West first became involved in Afghanistan, why in the end it left, and with what consequences. A brilliant volume that makes it possible to fully understand why NATO’s intervention failed and why the Taliban have returned.” <break/>Professor Vittorio Emanuele Parsi, Professor of International Relations and Director of ASERI at Università Cattolica, Milan. Author of ‘Inevitable Alliance: Europe and the United States Beyond Iraq’ and ‘The Wrecking of the Liberal World Order’</italic>“The Afghan tragedy still has a long way to go, writes Professor Michael Cox in his introductory essay to this excellent volume with contribution by leading experts in the field. Collectively, they draw critical lessons from an over 20-year long failure, showing that many of the mistakes made could have been avoided, and many of the opportunities lost, realized. What better advice could there be for students of international relations and politicians alike to ensure that such a tragedy will not repeat itself!” <break/>Professor Helmut Anheier. President of the Hertie School Berlin (2009 to 2018) and Adjunct Professor of Social Welfare, Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA. Author of ‘Nonprofit Organizations: Theory Management, Policy’ and ‘The Future of the Liberal Order: The Key Questions'</italic> 01 00 03 02 https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.afg_frontcover.jpg LSE Press 01 LSE Press London 04 19 2022 06 15 9781909890985 06 15 9781909890985 06 15 9781911712008 06 15 9781911712015 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/site/books/10.31389/lsepress.afg 99 04 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.afg.pdf 99 04 urn:uuid:80be8f95-dbeb-42d7-b843-a70e79e46edb 03 01 01 urn:uuid:80be8f95-dbeb-42d7-b843-a70e79e46edb 15 9781911712312 06 10.31389/lsepress.ada 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 01 01 Australia's Evolving Democracy A New Democratic Audit 1 B01 21 0000-0003-4831-2639 Mark Evans 2 B01 21 0000-0002-2650-6398 Patrick Dunleavy 3 B01 21 0000-0002-3865-0928 John Phillimore 01 eng 93 JPHV 04 JQ 10 POL007000 93 JPHC 10 POL055000 93 1MBF 10 POL016000 10 6.0.1.0.0.0.0 01 06 03 00 In recent times Australia has developed into one of the world’s leading liberal democracies. Its governments have delivered continuous economic growth for more than three decades, even against the turmoil of a global pandemic. And the country’s highly competitive elections and strong political institutions operate within a stable and balanced federal system. In Australia’s Evolving Democracy a team of leading academic authors use an audit approach to critically explore national government institutions, as well as state- and territory-level politics, and to examine how each has contributed to or held back Australian political life as it has changed and diversified. For instance, the top two parties’ monopoly of governance has only begun to adjust to a modern transition to multi-party politics, although balanced voting systems for two-house legislatures have allowed for some adaptation. To date, the country has successfully avoided both rancorous populist politics (as in the USA) and serious governance decline (as in the UK). Each of the book’s 28 chapters tackles one institution or issue, outlining recent developments along with an analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, to fully evaluate the state of Australian democracy in the 21st century. In doing so, the authors draw key lessons for other democracies, showing in detail how robust major and micro-institutions can guard against democratic ‘backsliding’ and policy failures. This comprehensive audit also highlights scope for potential democratic improvements. Australia continues to confront the challenges of partisan political barriers to addressing climate change and improving the situation of First Nations peoples, redressing modern social inequalities, and responding to popular mistrust of government and politicians. By taking an in-depth, nuanced approach to multiple democratic issues across the whole of the country’s distinctive political system, this book provides analysis that is accessible for students new to Australian politics, along with many insights for political scientists studying comparative democratic politics and Australian institutions. 01 00 03 02 https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.ada_frontcover.jpeg LSE Press 01 LSE Press London 04 19 2024 06 15 9781911712305 06 15 9781911712312 06 15 9781911712329 06 15 9781911712336 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.31389/lsepress.ada 99 04 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.ada.pdf 99 04 urn:uuid:38d26bff-897c-42b3-bb96-eb94984d1391 03 01 01 urn:uuid:38d26bff-897c-42b3-bb96-eb94984d1391 15 9781911712237 06 10.31389/lsepress.rpg 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 01 01 Renegotiating Patriarchy Gender, Agency and the Bangladesh Paradox 1 A01 21 0000-0001-7769-9540 Naila Kabeer 01 eng 00 356 03 04 HC 93 JBSA 10 SOC050000 93 1FKB 10 2.3.1.0.0.0.0 93 KCM 10 POL024000 93 JBSF1 10 SOC028000 01 06 03 00 The idea of the ‘Bangladesh paradox’ describes the unexpected social progress that Bangladesh has made in recent decades that has been both pro-poor and gender equitable. This began at a time when the country was characterised by extreme levels of poverty, poor quality governance, an oppressive patriarchy and rising Islamic orthodoxy.  This ‘paradox’ has evoked a great deal of interest within the international development community because Bangladesh had been dubbed an ‘international basket case’ at the time of its independence in 1971, seemingly trapped in a development impasse. Previous attempts to explain this paradox have generally taken a top-down approach, focusing on the role of leading institutional actors – donors, government, NGOs and the private sector. In Renegotiating Patriarchy: Gender, Agency and the Bangladesh Paradox, Naila Kabeer starts with the rationale that policy actions taken at the top are unlikely to materialise into actual changes if they are not acted on by the mass of ordinary women and men. But what led these women and men to act? And why did they act in ways that modified some of the more oppressive aspects of patriarchy in the country? That is what this book sets out to investigate. It describes the history of the Bengal delta, and the forces that gave rise to the kind of society that Bangladesh was at the time of its independence. It considers the policy and politics that characterised post-independence Bangladesh and how these contributed to the progress captured in the idea of the Bangladesh paradox. But the key argument of the book is that much of this progress reflected the agency exercised by ordinary, often very poor, women in the course of their everyday lives. Their agency helped to translate institutional actions into concrete changes on the ground. To explore why and how this happened, the book draws on a rich body of ethnographic, qualitative and quantitative research on social change in Bangladesh – including studies by the author herself. The book is therefore about how norms and practices can change in progressive ways despite unpropitious circumstances as a result of the efforts of poor women in Bangladesh to renegotiate what had been described as one of the most non-negotiable patriarchies in the world. 01 00 03 02 https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.rpg_frontcover.jpg LSE Press 01 LSE Press 16 The London School of Economics and Political Science UK: London 04 19 2024 06 15 9781911712220 06 15 9781911712237 06 15 9781911712244 06 15 9781911712251 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.rpg.pdf 99 04 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.31389/lsepress.rpg 99 04 urn:uuid:38d50ad2-8e74-48be-be21-92335d73fdc0 03 01 01 urn:uuid:38d50ad2-8e74-48be-be21-92335d73fdc0 15 9781911712022 06 10.31389/lsepress.spa 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 01 01 Spectrum Auctions Designing markets to benefit the public, industry and the economy 1 A01 21 0000-0002-0764-6192 Geoffrey Myers 01 eng 00 314 03 10 BUS079000 04 HE 12 JPP 93 JPP 20 Spectrum auctions 20 Auction theory 10 TEC071000 93 TJK 12 TJK 93 KNTX 12 KNTX 20 Radio spectrum 10 TEC034000 20 Auction design 20 Digital communication 20 Regulation 01 06 03 00 Access to the radio spectrum is vital for modern digital communication. It is an essential component for smartphone capabilities, the Cloud, the Internet of Things, autonomous vehicles, and multiple other new technologies. Governments use spectrum auctions to decide which companies should use what parts of the radio spectrum. Successful auctions can fuel rapid innovation in products and services, unlock substantial economic benefits, build comparative advantage across all regions, and create billions of dollars of government revenues. Poor auction strategies can leave bandwidth unsold and delay innovation, sell national assets to firms too cheaply, or create uncompetitive markets with high mobile prices and patchy coverage that stifles economic growth. Corporate bidders regularly complain that auctions raise their costs, while government critics argue that insufficient revenues are raised. The cross-national record shows many examples of both highly successful auctions and miserable failures.Drawing on experience from the UK and other countries, senior regulator Geoffrey Myers explains how to optimise the regulatory design of auctions, from initial planning to final implementation. Spectrum Auctions offers unrivalled expertise for regulators and economists engaged in practical auction design or company executives planning bidding strategies. For applied economists, teachers, and advanced students this book provides unrivalled insights in market design and public management. Providing clear analytical frameworks, case studies of auctions, and stage-by-stage advice, it is essential reading for anyone interested in designing public-interested and successful spectrum auctions. 01 00 03 02 https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.spa_frontcover.jpg LSE Press 01 LSE Press UK: London 04 19 2023 06 15 9781911712022 06 15 9781911712022 06 15 9781911712046 06 15 9781911712053 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.spa.pdf 99 04 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.31389/lsepress.spa 99 04 urn:uuid:c808fb1b-a394-4695-84dc-b4163eeecaf5 03 01 01 urn:uuid:c808fb1b-a394-4695-84dc-b4163eeecaf5 15 9781911712480 06 10.31389/lsepress.tgs 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 01 01 The Growth Story of the 21st Century The Economics and Opportunity of Climate Action 1 A01 21 0009-0006-3863-5361 Nicholas Stern 01 eng 93 RNU 10 SCI092000 20 Sustainable development 10 BUS072000 20 Growth 20 Climate action 20 Economic Transformation 20 Investment and Innovation 20 Climate Policy 01 06 03 00 The world stands at a crossroads. The next decade will determine whether we avoid climate, biodiversity, and economic catastrophe – or unlock a new era of sustainable, resilient, and inclusive growth. The Growth Story of the 21st Century challenges the outdated idea that we must choose between climate action and development. Instead, it presents a compelling case for a transformation that delivers both prosperity and a healthier planet.Drawing on economics, finance, policy, politics, and behavioural science, Nicholas Stern explores why this transformation is essential, what it entails, and how we can achieve it. He revisits the insights of the Stern Review two decades on and sets out a new research agenda for economics and the social sciences. <break/> <break/>This is a story of optimism – about how rapid technological advances, including digitisation and AI, can drive change at scale. But it does not shy away from the immense challenges ahead. With clear and practical strategies for national and international action, this book is a call to leaders, businesses, and individuals alike: the future is in our hands, and delay is the riskiest option of all. 01 00 03 02 https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.tgs_frontcover.jpeg LSE Press 01 LSE Press London 04 19 2025 06 15 9781911712473 06 15 9781911712480 06 15 9781911712497 06 15 9781911712503 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.tgs.pdf 99 04 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.31389/lsepress.tgs 99 04 urn:uuid:d95151c4-fb83-4008-86bf-57ecc9ac9937 03 01 01 urn:uuid:d95151c4-fb83-4008-86bf-57ecc9ac9937 15 9781911712442 06 10.31389/lsepress.tlc 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 01 01 The London Consensus Economic Principles for the 21st Century 1 B01 21 0000-0002-8923-6372 Tim Besley 2 B01 Irene Bucelli 3 B01 21 0000-0003-0441-5062 Andrés Velasco 4 Z01 Philippe Aghion 5 Z01 Matthew Andrews 6 Z01 Oriana Bandiera 7 Z01 Pranab Bardhan 8 Z01 Nicholas Barr 9 Z01 Olivier Blanchard 10 Z01 Timo Boppart 11 Z01 Robin Burgess 12 Z01 Pedro Carneiro 13 Z01 Joan Costa-i-Font 14 Z01 Diane Coyle 15 Z01 Ernesto Dal Bó 16 Z01 Ashwini Deshpande 17 Z01 Tim Dobermann 18 Z01 Dave Donaldson 19 Z01 Francisco H. G. Ferreira 20 Z01 Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas 22 Z01 Chryssi Giannitsarou 24 Z01 Ricardo Hausmann 25 Z01 Dan Honig 26 Z01 Paul Johnson 27 Z01 Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan 28 Z01 Ravi Kanbur 29 Z01 Adnan Khan 30 Z01 Margaret Levi 31 Z01 Santiago Levy 32 Z01 Nora Lustig 33 Z01 Isabela Manelici 34 Z01 Michael Marmot 35 Z01 Alistair McGuire 36 Z01 Joana Naritomi 37 Z01 Chukwumerije Okereke 38 Z01 Torsten Persson 39 Z01 Barbara Petrongolo 40 Z01 Jean Pisani-Ferry 41 Z01 Christopher Pissarides 42 Z01 Lant Pritchett 43 Z01 Carol Propper 44 Z01 Danny Quah 45 Z01 Ricardo Reis 46 Z01 Hélène Rey 47 Z01 Elizabeth Robinson 48 Z01 Dani Rodrik 49 Z01 Thomas Sampson 50 Z01 Kirsten Sehnbruch 51 Z01 Almudena Sevilla 52 Z01 Ranjeeta Thomas 53 Z01 Paul Tucker 54 Z01 Miguel Urquiola 55 Z01 John Van Reenen 56 Z01 Anthony Venables 57 Z01 Leonard Wantchekon 01 eng 00 632 03 10 BUS068000 04 HB 93 KC 93 JPP 10 POL028000 01 06 03 00 A generation ago, the so-called Washington Consensus laid out a series of dos and don’ts for policymakers around the world. Today, that vision is recognised as having fallen short in a number of ways – particularly in its neglect of the social and institutional factors that are indispensable for achieving sustained growth and for building fairer and more cohesive societies. The immense challenges humanity faces are easy to list: climate change, pandemics, social inequalities, the far-reaching effects of the tech revolution and AI, a fragmenting world economy, and a wave of populism and political polarisation that has undermined support for liberal democracy in many countries. It is much harder to identify a set of new ideas – and policies – that will solve these seemingly intractable global problems. In this new world, political leaders and policymakers need guidance and principles that can assist when choosing among policy alternatives. To this end, the editors of this volume convened over 50 of the world’s leading economists and policy experts at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). The London Consensus: Economic Principles for the 21st Century is the result of these exchanges. It is not intended as a one-size-fits-all set of economic remedies, but an exercise in assembling the best available evidence and ideas to foster dialogue, and ultimately to develop a set of principles that can address the urgent political, social and economic tasks ahead.For more on the London Consensus project, see: https://www.lse.ac.uk/school-of-public-policy/Research/London-Consensus 01 00 03 02 https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.tlc_frontcover.jpg LSE Press 01 LSE Press London 04 19 2025 06 15 9781911712435 06 15 9781911712442 06 15 9781911712459 06 15 9781911712466 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://press.lse.ac.uk/en/books/26/files/b1a3c20c-9e9e-47cc-87ec-3575abe20865.pdf 99 04 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.31389/lsepress.tlc 99 04 urn:uuid:31c3574f-029d-4433-97e3-cc04cfc90837 03 01 01 urn:uuid:31c3574f-029d-4433-97e3-cc04cfc90837 15 9781911712275 06 10.31389/lsepress.ose 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 01 01 The Open Society as an Enemy A Critique of How Free Societies Turned Against Themselves 1 A01 J. McKenzie Alexander 01 eng 00 359 03 04 B 10 PHI034000 93 QDTS 93 JPA 10 POL007000 93 JBS 01 06 03 00 Nearly 80 years ago, Karl Popper gave a spirited philosophical defence of the Open Society in his two-volume work, The Open Society and Its Enemies. In this book, J. McKenzie Alexander argues that a new defence is urgently needed because, in the decades since the end of the Cold War, many of the values of the Open Society¬ have come under threat once again. Populist agendas on both the left and right threaten to undermine fundamental principles that underpin liberal democracies, so that what were previously seen as virtues of the Open Society are now, by many people, seen as vices, dangers, or threats. The Open Society as an Enemy interrogates four interconnected aspects of the Open Society: cosmopolitanism, transparency, the free exchange of ideas, and communitarianism. Each of these is analysed in depth, drawing out the implications for contemporary social questions such as the free movement of people, the erosion of privacy, no-platforming and the increased political and social polarisation that is fuelled by social media.In re-examining the consequences for all of us of these attacks on free societies, Alexander calls for resistance to the forces of reaction. But he also calls for the concept of the Open Society to be rehabilitated and advanced. In doing this, he argues, there is an opportunity to re-think the kind of society we want to create, and to ensure it is achievable and sustainable. This forensic defence of the core principles of the Open Society is an essential read for anyone wishing to understand some of the powerful social currents that have engulfed public debates in recent years, and what to do about them. 01 00 03 02 https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.ose_frontcover.jpeg LSE Press 01 LSE Press 16 The London School of Economics and Political Science London 04 19 2024 06 15 9781911712268 06 15 9781911712275 06 15 9781911712282 06 15 9781911712299 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.ose.pdf 99 04 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.31389/lsepress.ose 99 04 urn:uuid:bd56a31e-ed11-4dcc-be0e-27cf597a0183 03 01 01 urn:uuid:bd56a31e-ed11-4dcc-be0e-27cf597a0183 15 9781909890442 06 10.31389/book1 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 01 01 The UK's Changing Democracy The 2018 Democratic Audit 1 B01 21 0000-0002-2650-6398 Patrick Dunleavy 2 B01 Alice Park 3 B01 Ros Taylor 01 eng 00 520 03 12 1DBK 10 POL007000 20 UK democracy 12 JP 10 POL058000 20 UK politics 12 JPHC 10 POL000000 20 political parties 20 devolution 12 JPHV 10 POL015000 20 democratic audit 12 JPL 10 POL022000 20 government 01 06 03 00 The UK’s Changing Democracy presents a uniquely democratic perspective on all aspects of UK politics, at the centre in Westminster and Whitehall, and in all the devolved nations.The 2016 referendum vote to leave the EU marked a turning point in the UK’s political system. In the previous two decades, the country had undergone a series of democratic reforms, during which it seemed to evolve into a more typical European liberal democracy.The establishment of a Supreme Court, adoption of the Human Rights Act, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish devolution, proportional electoral systems, executive mayors and the growth in multi-party competition all marked profound changes to the British political tradition.Brexit may now bring some of these developments to a juddering halt. The UK’s previous ‘exceptionalism’ from European patterns looks certain to continue indefinitely. ‘Taking back control’ of regulations, trade, immigration and much more is the biggest change in UK governance for half a century. It has already produced enduring crises for the party system, Parliament and the core executive, with uniquely contested governance over critical issues, and a rapidly changing political landscape. Other recent trends are no less fast-moving, such as the revival of two-party dominance in England, the re-creation of some mass membership parties and the disruptive challenges of social media.In this context, an in-depth assessment of the quality of the UK’s democracy is essential. Each of the 2018 Democratic Audit’s 37 short chapters starts with clear criteria for what democracy requires in that part of the nation’s political life and outlines key recent developments before a SWOT analysis (of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) crystallises the current situation. A small number of core issues are then explored in more depth.Set against the global rise of debased semi-democracies, the book’s approach returns our focus firmly to the big issues around the quality and sustainability of the UK’s liberal democracy. 01 00 03 02 https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/book1_frontcover.jpg LSE Press 01 LSE Press London 04 19 2018 06 15 9781909890442 06 15 9781909890442 06 15 9781909890473 06 15 9781909890480 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/book1.pdf 99 04 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/site/books/10.31389/book1 99 04 urn:uuid:a38ae111-09a5-4899-a9f1-42e7af78773e 03 01 01 urn:uuid:a38ae111-09a5-4899-a9f1-42e7af78773e 15 9781911712152 06 10.31389/lsepress.ukr 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 01 01 Ukraine Russia’s War and the Future of the Global Order 1 B01 Michael Cox 01 eng 93 JPS 12 JPSL 04 JZ 10 POL011000 20 Ukraine 93 1DTN 12 JW 10 POL012000 20 Russia 12 1DVUK 20 International relations 93 JW 01 06 03 00 The full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022 has not only caused immense suffering inside the country, and among its people, it has shifted the political landscape in Russia for the worse, altered the strategic map of Europe, and created division and economic pain in the rest of the world. In this volume, a group of internationally acclaimed academics – many originally from Ukraine or Russia – examine the deep causes of Putin’s war, the role played by other actors such as China and the United States, the severe consequences for the many millions of Ukrainians displaced from their home and country, the impact on the West and the Global South and the challenges confronting Ukraine when the war finally comes to an end. Part of the LSE Public Policy Review Series, Ukraine: Russia’s War and the Future of the Global Order offers a rigorous intellectual response to this extreme humanitarian crisis and considers the implications for the future of Ukraine and the transformed global order. 01 00 03 02 https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.ukr_frontcover.jpg LSE Press 01 LSE Press UK: London 04 19 2023 06 15 9781911712145 06 15 9781911712152 06 15 9781911712169 06 15 9781911712176 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.ukr.pdf 99 04 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.ukr 99 04