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Contents note continued: Perspectives on environmental degradation -- Economic responses to environmental challenges -- The question of sustainability -- Alternative approaches to the environment -- Addressing environmental damage -- Conclusion -- ch. 10 Civil society, community and participation --...

Contents note continued: Social protection and the market -- Market logic in the state -- Conclusion -- ch. 7 Firms, corporations and competition -- The rise of the corporation -- The history of the capitalist firm -- Theoretical perspectives on the firm -- Corporations and the workplace -- Conflict...

Contents note continued: The distribution of economic resources -- Inequality in market societies -- How capitalism changed inequality -- Class and inequality -- Theorising class -- Class, politics and inequality -- Struggles beyond class -- Inequalities and gender justice -- Race, colonialism and e...

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