Zed Books: 608 books
The Business of Human Rights
An Evolving Agenda for Corporate Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
In a time when multinational corporations have become truly globalised, demands for global standards on their behaviour are increasingly difficult to dismiss. Work conditions in sweatshops, widespread destruction of the environment, and pharmaceutical trials in third world countries are only the tip...
Debunking Economics (Digital Edition - Revised, Expanded and Integrated)
The Naked Emperor Dethroned?
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Debunking Economics exposes what many non-economists may have suspected and a minority of economists have long known: that economic theory is not only unpalatable, but also plain wrong. When the original Debunking was published back in 2001, the market economy seemed invincible, and conventional 'neoclassical'...
by Lena Rethel, Timothy J. Sinclair
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
Banks of all sorts are troubled institutions. The cost of public bail-outs associated with the subprime crisis in the United States alone may be as high as US$5 trillion. What is the problem with banks? Why do they seem to be at the centre of economic and financial turmoil down through the ages? In...
The 1% and the Rest of Us
A Political Economy of Dominant Ownership
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
While the Occupy movement faces many strategic and organizational challenges, one of its major accomplishments has been to draw global attention to the massive disparity of income, wealth and privilege held by 1% of the population in nations across the world. In The 1% and the Rest of Us, Tim Di Muzio...
The Great Eurozone Disaster
From Crisis to Global New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
The last couple of years have seen the eurozone lurch from crisis to calamity. With Greece, Portugal and Ireland already driven to the brink of economic catastrophe, and the threat that a number of other EU countries are soon to follow, the consequences for the global economy are potentially dire.
In...
Media, Mobilization, and Human Rights
Mediating Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
What impact do mass media portrayals of atrocities have on activism? Why do these news stories sometimes mobilize people, while at other times they are met with indifference? Do different forms of media have greater or lesser impacts on mobilization? These are just some of the questions addressed...
The Activists' Handbook
A Step-by-Step Guide to Participatory Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
A priceless resource for everyone ready to make a difference, environmental activist Aidan Ricketts offers a step-by-step handbook for citizens eager to start or get involved in grass-roots movements and beyond. Providing all essential practical tools, methods and strategies needed for a successful...
Catching Thunder
The True Story of the Worlds Longest Sea Chase
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
December, 2014: In the forbidding waters off Antarctica, Captain Hammarstedt of the Bob Barker sets off on a voyage unlike any seen before. Across ten thousand miles of hazardous seas, Hammarstedt’s crew will relentlessly pursue the Thunder – an infamous illegal fishing ship – for what will...
Indefensible
Seven Myths that Sustain the Global Arms Trade
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Draws on extensive, in-depth research into the arms trade, featuring examples from around the world
The arms trade is frequently in the news and a target of NGO and activist campaigns - this book will remain topical for a long time to come
Brings together a range of distinguished...
How Numbers Rule the World
The Use and Abuse of Statistics in Global Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Numbers dominate global politics and, as a result, our everyday lives. Credit ratings steer financial markets and can make or break the future of entire nations. GDP drives our economies. Stock market indices flood our media and national debates. Statistical calculations define how we deal with climate...
Europe on the Brink
Debt Crisis and Dissent in the European Periphery
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Europe is suffering from a bipolar economic disorder. Financial journalists divide the continent into two groups of nations - centre and periphery - not by geography but by credit rating. Europe on the Brink is a critical investigation of the root causes of this sovereign debt crisis, and the often...
America's Backyard
The United States and Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
The United States has shaped Latin American history, condemning it to poverty and inequality by intervening to protect the rich and powerful. America’s Backyard tells the story of that intervention. Using newly declassified documents, Grace Livingstone reveals the US role in the darkest periods...
The PKK
Coming Down from the Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is infamous for its violence. The struggle it has waged for Kurdish independence in southeastern Turkey has cost in excess of 40,000 lives since 1984. A less-known fact, however, is that the PKK now embraces a non-violent end to the conflict, with its leader Abdullah...
Unholy Trinity
The IMF, World Bank and WTO
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Who really runs the global economy? Who benefits most from it? The answer is a triad of 'governance institutions' - The IMF, the World Bank and the WTO. Globalization massively increased the power of these institutions and they drastically affected the livelihoods of peoples across the world. Yet...