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Presenting a new model for the three pillars of liveability – disposable and residual income, essential services and social infrastructure – When nothing works challenges the assumptions of left and right in the UK political classes and offers a fresh approach to the economically visible and politically actionable. -- .","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56301858029941,"sku":"9781526173713","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781526173713_c6556971-3076-47e1-97d7-dd5bbc78f29d.jpg?v=1786022238"},{"product_id":"9780415334181","title":"Financialization and Strategy","description":"\u003cp\u003eConsidering the recent impact of the capital market on corporate strategy, this text analyzes, through argument and supportive case studies, how pressures from the capital bull market of the 1990s and bear market of the early 2000s, have reshaped management action and calculation in large, publicly quoted US and UK corporations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning with the dissatisfaction with classical strategy and its limited engagement with the processes of financialization, the book moves on to cover three detailed company case studies (General Electric, Ford and GlaxoSmithKline) which use long run financial data and analysis of company and industry narratives to illustrate and explore key themes. 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Rising bills and rivers full of sewage grab the headlines, but the greater threat is climate crisis, bringing increased drought and flooding.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book exposes the many problems with our unsustainable water system. Unfair charges limit spending on infrastructure, while financial extraction has turned the water companies into debt-burdened zombies in an increasingly fragmented system.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReforming regulation and tinkering with tariffs will not be enough, and public ownership is just the first step. \u003ci\u003eMurky water \u003c\/i\u003eshows that the system can only be made sustainable through a radical overhaul of how it is owned, managed, funded and planned.  We need a new kind of water management, with national and catchment planning and coordinated action by landowners, local authorities and water companies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWestminster and Whitehall currently stand in the way. 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