Christopher A Pierson

Just Property: A History in the Latin West. Volume One: Wealth, Virtue, and the Law

We live in a world which is characterised by both a radical inequality in wealth and incomes and the accelerating depletion of scarce natural resources. One of the things that prevents us from addressing these problems, perhaps even prevents us from seeing them as problems, is our belief that indivi...

The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State (Oxford Handbooks)

The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State is the authoritative and definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state. In a volume consisting of nearly fifty newly-written chapters, a broad range of the world's leading scholars offer a comprehensive account of everything one needs to know about the m...

Conversations with Anthony Giddens: Making Sense of Modernity

Anthony Giddens has been described as “the most important English social philosopher of our time.” Over 25 years, with a dazzling series of books that attest to his unrelenting productivity, he has established himself as today’s most widely read and widely cited social theorist. In recent years, his...

Socialism After Communism: The New Market Socialism

Christopher Pierson assesses the evidence of terminal decline, but finds rather a whole series of deep-seated challenges to traditional forms of socialist and social democratic thinking. Above all, these problems are to be found in the political economy of social democracy and its commitment to incr...

The Welfare State: A Reader

Second edition of a widely used, and highly respected, readerComprehensively overhauled to make sure content remains at cutting edge of current arguments about welfareAlso retains all the classic readings, serving to give students a complete overview of the whole range of debatesEach section is now ...

Beyond the Welfare State: the New Political Economoy of Welfare

Over the past decade, Beyond the Welfare State? has become established as the key text on the emergence and development of welfare states. It offers a comprehensive and remarkably well-informed introduction to the ever more intense debates that surround the history and, still more importantly, the f...

The Modern State

The new edition of this well-established and highly regarded textbook continues to provide the clearest and most comprehensive introduction to the modern state. It examines the state from its historical origins at the birth of modernity to its current jeopardized position in the globalized politics ...

Beyond the Welfare State?: The New Political Economy of Welfare Third Edition

Over the past decade, Beyond the Welfare State? has become established as the key text on the emergence and development of welfare states. It offers a comprehensive and remarkably well-informed introduction to the ever more intense debates that surround the history and, still more importantly, the f...

Chris Piers

Chris Pierson is a computer game designer as well as an author of several books in the Dragonlance saga. He has created many books for the series.

Beyond the Welfare State?: The New Political Economy of Welfare

Beyond the Welfare State?: The New Political Economy of Welfare

Socialism After Communism: The New Market Socialism

Socialism After Communism: The New Market Socialism

Beyond the Welfare State?: The New Political Economy of Welfare

Beyond the Welfare State?: The New Political Economy of Welfare

Beyond the Welfare State?: The New Political Economy of Welfare

Marxist Theory and Democratic Politics