Colin Crouch Knihy

The book critiques the neo-institutionalist literature of comparative capitalism, which has gained prominence over the past decade. Colin Crouch evaluates existing theories and suggests a significant re-orientation of the field. He explores innovative modeling approaches to understand how creative dynamics interact with institutional frameworks, aiming to deepen the analysis of capitalism's variations and challenges.

Leading chess author Colin Crouch examines the key to sustained chess improvement and what we should do to maximize our results and ratings.

Crouch's provocative argument in Post-Democracy has in many ways been vindicated by recent events, but these have also highlighted some weaknesses of the original thesis and shown that the situation today is even worse--

International Master Colin Crouch demonstrates how Magnus Carlsen was able to elevate his play to a stratospheric level and become the highest-rated chess player in the history of the game, breaking Garry Kasparov's record.

Colin Crouch studies his favorite attacking players, and highlights all the important themes of one of the most crucial elements of the game.

Focusing on over 30 remarkable chess games from the new millennium, Colin Crouch delves into key aspects of contemporary chess, including powerful attacks, resourceful defenses, and strategic endgame play. He highlights the interplay between human creativity and computer assistance, making the content accessible for both aspiring and advanced players. With clear explanations and in-depth analysis, readers will gain valuable insights into modern chess strategies and how to apply these lessons to enhance their own gameplay.

Capitalism is the only complex system known to us that can provide an efficient and innovative economy, but the financial crisis has brought out the pernicious side of capitalism and shown that it remains dependent on the state to rescue it from its own deficiencies.

Increasingly, employees are being falsely treated as ‘self-employed’. This phenomenon – the ‘gig economy’ – is seen as the inevitable shape of things to come. In this book, Colin Crouch takes a step back and questions this logic. He shows how the idea of an employee – a stable status that involves a bundle of rights – has maintained a curious persistence. Examining the ways companies are attacking these rights, from proffering temporary work to involuntary part-time work to ‘gigging’, he reveals the paradoxes of the situation and argues that it should not and cannot continue. He goes on to propose reforms to reverse the perverse incentives that reward irresponsible employers and punish good ones, setting out an agenda for a realistic future of secure work. Crouch’s penetrating analysis will be of interest to everyone interested in the future of work, the welfare state and the gig economy.

The financial crisis seemed to present a fundamental challenge to neo-liberalism, the body of ideas that have constituted the political orthodoxy of most advanced economies in recent decades. Colin Crouch argues in this book that it will shrug off this challenge. The reason is that while neo-liberalism seems to be about free markets, in practice it is concerned with the dominance over public life of the giant corporation. This has been intensified, not checked, by the recent financial crisis and acceptance that certain financial corporations are 'too big to fail'. Although much political debate remains preoccupied with conflicts between the market and the state, the impact of the corporation on both these is today far more important. -- Back cover.