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47 produkter
Ecological Imperialism, Development, and the Capitalist World-System
Cases from Africa and Asia
Inbunden, 2022
2190 kr
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Two major trends are currently challenging the sustainability of human civilization: extreme inequality and the ecological crisis. This book argues that these are intrinsically linked by further exploring the complex relationships between global ecological crises, neoliberal globalization, orthodox …
Cooperatives, the State, and Corporate Power in African Export Agriculture
The Case of Uganda’s Coffee Sector
Av Karin Wedig
Häftad, 2020
710 kr
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Agriculture is a major contributor to Africa’s GDP, the region’s biggest source of employment and its largest food producer. However, agricultural productivity remains low and buyer-driven global value chains offer few opportunities for small producers to upgrade into higher value-added activities. …
Discipline in the Global Economy?
International Finance and the End of Liberalism
Häftad, 2012
291 kr
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In Discipline in the Global Economy, Jakob Vestergaard investigates the currently prevailing regulation of international finance, launched in response to the financial crises of the 1990’s. At the core of this approach is a set of standards of ‘best practice’, ranging from banking supervision to …
Labor, Industry, and Regulation during the Progressive Era
Häftad, 2012
381 kr
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The Progressive Era was among the most volatile times for the economy and labor in American History. Daniel E. Saros explores the institutional and economic conditions of this time, revealing new insight into the regulated nature of industry and the conditions of labor. Using the steel industry as …
New Deal Banking Reforms and Keynesian Welfare State Capitalism
Häftad, 2012
413 kr
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Russell provides a groundbreaking critique of the orthodox position on the nature of New Deal reforms as well as an innovative analysis of the unraveling of those reforms. Russell argues that the success of the New Deal banking reforms in the post-war period initially produced a "pax financus" in …
Prison Labor in the United States
An Economic Analysis
Av Asatar Bair
Häftad, 2012
907 kr
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This book is the only comprehensive analysis of contemporary prison labor in the United States. In it, the author makes the provocative claim that prison labor is best understood as a form of slavery, in which the labor-power of each inmate (though not their person) is owned by the Department of …
Political Economy of European Union Competition Policy
A Case Study of the Telecommunications Industry
Av Tuna Baskoy, Stephen A. Mitchell m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
814 kr
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In the European Union (EU), competition policy occupies a central place amongst other EU public policies and is the first truly supranational public policy regulating market competition. One of the stated objectives of EU competition policy is to prevent excessive concentration of economic power in …
Everyday Economic Practices
The 'Hidden Transcripts' of Egyptian Voices
Häftad, 2015
791 kr
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This book brings to the forefront the significance of local everyday economic practices to development policymaking. Chowdhury's objective in unearthing these diverse activities is two-fold. She demonstrates why it is a misrepresentation to characterize all that is economic as "capitalism". …
Rethinking Municipal Privatization
Häftad, 2012
530 kr
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This book examines one of the most high-profile municipal privatizations—the privatization of New York City’s Central Park. The fiscal crisis of the 1970s established the political and cultural opening for privatizations, which were justified on the basis of increasing efficiency. However, as Cooke …
Worker Identity, Agency and Economic Development
Women's empowerment in the Indian informal economy
Inbunden, 2010
2504 kr
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More than nine out of every ten working women in India are employed in the informal economy, unprotected by labour laws and excluded from basic forms of social security. They work as daily labourers in the fields, small producers and industrial outworkers in their own homes and as vendors on the …
Seeking Sustainability
On the prospect of an ecological liberalism
Av G. J Paton
Inbunden, 2010
2504 kr
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The ideas of neoliberalism perpetuate a disembedded and dichotomised view of economy-ecology relations. The renewed interest in climate change and sustainability attests to the lack of progress achieved by the ‘sustainable development’ regime and to the need for more appropriate frameworks for …
Encoding Capital
The Political Economy of the Human Genome Project
Häftad, 2012
791 kr
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This book deals with the rapid changes in contemporary molecular biology, particularly genome sciences, and the manner in which they can be understood through the lens of political economy. Specifically, the work investigates the case of the United States-led Genome Project (HGP), in order to show …
Structuralism and Individualism in Economic Analysis
The "Contractionary Devaluation Debate" in Development Economics
Häftad, 2012
381 kr
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This book argues that the debates about the appropriate economic policies to follow in the developing world within the field of development economics are at heart debates about the appropriate ontology to ascribe to agents within the developing world.
African-Asian Divide
Analyzing Institutions and Accumulation in Kenya
Häftad, 2012
814 kr
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Why have Africans not gained a more dominant position in urban manufacturing in Kenya? This question is explored through an analysis of the institutions, both formal and informal, that have affected patterns of capital accumulation in Kenya by the African and Asian (Indian) communities. Using a new …
Unions and Class Transformation
The Case of the Broadway Musicians
Häftad, 2013
762 kr
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How can unions move from a defensive strategy to one of class transformation? Mulder demonstrates how the current union strategies of class blindness lead to weak and often unintended results. Unions, she argues, do not use their collective power for class transformation and union …
Miracle for Whom?
Chilean Workers Under Free Trade
Av Janine Berg
Häftad, 2013
545 kr
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Miracle for Whom? offers a fresh and insightful perspective to the debate on rising income inequality in Chile, and on the broader question of how free trade affects the demand for workers in developing countries.
Political Economy from Below
Economic Thought in Communitarian Anarchism, 1840-1914
Av Rob Knowles
Häftad, 2013
791 kr
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Communitarian anarchism is a generic form of socialism that denies the need for a state or any other authority over the individual from above, and which requires absolute belief that the individual cannot exist outside of a community of others. This book suggests that the communitarian anarchists …
Late Neoclassical Economics
The restoration of theoretical humanism in contemporary economic theory
Inbunden, 2016
1876 kr
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Several contemporary economic theories revolve around different concepts: market failures, institutions, transaction costs, information asymmetries, motivational diversity, cognitive limitations, strategic behaviors and evolutionary stability. In recent years, many economists have argued that the …
Seeking Sustainability
On the prospect of an ecological liberalism
Av G. J Paton
Häftad, 2013
849 kr
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The ideas of neoliberalism perpetuate a disembedded and dichotomised view of economy-ecology relations. The renewed interest in climate change and sustainability attests to the lack of progress achieved by the ‘sustainable development’ regime and to the need for more appropriate frameworks for …
Class, Gender, and the American Family Farm in the 20th Century
Inbunden, 2014
1517 kr
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Integrating a focus on gender with Marx’s surplus-based notion of class, this book offers a one-of-a-kind analysis of family farms in the United States. The analysis shows how gender and class struggles developed during important moments in the history of these family farms shaped the trajectory of …
Market Sense
Toward a New Economics of Markets and Society
Av Philip Kozel
Häftad, 2010
426 kr
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This book concentrates upon the historic associations of the marketplace in the work of Aristotle, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and demonstrates how what markets were imagined to entail for society was critical to each author's understanding of the central social problems of their time.
Political Economy from Below
Economic Thought in Communitarian Anarchism, 1840-1914
Av Rob Knowles
Inbunden, 2004
2504 kr
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Communitarian anarchism is a generic form of socialism that denies the need for a state or any other authority over the individual from above, and which requires absolute belief that the individual cannot exist outside of a community of others. This book suggests that the communitarian anarchists …
Structuralism and Individualism in Economic Analysis
The "Contractionary Devaluation Debate" in Development Economics
Inbunden, 2004
785 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book argues that the debates about the appropriate economic policies to follow in the developing world within the field of development economics are at heart debates about the appropriate ontology to ascribe to agents within the developing world.
Everyday Economic Practices
The 'Hidden Transcripts' of Egyptian Voices
Inbunden, 2007
2504 kr
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This book brings to the forefront the significance of local everyday economic practices to development policymaking. Chowdhury's objective in unearthing these diverse activities is two-fold. She demonstrates why it is a misrepresentation to characterize all that is economic as "capitalism". …
New Deal Banking Reforms and Keynesian Welfare State Capitalism
Inbunden, 2007
762 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Russell provides a groundbreaking critique of the orthodox position on the nature of New Deal reforms as well as an innovative analysis of the unraveling of those reforms. Russell argues that the success of the New Deal banking reforms in the post-war period initially produced a "pax financus" in …
Political Economy of European Union Competition Policy
A Case Study of the Telecommunications Industry
Av Tuna Baskoy
Inbunden, 2008
785 kr
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In the European Union (EU), competition policy occupies a central place amongst other EU public policies and is the first truly supranational public policy regulating market competition. One of the stated objectives of EU competition policy is to prevent excessive concentration of economic power in …
Miracle for Whom?
Chilean Workers Under Free Trade
Av Janine Berg
Inbunden, 2005
1562 kr
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Miracle for Whom? offers a fresh and insightful perspective to the debate on rising income inequality in Chile, and on the broader question of how free trade affects the demand for workers in developing countries.
Market Sense
Toward a New Economics of Markets and Society
Av Philip Kozel
Inbunden, 2005
785 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book concentrates upon the historic associations of the marketplace in the work of Aristotle, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and demonstrates how what markets were imagined to entail for society was critical to each author's understanding of the central social problems of their time.
African-Asian Divide
Analyzing Institutions and Accumulation in Kenya
Inbunden, 2006
2578 kr
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Why have Africans not gained a more dominant position in urban manufacturing in Kenya? This question is explored through an analysis of the institutions, both formal and informal, that have affected patterns of capital accumulation in Kenya by the African and Asian (Indian) communities. Using a new …
Discipline in the Global Economy?
International Finance and the End of Liberalism
Inbunden, 2008
785 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In Discipline in the Global Economy, Jakob Vestergaard investigates the currently prevailing regulation of international finance, launched in response to the financial crises of the 1990’s. At the core of this approach is a set of standards of ‘best practice’, ranging from banking supervision to …
