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Cambridge University Press Federalism and the Market
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Cambridge University Press Changing Lanes in China Foreign Direct Investment Local Governments and Auto Sector Development
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Cambridge University Press Foundations for a Disequilibrium Theory of the Business Cycle
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Cambridge University Press The New Law and Economic Development
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Cambridge University Press The Economic Geography of Innovation
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Cambridge University Press Games in Economic Development
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Cambridge University Press The Struggle for Constitutional Power
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Cambridge University Press Everyday Politics of the World Economy
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Cambridge University Press Scarcity and Frontiers How Economies Have Developed Through Natural Resource Exploitation
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Cambridge University Press Globalization and the Race to the Bottom in Developing Countries
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Cambridge University Press The Kingdom of Quito 16901830 The State and Regional Development 80 Cambridge Latin American Studies Series Number 80
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Cambridge University Press Planning Democracy
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Cambridge University Press The Economics of the Long Period
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Cambridge University Press The Economics of the Long Period
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Cambridge University Press Demystifying the Chinese Economy
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Cambridge University Press Authoritarian Legality in Asia
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Cambridge University Press Mozambique at a Fork in the Road
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Cambridge University Press State Capture and RentSeeking in Benin
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development
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Cambridge University Press Is the Bangladesh Paradox Sustainable
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Cambridge University Press Institutional Challenges at the Early Stages of Development
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Cambridge University Press Institutional Challenges at the Early Stages of Development
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Cambridge University Press State and Business in Tanzanias Development
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Cambridge University Press Capital Shortage
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Cambridge University Press A History of Economic Policy in India
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Cambridge University Press Great Gatsby and the Global South
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Cambridge University Press Sustaining Development in Small Islands
Book SynopsisThe viability of SIDS is threatened by a backlash against globalisation; geopolitical competition between powers; and climate change. This Element suggests that reforms in policies can retain the international liberal order. Examples are measurement of ODA and restructuring of debt. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Cambridge University Press The Dravidian Model
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Cambridge University Press Reinventing Insolvency Law in Emerging Economies
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Cambridge University Press Chinese Global Infrastructure
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Cambridge University Press What is the Middle East
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Cambridge University Press Framing Indias Low Carbon Development Pathways
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Cambridge University Press Catalytic Capital
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Cambridge University Press Financing for Development
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Cambridge University Press The Arc of the Chinese Economy
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Cambridge University Press Why the Rush
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Cambridge University Press Of Limits and Growth The Rise of Global
Book SynopsisOf Limits and Growth offers new perspectives on environmentalism, post-1945 international history, and the origins of sustainability.Trade Review'This illuminating book shows the decisive role NGOs played in affixing 'sustainable' to 'development'. But sustainability's popularity can be a function of how it smoothes over or obscures real differences among various constituencies regarding the ends and means of development … the book offers a revealing story about the power of NGOs to influence world affairs even as it demonstrates their limits.' David Ekbladh, Tufts University, Massachusetts'This book provides the best history in print on international environmental NGOs and their influence on policy. Macekura explains the emergence of these NGOs after the Second World War, he shows how they helped to define 'sustainable development', and he analyzes how they reshaped international affairs. Macekura also elucidates the limits of these organizations, especially when confronting resistance from the United States and other powerful states. This is a foundational book for anyone interested in international development, environmentalism, and contemporary foreign policy.' Jeremi Suri, University of Texas, Austin'Of Limits and Growth is a compelling addition to the literature on the rise of the global environmental movement and its struggle with the pressures for Third World development that followed decolonization in Africa and Asia. Macekura integrates the many dimensions of the subject more lucidly than [in] any previous work. His book will be well received by international studies scholars and environmental historians, as well as the development aid community.' Richard Tucker, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor'This excellent contribution to contemporary political history skilfully documents the role of NGOs in pressing governments to pay more attention to the ecological and environmental consequences of their policies and to push for sustainable development.' Richard N. Cooper, Foreign Affairs'This volume examines the role played by environmental NGOs in shaping the development approaches of the United States, the World Bank and the United Nations from the 1960s through to the 1990s, and in giving rise to the concept of 'sustainable development'.' Survival: Global Politics and Strategy'Stephen J. Macekura's Of Limits and Growth provides a dispassionate and thorough yet concise account of the emergence of 'sustainable development' as a unifying mantra for environmentalists and those interested in economic development … The book is essential reading for those interested in the history of sustainable development and how it has impacted international relations.' Carrie A. Meyer, The Journal of American History'A growing number of young scholars are writing the history of environmental diplomacy, and Of Limits and Growth is an important model for that new cohort to follow.' Kurk Dorsey, H-Diplo'Macekura offers a compact, intelligent, and well-written account that shows effectively how sustainable development - a term vaguely enough defined to occasion further debates - emerged in the 1970s. It is well attuned to the scholarly as well as the political implications of the topic, and adds in important ways to our understanding of development agendas in the 1970s and beyond - a topic that had been too often neglected in early generations of scholarship. With Of Limits and Growth, Macekura establishes himself as an important member of a new generation of scholars examining north-south dynamics in the Cold War world.' David C. Engerman, H-Diplo'Of Limits and Growth is a watershed work in taking environmental politics and international relations together. Macekura's research is outstanding, and the book's utility speaks to diligent scholarship and hard-won ideas. In 300 pages, he has introduced the characters, institutions, and ideas that have shaped international environmental governance in the postwar period, and he has created a framework for understanding how that shaping took place. As historians begin to dig more deeply into the overlaps between environmental politics and American foreign relations in the post-war period, this book will become a touchstone of that new endeavor.' Joshua Howe, H-Diplo'… Macekura shows that the environmentalists played a critical role in fashioning the current consensus that environmental protection is compatible with continued material abundance. Above all, his book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the current impasse over a meaningful global climate change agreement.' Simon Toner, H-DiploTable of ContentsIntroduction: on the origins of 'sustainable development'; 1. The rise of international conservation and post-war development; 2. Parks and poverty in Africa: conservation, decolonization, and development; 3. 'The world's most dangerous political issue': the 1972 Stockholm conference and the politics of environmental protection; 4. When small seemed beautiful: NGOs, appropriate technology, and international development in the 1970s; 5. Leveraging the lenders: the quest for environmental impact statements in the United States and the World Bank; 6. Conservation for development: the World Conservation Strategy and the rise of sustainable development planning; 7. The persistence of old problems: the politics of environment and development at the Rio Earth Summit; Conclusion: the limits and growth of NGOs.
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Cambridge University Press Sustaining High Growth in India
Book SynopsisThe growth rate of the Indian economy has plummeted sharply from 9 per cent in 2010 to below 5 per cent over 2012-14. It is essential to sustain a growth rate of 8 per cent or more over the next 20 years to eliminate poverty and reach a decent standard of living. There is an urgent need for research on the challenges facing India in reviving and sustaining high rates of economic growth, some of which are related to industrial policy, trade policy, infrastructure bottlenecks, inflation and macroeconomic issues, governance issues, demography and human capital. There is also a need for better industrial and human resource policies, higher investment and savings rates, higher exports and foreign investment inflows. This book studies the importance of growth, the role of industrial policy in sustaining it, and other critical issues regarding ways to revive and sustain higher growth in India across various sectors of the economy.Table of ContentsPreface Pravakar Sahoo; Introduction Pradeep Agrawal; Part I. Ensuring Macroeconomic Stability for Sustaining High Growth Rates: 1. Propagation mechanisms of inflation in India: an empirical investigation Ashima Goyal; 2. Managing food price inflation in India: demand projections and supply considerations Pradeep Agrawal; Part II. Promoting Industrial Development for Sustaining High Growth Rates: 3. Economic complexity as a determinant of industrialization of countries: the case of India Emanuele Pugliese, Guido L. Chiarotti, Andrea Zaccaria and Luciano Pietronero; 4. China's manufacturing success: lessons for India Pravakar Sahoo and Abhirup Bhunia; 5. Sustaining India's manufacturing sector growth in the face of increasing competition from Chinese imports Bishwanath Goldar and Yashobanta Parida; Part III. The International Economic Issues and Sustaining High Growth: 6. Global recession and Eurozone debt crisis: impact on exports of India and China Pami Dua and Divya Tuteja; 7. Changing global trade regime and emergence of mega FTAs: strategy for India's external sector sustainability Geethanjali Natraj, Abhirup Bhunia and Garima Sahdev; 8. Economic impact of foreign capital inflows in emerging Asia Pradeep Agrawal and Durairaj Kumarasamy; 9. FDI outflows from the BRIC countries: impact on domestic capital formation Nandita Dasgupta; Part IV. Infrastructure Bottlenecks to Sustaining High Growth: 10. Infrastructure, human capital and growth: a quantitative analysis for India Pradeep Agrawal; 11. Elementary education in India: a study of accessibility and quality Indrajit Bairagya and Radhika Saraf; 12. Education and economic growth – a comparative study of China and India Lakshmi K. Raut; Part V. Some Socio–Political Issues in Sustaining High Growth: 13. Demographic dividend and economic growth in India William Joe, Atish Kumar Dash and Pradeep Agrawal; 14. Social cohesion and uncertainties in economic growth: a pre- and post-reform analysis of India Tapas Mishra, Sushanta Mallick, Mamata Parhi and Prashant Gupta; 15. Does openness and democracy reduce corruption: results for South Asian nations and India Rukmani Gounder and Shrabani Saha; 16. Regional dynamics of rural credit and growth in India: exploring nonlinearity and convergence in growth patterns Sushanta Mallick, Banikanta Mishra and Tapas Mishra.
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Cambridge University Press The Idea of Development in Africa
Book SynopsisThe Idea of Development in Africa challenges prevailing international development discourses about the continent, by tracing the history of ideas, practices, and ''problems'' of development used in Africa. In doing so, it offers an innovative approach to examining the history and culture of development through the lens of the development episteme, which has been foundational to the ''idea of Africa'' in western discourses since the early 1800s. The study weaves together an historical narrative of how the idea of development emerged with an account of the policies and practices of development in colonial and postcolonial Africa. The book highlights four enduring themes in African development, including their present-day ramifications: domesticity, education, health, and industrialization. Offering a balance between historical overview and analysis of past and present case studies, Elisabeth McMahon and Corrie Decker demonstrate that Africans have always co-opted, challenged, and reformeTrade Review'A smart, sweeping history that explores how colonial ideas about Africa and Africans - including moral imperatives, the inventions of 'tribes,' and scientific racism - shaped development paradigms and projects across the continent. The Idea of Development in Africa is a 'must-teach' book for courses on Africa and in development studies.' Dorothy Hodgson, Brandeis University'This refreshing and innovative study packs a double punch. First, it offers a bracing critique of the development industry, locating its roots deep within the colonial mind-set. Then it follows through with a brighter vision of Africa, one that emerges from the continent's own artists, thinkers, and leaders. A feast to which all are invited.' Gregory Mann, Columbia University'At last, an accessible book that explains the history of development as an idea - critical background for any students or practitioners interested in engaging with Africa's development today. The authors lay out the ways developmental thinking emerged globally alongside empire and colonialism, and how this way of thinking continues to impact the practice of development today. Smart and sophisticated, with helpful resources for additional reading and sidebars that delve more deeply into specific topics.' Jamie Monson, Michigan State University'Decker and McMahon's co-authored volume is the latest and most comprehensive compilation of the development concept or episteme in African history made accessible to students and practitioners alike.' Leslie Anne Hadfield, International Journal of African Historical Studies'… the book is thought provoking as it discusses known material in a new light … Recommended. Graduate students and faculty.' J. E. Weaver, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Origins of the Development Episteme: 1. From Progress to Development; 2. Knowledge and the Development Episteme; 3. Eugenics and Racism in the Development Episteme; 4. Decolonizing the Idea of Development; Part II. Implementation of the Development Episteme: 5. The Salvation of Science; 6. Challenges to Development; 7. From Modernization to Structural Adjustment; 8. The New Missionaries; Part III. Development 'Problems': 9. Reshaping Huts and Homes; 10. Lessons in Separate Development; 11. Capitalizing on Dis-Ease; 12. Manufacturing Modernization; 13. African Critiques of the Development Episteme.
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Cambridge University Press Bounded Rationality and Economic Diplomacy
Book SynopsisInvestment treaties have empowered foreign investors to file expensive, controversial, and wide-ranging claims against sovereign states. This book examines why and how the treaties were negotiated based on a novel theory of economic diplomacy rooted in behavioural economics and psychology.Trade Review'Well before the current hype in Europe over investor-state dispute settlement, Poulsen pioneered the view that many countries signed up to investment protection treaties in less than rational ways. This book provides careful, country-specific evidence in support, with eye-opening stories from across the world, ranging from Pakistan and Ghana to the Czech Republic, Costa Rica and South Africa. Countries simply assumed the economic benefits of investment treaties and underestimated the possibility and costs of legal claims. World Bank and UN officials promoted the treaties and so did Western lawyers and advisors. Debunking the rational premise of much of the academic scholarship, this book should be compulsory reading for a new generation of policymakers and scholars alike, if only to avoid the mistakes of the past and find better ways to address today's increasingly complex challenges of economic diplomacy.' Joost Pauwelyn, Graduate Institute, Geneva'BITs don't have to be boring! Lauge N. Skovgaard Poulsen has developed a simple yet elegant framework based on bounded rationality to explain why many less developed countries have made rationally foolish choices when signing bilateral investment treaties. By slightly relaxing the strong assumptions of rationality, and combining it with careful in-depth case analysis, he provides a compelling account of the bilateral investment treaty regime and its sometimes perverse consequences.' Duncan Snidal, Nuffield College, Oxford'In explaining why developing countries signed on to investment treaties that were arguably not in their interests, Poulsen adds greatly to Graham Allison's ground-breaking analysis of the Cuban Missile Crisis so that we can better understand how government decision-making - in rich as well as poor countries - works in practice.' Louis T. Wells, Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management, Emeritus, Harvard Business School, Massachusetts'Lauge Poulsen makes a truly innovative contribution to political economy by using a rich set of insights from cognitive psychology and behavioral economics to explain the spread and impact of bilateral investment treaties. His thorough statistical and qualitative research convincingly demonstrates the superiority of this bounded-rationality theory over conventional rationalist accounts.' Kurt Weyland, Mike Hogg Professor in Liberal Arts, Department of Government, University of Texas, Austin'Bounded Rationality and Economic Diplomacy will be fruitful reading not only for scholars of international political economy and international relations more broadly but also for those directly involved in treaty negotiations - diplomats, bureaucrats and international lawyers … Given the strength of his argument and the compelling evidence he puts forth, one wonders why others have been so reluctant to relax the rationality assumption. Hopefully other scholars will follow Poulsen's lead and push to understand the extent to which bounded rationality can explain other puzzling results in political behavior and decision making.' Xander Slaski, Journal of Politics'Lauge N. Skovgaard Poulsen's book is a superb contribution to this important body of research. Taking an international political economy perspective, the book sheds new light on the historical development of the international investment regime. … the book presents a solid theoretical framework and a persuasive body of evidence that sustain a different account of why low- and middle-income countries signed investment treaties. These features make the book a must read for anybody interested in the forces that shaped the historical development of today's international investment regime, and in exploring new trajectories in international economic diplomacy.' Lorenzo Cotula, Journal of International Economic Law'Lauge N. Skovgaard Poulsen's engaging and meticulously researched book is a timely contribution to International Political Economy scholarship. In Bounded Rationality and Economic Diplomacy, Poulsen poses the pertinent question: why did developing countries as diverse as China and the Marshall Islands ever sign up to an arbitration system that could later come back to bite them … Poulsen should be commended for providing the most detailed analysis of the origins of bilateral investment treaties and investor - state dispute settlement to date. As ISDS cases inevitably become more prominent in the coming years, Poulsen's book will serve as an authoritative guide to their origins for scholars of international political economy and institutional design, but also anyone curious about this increasingly salient topic.' Claire Peacock, International Affairs'Poulsen's extensively-researched but succinctly-written book is a tour de force. It should be read by all scholars and practitioners interested in the historical trajectory and ongoing policy issues associated with international investment treaties and arbitration, especially the topical issue of ISDS.' Luke Nottage, Journal of World Investment and Trade'This is a provocative thesis that Poulsen pursues with great skill and success. The effort goes to show that a combination of qualitative and quantitative techniques, fusing both 'problem-solving' and critical methods, contributes a great deal to our understanding of this complex field.' David Schneiderman, The European Journal of International Law'All scholars of international politics and perhaps others should read this interesting book. It makes valuable contributions, both specific and general. It develops an original, convincing explanation of the phenomenally rapid spread, especially during the 1990s, of bilateral investment treaties [BITs] involving developing countries, and of the treaties' puzzling content. It also demonstrating an insightful way to check and enrich rational choice analyses of many other political phenomena.' John S. Odell, International RelationsTable of ContentsPreface: the curious case of Pakistan; 1. Unanticipated consequences; 2. Bounded rationality and the spread of investment treaties; 3. A difficult beginning; 4. Promoting investment treaties; 5. A less then rational competition; 6. Narcissistic learning; 7. Letting down the guard: a case study; 8. Expanding the bounds of rationality in the investment regime.
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Cambridge University Press Elite Parties Poor Voters
Book SynopsisWhy do poor people often vote against their material interests? This puzzle has been famously studied within wealthy Western democracies, yet the fact that the poor voter paradox also routinely manifests within poor countries has remained unexplored. This book studies how this paradox emerged in India, the world's largest democracy.Trade Review'Why would poor people support elite parties that do not advance their interests? In a fascinating and rigorous analysis, Tariq Thachil demonstrates that the private provision of services serves both the interests of poor supporters and the elite core. This incisive and compelling book addresses critical questions in comparative politics about the nature and uses of political parties, their supporters, and patronage.' Anna Grzymala-Busse, University of Michigan'This is a truly superb, important, and beautifully written book. Thachil uses the fascinating case of India's BJP to explore how elite parties try to recruit and mobilize poor voters. Besides shedding highly original empirical light on the most populous poor electorate on earth, Thachil offers a major contribution to a wide array of theoretical literatures, ranging from clientelism to religion to party organizations. Elite Parties, Poor Voters will deservedly attract a major audience in South Asian and comparative politics circles alike.' Dan Slater, University of Chicago'The triumph of the Hindu nationalist BJP party in India's most recent general election was no surprise. Rather, as Tariq Thachil shows here, its victory was rooted in a painstakingly built record of service provision by its social wings. Thachil's sophisticated theorizing is ably undergirded by rigorous multifaceted evidence. In a world of neoliberal economic policy prescriptions that leave poorer citizens of developing countries few alternatives to services provided by extremist groups in their societies, Elite Parties, Poor Voters deserves serious attention from anyone interested in political parties, elections, or India.' Irfan Nooruddin, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington DC'This book adds important new dimensions to discussions of why and how the BJP, an upper-caste Hindu nationalist political party in India, gains support from non-elite voters outside of its core support base. Thachil's focus on the BJP's 'patient' methods of persuasion presents a convincing argument about the conditions under which service provision pays off in attracting votes. His position is well-supported by a formidable combination of different types of quantitative data supplemented by qualitative research. Thachil's insightful characterization of the broader implications of his argument brings new perspectives and depth to studies of vote-buying and electoral politics in the non-Western world.' Melani Cammett, Brown University, Rhode Island'Why poor people support political parties that represent the economic interests of the wealthier communities is a puzzle amply discussed in the literature on the developing world. But it remains a black box in the developing world. Combining ethnography, large-n statistical work, and good old 'soaking and poking', as Richard Fenno put it, Thachil enters that black box … It is noteworthy that as Elite Parties, Poor Voters was about to be published, something eerily confirming its basic arguments happened. In India's 2014 national elections, the [historically upper caste] BJP polled more votes than the Congress Party among three of the biggest subaltern categories … which was unprecedented. Thachil had already worked for years on how this denouement might have come about. He was able to identify the deeper forces and strategies at work.' Ashutosh Varshney, Perspectives on Politics'Why do poor people often support political parties that do not champion their material interests? The excellent response that Tariq Thachil offers, based on mixed methods, is very sophisticated and nuanced. After dismissing the commonplace interpretations that do not work fully - including clientelism and the instrumentalization of religion - Thachil presents his own thesis and argues the expansion of private welfare played a key role in explaining the unlikely success of an elite party within the world's biggest democracy … Thachil's remarkable book is the first attempt to analyze in detail how the BJP can derive some electoral dividends from social work.' Christophe Jaffrelot, Journal of Asian Studies'Elite Parties, Poor Voters masterfully walks a number of proverbial tightropes at once. It offers a parsimonious theoretical argument without sacrificing nuance; it is grounded in qualitative fieldwork, while making use of sophisticated quantitative methods; and it represents a timely, much-needed treatment of Indian politics that speaks to the wider comparative politics literature and travels beyond India … Elite Parties, Poor Voters represents the best of what comparative politics has to offer.' Adam Ziegfeld, The Journal of Politics'Elite Parties, Poor Voters is a major contribution to our understanding of how India's parties court the poor, and will be an invaluable resource for researchers examining these questions comparatively.' Rob Jenkins, Pacific AffairsTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. An elite party's struggles with poor voters; 3. Why rich and poor voters support an elite party in India; 4. Why an elite party turned to service; 5. How service wins votes; 6. When service fails: the impact of rival strategies; 7. The argument in comparative perspective; 8. Conclusion; Appendix A. Variables, sources, and summary statistics; Appendix B. Additional tables and figures; Appendix C. Supplemental survey information; Appendix D. List of information in online supplement.
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Cambridge University Press Africas Development in Historical Perspective
Book SynopsisWhy has Africa remained persistently poor over its recorded history? Has Africa always been poor? What has been the nature of Africa's poverty and how do we explain its origins? This volume takes a necessary interdisciplinary approach to these questions by bringing together perspectives from archaeology, linguistics, history, anthropology, political science and economics.Trade Review'A cast of formidable scholars has written a powerful book with provocative propositions on development, the core of African modernity, brilliantly revealing its long roots and complexities in time, culture, people, and institutions. This will serve as an engaging teaching text for students and compelling instructional tool for policy makers.' Toyin Falola, Jacob and Frances Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas, Austin'It has long been time for Africa to be inserted into the Europe-Asia 'great divergence' debate. This volume, containing contributions from the leading practitioners of African economic history, sets us firmly upon such a voyage.' Ralph A. Austen, Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago'Africa's economic and political history is a challenge to most well-established approaches in economics and political science. This book has much to teach and will inspire anybody interested in confronting that challenge.' Daron Acemoglu, Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology'The authors have done a great job assembling an excellent group of papers dealing with today's economic development issues through a historical prism. All the key areas are touched upon, with the political economy, health, social capital and trust issues all discussed. A really wonderful book on African development.' Yaw Nyarko, New York University'This volume provides plenty of food for thought … and it is to be hoped that it is not the last of its kind.' Felicitas Becker, ComparativTable of ContentsPart I. Introduction: La Longue Durée: 1. Africa in history Christopher Ehret; 2. Reversal of fortune and socioeconomic development in the Atlantic world: a comparative examination of West Africa and the Americas, 1400–1850 Joseph Inikori; 3. The impact of malaria on African development over the longue durée David N. Weil; 4. African population, 1650–2000: comparisons and implications of new estimates Patrick Manning; Part II. Culture, Entrepreneurialism, and Development: 5. Redistributive pressures in sub-Saharan Africa: causes, consequences, and coping strategies Jean-Philippe Platteau; 6. Accumulation and conspicuous consumption: the poverty of entrepreneurship in Western Nigeria, ca.1850–1930 Ayodeji Olukoju; 7. Changing dynamics of entrepreneurship in nineteenth-century Africa Emmanuel Akyeampong; 8. The textile industry of Eastern Africa in the longue durée William Gervase Clarence-Smith; 9. Explaining and evaluating the cash crop revolution in the 'peasant' colonies of tropical Africa, c.1890–c.1930: beyond 'vent-for-surplus' Gareth Austin; 10. Re-inventing the wheel: the economic benefits of wheeled transportation in early colonial British West Africa Isaias Chaves, Stanley L. Engerman and James A. Robinson; 11. Mbanza Kongo/São Salvador: culture and the transformation of an African city, 1491 to 1670s Linda Heywood; Part III. Institutions: 12. The fragile revolution: rethinking war and development in Africa's violent nineteenth century Richard Reid; 13. The imperial peace Robert Bates; Part IV. External Forces: 14. Dahomey in the world: Dahomean rulers and European demands, 1726–1894 John Thornton; 15. The transatlantic slave trade and the evolution of political authority in West Africa Warren C. Whatley; 16. Gender and missionary influence in colonial Africa Nathan Nunn.
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Cambridge University Press Economic Prehistory
Book SynopsisAround 15,000 years ago, almost all humans lived in small mobile foraging bands. By about 5,000 years ago, the first city-states had appeared. This radical transformation in human society laid the foundations for the modern world. We use economic logic and archaeological evidence to explain six key elements in this revolution: sedentism, agriculture, inequality, warfare, cities, and states. In our approach the ultimate cause of these events was climate change. We show how shifts in climate interacted with geography to drive technological innovation and population growth. The accumulation of population at especially rich locations led to creation of group property rights over land, stratification into elite and commoner classes, and warfare over land among rival elites. This set the stage for urbanization based on manufacturing or military defense and for elite-controlled states based on taxation. Our closing chapter shows how these developments eventually resulted in contemporary globaTrade Review'In the last decade, it has become more and more obvious that it is impossible to understand the divergence in human societies without taking a deep historical perspective and embracing the wisdom in the social sciences outside of economics. This book pulls together the insights of two of the leaders of this dramatic intellectual transition. Remarkable and path-breaking.' James Robinson, University of Chicago'This book is remarkable. It proposes an elegant microeconomic theory that grapples well with archaeology's confusingly rich prehistoric record. The book looks deeply and broadly to discuss how rational decisions may underlie major social transitions including beginning agriculture, expanding warfare, and first urbanism. The authors emphasize the value of generality with a unified theory that admirably challenges prehistorians to contemplate coherence in human history, anthropologists to reconsider their commitment to cultural uniqueness, and economists to incorporate long-term human prehistory in theory building.' Timothy Earle, Northwestern University'This is the first book that applies modern economic analysis to the study of prehistory and explains how it's done. More than that, it presents the approach in such a way as to be accessible to a range of relevant audiences that do not have strong mathematical skills. I think it could mark the beginning of a new interdisciplinary field. The book is a model of reasoned lucidity as it explains the nature of economic models and economic approaches to non-economists, and addresses the many objections that non-economists tend to have.' Stephen Shennan, University College London'In this one-of-a-kind book, economic theory meets history to shed a lot of light on how and why (some) human beings moved from living in nomadic, egalitarian communities of hunter-gatherers to agriculture, unequal societies, and powerful states. The authors offer us the best of political economy: elegant theory, lots of evidence, great insights. A must-read for those interested in development and, more generally, in our origins.' Carles Boix, Princeton University'Dow and Reed's efforts to explain the transitions that gave rise to agrarian civilizations by applying the tools of modern economics constitute the most sophisticated and up-to-date work of its kind. It comes together here in a book that is at once deeply scholarly, original, and accessible to non-specialists, thanks to clear discursive summaries. It is must-reading for all concerned with the origins of the societies that were crucial stepping stones toward today's world.' Louis Putterman, Brown University'In this book, Greg Dow and Clyde Reed summarize their own and other economists' important recent research on six fundamental transitions that shaped the world as we know it. I am convinced that their theoretical analysis of the emergence of sedentism, agriculture, inequality, war, cities, and states in prehistory will be a key reference for future research in the field and for economists with an interest in long-run development.' Ola Olsson, University of GothenburgTable of Contents1. Economics meets Archaeology; 2. A Primer on Malthusian Economics; Part I. Sedentism and Agriculture: 3. The Upper Paleolithic; 4. The transition to Sedentism; 5. The transition to Agriculture; Part II. Inequality and Warfare: 6. The transition to Inequality; 7. Warfare between Egalitarian groups; 8. Warfare between Elite groups; Part III. Cities and States: 9. Mesopotamian city-states: Data and hypotheses; 10. Mesopotamian city-states: A formal model; 11. The emergence of Cities and States.
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Book SynopsisTrade Review[This] remarkable new book… should be required reading for everyone at Ofcom, the Competition and Markets Authority and the DCMS. — John Naughton, The Guardian In all, it is a strong argument that deserves a good hearing: far from chilling innovation, the book concludes, reining in Big Tech may be the only way to save it. — The Financial Times ‘Ariel Ezrachi’s and Maurice E. Stucke’s scholarly research on the digital economy, competition and antitrust law, and economic inequality have made waves in the policy debate space... The digital world has been changing so rapidly, but their proposals for the way forward are promising. Their book is a wide-angle look at where we are, and who and what we—as small businesses and everyday internet users—are up against. And if more people read How Big-Tech Barons Smash Innovation—and How to Strike Back I think it will enable more fertile ground for truly helpful and humane innovation, online and off.’ — Gabbi Cisneros, Porchlight Using vivid examples and relying on their work in the field, the authors explain how the leading tech companies design their sprawling ecosystems to extract more profits (while crushing any entrepreneur that poses a threat). — Porchlight
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