Development economics Books
Princeton University Press Pawned States
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the William H. Riker Book Award, Political Economy Section of the American Political Science Association""Winner of the Best Book Award, International Collaboration Section of the American Political Science Association""Winner of the Gaddis Smith International Book Prize, Yale University""Winner of the Lepgold Prize, Mortara Center at Georgetown University""A remarkable book to read for academics but also for those interested in the dynamics of capitalist state-building."---Giampaolo Conte, The Journal of European Economic History
£85.00
Princeton University Press Debt and Crisis in Latin America
Book SynopsisExamining the causes of the acute Latin American debt crisis that began in mid-1982, North American analysts have typically focused on deficiencies in the debtor countries' economic policies and on shocks from the world economy. Much less emphasis has been placed on the role of the region's principal creditors--private banks--in the development ofTrade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1991 "[This] substantial study argues that Latin America's debt crisis of the 1980s and the resulting regionwide recession are owed largely to the role of commercial banks, which overexpanded credit and then overcontracted when the region's liquidity problems became evident."--Abraham Lowenthal, Foreign Affairs "Offers an excellent analysis of the factors that contributed to the chronic borrowing by Latin American countries in the 1970s and the consequent run-up in the international debt to its present heights."--Patrick Conway, Latin American Research ReviewTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*LIST OF FIGURES, pg. ix*LIST OF TABLES, pg. xi*PREFACE, pg. xv*CHAPTER ONE. Introduction: The Crisis in Latin America, pg. 1*CHAPTER TWO. Growth and Transformation of International Banking: An Overview, pg. 8*CHAPTER THREE. International Banking: Its Structure and Performance during the 1970s, pg. 56*CHAPTER FOUR. The Expansive Phase of an LDC Credit Cycle, pg. 123*CHAPTER FIVE. The Crash and the Political Economy of Rescheduling, pg. 181*CHAPTER SIX. The Outward Transfer of Resources: What Can Be Done About It?, pg. 236*APPENDIX. The Methodology of the Case Studies on Bolivia and Peru, pg. 283*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 287*INDEX, pg. 309
£999.99
Princeton University Press More Than Altruism The Politics of Private
Book SynopsisAs government officials and political activists are becoming increasingly aware, international nonprofit agencies have an important political dimension: although not self-serving, these private voluntary organizations (PVOs) and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) seek social changes of which many of their financial contributors are unaware. As PVTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Tables, pg. ix*Preface, pg. xi*Acknowledgments, pg. xiii*Abbreviations, pg. xv*CHAPTER ONE. Introduction, pg. 1*CHAPTER TWO. Historical Role of Private Foreign Aid as an Extension of North Atlantic Nation-State Interests Abroad, pg. 27*CHAPTER THREE. U.S. Private Foreign Aid since World War II: Exporting the American Dreams of Self-Reliance and Democracy, pg. 45*CHAPTER FOUR. European and Canadian Private Foreign Aid since World War II: Creating New Modes of Political and Economic Influence Abroad in the Post-Colonial Era, pg. 75*CHAPTER FIVE. Current Diversity in Private Foreign Aid Objectives: American Pragmatism versus European Utopianism, pg. 112*CHAPTER SIX. Current Trade-offs among the American Partners: PVOs, the U.S. Government, and Private Donors, pg. 162*CHAPTER SEVEN. Current Trade-offs among the European and Canadian Partners: NGOs, Governments, and Private Donors, pg. 196*CHAPTER EIGHT. Threat or Support for Internal Stability in the Third World? The Impact of Private Foreign Aid in Latin America, pg. 230*CHAPTER NINE. Conclusions, pg. 279*APPENDIX A. Research Methodology, pg. 285*APPENDIX B. U.S. Canadian, and European Nonprofit Organizations in Survey, pg. 291*APPENDIX C. Aid Resources of 205 Largest U.S. (1981), Canadian (1980), and European (1980) Nonprofit Organizations, pg. 294*APPENDIX D.3 Questionnaire Administered to Policymakers in Forty-five U.S., Canadian, and European Nonprofit Organizations Supporting Programs in Latin America (October 1982-September 1983), pg. 307*APPENDIX E. Colombian Nonprofit Organizations in Survey, pg. 312*APPENDIX F. Questionnaire Administered to Policymakers in Thirty-six Colombian Nonprofit Organizations (June-August 1984), pg. 317*Bibliography, pg. 327*Index, pg. 347
£49.50
Pluto Press Money and Power
Book SynopsisWhy the Global South is still experiencing mass poverty after over sixty years of 'development'Trade Review'A committed, thoughtful, closely and rigorously-argued work. The most relevant analysis of how money and capitalist power reproduce poverty in today's world' -- Professor Alfredo Saad Filho, Head of Department of Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.'Exposes in elegant detail the economic and political interests that lie behind aid' -- Nick Hildyard works with the Corner House, a UK research and solidarity group focusing on human rights, environment and development.'Cutting-edge' -- Patrick Bond, Senior Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal School of Development Studies, Durban, South Africa'A clear and trenchant indictment of the view that private capital has the interest and capacity to develop the Global South' -- Raymond Bush, Professor in African Studies and Development Politics, University of LeedsTable of Contents1. The political economy of development 2. Money in the political economy of development 3. Making Markets 4. International development banks and creditor states 5. The British Market Makers 6. Poverty in Africa and the history of multilateral aid 7. Derivative business and aid-funded accumulation 8. Private sector development and bilateral interventions 9. Taking the long view of promoting capitalism 10. Aid effectiveness: what are we measuring? 11. Conclusion Bibliography Index
£28.80
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Killing Fields of Inequality
Book SynopsisInequality is not just about the size of our wallets. It is a socio-cultural order which, for most of us, reduces our capabilities to function as human beings, our health, our dignity, our sense of self, as well as our resources to act and participate in the world.Trade Review"Covering the world, Göran Therborn shows how devastating are his three types of inequality (vital, existential and resource) and their mechanisms of reproduction (distanciation, exclusion and exploitation). Lucid, persuasive and learned The Killing Fields of Inequality is a must-read for those concerned about the most pressing topic of our time." Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley "A great book. With a light touch, it provides a brief but comprehensive survey of all the main dimensions of inequality. Written with insight, commitment to social justice, and ability to see what matters, it becomes a book about social progress itself. It ends with a perceptive discussion of the next steps towards a more egalitarian future." Richard Wilkinson, University of Nottingham"[A]lways favouring a comparative and global perspective, Therborn's book presents us with a wide and insightful examination of the various dimensions of inequality in a rare combination of theoretical developments, historical substantiation, and empirical evidence […and…] compelling answers to a few of the most inescapable questions about inequalities."Análise SocialTable of ContentsFigures page vi Tables vii Introduction 1 I. The Fields 5 1. Human, Nasty and Short: Life under Inequality 7 2. Behind the Doors of Exclusion 20 II. Theory 35 3. Theoretical Cross-Draught 37 4. Three Kinds of (In)Equality and Their Production 48 III. History 69 5. Inequality and the Rise of Modernity 71 6. A Historical Six-Pack: Three Inequalities in Global and National History 79 IV. Today’s Unequal World 101 7. Current World Patterns and Dynamics of Inequalities 103 8. Three Puzzles of Contemporary Inequalities 132 V. Possible Futures 151 9. Overcoming Inequality – Yesterday and Tomorrow 153 10. The Decisive Battlefields of Future (In)Equality 166 References 185 Index 202
£45.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Consumption in China How Chinas New Consumer
Book SynopsisConsumption practices in China have been transformed at an unprecedented pace.Trade Review"What makes Consumption in China most enjoyable is that Yu continually offers up fascinating factual tidbits: In 1979 there were no skyscrapers in Shanghai; today, the city has twice as many as New York." (Studies of Asia 2016)"This is an extremely readable insight into the forces that drive consumer trends in what will one day become the world's largest consumer market. It's a book for any CEO hoping for a slice of the action."South China Morning Post"A valuable resource"China Daily''An informative combination of firsthand observations, extensive interviews, and social theory allows readers to follow Chinese consumers into a new world of goods and services. This book provides up-to-date coverage of key aspects of Chinese consumerism, including the impact of the internet, the influence of China's one-child households, and the implications of new private and commercial spaces."Karl Gerth, author of As China Goes, So Goes the World: How Chinese Consumers are Transforming Everything ''The transformation of Chinese consumers in the last three decades, a dazzling subject, is presented in this book with rich ethnographic evidence and clear historical contextualization. The author has skilfully weaved consumer voices and her own experience with a wide range of academic theories and business insights.''Mag Wong, Founder and Non-Executive Chairman of Oracle Added Value, Hong Kong"Consumption in China is a timely contribution to the growing literature on the emerging Chinesemiddle class. Its engaging writing style makes it a good read for undergraduates and a general audience who are interested in China�s new social landscape at large."The American AnthropologistTable of ContentsMap Chronology Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Spaces Chapter 3: Status Chapter 4: Lifestyles Chapter 5: Commodification Chapter 6: Awareness Chapter 7: Consumption with Chinese Characteristics Bibliography
£45.00
Kogan Page Ltd Emerging Markets
Book SynopsisProfessor Robert E. Grosse is Dean of the School of Business Administration at American University of Sharjah, and was 2012-2014 President of the Academy of International Business. He has taught international finance in the MBA programmes at Thunderbird, the University of Miami, the University of Michigan, the Instituto de Empresa (Madrid, Spain), and in many universities in Latin America, and he lectures on executive education programmes around the world. He was founding Director of Standard Bank Group's (South Africa) executive education programme, the Global Leadership Centre, offering leadership development training to 11,000 managers and executives. He is a leading author on international business topics, and his latest book, Can Latin American Firms Compete? was published by Oxford University Press in 2007.Table of Contents Chapter - 01: Introduction; Chapter - 02: Why emerging markets are the place to be; Chapter - 03: The time horizon; Chapter - 04: What is the challenge from emerging markets?; Chapter - 05: Competing in emerging markets; Chapter - 06: Competitive strategies of firms in China: MNEs, SOEs and private firms; Chapter - 07: Emerging market MNEs competing in industrial countries and globally; Chapter - 08: Innovation is key; Chapter - 09: Large, small, family-owned and state-owned companies from emerging markets; Chapter - 10: Conclusions
£37.99
University of British Columbia Press Second Growth Community Economic Development in
Book SynopsisA look at historical and contemporary restructuring, linking development of rural communities with resource development and Aboriginal marginalization.Trade ReviewThe “how-tos” of research are beautifully laid out, and the reader gets to follow a clear path from the conception of the project (literature review, theory, methodology) to its completion (data collection and analysis) ... Second Growth is an excellent book, and I highly recommend it. -- Tracy Summerville, University of Northern British Columbia * BC Studies, Num. 148, Winter 2005/2006 *This is an especially well-documented and insightful account of conceptualising and operationalizing CED ... This book adds extra layers to our understanding of staples and resource-dependency theory, provides rich case-study documentation and reflections of the serious constraints and difficulties encountered in the case communities and explores dimensions of what might make up good-practice CED. The book offers hope, at least of how communities might fashion realistic hopes in their own terms. -- Richard Le Heron, School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Auckland * Environment and Planning A, 2005, vol. 37 *This theoretically rich, community economic development (CED) work, written by four members of the Centre for Sustainable Community Development (formerly the Community Economic Development Centre) at Simon Fraser University, is the product of a three-year participatory-action-based research project involving four “forest-based” British Columbia communities. This book offers many useful insights into the complexity of CED theory and practice for communities that seek to assert some control over their economic and political futures. -- Andrew Molloy, Cape Breton University * Canadian Journal of Political Science *Table of ContentsMaps, Figures, and TablesForewordAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1 Approaching Rural and Small-Town Communities2 Context and Communities3 Forest Dependency and Local Development in British Columbia4 Transition in BC’s Forest Economy: The Implications for Local Development5 Community Economic Development6 Success Factors in Community Economic Development7 The Community Economic Development Process8 Community Economic Development Strategies9 The Community/University Relationship10 ConclusionAppendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
£999.99
MN - University of British Columbia Press Developments Displacements
Book SynopsisSeeks to address displacement as a broader and more multi-layered phenomenon. This work provides causal accounts of why and how displacement occurs, what its effects on communities, ecosystems, and economies look like, and the normative or ethical positions held by key actors involved.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction / Peter Vandergeest, Pablo Idahosa, and Pablo S.Bose Part 1: Displacement, Multinationals, and theState 2. Who Defines Displacement? The Operation of the World BankInvoluntary Resettlement Policy in a Large Mining Project / DavidSzablowski 3. Gendered Implications: Development-Induced Displacement in Sudan/ Amani El-Jack 4. Uprooting Communities and Reconfiguring Rural Landscapes:Industrial Tree Plantations and Displacement in Sarawak, Malaysia, andEastern Thailand / Keith Barney Part 2: Displacement and Neoliberalism 5. Enforcement and/or Empowerment? Different Displacements Inducedby Neoliberal Water Policies in Thailand / Michelle Kooy 6. Displacements in Neoliberal Land Reforms: Producing Tenure(In)Securities in Laos and Thailand / Peter Vandergeest 7. Contested Territories: Development, Displacement, and SocialMovements in Colombia / Sheila Gruner 8. Dams, Development, and Displacement: The Narmada ValleyDevelopment Projects / Pablo S. Bose Part 3: Conservation and Displacement 9. Upon Whose terms? The Displacement of Afro-Descendent Communitiesin the Creation of Costa Rica's National Parks / ColetteMurray 10. Entanglements: Campesino and Indigenous Tenure Insecurities onthe Honduran North Coast / Sharlene Mollett 11. Conclusion / Pablo Idahosa, Peter Vandergeest, and Pablo S.Bose Contributors Index
£73.95
University of British Columbia Press Land Resource Economics and Sustainable
Book SynopsisAn introduction to issues of land use and the economic tools that are used to resolve land-use conflicts.Table of Contents1 IntroductionPart 1: Theoretical Considerations2 The Concept of Rent: Is Land Unique?3 The Theory of Welfare Measurement4 Property Rights, Market Failure, Externality, and Environmental EconomicsPart 2: Project Evaluation and Economic Development5 Social Cost-Benefit Analysis: Evaluation of Resource Development Projects6 Input-Output Models for Regional and Community Development7 Valuing Nonmarket BenefitsPart 3: Land-Use and Sustainable Development8 Conservation, Sustainable Development, and Preservation9 Economics of Global Climatic Change10 Economics of Soil ConservationPart 4: Economics of Land-Use Planning and Control11 Efficiency and Equity in Land-Use Planning12 Land Preservation and Conservation13 Control over Water Use in Agriculture: Economics of Irrigation and Wetlands PreservationPart 5: Economics of Public Land Management14 Economics and Management of Public Forestlands15 Economics and Public Rangeland Management16 Management of Public Lands for Multiple UsePart 6: Conclusions17 Ethics and Land Resource Economics
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Corporate Social Responsibility and the State
Book SynopsisThis book provides a clear theoretical lens and practical guidance on the prospects and limits of leveraging private corporate social responsibility standards, such as forest certification, alongside government regulatory efforts to achieve more effective and adaptive sustainability solutions.Table of Contents1 Introduction 2 Co-Regulating Corporate Social Responsibility 3 Government's Role in Forest Certification 4 Canada: Government Authority in Forest Certification 5 The United States: Enhanced Governance of Certified StateForests 6 Sweden: Public/Private Forest Policy Interplay and Innovation 7 Conclusion Appendices: Research Interviews; The Leading Global ForestCertification Programs; Summary of US State Forest Agency Interviews;US State Forest Certification Audit Outcomes Notes, References, Index
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press A Human Rights Based Approach to Development in
Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates why economic development is synonymous with institutional development for the furthering of human development issues.Table of ContentsForeword / Pitman B. PotterIntroduction / India and a Human Rights Based Approach to Economic Development / Moshe Hirsch, Ashok Kotwal, and Bharat Ramaswami1 India’s National Food Security Act and the WTO Agreement on Agriculture / Milind Murugkar2 Primary Education in India: Evidence and Practice / Ashok Kotwal, Bharat Ramaswami, and Wilima Wadhwa3 Ensuring the Right to Work through Better Governance / Ashwini Kulkarni4 From Cautious Support to Precautionary Paralysis: The Evolution of India’s Regulatory Regime for Transgenics / Milind Kandlikar5 Child Malnutrition, Infant Feeding Practices, and Nutrition Information: Evidence from India / Nisha Malhotra6 Foreign Direct Investment and Intergroup Disparities in India / Ashwini Deshpande7 Climate Change Mitigation: The Indian Conundrum / Milind Kandlikar and Simon HardingConclusion / Moshe Hirsch, Ashok Kotwal, and Bharat RamaswamiReferences; Index
£52.70
University of British Columbia Press Good Governance in Economic Development
Book SynopsisGood Governance in Economic Development examines what happens at the intersection of international and Chinese conceptions of transparency, accountability, and public participation.Table of ContentsForeword / Pitman B. Potter1 International Good Governance Norms between the Global and the Local: China, Transparency, and Accountability / Sarah Biddulph and Ljiljana BiukovićPart 1: International Principles of Good Governance, Transparency, and Accountability2 Belts That Fasten Roads to Prosperity and Development: Transparency and Governance of New International Banks / Ljiljana Biuković3 Corporate Legal Consciousness in Investor-State Dispute Settlement and the United Nations' Responsibility to Respect Human Rights: New Challenges for Global Governance / Lesley A. Jacobs4 Regulatory Change, Good Governance, and Fair and Equitable Treatment in International Investment Law / Moshe Hirsch5 Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement and Human Rights Impact Assessments: Coordinating Compliance between International Trade, Human Rights, Labour Rights, and Good Governance in Colombia / Alison Yule6 Transparency Obligations in International Investment and Trade Treaties: Governance Reforms in Shanghai’s Pilot Free Trade Zone / Wang HaifengPart 2: Case Studies from China: Domestic Engagement with Good Governance Norms7 Transparency and Accountability in Governance in China: Evaluating Legal Reforms / Sarah Biddulph and Wang Haifeng8 The Concept of Public Participation: Planning and Housing Resumption Decisions in Shanghai / Sarah Biddulph9 The Impact of Transparency and Accountability Mechanisms on Bureaucratic Inertia: A Case Study of Work Safety Regulation / Sarah Biddulph10 New Trends in Promoting Capacity in Environmental Governance in China / He WeidongConclusion: Who Are the Important Actors in Shaping the Good Governance, Transparency, and Accountability Principles? / Sarah Biddulph and Ljiljana BiukovićIndex
£62.90
University of British Columbia Press Forest Economics Revised and Expanded Edition
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£41.40
Cornell University Press Remaking the Italian Economy Cornell Studies in
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA great merit of this stimulating volume lies in the fact that, by Locke's open, explicit claim of the priority to be accorded to a local rather than a national perspective in the interpretation of Italian political economy—and more generally in his interpretation of political economies of advanced democracies within a changing global environment—he urges interested readers to adopt a point of view. * British Journal of Industrial Relations *
£42.30
MB - Cornell University Press Winners and Losers How Sectors Shape the Developmental Prospects of States
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£39.60
Cornell University Press Creating Cooperation How States Develop Human
Book SynopsisIn Creating Cooperation, Pepper D. Culpepper explains the successes and failures of human capital reforms adopted by the French and German governments in the 1990s. Employers and employees both stand to gain from corporate investment in worker skills...Trade ReviewDavid Soskice and Peter Hall's agenda-setting edited volume Varieties of Capitalism appeared in 2001, and much of the work that appeared as chapters there is now beginning to appear as the first books of assistant professors. Pepper Culpepper's superb, theoretically literate, and empirically well researched comparative monograph is one of these.... Culpepper is a deeply learned and widely read scholar, very aware of the steps he is taking and, as a result, constantly stopping to address potential alternative explanations and challenges to his research design, empirical argument, and theoretical line of thought. I highly recommend Creating Cooperation to anyone interested in the problem of cooperation in general, rational choice versus constructivism in political economy, and the specific politics of human capital creation in contemporary Europe. This is a fascinating and bold book on many levels. * Perspectives on Politics *This book deepens our understanding of how to foster what might be deemed 'positive' cooperation in public policy reform. This is a book that will appeal to those interested in the study of human capital policies in Europe and intrigued about the sources of social cooperation. It is a detailed, well-researched analysis that successfully illustrates why, as problems of decentralized cooperation arise across the industrialized world, we need to develop a more sophisticated understanding of the conditions that foster successful cooperative public policy. -- Paul Riseborough * EU Policy Network *
£55.80
Cornell University Press Capitalism without Democracy
Book SynopsisFocusing on the activities and aspirations of the private entrepreneurs who are driving China's economic growth.Trade Review"China may not be about to democratize, but—according to Kellee S. Tsai's impressive book—it is nevertheless experiencing significant political change. In showing how Chinese private entrepreneurs, through 'adaptive informal institutions,' have promoted fundamental ideological and institutional transformation, Tsai makes an important contribution both to our understanding of contemporary Chinese political economy and to larger comparative debates." -- Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University"In Capitalism without Democracy, Kellee S. Tsai offers a compelling idea—that the bourgeoisie does not necessarily become the standard-bearer of democracy, and shown this in a country where many people expect that it will. She has also theorized a phenomenon long recognized but not explicated in Chinese politics—that of the impact of local, informal politics on formal political institutions and policy, and has used her theory to deal with major puzzles. Her admirably grounded models of regional diversity inside China should also have broader applicability." -- Dorothy J. Solinger, University of California, Irvine"In this very well-written and richly detailed book, Kellee S. Tsai offers a convincing critique of the common perception that privatization is leading to democratization in China. It should be widely read in the academic and policy communities." -- Bruce J. Dickson, The George Washington University"Kellee S. Tsai's exciting new book challenges the conventional wisdom about the role that entrepreneurs play in a reforming authoritarian state. Burrowing deeply into the informal practices of Chinese capitalists, Tsai questions mechanical, agent-less theories of democratization and reminds us that a term like 'middle class' obscures as much as it explains. With this book, Tsai takes her place at the forefront of those who study the relationship between marketization and democracy." -- Kevin J. O'Brien, University of California, BerkeleyTable of Contents1. The Myth of China's Democratic Capitalists2. Bypassing Democracy: Regime Durability, Informal Institutions, and Political Change3. The Unofficial and Official Revival of China’s Private Sector4. Private Entrepreneurs’ Identities, Interests, and Values5. Diversity in Private Entrepreneurs’ Coping Strategies6. Local Variation in Private Sector Conditions7. Changing China: Adaptive Informal InstitutionsAppendix A Research Methodology Appendix B List of Interviews, 2001–2005 Glossary of Chinese Terms References Index
£97.20
Cornell University Press Hard Interests Soft Illusions
Book SynopsisIn Hard Interests, Soft Illusions, Natasha Hamilton-Hart explores the belief held by foreign policy elites in much of Southeast AsiaIndonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, and Vietnamthat the United States is a relatively benign power. She argues that this belief is an important factor underpinning U.S. preeminence in the region, because beliefs inform specific foreign policy decisions and form the basis for broad orientations of alignment, opposition, or nonalignment. Such foundational beliefs, however, do not simply reflect objective facts and reasoning processes. Hamilton-Hart argues that they are driven by both interestsin this case the political and economic interests of ruling groups in Southeast Asiaand illusions.Hamilton-Hart shows how the information landscape and standards of professional expertise within the foreign policy communities of Southeast Asia shape beliefs about the United States. These opinions frequently rest on deeply biased uTrade ReviewHard Interests is theoretically innovative and genuinely interdisciplinary. The approach taken in the case studies 'owes more to historiography and anthropology than political science' (p. 196). While the territory covered is broad and diverse, the analysis is careful and reflective.... Hard Interests is a provocative and refreshing read, asking a big, important question that is curiously absent from the regional security literature. -- David Capie * Contemporary Southeast Asia *Hamilton-Hart raises a fascinating, overlooked question: Why is the United States widely viewed as a benign power in Southeast Asia, its presence welcomed rather than feared despite the many violent, selfish, and unwise things it has done over the years?... Her core answer to the puzzle is the overlap of local elite interests with American anticommunism during the Cold War.... For Southeast Asian elites—although not for labor movements or insugent groups—the U.S. presence has in fact been largely beneficial. -- Andrew J. Nathan * Foreign Affairs *In this important and well-written study of Southeast Asian attitudes to American power since the end of World War II, Natasha Hamilton-Hart examines 'foreign policy beliefs' in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam.... Although she writes in part for a specialist audience of foreign policy and political science scholars... the book will be of general interest to historians of Southeast Asia and useful in teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. -- Tony Day * Pacific Affairs *Natasha Hamilton-Hart offers a provocative book that affirms and challenges the status of the United States in Southeast Asia. It affirms by detailing broadly held elite conceptualizations of the stabilizing role of the United States in Southeast Asia. But it also challenges by questioning the foundations of those beliefs—especially the assumption that the geopolitical justifications, domestic benefits, and 'national interests' associated with the United States are uncontroversial and clear.... Hamilton-Hart’s argument goes beyond familiar arguments about the utilitarian relationship between domestic regime interests and foreign policy alignments... she has given students, scholars, and practitioners of Southeast Asian comparative political economy, foreign policy, and international relations much food for thought. -- Alice Ba * Political Science Quarterly *This book succeeds in analyzing why the United States is either not a strategic threat or less dangerous than any alternative power from the perspectives of six Southeast Asian countries....Hard Interests, Soft Illusions is a well-researched book which is a must-read for scholars, activists, and students in the field of international relations and Southeast Asia. -- Kai Chen * Journal of American East Asian Relations *This fascinating book addresses important questions and offers thought-provoking answers that challenge current directions of debate on the foundations of American primacy, the origins of alignment, and the making of soft power.... Hard Interests, Soft Illusions presents a stimulating and important contribution not only to the study of Southeast Asia's international relations and the foundations of American primacy but also to the debate over the origins of alignment and the workings of soft power. -- Alexander L. Vuving * Asian Politics and Policy *Table of Contents1. Beliefs about American Hegemony in Southeast Asia 2. Behind Beliefs: Hard Interests, Soft Illusions 3. The Politics and Economics of Interests 4. History Lessons 5. Professional Expertise 6. Regime Interests, Beliefs, and KnowledgeAppendix: Interviews References Index
£37.05
Cornell University Press Capitalism without Democracy
Book SynopsisFocusing on the activities and aspirations of the private entrepreneurs who are driving China's economic growth.Trade Review"China may not be about to democratize, but—according to Kellee S. Tsai's impressive book—it is nevertheless experiencing significant political change. In showing how Chinese private entrepreneurs, through 'adaptive informal institutions,' have promoted fundamental ideological and institutional transformation, Tsai makes an important contribution both to our understanding of contemporary Chinese political economy and to larger comparative debates." -- Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University"In Capitalism without Democracy, Kellee S. Tsai offers a compelling idea—that the bourgeoisie does not necessarily become the standard-bearer of democracy, and shown this in a country where many people expect that it will. She has also theorized a phenomenon long recognized but not explicated in Chinese politics—that of the impact of local, informal politics on formal political institutions and policy, and has used her theory to deal with major puzzles. Her admirably grounded models of regional diversity inside China should also have broader applicability." -- Dorothy J. Solinger, University of California, Irvine"In this very well-written and richly detailed book, Kellee S. Tsai offers a convincing critique of the common perception that privatization is leading to democratization in China. It should be widely read in the academic and policy communities." -- Bruce J. Dickson, The George Washington University"Kellee S. Tsai's exciting new book challenges the conventional wisdom about the role that entrepreneurs play in a reforming authoritarian state. Burrowing deeply into the informal practices of Chinese capitalists, Tsai questions mechanical, agent-less theories of democratization and reminds us that a term like 'middle class' obscures as much as it explains. With this book, Tsai takes her place at the forefront of those who study the relationship between marketization and democracy." -- Kevin J. O'Brien, University of California, BerkeleyTable of Contents1. The Myth of China's Democratic Capitalists2. Bypassing Democracy: Regime Durability, Informal Institutions, and Political Change3. The Unofficial and Official Revival of China’s Private Sector4. Private Entrepreneurs’ Identities, Interests, and Values5. Diversity in Private Entrepreneurs’ Coping Strategies6. Local Variation in Private Sector Conditions7. Changing China: Adaptive Informal InstitutionsAppendix A Research Methodology Appendix B List of Interviews, 2001–2005 Glossary of Chinese Terms References Index
£23.74
Cornell University Press The Globalizers
Book SynopsisThe IMF and the World Bank have integrated a large number of countries into the world economy by requiring governments to open up to global trade, investment, and capital. They have not done this out of pure economic zeal. Politics and their own rules and habits explain much of why they have presented globalization as a solution to challenges they have faced in the world economy.from the IntroductionThe greatest success of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank has been as globalizers. But at whose cost? Would borrowing countries be better off without the IMF and World Bank? This book takes readers inside these institutions and the governments they work with. Ngaire Woods brilliantly decodes what they do and why they do it, using original research, extensive interviews carried out across many countries and institutions, and scholarship from the fields of economics, law, and politics.The Globalizers focuses on both the political context of IMF and World BankTrade ReviewAfter World War II, the winning powers created the IMF, to bring stability to the international monetary system, and the World Bank, to channel investment into development and reconstruction projects. Woods examines both institutions and how they have preformed these roles in regard to underdeveloped borrower nations. She chronicles the involvement of the IMF and the World Bank with Mexico, Russia, and sub-Saharan Africa. In a very balanced analysis, she shows that both institutions have failed in many instances to improve the lot of such countries, too often promoting policies to please their powerful shareholder nations such as the United States while failing to understand and deal with the special needs of borrower nations. She concludes by recommending six reforms for the two institutions to make them more open and equitable in their advertising and lending. * Library Journal *Perhaps mirroring public debate on the issue, scholarship on the role of the IMF and the World Bank in economic development has often treated these institutions as mere conduits of U.S. interest. In The Globalizers, Ngaire Woods seeks to amend this perception, offering a rich account of their activities that emphasizes the inner workings of these institutions and their negotiations with policymakers in developing countries. As such, The Globalizers provides an invaluable look at the processes that shape the IMF and World Bank's role in the global economy. * International Studies Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Whose Institutions?2. The Globalizing Mission3. The Power to Persuade4. The Mission in Mexico5. Mission Creep in Russia6. Mission Unaccomplished in Africa7. Reforming the IMF and World BankReferences Index
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MB - Cornell University Press Spiritual Economies
Book SynopsisIn Europe and North America Muslims are often represented in conflict with modernitybut what could be more modern than motivational programs that represent Islamic practice as conducive to business success and personal growth? Daromir Rudnyckyj''s innovative and surprising book challenges widespread assumptions about contemporary Islam by showing how moderate Muslims in Southeast Asia are reinterpreting Islam not to reject modernity but to create a spiritual economy consisting of practices conducive to globalization.Drawing on more than two years of research in Indonesia, most of which took place at state-owned Krakatau Steel, Rudnyckyj shows how self-styled spiritual reformers seek to enhance the Islamic piety of workers across Southeast Asia and beyond. Deploying vivid description and a keen ethnographic sensibility, Rudnyckyj depicts a program called Emotional and Spiritual Quotient (ESQ) training that reconfigures Islamic practice and history to make the religion compatibTrade Review"In anthropology, the value of inspiring ideas in any period depends on their realization in convincing ethnographic achievements. In this regard, Spiritual Economies is a bravura performance: at the site of Krakatau Steel, it shows the power and kinship of experiments in neoliberal economy, religious revival, ethnography—and para-ethnography—all in the same frame."—George E. Marcus, author of Ethnography Through Thick and Thin"In the clearly written and strongly argued Spiritual Economies, Daromir Rudnyckyj brings together the anthropology of development and globalization and the anthropology of the rising Islamic piety movement to show that religious resurgence can be part of globalizing economic development, not necessarily a refuge from it. He traces many of Indonesia's recent political and religious transformations from the vantage point of a steel factory, where the ESQ spiritual training program combines spiritual guidance, business success training, and a vision of Islam as predictive and encompassing of science and technology."—John Bowen, Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, and author of Can Islam Be French?Table of ContentsIntroduction: Spiritual Reform and the Afterlife of DevelopmentPart I. Milieu 1. Faith in Development 2. Developing FaithPart II. Intervention 3. Spiritual Economies 4. Governing through AffectPart III. Effects 5. Post-Pancasila Citizenship 6. Spiritual Politics and Calculative ReasonConclusion: Life Not Calculated?References Index
£999.99
MB - Cornell University Press Transforming Agrarian Economies
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£42.30
Cornell University Press Business and the State in Developing Countries
Book SynopsisMuch of the debate about development in the past decade pitted proponents of unfettered markets against advocates of developmental states. Yet, in many developing countries what best explains variations in economic performance is not markets or states...Trade ReviewAn outstanding set of essays that are integrated with a success all too unusual in edited collections. -- Frederick Stirton Weaver * Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs *Provides a very informative and useful set of research results on the experiences of developing country in government-business interactions.... Also provides a wealth of interesting materials and findings in a manner lucid and accessible to a wide audience.... A thought-provoking book.... Highly valuable not only to specialists in the field, but also to the students interested in the political economy of Third World. * The Journal of Asian Studies *Sylvia Maxfield and Ben Schneider have collected a set of uniformly excellent essays.... An excellent volume. -- David Waldner * Political Science Quarterly *
£28.05
Cornell University Press Regime Shift
Book SynopsisThe Liberal Democratic Party, which dominated postwar Japan, lost power in the early 1990s. During that same period, Japan''s once stellar economy suffered stagnation and collapse. Now a well-known commentator on contemporary Japan traces the political dynamics of the country to determine the reasons for these changes and the extent to which its political and economic systems have been permanently altered.T. J. Pempel contrasts the political economy of Japan during two decades: the 1960s, when the nation experienced conservative political dominance and high growth, and the early 1990s, when the bubble economy collapsed and electoral politics changed. The different dynamics of the two periods indicate a regime shift in which the present political economy deviates profoundly from earlier forms. This shift has involved a transformation in socioeconomic alliances, political and economic institutions, and public policy profile, rendering Japanese politics far less predictable than in theTrade ReviewThis is a 'must' book not only for Japan specialists but also for those interested in contemporary Japanese political economy from a comparative perspective. -- Junko Kato, University of Tokyo * Journal of Japanese Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Long Continuities, Radical ShiftsPart I: REGIMES—DIVERGENT APPROACHES TO POSTWAR STABILITY 1. Patterns of Political Economy: A Range of Regimes 2. Japan in the 1960s: Conservative Politics and Economic Growth 3. From Chaos to Cohesion: Formation of the Conservative RegimePART II: REGIME SHIFTS—ADJUSTMENT, COLLAPSE, AND RECONSTRUCTION 4. Transition and Breakdown: An Era of Reconfigurations 5. Japan in the 1990s: Fragmented Politics and Economic Turmoil 6. Between Adjustment and Unraveling: Protection and Erosion of the Old RegimeConclusion: Regimes in a Changing World EconomyNotes Index
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Cornell University Press Transforming Europe Europeanization and Domestic
Book SynopsisDoes the European Union change the domestic politics and institutions of its member states? Many studies of EU decisionmaking in Brussels pay little attention to the potential domestic impact of European integration. Transforming Europe traces the...Trade ReviewThis book... has been eagerly awaited, and the results do not disappoint. The reader is offered a sophisticated blend of careful building of a conceptual framework with rich empirical studies that carefully trace processes of change.... The result is a sensitive, nuanced portrait of the complex relationships between European integration and domestic change not just across different policy sectors but also with the same sector.... The editors are to be highly commended for putting together such an ambitious project, for giving it coherence and for seeking to challenge and provoke. They succeed admirably. -- Kenneth Dyson, University of Bradford * Journal of European Area Studies *Transforming Europe provides a very clear and well-written exploration of the mechanisms underpinning the Europeanization of member states' domestic structures.... This volume provides an insightful contribution to our understanding of these processes and serves as a valuable starting point for students of the field. -- Avril Keating, University of Cambridge * The Journal of European Affairs *Europe has been uniting for about half a century.... Integration may be slow in overcoming fierce national identities, but the authors emphasize that Europeanization is unlikely to mean homogenization in the future. * The Futurist *The theme of this transatlantic-edited collection is the impact of 'Europeanization' upon the domestic structures of the member states of the European Union. The essays are a contribution to long-running scholarly debates about the nature of the European Union, how it generates and is receptive to change, and how it creates pressure for change within its fifteen member states. Whilst this may seem a rather inward-looking subject for investigation, the book is a contribution to broader debates about the nature of the European integration; and indeed of the role of the United States, of global economic pressures, and of systematic change upon states. -- Anne Deighton, Oxford University * The International History Review *Transforming Europe is a book containing rich empirical studies on a wide-ranging number of issues related to the general question of the transformation of the nation-state under pressure from European integration. The open-ended conclusions signify that the research agenda of Europeanization is still in its preliminary stages, and that much more work needs to be done. Most importantly, this book is driven by an elaborate theoretical framework that will set the tone for such future work on Europeanization. It is sure to become a classic in the field of European integration studies. -- Maarten Vink * Acta Politica *
£24.64
Cornell University Press Industry and Politics in West Germany Toward the
Book SynopsisUnder the editorship of Peter J. Katzenstein, thirteen distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic here provide an original interpretation of the political economy of the Bonn Republic during the forty years since its founding, and explore in particular its extraordinary capacity for accommodating change.
£39.10
Cornell University Press Pathways from the Periphery
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Johns Hopkins University Press Institutions and Economic Development
Book SynopsisContributors include economists Christopher Clague, Robert Klitgaard, Peter Murrell, Mancur Olson, Vernon Ruttan, and Vito Tanzi, and political scientists Stephan Haggard, Margaret Levi, and Elinor Ostrom.
£25.20
Johns Hopkins University Press International Agricultural Development
Book SynopsisFour case studies (China, Indonesia, Colombia, and Sub-Saharan Africa) examine how different countries struggle with these issues as they restructure their basic economic institutions.Trade ReviewThe third edition of Carl Eicher and John Staatz's compendium of literature on agricultural development represents a substantial improvement over what was already by far the best collection available. The new edition (re-titled from Agricultural Development in the Third World) is thoroughly revised and updated. Of the 35 chapters, 24 are new to this edition. Ten of the new chapters were commissioned especially for this volume, and I completely agree with the editors' selection of 11 chapters retained from the second edition. The changes serve well to broaden and modernize the scope of the previous volume, paying substantial attention to topics of current concern, and strengthening intellectual ties between agricultural development and the broader literature on economic development. In short, it remains the preeminent anthology in the field and should be required reading in any graduate or undergraduate course in agricultural development. -- Steven A. Block American Journal of Agricultural EconomicsTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I - The Challenge Introduction Agricultural Development Ideas in Historical Perspective John M. Staatz and Carl K. Eicher Agricultural and Foods Needs to 2025 Alex F. McCalla Foreign Aid and Agriculture-Led Development John W. Mellor Part II - Historical and Theoretical Perspectives Introduction Economic Performance through Time Douglass C. North Community, Market, and State Yujiro Hayami Markets, Market Failures, and Development Joseph E. Stiglitz The Agricultural Transformation C. Peter Timmer Agriculture on the Road to Industrialization John W. Mellor Models of Agricultural Development Vernon W. Ruttan Induced Innovation Model of Agricultural Development Vernon W. Ruttan and Yujiro Hayami Part III - Policy Perspectives Introduction The Macroeconomics of Food and Agriculture C. Peter Timmer The Case for Trade Liberalization Rudiger Dornbusch The Plundering of Agriculture in Developing Countries Maurice Schiff and Alberto Valdes The Political Framework for Agricultural Policy Decisions Robert H. Bates Food, Economics, and Entitlements Anartya Sen Part IV - Agricultural Transformation and Rural Economic Development Introduction Learning from Experience Agricultural Development: Transforming Human Capital, Technology, and Institutions James T. Bonnen Agricultural and Rural Development: Painful Lessons Hans P. Binswanger The Peasant in Economic Modernization Yujiro Hayami Institutional and Human Capital Reflections on Land Reform and Farm Size Hans P. Binswanger and Miranda Elgin Investing in People Theodore W. Schultz Projects for Women: Explaining Their Misbehavior Mayra Buvini Agricultural Extension in the Twenty-first Century Charles H. Antholt How Do Market Failures Justify Interventions in Rural Credit Markets? Timothy J. Besley Microfinance: The Paradigm Shift form Credit Delivery to Sustainable Financial Intermediation Marguerite S. Robinson Micro and Small Enterprises and the Rural Poor Carl Liedholm Technology Development and Sustainability Constraints on the Design of Sustainable Systems of Agricultural Production Vernon W. Ruttan African Agriculture: Productivity and Sustainability Issues Thomas Reardon Maintaining Productivity Gains in Post- Green Revolution Asian Agriculture Michael Morris and Derek Byerlee Confronting the Ecological Consequences of the Rice Green Revolution in Tropical Asia Prabhu L. Pingali Choice of Technique in Rice Milling on Java C. Peter Timmer, with a comment by William L. Collier, Jusuf Colter, Sinarhadi, and Robert d'A. Shaw and a reply by C. Peter Timmer Past V - Lessons from Economies in Transition Introduction Agricultural Development and Reform in China Justin Yifu Lin The Role of Agriculture in Indonesia's Development C. Peter Timmer Zimbabwe's Maize Revoluion: Insights for Closing Africa's Food Gap. Carl K. Eicher and Bernard Kupfuma Path-dependent Policy Reforms: From Land Reform to Rural Development in Columbia Alain de Janvry and Elizabeth Sadoulet Agricultrual Reform in Central and Eastern Europe Johan F.M. Swinnen Name Index Subject Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Market Socialist and Mixed Economies
Book SynopsisMesa-Lago focuses on the three diverse socioeconomic models that these countries represent during these periods.Trade ReviewA remarkable work, even by the exacting standards Carmelo Mesa-Lago has set himself over his long and distinguished career. It offers depth as well as breadth combined with a mass of detailed statistical information that has been honed carefully to ensure comparability across countries. -- Victor Bulmer-Thomas Journal of Latin American Studies This ambitious and massive book is the pinnacle of Professor Mesa-Lago's long and distinguished career. It is a tour de force that is a must for serious scholars in the field of comparative economic systems. -- Katherine Terrell Journal of Comparative Economics This is a hugely impressive and informative work that examines an important economic and political issue... an ambitious and successful project, with a wealth of detail on economic policies in three different economic models. -- Bruce Wilson Latin American Politics and Society [This book] is a treasure trove of useful information for country specialists and generalists... an impressive volume. -- Kurt Weyland South Eastern Latin Americanist With the thoroughness, single-mindedness, and creativity that has characterized his scholarly work Mesa-Lago has tackled the very difficult topic of contemporary Latin American economic development. [His book] is accessible to advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as to professionals. The profession owes a debt of gratitude to [him] for undertaking this monumental effort. -- Jorge F. Perez-Lopez Cuban Studies An interesting, groundbreaking, and substantial academic work. British Bulletin of Publications A thorough and rigorous work, with robust and convincing conclusions... a study of import and interest, not only for those who are involved with the three analyzed economies, but in general to any reader in developing countries interested in how to improve the combination of growth and equity with democracy. -- Joseph R. Ramos Nueva Sociedad, Caracas This book is recommendable because of the methodic stringency of the country comparisons (that is missing in many other comparative country studies), and for the amount of detailed information and data on the specific countries. [It also] closes holes in the economic statistics of the international organizations. -- Hartmut Sangmeister Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft This book will become a standard of reference for those interested in Latin America and in the methodology for comparative economic analysis. -- Juan A. B. Belt Cuba in Transition [This book] is a landmark, a new point of departure and shall be part of any future analysis. -- Alejandro De La Fuente Encuenro, Madrid [ Market, Socialist, and Mixed Economies] is in my view the best comparative study involving these three Latin America economies. Carmelo Mesa-Lago has succeeded in bringing together rich empirical evidence within an attractive conceptual framework. He has greatly advanced our understanding of the functioning of the socialist, mixed and market economies. -- Jan Svejnar Revista de Ciencias Sociales, Costa Rica
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Johns Hopkins University Press Rethinking the Economics of War
Book SynopsisCountries studied include Lebanon, Sierra Leone, Angola, the Republic of the Congo, Colombia, and Afghanistan.Trade ReviewRecommended. Choice 2006 Comprehensive and well-executed examination of the multiple dimensions-political, economic, ideational and historical-that come together to spark intra-state violence and impede its revolution. -- Lee J. M. Seymour Political Studies Review 2006 An important book... I can strongly recommend it. -- Ron Smith Economics of Peace and Security Journal 2007 The book maintains a high level of scholarship, addressing the audiences from virtually every field that attempts to understand human social dynamics. -- Muhammad M. Haque Journal of Third World Studies 2008 The anthology contributes to our understanding of why some violent internal conflicts are so enduring. -- Walter W. Hill International Journal on World Peace 2009
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Johns Hopkins University Press East Asian Multilateralism
Book SynopsisExamines the range of implications of shifting alignments in East Asia. This title assesses economic conditions and policies within individual East Asian states. It also examines the challenge of regional cooperation from the perspectives of local players. It analyzes the implications for foreign policy in the United States and in Asia.Trade ReviewA 'must' for any college-level collection strong in Asian politics. Midwest Book Review 2008 A worthwhile read for anyone interested in recent momentum towards regionalism in East Asia. Survival 2009 Aside from its inherent appeal to American policy wonks, the volume offers some interesting thoughts about the theory and practice of multilateralism in east Asia. -- Nicola P. Contessi International Journal 2009 East Asian Multilateralism provides a comprehensive analysis of the major challenges for the establishment of a multilateral regional order. In particular interest is the additional focus on policy recommendations (for the US diplomacy). -- Alfred Gerstl East Asia Integration Studies 2009 The volume is well-organised, readable, and remarkably jargon-free and benefits from a multinational set of contributors with considerable expertise in the region. -- Brian Bridges Asian Affairs Assembles an impressive crew of American and American-based policy experts on the subject. -- Simon Tay Pacific AffairsTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsNotes on Foreign Names and TransliterationsIntroduction Part I: Beyond the Hub and SpokesChapter 1. Critical Junctures and the Contours of Northeast Asian RegionalismChapter 2. The History and Practice of Unilateralism in East AsiaChapter 3. The Outlook for Economic Integration in East AsiaChapter 4. The New Trade Bilateralism in East AsiaPart II: Country PerspectivesChapter 5. China's Evolving Multilateralism in Asia: The Aussenpolitik and Innenpolitik ExplanationsChapter 6. China and the Impracticality of Closed RegionalismChapter 7. Japan and the New Security Structures of Asian MultilateralismChapter 8. Korean Perspectives on East Asian RegionalismPart III: Policy ImplicationsChapter 9. A New Order in East Asia?Chapter 10. The Security Architecture in Asia and American Foreign PolicyConclusionContributors Index
£25.17
Johns Hopkins University Press China and the Transformation of Global Capitalism
Book SynopsisSo, and Lu Zhang.Trade ReviewThis volume is a significant, timely contribution to the discussion of China's role in the world economy... Not only a must read for those studying the Chinese economy, this book will likely be welcomed and debated by observers of capitalist development on the world stage. Essential. Choice 2010 This volume is a rare and important contribution to understanding China's rise in the context of global capitalism. Despite the questions raised, this reviewer enjoyed reading all the chapters and learned much from each author who contributed to this excellent collection. The volume is a must read for anyone who is intrigued by China's past and its contemporary role in the global system. -- Lu Zheng Contemporary Sociology 2010 Ho-fung Hung... provides an excellent short background on the start of China's economic miracle, and then evolves into providing an eye-opening view of the current status of important Chinese clothes and shoe manufacturers. -- Loyd E. Eskildson Basil and Spice 2010Table of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. Introduction: The Three Transformations of Global CapitalismChapter 2. China's Market Economy in the Long RunChapter 3. Rethinking the Chinese Developmental MiracleChapter 4. Big Suppliers in Greater China: A Growing Counterweight to the Power of Giant RetailersChapter 5. The "Rise of China" and the Changing World Income DistributionChapter 6. China's Economic Ascent and Japan's Raw-Materials PeripheriesChapter 7. Sino-Russian Geoeconomic Integration: An Alternative to Chinese Hegemony on a Shrinking PlanetChapter 8. China and the U.S. Labor MovementChapter 9. China as an Emerging Epicenter of World Labor UnrestChapter 10. A Caveat: Is the Rise of China Sustainable?List of ContributorsIndex
£23.85
University of Toronto Press Transportation Rates and Economic Development in
Book SynopsisThis book examines the influence of transport costs on regional economic development in northern Ontario. It begins with an overview of the Canadian freight rate structure, with emphasis on railway rates, and a brief look at the history of federal rate policy. A theoretical model of rate determination is then constructed to permit measurement of the impact on producers and consumers of alternative rate-setting policies. Using econometric techniques and 1975 data, rate changes are related to the inputs and outputs of northern Ontario’s economy, and the effect on the region of subsidies and regulations is discussed.Freight rates on inbound shipments are found to be much higher than on goods exported from the area. A central discovery is that regulations limiting competition in the Ontario trucking industry have raised highway freight rates significantly beyond the national average. In this situation transport subsidies are unlikely to affect rates, Professor Bonsor argues
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Stanford University Press Comparative Economic Transformations Mainland
Book SynopsisThis pathbreaking work attempts to understand China's economic policies by examining the political logic behind economic reforms in authoritarian, command-economy states from the wholly original perspective of property rights.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Industrial reform in the PRC; 3. Hungary and the PRC; 4. The Soviet Union and the PRC; 5. The ROC and the PRC; Conclusion.
£52.70
Stanford University Press Industry and Underdevelopment The
Book SynopsisThis is a study of the economic, political, and technological forces that have thwarted Mexican efforts to become a competitive member of the international economic community.Trade Review"This is an outstanding book that should be required reading for anyone wishing to gain a deeper understanding of the economic problems now facing the Mexican government." -- Journal of Third World Studies"Haber's book will long endure as the standard work on the subject." -- Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos"An important new look at the history of Mexican industry. His careful discussion of the nature of the industrial system emerging in the latter part of the nineteenth century and his insights into the revolutionary and postrevolutionary periods provide an excellent basis for a better understanding of the rapid expansion of Mexican industry after 1940." -- American Historical Review Table of ContentsContents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
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Stanford University Press How Latin America Fell Behind Essays on the
Book SynopsisIn 1800, the per capita income of the United States was twice that of Mexico and roughly the same as Brazil s. By 1913, it was four times greater than Mexico s and seven times greater than Brazil's. This volume seeks to explain the 19th-century lag in Latin American economic development.Trade Review“This outstanding book is a major event in the modernization of Latin American economic history, the first anthology of the work of leading 'new economic historians' of Latin America.”—John H. Coatsworth, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsContents 1. HABER STEPHEN 2. LEFF NATHANIEL H. 3. CARDENAS ENRIQUE 4. SUMMERHILL WILLIAM 5. MARICHAL CARLOS 6. HABER STEPHEN 7. CHOWNING MARGARET 8. SALVUCCI RICHARD J. 9. HABER STEPHEN KLEIN HERBERT S. 10. ENGERMAN STANLEY L. SOKOLOFF KENNETH L.
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Stanford University Press Reforming Indias External Financial and Fiscal
Book SynopsisThis book examines both significant achievements and setbacks in economic policy made in India throughout the 1990s.Trade Review"This volume brings under intensive analysis the critical dimensions of Indian economic reform. The messages emanating from the essays will be very valuable for policymakers and scholars in identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the various measures taken so far and the remaining gaps and deficiencies." -A. Bagchi,National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi
£63.00
Stanford University Press The Fourth Circle
Book SynopsisThis book analyzes the political, legal, and economic dynamics shaping environmental outcomes across two districts in Aceh, one of the richest and most expansive areas of tropical rainforest in Southeast Asia. Its central theme is that the present cycle of ecological decline can best be understood in terms of the way political, economic and social forces operate at the district level.Trade Review"[The Fourth Circle provides valuable ethnographic and political information about a dangerous area where researchers have found it comparatively difficult to gain access (Aceh). The book's publication now remains timely, given the broad interest in northern Sumatra after the 2004 tsunami." -- Journal of Anthropological Research"Eloquent and authoritative." -- Bijdragen"This book is a highly commendable study of the dynamics involved in forest destruction, conversion and conservation in South Aceh, an area known by the famous Gunung Leuser National Park. John McCarthy looks at institutional arrangements governing forests, drawing on legal anthropology to uncover the plurality and fluidity of 'rules in use' in natural resource management." -- Internationales Asienforum"Approaching resource degradation as an institutional problem embedded in socioeconomic structures and power relations, John McCarthy has written a book of significance well beyond his study area in the remote rainforests of Sumatra. In communities in South Aceh between 1996 and 1999, McCarthy investigated the interplay of state and customary (adat) institutions with other interests in managing local forest resources. This is an important work that generates understanding of the most pressing issues of our time I recommend the book highly. McCarthy intelligently details and discusses cases of global interest, yielding insights into complex interactions of tradition, colonial, state and informal institutions in effecting as area's resource management, and into the implications for conservation projects." -- Lene Pederson * American Anthropologist *Table of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:List of Tables, Maps, and Illustrations iii Acknowledgments iii Glossary iii Note on Terminology iii @toc2:Chapter 1 Introduction: Institutional Arrangements and Forest Regimes 0 Chapter 2 Local Institutions in Sama Dua 00 Chapter 3 Menggamat: Turning in Circles 000 Chapter 4 Power and Interest in Badar 000 Chapter 5 Conclusion 000 Chapter 6 Epilogue 000 @toc4:Appendix: Fieldwork in Aceh: Research Context and Experience 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
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Stanford University Press The Spirit of Development
Book SynopsisThis book is an examination of the connections between modern economic practices, globalization, and contemporary Christian religious belief, based on an ethnographic study of NGOs in Zimbabwe. It addresses issues crucial for those interested in the strengths and weaknesses of development theory and practice, as well as in Protestant Christianity as a transnational religion.Trade Review"Bornstein has written a book that every believer (or unbeliever) in the theology of (African) economic development should read." -- Voluntas"Bornstein shows how ideas of material and spiritual development relate to each other in the everyday practices of development executives in California and their counterparts in Zimbabwe. As illustrated here, 'faith-based development' compels fresh engagement with the cosmologies of capitalist development. Rarely have classic concerns in social theory been made so directly relevant to understanding topical issues." -- Harri Englund"This book makes an important and timely contribution to the sociology and anthropology of development....Bornstein writes with an honesty and a curiosity that engages the reader in her project." -- Canadian Journal of Sociology Online"Erica Bornstein's ethnography is one of the finest [on NGOs], and is likely to find a place as a foundational study in this emerging field." -- Journal of Southern African Studies"The Spirit of Development is a truly ground-breaking work on a topic of extraordinary contemporary significance. It provides a powerful and exceptionally revealing demonstration of how ethnographic methods and anthropological concepts can be brought to bear on the study of those 'non-governmental organizations' that play an increasingly prominent (and ill-understood) role in the contemporary social and political life of much of the world. It should be required reading for all scholars concerned with 'development,' Christianity, and humanitarianism, in Africa and beyond." -- James Ferguson * Stanford University *"The Spirit of Development...provides exemplary insight into the debates and practices amongst NGO staff in Harare and the United States concerning the intersection of faith and development, providing much-needed analysis on the intertwining of religious and economic assumptions and their (mis)translations within transnational organizations such as NGOs and those they endeavor to spiritually and materially transform." -- American Anthropologist
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Stanford University Press Reverse Anthropology
Book SynopsisStuart Kirsch is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He has consulted widely on environmental issues and land rights in the Pacific, and was actively involved in the political campaign and legal case against the environmental impact of the Ok Tedi mine in Papua New Guinea.Trade Review"In a sensitive and nuanced discussion of Yonggom emotions and morality, he effectively illustrates that Yonggom identify sorcerers by examining human emotions and intentionality." -- American Anthropologist"This is an important story that will draw many audiences. It weaves personal experience, politics, and activism in and out of a scholarly analysis made possible by the way Kirsch draws on the analytical skills of his subjects. In this it is nothing short of a brilliant and sympathetic enterprise." -- Dame Marilyn Strathern FBA, William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology * University of Cambridge *"Kirsch's ethnographic passages sing with the immediacy of deep and vibrant experience . . . Because of its rich detail and moral clarity, Reverse Anthropology is a productive contribution to anthropological understandings of indigenous social analysis and it deserves a wide readership." -- Expedition"Kirsch's ethnography is compelling on several levels. It is an excellent example of using indigenous frames of reference for understanding contemporary issues of globalization, colonialism and modernization. It is also a groundbreaking approach to the study of indigenous movements that yields alternative interpretations of political relationships and historical events going back to the first contact between European explorers and Melanesian indigenous groups. Finally, for students of anthropology, it is a highly personal account of the multiple roles of the anthropologist as analyst, participant and advocate for an indigenous group in a precedent-setting legal case against a powerful multinational mining corporation." -- Canadian Review of Sociology"What is masterful about this . . . book is that the author, all the while telling the stories of these contemporary environmental and political struggles, contextualizes them in deeply indigenous ways of knowing and understanding history and the natural and social world." -- Journal of Anthropological Research"Kirsch deserves recognition for this refreshing and intellectually stimulating monograph . . . That this work combines such an emancipatory potential for anthropology with descriptive, theoretically compelling, and well-written ethnography is a testament to Kirsch's scholarship and activism." -- Anthropos"Stuart Kirsch's work is distinquished by his unusual analytic approach to collaborative work with the Yonggom people in pursuing environmental and civil rights. Inspired by Roy Wagners study of Melanesian cargo cults in terms of indigenous analyses of land, labor, capital, and consumption, Dr. Kirschs Reverse Anthropology links two traditions of research in Melanesia: classic ethnographic studies of reciprocity, religion, kinship, ecology, and personhood, dating from the works of Malinowski and Mauss, to contemporary research on class, commodification, citizenship, environmental pollution, and political violence. This compelling study demonstrates the conceptual and political contribution of reverse anthropology to our common understanding of the workings of local communities, nation-states, transnational corporations, and so-called modernization, thus creating a new synergy in the scholarship of Melanesia relevant to anthropological work much more broadly." -- Gillian Feeley-Harnik * University of Michigan *"Kirsch documents and explains how Yonggom people construct social worlds and relationships through exchange and what happens when these patterns are disrupted or unreciprocated. The ethnographic descriptions of everyday life, conversations, complex rituals, myths, magic, and sorcery are rich in detail—reflecting his long association with people there and his empathic identification with the sorrow and loss they have experienced." -- Current Anthropology"Reverse Anthropology is an uncommonly sophisticated work of engaged ethnography, and a book that provides an impressive and uncompromising model of equal accountability to scholarly research and indigenous advocacy. With patience, insight, and brilliant attention to Yonggom subjectivity, Stuart Kirsch reveals what it means to turn anthropology inside out. This is a standout book in the new anthropology of modern Melanesia." -- Steven Feld * University of New Mexico *"Perhaps, if one thing can save our species hurtling to a collective global suicide through the nightmare of over industrialization, it's Reverse Anthropology: making our own society the subject of an objective analysis from the view-point of other cultures, and drawing on this insight . . . Kirsch's book is a significant contribution to this exercise." -- Mines & Communities"This book . . . serves as a model for culturally appropriate solutions to contemporary local problems." -- CHOICETable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:A note to the reader iii List of illustrations iii Acknowledgements iii A note on language iii @toc2:Introduction 000 1 Historical encounters 000 2 The enchantment of place 000 3 Unrequited reciprocity 000 4 Sorcery and the mine 000 5 Mythical encounters 000 6 Divining violence 000 7 Loss and the future imagined 000 Conclusions 000 @toc4:Notes 000 References 000 Index 000
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Stanford University Press Reverse Anthropology
Book SynopsisStuart Kirsch is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He has consulted widely on environmental issues and land rights in the Pacific, and was actively involved in the political campaign and legal case against the environmental impact of the Ok Tedi mine in Papua New Guinea.Trade Review"In a sensitive and nuanced discussion of Yonggom emotions and morality, he effectively illustrates that Yonggom identify sorcerers by examining human emotions and intentionality." -- American Anthropologist"This is an important story that will draw many audiences. It weaves personal experience, politics, and activism in and out of a scholarly analysis made possible by the way Kirsch draws on the analytical skills of his subjects. In this it is nothing short of a brilliant and sympathetic enterprise." -- Dame Marilyn Strathern FBA, William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology * University of Cambridge *"Kirsch's ethnographic passages sing with the immediacy of deep and vibrant experience . . . Because of its rich detail and moral clarity, Reverse Anthropology is a productive contribution to anthropological understandings of indigenous social analysis and it deserves a wide readership." -- Expedition"Kirsch's ethnography is compelling on several levels. It is an excellent example of using indigenous frames of reference for understanding contemporary issues of globalization, colonialism and modernization. It is also a groundbreaking approach to the study of indigenous movements that yields alternative interpretations of political relationships and historical events going back to the first contact between European explorers and Melanesian indigenous groups. Finally, for students of anthropology, it is a highly personal account of the multiple roles of the anthropologist as analyst, participant and advocate for an indigenous group in a precedent-setting legal case against a powerful multinational mining corporation." -- Canadian Review of Sociology"What is masterful about this . . . book is that the author, all the while telling the stories of these contemporary environmental and political struggles, contextualizes them in deeply indigenous ways of knowing and understanding history and the natural and social world." -- Journal of Anthropological Research"Kirsch deserves recognition for this refreshing and intellectually stimulating monograph . . . That this work combines such an emancipatory potential for anthropology with descriptive, theoretically compelling, and well-written ethnography is a testament to Kirsch's scholarship and activism." -- Anthropos"Stuart Kirsch's work is distinquished by his unusual analytic approach to collaborative work with the Yonggom people in pursuing environmental and civil rights. Inspired by Roy Wagners study of Melanesian cargo cults in terms of indigenous analyses of land, labor, capital, and consumption, Dr. Kirschs Reverse Anthropology links two traditions of research in Melanesia: classic ethnographic studies of reciprocity, religion, kinship, ecology, and personhood, dating from the works of Malinowski and Mauss, to contemporary research on class, commodification, citizenship, environmental pollution, and political violence. This compelling study demonstrates the conceptual and political contribution of reverse anthropology to our common understanding of the workings of local communities, nation-states, transnational corporations, and so-called modernization, thus creating a new synergy in the scholarship of Melanesia relevant to anthropological work much more broadly." -- Gillian Feeley-Harnik * University of Michigan *"Kirsch documents and explains how Yonggom people construct social worlds and relationships through exchange and what happens when these patterns are disrupted or unreciprocated. The ethnographic descriptions of everyday life, conversations, complex rituals, myths, magic, and sorcery are rich in detail—reflecting his long association with people there and his empathic identification with the sorrow and loss they have experienced." -- Current Anthropology"Reverse Anthropology is an uncommonly sophisticated work of engaged ethnography, and a book that provides an impressive and uncompromising model of equal accountability to scholarly research and indigenous advocacy. With patience, insight, and brilliant attention to Yonggom subjectivity, Stuart Kirsch reveals what it means to turn anthropology inside out. This is a standout book in the new anthropology of modern Melanesia." -- Steven Feld * University of New Mexico *"Perhaps, if one thing can save our species hurtling to a collective global suicide through the nightmare of over industrialization, it's Reverse Anthropology: making our own society the subject of an objective analysis from the view-point of other cultures, and drawing on this insight . . . Kirsch's book is a significant contribution to this exercise." -- Mines & Communities"This book . . . serves as a model for culturally appropriate solutions to contemporary local problems." -- CHOICETable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:A note to the reader iii List of illustrations iii Acknowledgements iii A note on language iii @toc2:Introduction 000 1 Historical encounters 000 2 The enchantment of place 000 3 Unrequited reciprocity 000 4 Sorcery and the mine 000 5 Mythical encounters 000 6 Divining violence 000 7 Loss and the future imagined 000 Conclusions 000 @toc4:Notes 000 References 000 Index 000
£19.79
Stanford University Press On Capitalism
Book SynopsisThis important interdisciplinary work suggests a number of economic as well as sociological reasons why modern capitalism is such a uniquely dynamic force.Trade Review"This book offers illuminating analyses of the incentive mechanism that underlies the unprecedented growth performance of capitalism. It offers new insights into seminal contributions—like those of Weber and de Tocqueville–and contains much fascinating and valuable material that sociologists and economists will to well to absorb." —William J. Baumol, New York University"Nee and Swedberg have brought together an incredibly diverse and distinguished group of sociologists, economists, and political scientists to give Weber his due and show that his intellectual concerns are alive and well. Offering a terrifically wide range of topics—including religion and capitalism, law and the state in issues of development, and the role of social interaction in understanding corruption and the collective dynamics of market actors—many of these essays are gems." —Neil Fligstein, University of California, Berkeley"On Capitalism offers a refreshingly diverse range of insights into economic growth through its Weberian focus on non-economic factors such as ideas, institutions, culture, and religion.You may not agree with every essay in the volume, but you will learn a great deal by engaging these original and often unconventional perspectives. I recommend the volume to anyone interested in the spirit of contemporary capitalism." —AnnaLee Saxenian, University of California, BerkeleyTable of Contents[Table of Contents] Contents List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction Victor Nee and Richard Swedberg Part I: The Dynamics and Contradictions of Capitalism 1. The Systemic Anticulture of Capitalism Russell Hardin 2. Tocqueville and the Spirit of American Capitalism Richard Swedberg 3. Income Inequality and the Protestant Ethic Robert H. Frank Part II: Politics, Legal-Rational Institutions, and Corruption 4. On Politicized Capitalism Victor Nee and Sonja Opper 5. Law, Economy, and Globalization: Max Weber and How International Financial Institutions Understand Law Bruce G. Carruthers and Terence C. Halliday 6. The Social Construction of Corruption Mark Granovetter Part III: Religion 7. The Role of Spiritual Capital in Economic Behavior Barnaby Marsh 8. Political Economy and Religion in the Spirit of Max Weber Robert J. Barro and Rachel M. McCleary 9. Beyond Weber Michael Novak Part IV: Methodological and Conceptual Issues 10. The Collective Dynamics of Belief Duncan J. Watts 11. Analytical Individualism and the Explanation of Macrosocial Change Ronald Jepperson and John W. Meyer 12. Bootstrapping Development: Rethinking the Role of Public Intervention in Promoting Growth Charles F. Sabel Index
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Stanford University Press Bootstrapping Democracy
Book SynopsisThis book investigates participatory budgeting-a mainstay now of World Bank, UNDP, and USAID development programs-to ask whether its reforms truly make a difference in deepening democracy and empowering civil society.Trade Review"Bootstrapping Democracy demonstrates the importance of ongoing experimentation as local governments and their civil society allies seek to deepen the quality of democratic institutions . . . Their research design, a paired case comparison, advances academic and policy debates on participatory democracy . . . The comparative approach used in this book makes it useful for both undergraduate and graduate courses."—Brian Wampler, Social Forces"This is one of the better contributions concerning participatory democracy in Brazil to be published in recent years. What makes this better than other recent studies of grassroots democracy in Brazil is the closer analysis of the different ways that PB develops across cities. . . This is an accessible book, even when the authors are discussing jargon-laden democratic theory or comparing Brazilian experiences to similar experiments in India and South Africa."—B. P. Keating, Choice"Insightful, subtle, and persuasively argued, Bootstrapping Democracy is a wonderful contribution to political theory and comparative politics. Writing on Brazil's two-decade-long experiment in participatory budgeting, Baiocchi, Heller, and Silva defend democracy's great promise: to turn citizens from clients into self-governing agents who, deploying their human powers, direct politics to a common good."—Joshua Cohen, Stanford University"Baiocchi, Heller, and Silva go beyond examining the 'success' of participatory budgeting to assess its actual impact in terms of government services and the further development of civil society. This clear, original work fills a very large void and really is incomparable."—Philip Oxhorn, McGill University"Bootstrapping Democracy is an exciting breath of fresh air in an era when the intellectual debate on how to construct effective democratic politics seems in danger of becoming sterile. Baiocchi, Heller, and Silva put an impressive set of empirical data together with an original theoretical perspective to create a positive thesis that should have a powerful invigorating impact on the democracy debate." —Peter Evans, University of California, Berkeley
£18.99
Stanford University Press Plastic Money
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[B]y examining the formation of credit card markets in eight postcommunist countries, Akos Rona-Tas and Alya Guseva show how [many factors] played a role in fashioning these markets, albeit in different ways in different countries. And in doing so I place it among other wonderful books about market formation . . . [T]here is much to learn here about how credit markets and the rules and practices that generate them are constructed. These are lessons that should be of interest not just to sociologists but economists too."—John L. Campbell, American Journal of Sociology"The authors provide an informative overview of the diverse actors who populate the early payment and credit card markets, including banks, cardholders, merchants, the state, and even multinational employers staking a place in nascent capitalist economies and owners of newly privatized enterprises . . . Plastic Money is meticulously researched and analytically appealing, and it is an important contribution to our understanding of the postcommunist regions of Europe and the developing economic postcommunism of Asian markets."—Daina S. Eglitis, Slavic Review"This fascinating study of the creation of credit card markets in eight European and Asian postcommunist countries is the latest and most expansive work on the subject by Rona-Tas and Guseva . . . The expanded empirical breadth of the book is matched with a new set of substantive questions about how each country overcame a common set of frictions impeding the development of card markets . . . Rona-Tas and Guseva provide a generalized framework for thinking about market generation and methodological cues for measuring it, and I hope that in the near future we will see more work that links processes of market creation and ongoing functionality."—Christopher Yenkey, Administrative Science Quarterly"Akos Rona-Tas and Alya Guseva's empirical research on the spread of payment and credit cards into post-communist economies is highly original and breaks new ground. They adroitly engage a number of important questions about globalization, the emergence of a consumer society, market creation, and the transition from a command to a market economy. A well-written and lively book."—Bruce Carruthers, Northwestern University"This book represents a peak achievement of two of the best economic sociologists around. Their insight into the development of credit and debit card markets in eight transitional economies is result is an astoundingly fine empirical study."—Richard Swedberg, Cornell University"With verve and compelling evidence, Alya Guseva and Akos Rona-Tas guide us into the intricate world of credit and debit cards in eight post-communist countries. Along the way, Plastic Money boldly demolishes myths about how markets, money, and globalization work. An inspired contribution to economic sociology."—Viviana A. Zelizer, Author of Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy"Plastic Money is a fascinating study of the creation of new markets. Investigating the emergence of credit cards in eight former socialist countries, Guseva and Rona-Tas show how the social, cultural, technological, and legal infrastructure was built in the process of transition. Their account is an important theoretical and empirical contribution to our sociological understanding."—Jens Beckert, Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of SocietiesTable of Contents Plastic Money: Constructing Markets for Credit Cards in Eight Postcommunist Countries Author(s): Akos Rona-Tas and Alya Guseva This book draws on original fieldwork to provide a comparative analysis of emerging credit card markets in eight countries—the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine, China and Vietnam. The problem of market emergence is posed as analytically distinct from market functioning. Card markets are viewed as being actively constructed, rather than emerging spontaneously and following the US blueprint. The process of market construction involves solving a set of puzzles related to the credit card as a product that is both a means of payment and an instrument of credit. These puzzles are: standardization, information asymmetry, information sharing, market origination and expansion. They were solved differently in each of the countries, and the resulting markets are neither identical to the "Western" blueprint, nor to each other. The book focuses on the trajectories of market development in the eight countries from the moment the first cards were issued to the present time, underscoring both similarities and differences between countries. Chapter 1: Paying with Cards Chapter abstract: This chapter establishes market emergence as a problem analytically distinct from market functioning and introduces two sets of rules: generative and functional. Credit cards are conceived of as global products that are both a means of payment and an instrument of credit. Frequent references to the US credit card market are justified by its role as a performative ideal type—a model that not only helps to explicitly describe postcommunist credit card markets but also attempts to shape them by imposing a set of implicit instructions. The chapter provides the basic statistics of payment card markets in the eight postcommunist countries and concludes with an overview of the remaining chapters. Chapter 2: The Transition from a Communist to a Market Economy Chapter abstract: This chapter lays out the historical background for the development of postcommunist card markets. It revisits theories of the transition, focusing on the three distinct development paths the economies of the eight countries took: the path taken by the Central European countries, which started with an economic recession but soon integrated into the European Union and the developed world; the path navigated by the economies of East Europe, which experienced more tumultuous and protracted transition and a slower European and global integration; and the path traveled by China and Vietnam, two fast-growing East Asian economies that started from an overall much lower level of economic development keeping a strong role of the Communist state in the economy. The chapter discusses the creation of commercial banks and emphasizes the similarities among the countries' developmental paths. It also criticizes the market transition theories for ignoring the demand side of market building. Chapter 3: Payment Puzzles Chapter abstract: This chapter presents how card markets work. It lays out the puzzles encountered by the architects of credit card markets and explains why they pose challenges to standard understandings of market economics. In line with the argument that credit cards combine the features of two products, payment cards and consumer loans, here the focus is on two payment puzzles: two-sided markets and standardization. It is argued that these puzzles are such that they cannot be effectively solved by a self-regulating competitive market driven by the forces of supply and demand in the pursuit of ever-increasing profits. Instead, the solutions to these puzzles require some sort of nonmarket intervention. The chapter concludes with a short account of how each of the two puzzles was solved in the American payment card market, as well as gives a brief preview of solutions used in the postcommunist countries. Chapter 4: Credit Puzzles Chapter abstract: This chapter continues the discussion in the previous chapter focusing on the puzzles related to the consumer loan side of the credit card—information asymmetry, information sharing and market origination and expansion. It concludes with a short account of how each was solved in the American payment card market and presents a brief preview of solutions used in the postcommunist countries. Chapter 5: The Construction of Card Markets in Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic Chapter abstract: This chapter focuses on the three Central European countries—Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland. It details the role of multinational card networks, such as Visa and MasterCard, as well as the involvement of state and large employers in solving the market puzzles. On the credit side, market development in Central Europe was influenced by concerns about data privacy. The mechanization of credit assessment, a key technology in making credit card markets profitable, was seen as a threat to borrowers. On the payment side, all three Central European markets are already dominated almost exclusively by Visa and MasterCard. In order to further standardize, the European Union recently began to push for initiatives enabling any European citizen to get their payment card in any European country. Chapter 6: Russia, Ukraine and Bulgaria Chapter abstract: The chapter focuses on how card markets were constructed in Russia, Ukraine and Bulgaria. The unique features of these markets are: a substantially large "gray" (cash) economy, which gave merchants a strong preference for cash over cards; complicated income verification of credit applicants; and dialogue about creating national payment systems based on domestic cards. The spread of coercive cards via salary projects is now accompanied by pressures to legally mandate card acceptance by merchants. Card issuers appear to be powerless in the face of several puzzles—they are either defeated by the resistance of salary cardholders to use cards for payment and by the refusal of merchants to accept cards, or they are paralyzed by the inability of the banking community to control competitive tendencies in favor of greater cooperation over standards and information. This emphasizes the key role of the state in constructing markets. Chapter 7: Vietnam and China Chapter abstract: This chapter focuses on China and Vietnam—two countries whose political context and transition trajectory differ from those of the other six. The case of China deserves special attention due to the country's sheer size: it is particularly challenging to create a credit card market in a country of more than one billion people, only a small number of whom have bank accounts. Establishing cooperation between banking institutions thousands of miles apart is equally challenging. The Chinese government views cards not as a market, but as part of China's payment system. It has been successful in developing its domestic card system that poses challenges to multinationals not only domestically, but also internationally. The Vietnamese market is the least developed of all eight countries. Its retail banking covers an even smaller percentage of the population than the banking system in China, and its IT infrastructure is even more inadequate. Chapter 8: Conclusion Chapter abstract: The conclusion highlights the common problems that market makers in all of the countries faced, but it also emphasizes the differential successes and sometimes different paths and sequences of events that accompanied the development of card markets in the eight countries. It also notes that in several of the countries, most unambiguously in China, the central purpose of the card market shifted from providing a tool of convenience to customers to offering an instrument of economic control for the state. The discussion then turns to theoretical issues of social order and market emergence, and emphasized the implications of this analysis for the study of globalization, postcommunist transitions and markets
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Stanford University Press Insufficient Funds
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on how low-wage Vietnamese immigrants in the United States and their non-migrant family members in Vietnam give, receive, and spend money.Trade Review"In this brilliant landmark study, Hung Thai takes us into the world of Vietnamese immigrants, their lives in the United States and their visits back home where some are greeted as heroic patrons, others as ostentatious spenders, and still others as envious observers of their poor kin who now enjoy luxuries they themselves can ill afford. Through its many, rich close-up portraits, and big-picture lens, this book shifts the way we see migration, family and social class. A must read." -- Arlie Hochschild * University of California, Berkeley, co-editor (with Barbara Ehrenreich) of Global Woman, author of The Outsourced Self *"This book by sociologist Thai is a rare combination of 98 personal interviews with low-wage Vietnamese-Americans and their poor relatives in Vietnam. The writing is elegant and blends fascinating block quotations with pithy sentences that summarize main points . . . Social scientists, especially economists, will value the book's insights on monetary circulation and low-wage labor . . . Highly recommended." -- J. Hein * CHOICE *"Written by a sociologist doing long-term and multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, Insufficient Funds is a fascinating account of the ways in which money is given, received, and spent in transnational Vietnamese families . . . The book compellingly analyses the ways in which transnational family relationships are shaped by the flow of money from the United States to Vietnam." -- Minh T.N. Nguyen * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Thai convincingly shows that migrant money may be less about maintaining family relations than about performing the American Dream . . . Insufficient Funds will appeal to scholars in sociology, anthropology, Asian studies, and Asian American studies. It can be used in teaching as the frank testimonies are accompanied by a comprehensive discussion of scholarship on money, migration, and consumption." -- Allison Truitt * Journal of Anthropological Research *"In Insufficient Funds Hung Cam Thai presents a mesmerizing narrative of money and migration among low-wage Vietnamese transnational families in the United States and their non-migrant relatives in Vietnam . . . Through multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in both Vietnam and the United States, Thai is able to dig into the fabric of cultural expectations, self-worth, and emotional economies embedding these monetary exchanges . . . I find this an extraordinary book advancing a well-grounded theoretical argument with ample empirical evidence presented in an easy-to-follow manner that will attract not only academics, but also those interested in knowing migrants' life stories." -- Hasan Mahmud * European Journal of Development Research *"Insufficient Funds is a major contribution to our understanding of the culture of remittances and transnational families in the world today. With rich narratives and deft analyses, it sheds light on the complex meanings and dynamics of money, obligations, status, and worth in transnational families." -- Nazli Kibria * Boston University *Table of Contents1. Six Tales of Migrant Money 2. The Making of a Transnational Expenditure Cascade 3. Money as a Currency of Care 4. The Migrant Provider Role 5. The American Dream in Vietnam 6. Compensatory Consumption 7. Emulative Consumption 8. The Cyclical Entrenchment of Monetary Habits 9. The High Price of Esteem Consumption 10. Tall Promises Conclusion: Special Money in Low-Wage Transnational Families
£81.90
Stanford University Press Insufficient Funds
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on how low-wage Vietnamese immigrants in the United States and their non-migrant family members in Vietnam give, receive, and spend money.Trade Review"In this brilliant landmark study, Hung Thai takes us into the world of Vietnamese immigrants, their lives in the United States and their visits back home where some are greeted as heroic patrons, others as ostentatious spenders, and still others as envious observers of their poor kin who now enjoy luxuries they themselves can ill afford. Through its many, rich close-up portraits, and big-picture lens, this book shifts the way we see migration, family and social class. A must read." -- Arlie Hochschild * University of California, Berkeley, co-editor (with Barbara Ehrenreich) of Global Woman, author of The Outsourced Self *"This book by sociologist Thai is a rare combination of 98 personal interviews with low-wage Vietnamese-Americans and their poor relatives in Vietnam. The writing is elegant and blends fascinating block quotations with pithy sentences that summarize main points . . . Social scientists, especially economists, will value the book's insights on monetary circulation and low-wage labor . . . Highly recommended." -- J. Hein * CHOICE *"Written by a sociologist doing long-term and multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, Insufficient Funds is a fascinating account of the ways in which money is given, received, and spent in transnational Vietnamese families . . . The book compellingly analyses the ways in which transnational family relationships are shaped by the flow of money from the United States to Vietnam." -- Minh T.N. Nguyen * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Thai convincingly shows that migrant money may be less about maintaining family relations than about performing the American Dream . . . Insufficient Funds will appeal to scholars in sociology, anthropology, Asian studies, and Asian American studies. It can be used in teaching as the frank testimonies are accompanied by a comprehensive discussion of scholarship on money, migration, and consumption." -- Allison Truitt * Journal of Anthropological Research *"In Insufficient Funds Hung Cam Thai presents a mesmerizing narrative of money and migration among low-wage Vietnamese transnational families in the United States and their non-migrant relatives in Vietnam . . . Through multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in both Vietnam and the United States, Thai is able to dig into the fabric of cultural expectations, self-worth, and emotional economies embedding these monetary exchanges . . . I find this an extraordinary book advancing a well-grounded theoretical argument with ample empirical evidence presented in an easy-to-follow manner that will attract not only academics, but also those interested in knowing migrants' life stories." -- Hasan Mahmud * European Journal of Development Research *"Insufficient Funds is a major contribution to our understanding of the culture of remittances and transnational families in the world today. With rich narratives and deft analyses, it sheds light on the complex meanings and dynamics of money, obligations, status, and worth in transnational families." -- Nazli Kibria * Boston University *Table of Contents1. Six Tales of Migrant Money 2. The Making of a Transnational Expenditure Cascade 3. Money as a Currency of Care 4. The Migrant Provider Role 5. The American Dream in Vietnam 6. Compensatory Consumption 7. Emulative Consumption 8. The Cyclical Entrenchment of Monetary Habits 9. The High Price of Esteem Consumption 10. Tall Promises Conclusion: Special Money in Low-Wage Transnational Families
£19.79
