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University of Pennsylvania Press Capital Gains
Book SynopsisRecent events-the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and efforts to increase the minimum wage, among others-have driven a tremendous surge of interest in the political power of business. Capital Gains collects some of the most innovative new work in the field. The chapters explore the influence of business on American politics in the twentieth century at the federal, state, and municipal levels. From corporate spending on city governments in the 1920s to business support for public universities in the postwar period, and from business opposition to the Vietnam War to the corporate embrace of civil rights, the contributors reveal an often surprising portrait of the nation's economic elite. Contrary to popular mythology, business leaders have not always been libertarian or rigidly devoted to market fundamentalism. Before, during, and after the New Deal, important parts of the business world sought instead to try to shape what the state could accompTrade Review"Capital Gains provides nuanced and reasoned assessments which combine to form a great contribution to the history of capitalism and the shifting U.S. political economy." * Reviews in American History *"With Capital Gains: Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America, Richard John and Kim Phillips-Fein have brought together a collection of important essays on the relationship of business and politics in the twentieth century. Moving well beyond portrayals of business leaders as robber barons or industrial statesmen, the chapters, which proceed in chronological fashion, range in focus from local boosterism to military spending to corporate civil rights. . . . Taken as a whole, the authors sound a clarion call for the new kinds of questions scholars are asking about modern political economy." * Business History Review *"An outstanding book. The volume is sound from a scientific perspective, grounded in primary sources and wide archival research, and, at the same time, contributes remarkably to our knowledge in this field. This is due both to the new empirical evidence provided, and to the fact that it builds on different disciplines such as political history, business history, political science, historical sociology, and history of capitalism. This multidisciplinary attitude allows the reader to reconstruct effectively the complexity of businessmen's approach to the political world, as well as improving our understanding of government interaction with business elites." * The Economic History Review *"The essays collected for Capital Gains are eminently readable. Each stands on its own as a fascinating snapshot into topics as varied as antitrust and patent law, the public-university system, anti-Vietnam protests, and the history of workplace diversity initiatives. More importantly, these essays together help to contextualize the rise of corporate power in the twentieth-century United States." * The Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"With Capital Gains, the scholarly push to revive political economy and craft a new history of twentieth century business, politics, and capitalism has found its vehicle. No longer can we cast 'business elites' as the thoughtless tools of the capitalist machine. Through rich, compelling archival research and authoritative historiographical analysis, these sophisticated essays make a powerful case for business as a multidimensional, ideologically diverse set of historical actors." * Benjamin Waterhouse, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill *"What is the most productive way to study the history of capitalism? The authors in this volume pursue a multidisciplinary approach and believe in the importance of institutions and public policy. For these reasons, Capital Gains is a valuable contribution to the historiography of the twentieth-century United States." * Kenneth Lipartito, Florida International University *Table of ContentsPreface —Kim Phillips-Fein Introduction. Adversarial Relations? Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America —Richard R. John PART I. THE PROGRESSIVE ERA AND THE 1920s Chapter 1. Trade Associations, State Building, and the Sherman Act: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1912-25 —Laura Phillips Sawyer Chapter 2. Toward a Civic Welfare State: Business and City Building in the 1920s —Daniel Amsterdam PART II. THE NEW DEAL AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR Chapter 3. The "Monopoly" Hearings, Its Critics, and the Limits of Patent Reform in the New Deal —Eric S. Hintz Chapter 4. Farewell to Progressivism: The Second World War and the Privatization of the "Military-Industrial Complex" —Mark R. Wilson Chapter 5. Beyond the New Deal: Thomas K. McCraw and the Political Economy of Capitalism —Richard R. John and Jason Scott Smith PART III. THE POSTWAR ERA: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Chapter 6. "Free Enterprise" or Federal Aid? The Business Response to Economic Restructuring in the Long 1950s —Tami J. Friedman Chapter 7. "They Were the Moving Spirits": Business and Supply-Side Liberalism in the Postwar South —Brent Cebul Chapter 8. A Fraught Partnership: Business and the Public University Since the Second World War —Elizabeth Tandy Shermer PART IV. THE POSTWAR ERA: LIBERALISM AND ITS CRITICS Chapter 9. The Triumph of Social Responsibility in the National Association of Manufacturers in the 1950s —Jennifer Delton Chapter 10. "What Would Peace in Vietnam Mean for You as an Investor?" Business Executives and the Antiwar Movement, 1967-75 —Eric R. Smith Chapter 11. Entangled: Civil Rights in Corporate America Since 1964 —Pamela Walker Laird Notes Contributors Index * * * * *
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Unexpected Outcomes How Emerging Markets Survived
Book Synopsis This volume documents and explains the remarkable resilience of emerging market nations in East Asia and Latin America when faced with the global financial crisis in 2008-2009. Their quick bounceback from the crisis marked a radical departure from the past, such as when the 1982 debt shocks produced a decade-long recession in Latin America or when the Asian financial crisis dramatically slowed those economies in the late 1990s. Why? This volume suggests that these countries'' resistance to the initial financial contagion is a tribute to financial-sector reforms undertaken over the past two decades. The rebound itself was a trade-led phenomenon, favoring the countries that had gone the farthest with macroeconomic restructuring and trade reform. Old labels used to describe neoliberal versus developmentalist strategies do not accurately capture the foundations of this recovery. These authors argue that policy learning and institutional reforms adopted in response to previous crises prompted policymakers to combine state and market approaches in effectively coping with the global financial crisis. The nations studied include Korea, China, India, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil, accompanied by Latin American and Asian regional analyses that bring other emerging markets such as Chile and Peru into the picture. The substantial differences among the nations make their shared success even more remarkable and worthy of investigation. And although 2012 saw slowed growth in some emerging market nations, the authors argue this selective slowing suggests the need for deeper structural reforms in some countries, China and India in particular.
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers The Arab Spring Five Years Later Case Studies 2
Book Synopsis Volume 1 of The Arab Spring Five Years Later is based on extensive research conducted by scholars from a variety of backgrounds, including many associated with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The original research papers are gathered in volume 2 and are available for readers who wish to go even further in understanding the economic background of the Arab Spring. Papers examine women''s issues and agricultural practices in Morocco; urban transportation, small enterprises, governance, and inclusive planning in Egypt; reconstruction in Iraq; youth employment in Tunisia; education in Yemen; and more. In addition to Hafez Ghanem, contributors include Mongi Boughzala (University of Tunis ElManar, Tunisia), Mohamed Tlili Hamdi (University of Sfax, Tunisia),Yuriko Kameyama (JICA), Hideki Matsunaga (JICA), Mayada Magdy (JICA), Yuko Morikawa (JICA), Akira Murata (JICA), Kei Sakamoto (JICA), Seiki Tanaka (JICA), Masanori Yoshikawa (JICA), and Takako Yuki (JICA).
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Liberty Fund Inc Virginia Political Economy
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The Peterson Institute for International Economics Launching New Global Trade Talks An Action Agenda
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Cambridge University Press After the Virus
Book SynopsisWhy was the UK so unprepared for the pandemic, suffering one of the highest death rates and worst economic contractions of the major world economies in 2020? Hilary Cooper and Simon Szreter reveal the deep roots of our vulnerability and set out a powerful manifesto for change post-Covid-19. They argue that our commitment to a flawed neoliberal model and the associated disinvestment in our social fabric left the UK dangerously exposed and unable to mount an effective response. This is not at all what made Britain great. The long history of the highly innovative universal welfare system established by Elizabeth I facilitated both the industrial revolution and, when revived after 1945, the postwar Golden Age of rising prosperity. Only by learning from that past can we create the fairer, nurturing and empowering society necessary to tackle the global challenges that lie ahead - climate change, biodiversity collapse and global inequality.Trade Review'… original and compelling.' Will Hutton, The Observer'… (a) wonderfully readable and historically informed account.' Michael Marmot, The Lancet'A critically important assessment of the current state of governance of healthcare and the economy in the UK - uniquely placed in historical context. The disastrous mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic provides an ideal launch-pad for this critique, which also demonstrates a clear path to a better future. It should be in the hands of everyone in the country who cares about and has responsibility for our future.' Sir David King, former UK Chief Scientific Adviser and Climate Envoy, Chair of Independent SAGE'What lessons does the past hold for shaping a better post-pandemic future? This book, with its powerful account of the intolerable inequalities of the present, argues for a revival of the moral foundations of the successful social contracts of earlier periods of British history.' Diane Coyle, author of Markets, State and People: Economics for Public Policy'It is quite a feat to trace the vagaries of English social history from the Elizabethan Poor Law, through mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic, to the seven pillars of what a good society should look like. But these wonderfully accessible authors have done it. Bravo.' Sir Michael Marmot, author of Build Back Fairer: The COVID-19 Marmot Review'Impressive analysis of how 40 years of neoliberalism severely increased inequalities and the impact of the pandemic, and how a secure, mutually supportive society with a strong economy can be restored. Let's hope our government finds it inspiring and acts accordingly.' Pat Thane, author of Divided Kingdom. A History of Britain, 1900 to the PresentTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. COVID-19 was always a matter of 'when' not 'if'; 1. The extraordinary history of pandemic control; 1.1 An ever-present threat; 1.2 The myth of progress; 1.3 How pandemics spread; 1.4 Pandemics and the changing role of the state: from divine to human responsibility; 1.5 A plague on all our houses – learning to control pandemics; 2. Pandemics are not random 'Black Swans'; 2.1 We were expecting a pandemic, so why was the UK so unprepared?; 2.2 Your money or your life; 2.3 Light at the end of the tunnel; Part II. Why COVID-19 was a perfect storm; 3. The fragile society of a neoliberal state; 3.1 The neoliberal project; 3.2 The capture of democracy; 3.3 How COVID-19 was able to wreak havoc; 3.4 A 'Just in time' health service; 3.5 A 'Cinderella' social care service; 3.6 A diminished state; 4. Inequality saps resilience; 4.1 Inequality and the laissez faire state; 4.2 'This is not an easy life any more, chum'; 4.3 Are we bothered?; 4.4 It's the economy stupid; 4.5 The 'Burning Injustices'; 5. The pandemic onslaught; 5.1 Those who lived and those who died; 5.2 The tattered safety net; 5.3 The COVID generation; 5.4 Where's next?; 5.5 Looking to the future; Part III. COVID-19 and the choices we now face; 6. 'Too big to fail?' – we need a payback this time; 6.1 Lessons from the 2007–08 financial crash; 6.2 What does all this have to do with a 2020 pandemic?; 6.3 A first look at the winners and losers; 6.4 Securing the pandemic payback – how are things looking this time?; 6.5 Is the old order beginning to crack?; 7. No time for austerity now; 7.1 So we found the magic money tree; 7.2 When austerity was in vogue; 7.3 Let's just put it on the tab; 7.4 Storm clouds ahead?; 8. Who has the deepest pockets?; 8.1 A better future and a proactive state; 8.2 Will we find the pot of gold?; 9. Re-thinking welfare; 9.1 Is it time for a no-strings attached Universal Basic Income?; 9.2 'Dignity and Security'; 9.3 Universal services; 9.4 Who cares?; 9.5 What of later life?; Part IV. After the virus – Who do we want to be?; 10. Casting aside the neoliberal state; 10.1 Homo Economicus and the myth of rationality; 10.2 History and Morality; 11. The birth of a collectivist individualism; 11.1 How Elizabeth I gave us the world's first welfare society; 11.2 The turn away from collectivist individualism after 1834; 11.3 The Boer War and the 'New Liberal' reforms; 11.4 Slaying the giants – Beveridge and the 'Golden Age'; 11.5 Wealth, redistribution and progressive taxation; 11.6 What lessons can we take from history?; 12. An empowering state to build a nurturing society; 12.1 What does it mean to have an empowering state?; 12.2 Freedom and the state; 12.3 Collective commitment to a nurturing society; 12.4 The case for fair and progressive contributions; 12.5 Democratic participation and devolved power; 12.6 Our natural environment and the empowering state; 13. Seven Pillars of Empowerment; 13.1 A Nurturing Society: Respect and inclusive support for all; 13.2 Ethical Capitalism: Working with business to redefine our values; 13.3 Fair Contributions: Full participation by the prosperous; 13.4 Open Public Discourse: Enabling all voices to have an equal hearing; 13.5 Measuring what we value: Signalling the changes we need; 13.6 A Sustainable Future: Responsible stewardship of our planet's resources; 13.7 Participatory Politics: Reviving democracy and civic engagement; 14. Greater even than a pandemic; 14.1 Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The Scarce State
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Cambridge University Press Why Populism
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Cambridge University Press The Age of Discontent
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Cambridge University Press Following Their Leaders
Book SynopsisModels of democratic decision-making tend to assume that voters have preferences, and that candidates conform to those preferences. In reality, voters adopt the policies of those political elites - they follow their leaders. Policies are designed by the elite and the masses have little influence over them.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Instrumental and Expressive Preferences; 3. Influences Over Preference Formation; 4. Preference Aggregation Through Voting; 5. The Formation of Political Preferences; 6. Anchor Preferences and Derivative Preferences; 7. Preferences of Elites and Masses; 8. Policies that Maximize Political Power; 9. Patriotism, Propaganda, and the Public Interest; 10. Implications for Democracy.
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Cambridge University Press Governing Digital China
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Cambridge University Press The Political Economy of Education
Book SynopsisA textbook providing academically rigorous yet clear explanations of the economics and politics driving today's educational systems and how economists analyze them. This essential text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in economics, public policy, and education covers all major topics and is packed with international examples.Trade Review'Destined to be a milestone in economics, politics of education, and political economy studies, this powerful handbook provides a comprehensive overview of economic research on education and a profound insight into the political role that education plays in society.' Patrizio Bianchi, University of Ferrara; chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in Education, Growth and Equality'Martin Carnoy has given us a first-rate overview of the key concepts in the economics of education, with a thorough appreciation of the political and institutional contexts in which education policy decisions are implemented both in the US and around the world. What a service to graduate students and their instructors!' Helen F. Ladd, Susan B. King Professor Emerita of Public Policy and Economics at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy'It is nearly impossible to understand education policy without paying attention to its politics. This wonderful book by a world-leading scholar reflects decades of research, teaching, and practice, and masterfully integrates the economics and politics of education. It should be essential reading for students of education.' Karthik Muralidharan, Tata Chancellor's Professor of Economics at the University of California San Diego'A huge undertaking! Martin's new book is great testament to the value of interdisciplinary work in helping us understand nuance. For those interested in better understanding the workings of educational systems around the world, or in trying to improve them, this book can help you succeed at both.' Guilherme Lichand, Stanford Graduate School of EducationTable of ContentsPreface; Part I. Introduction: 1. The political economy of education; 2. The contribution of the economics of education to education policy; 3. The state and education; Part II. Human Capital: 4. Education, labor markets, and earnings; 5. Age-earnings profiles and the returns to human capital; 6. Measuring the returns to investment in education according to the human capital model; Part III. Alternatives to Human Capital: 7. Alternative conceptions of the relation between skill acquisition and productivity; 8. Conditioned choice and discrimination; Part IV. Education, Economic Growth, and Income Distribution: 9. Education and economic growth; 10. Education and income distribution; Part V. Educational Production Functions: 11. Underlying issues in educational production functions; 12. Modeling and estimating educational production functions; 13. Cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis; 14. Issues in early childhood education; 15. Issues in the production of vocational education; Part VI. Teacher Labor Markets: 16. Fundamental elements in the study of teacher labor markets; 17. The supply of and demand for teachers; 18. Teacher salaries; 19. The politics of teacher labor markets; Part VII. School System Accountability: 20. Public sector accountability; 21. Market accountability; Part VIII. Financing Education: 22. Educational spending; 23. Collecting and allocating revenue for education; 24. More spending on education, improved student achievement, and other student outcomes; Part IX. The Political Economy of Higher Education: 25. Higher educational expansion as a global phenomenon; 26. The financing of higher education; 27. Higher education as an industry; 28. Academic labor markets and student college choice strategies; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Economic Analysis of Property Rights
Book SynopsisThis book is the first to lay out the detailed relationship between economic property rights, transaction costs, and information costs. It uses these concepts to develop a theory of economic property rights to explain why life is organized the way it is. Applications range from marriage and dueling to homesteading and ownership of wildlife.Trade Review'This new Third Edition of Economic Analysis of Property Rights carries one of the greatest classics of economics into the twenty-first century. Starting with unusually rigorous definitions of transaction costs, property rights, and resources, Barzel and Allen lay out a fruitful framework for analyzing institutions and employ it to generate a stunning array of insights into a wide variety of real-world situations. This book is essential reading for economists, legal scholars, policymakers, and anyone else who wants a fresh take on the way institutions work.' Henry E. Smith, Harvard Law School'As is fitting for a Third Edition of Economic Analysis of Property Rights by Yoram Barzel and Douglas W. Allen, there is a lot to learn in this new volume. The authors have been leaders in the New Institutional Economics. They examine property rights, transaction costs, information costs, organizations, and institutions. They describe how these arrangements coordinate and direct economic behavior and impact human welfare. Global economic performance depends more upon property rights and related structures of production than upon demographic, intellectual, and natural resource endowments. The topics addressed in this new edition are critical for understanding why.' Gary D. Libecap, University of California, Santa Barbara, and National Bureau of Economic ResearchTable of ContentsPart I. Conceptual Issues: 1. The Neoclassical Problem; 2. Economic Property Rights; 3 : Transaction Costs; 4. Information Costs; 5. The Theory of Economic Property Rights; Part II. Contracts, Organizations, and Institutions: 6. Exchange, Contracts, and Contract Choice; 7. Divided Ownership and Organization; 8. Institutions; Part III. Establishing Property Rights: 9. Capture in the Public Domain; 10. Forming Property Rights; 11. Benefits of the Public Domain; Part IV. Non Price Allocation and Other Issues: 12. Non-wage Labor Markets; 13. Property Rights in Non-Market Allocations; 14. Additional Property Rights Applications; 15. The Property Rights Model; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Education for All
Book SynopsisThis book offers a unique look at historical policymaking to explore how nineteenth-century fiction writers influenced the creation of public-school systems in Denmark and Great Britain. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Education for Some or Education for All? 1. Culture and the Paradox of Education Systems; 2. Culture and Continuity through Institutional Change; 3. Romancing the Nation: Education and State-Building in 1800; 4. Expanding Educational Access in the Age of Social Realism; 5. Education in the Age of Empire: Globalization, Technological Change and the Race for Supremacy; 6. Cultural Echos of the Past in Contemporary Education Reforms.
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Cambridge University Press Education for All
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Cambridge University Press Insuring States in an Uncertain World
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Cambridge University Press Economic Displacement
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Legare Street Press Agrarian Tenures
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Foundations of RealWorld Economics
Book SynopsisThe 2008 financial crisis, the rise of Trumpism, and the other populist movements which have followed in their wake have grown out of the frustrations of those hurt by the economic policies advocated by conventional economists for generations. Despite this, textbooks remain frozen in time, continuing to uphold traditional policies as though nothing has happened.Foundations of Real-World Economics demonstrates how misleading it can be to apply oversimplified models of perfect competition to the real world. The math works well on college blackboards but not so well on the Main Streets of America. This volume explores the realities of oligopolies, the real impact of the minimum wage, the double-edged sword of free trade, and other ways in which powerful institutions cause distortions in mainstream models. Bringing together the work of key scholars like Kahneman, Minsky, and Schumpeter, this textbook takes into consideration the inefficiencies that arise when the perfectlyTrade Review"Finally, an economics textbook that puts people before business!" Richard Easterlin, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Southern California"The real world seldom operates like the diagrams in economics textbooks. Often left out are that human beings often act irrationally, markets have rules, and models typically began with the assumption of ‘all else being equal.’ John Komlos provides a welcome and much needed real-world look at the dismal science in his Critique of Pure Economics. In plain language that even high school seniors can grasp, Komlos shows the wishful thinking that infects standard economic texts and builds his case with empirical facts." David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use "Plain English" to Rob You Blind and of the New York Times bestseller, Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich—and Cheat Everybody Else"The 'Great Recession' which began in 2008 was not anticipated by economists, and they remain divided about the remedies. Economics requires a re-think, but this is proving hard. In this excellent book, John Komlos makes a start: he shows what parts of theory remain useful, and which ones have been falsified by experience. He highlights what the new theory will need to explain. Most importantly, he shows that it is necessary to start from current economics in order to reform it. Fluently written, accessible, and highly recommended as a corrective to standard textbooks."Avner Offer, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford, Fellow of the British Academy"Komlos’s provocative book at once brings together and creatively synthesizes a great deal of work critical of conventional economics and lays out the broad contours of an alternative approach that the author calls humanistic economics. Komlos’s book is timely and relevant. The author includes excellent discussions of income and wealth inequality, the cultural contradictions of capitalism, and green environmental accounting, as well as an entire chapter on the financial sector (a sector often omitted entirely in introductory classes) and the sector’s role in the Great Recession." Peter Coclanis, Director of the Global Research Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"A wonderful book, a manifesto, written in a style that is easy to follow. Highly innovative and a must-read, especially but not only for students who are new to economics. John Komlos has given us a valuable tool that we can use to enrich our teaching and open the minds of our students. We owe him our thanks. More, we owe him our students’ patronage." Gerald Friedman, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst"John Komlos has given us a very useful companion text to the standard introductory economics version. Students would do well to read the two together. In fact, anyone who has taken introductory economics and had it shape their thinking about the world would benefit from learning about the issues raised in this book." Dean Baker, Senior Economist, Center for Economic and Policy Research"John Komlos provides an important complement to―and corrective for―the standard Economics 101 textbook. This book clearly explains why free markets are far from perfect and, indeed, do not exist in the vast majority of the modern economy. Instead of fetishizing economic efficiency, Komlos explains why economics should focus on creating a better society and helping all of us live more fulfilling lives." James Kwak, Professor of Law, University of Connecticut, co-author of 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown"This book is a must-read, not only for economic students and professors who teach economics, but for psychology, sociology, political science, history, and philosophy students and professors as well. That is, it is a must-read for anyone who wishes to understand the discipline of economics and the way in which it has contributed to the conservative/neoliberal economic, social, and political policies that have guided us to the dysfunctional social and political systems we find ourselves in the midst of today." George H. Blackford, formerly University of Michigan-Flint, Contributions to Political Economy (2019), 1-2"Komlos uses a literary style that empowers the reader with information and in-depth discussion of topics of current interest from the repercussions of the financial crisis to the rise of populism. The book is full of creative ideas and the author achieves his goal of presenting a realistic approach to introductory economics." Andres F. Cantillo, Kansas City Kansas, Community College, Australasian Journal of Economics Education Volume 16, Number 1, 2019"This book is aimed at the introductory level and grounds its presentation in a lot of helpful stylised facts to connect to the real world. It contrasts the mainstream approach with many important heterodox insights in order to help readers to get a more realistic and multifaceted picture of economic relationships." Torsten Niechoj, Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences, Kamp-Lintfort, Germany, and FMM Fellow, European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention, Vol. 17 No. 1, 2020"This book explains a tremendous amount of how economies like the U.S. function in recent years. In doing so, it integrates conventional economic analysis with wide ranging socio-economic analyses and the thoughtful insights of the author on many topics related to how economies function or do not function well. At the very least, he has gone a long way in showing how economies can become a more important and different discipline than it has been. I highly recommend his text for many students of economics." John F. Tomer, Emeritus Professor of Economics, founding member of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE), Society and Economy"John Komlos’s book has the sense and sensibilities for building up an economy that works for the 99%, not just the 1%." Annavajhula J.C. Bose, Shri Ram College of Commerce, India, Ecotalker blogTable of Contents1. Welcome to Real-World Economics 2. The Evidence: Markets Are Neither Omniscient Nor Omnipotent 3. The Nature of Demand 4. Homo Oeconomicus Is Extinct: The Foundations of Behavioral Economics 5. Taste-Makers and Consumption 6. Oligopolies and Imperfect Competition 7. Returns to the Factors of Production 8. The Case for Oversight, Regulation, and Management of Markets 9. Microeconomic Applications On and Off the Blackboard 10. What Is Macroeconomics? 11. Macroeconomics Part II 12. Macroeconomics Part III 13. The Tsunami of Globalization 14. The Financial Crisis of 2008 15. Economists’ Mistakes Lead to Right-Wing Populism and an Insurrection 16. Hidden Racist Elements in Blackboard Economics 17. The Covid-19 Pandemic Exposed the Need for a Black-Swan-Robust Economy 18. Conclusion: Toward a Capitalism with a Human Face
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Why International Organizations Hate Politics
Book SynopsisBuilding on the concept of depoliticization, this book provides a first systematic analysis of International Organizations (IO) apolitical claims. It shows that depoliticization sustains IO everyday activities while allowing them to remain engaged in politics, even when they pretend not to. Delving into the inner dynamics of global governance, this book develops an analytical framework on why IOs hate politics by bringing together practices and logics of depoliticization in a wide variety of historical, geographic and organizational contexts. With multiple case studies in the fields of labor rights and economic regulation, environmental protection, development and humanitarian aid, peacekeeping, among others this book shows that depoliticization is enacted in a series of overlapping, sometimes mundane, practices resulting from the complex interaction between professional habits, organizational cultures and individual tactics. By approaching the consequences of these practicesTrade Review"In this superb book, Lucile Maertens and Marieke Louis open a new research agenda on the depoliticization of international organizations. They do it in a way that is analytical, sophisticated, and yet engaging because it is grounded in real empirical puzzles." - Frédéric Mérand, University of Montreal, Canada."This book is the final nail in the functionalist coffin of depoliticized global governance. Thanks to a rich analysis of everyday practices inside international organizations, Louis and Maertens show how little-understood professional and institutional logics lead civil servants and diplomats to portray politics as an obstacle to global governance—when it is in fact its irreducible condition." - Vincent Pouliot, McGill University, Canada."The first systematic study on practices and logics of depoliticization within international organizations. A conceptually sophisticated and empirically rich book which sheds new light on international politics." - Guillaume Devin, Sciences Po Paris, France.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Depoliticizing the world Part I Practices of depoliticization 1 Asserting expertise and pledging technical solutions 2 Formatting neutrality 3 Gaining time and losing momentum Part II Logics of depoliticization 4 Following a functional-pragmatic path 5 Monopolizing legitimacy 6 Avoiding responsibility 7 Conclusion: The politics of IO (de)politicization
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Towards Strategic Pragmatism in Foreign Policy
Book SynopsisWhat is pragmatism? Is it a means to an end, or an end in itself? Is it antithetical to ideology or morality?Arguing that pragmatism is a skill much more than an attribute, Phua examines how viewing it in this way can help achieve better foreign policy outcomes. He examines and contrasts the ways in which the United States, China and Singapore have incorporated pragmatism into their approaches to foreign policy. In doing so he debunks dualistic myths around pragmatism and ideology and promotes the view of pragmatism as a skill that can be developed. An essential primer for students, analysts and policymakers, with a fresh and practical approach to pragmatism.Trade Review"Early in the book, Charles Phua quoted Humpty Dumpty: When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less. Pragmatism is perhaps one such word. By discussing pragmatism in the context of how three very different countries view it - China, the US and Singapore - Phua has been able to develop a conceptual framework for the analysis of the word in academic discourse and distinguish between its use in social conversation and as an organizing principle in statecraft."---George Yeo, former Foreign Minister, Republic of Singapore"Dr Charles Phua has written a book that uniquely considers how the philosophy of pragmatism, in both practice and principles, influences the exercise of foreign policy and statecraft in nations. In particular, he carefully examines the policies and approaches of China, the US and Singapore, and considers how each nation is shaped by a blend of idealism, realism and contextual opportunities and constraints. As we move towards a more complex geopolitical environment, Dr Phua’s book offers fascinating ideas on how nations mould their agendas, and fashion their policy formulations and implementations."---Professor Tan Eng Chye, President, National University of Singapore"As the world changes, foreign policy must change. As this book makes clear, pragmatic foreign policy is needed to contend not just with politics narrowly understood but also with the full range of global challenges: economic, social, climate, and others."---Professor Craig Calhoun, University Professor of Social Sciences, Arizona State University, former president of London of School of Economics and Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC)"A highly original and interesting book that compares and connects Chinese, Singaporean and American thinking on foreign policy. There is much food for thought for scholars and practitioners to ponder."---Professor Qin Yaqing, former President, Chinese Foreign Affairs University"Is Singapore’s foreign policy based on realism, as many have claimed? Dr Phua is right to say it is not. It is based on pragmatism or a combination of realism and idealism in pragmatism."---Professor Tommy Koh, Ambassador-At-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore, and former President, Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea"A well-analyzed book on pragmatism in foreign policy, a topic that has not received much attention in scholarly debates. The case studies are illuminating."---T.V. Paul, James McGill Professor of International Relations, McGill University, Canada, former President, International Studies Association, and author of: Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era (Yale University Press, 2018)."Pragmatism" is a slippery term, touching on different domains of human behaviour - psychological, philosophical, social, political, economic, and others. Charles Chao Rong Phua's book takes an interdisciplinary approach to case studies - China, Singapore, the U.S. - in order to delineate the "system[s] that supports 'being pragmatic'" and thus provides the context for pragmatism in the contemporary global order."---Professor Robbie Goh, Provost, Singapore University of Social Sciences "It is hard to do justice to the scholarly range of this challenging book which ranges from the mysteries of Daoism to the emerging properties of American decision making. The author rightly warns that we need strategic pragmatism more than ever - perhaps it is timely to recalibrate the pendulum swings between ‘strategic narcissism’ and 'strategic autism’ tendencies, both of which are threatening world peace."---Professor Christopher Coker, Director, LSE IDEAS"Pragmatism has long been held up as a primary organising concept for policy-making. But what does pragmatism mean in the policy context? And how are we to understand its application in the process of policy formulation? By way of a comparative study of the United States, China, and Singapore, Charles Phua helps us navigate these complex conceptual and practical issues. This book should be essential reading for those interested in the fundamental philosophical underpinnings of “pragmatic” policy thinking and making."---Professor Joseph Chinyong Liow, Dean of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University"This is an intriguing and systematic assessment of pragmatism as an element of foreign policy formulation and implementation in three very different states. The author draws out some important practical implications for policymakers from his study, and one can only agree with his concluding argument that future generations would benefit from pragmatic responses to complex global challenges such as managing climate-change and ensuring environmental sustainability."---Dr Tim Huxley, former Executive Director, IISS-Asia"A must read for anyone seeking to understand how China’s "idiosyncratic mixture of principle and pragmatism" shapes its relations with the rest of the world."---Professor Carla P. Freeman, Executive Director, SAIS Foreign Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins University"A solid contribution to the study of what the author calls strategic pragmatism in foreign policy, with the fascinating comparative illustrations of the United States, China, and Singapore. Insightful and thought provoking, while necessarily controversial in some points of the policies conducted by the three states."---Professor Shi Yinhong, Distinguished Professor of International Relations, Renmin University of China"Charles has written a creative piece linking philosophy, public policy and international affairs. It isworth a read to examine its implications to our theory and practice of international affairs in both US and China."---Professor Wang Yizhou, Boya Chair Professor and Associate Dean, School of International Studies, Peking University"By operationalizing pragmatism, a frequently used but vague and elusive term, Phua not only successfully develops a conceptual framework of foreign policy but also succinctly substantiates it by the foreign policy practice of China, the U.S., and Singapore in a way that will be useful to academics and practitioners alike. An original work on pragmatic foreign policy!"---Professor Zhang Qingmin, Chair, Department of Diplomacy, School of International Studies, Peking University"This book seeks to be a synthetic primer on Pragmatism as applied in US, Chinese and Singaporean foreign policies. Moreover, Pragmatisms in the three countries are subtly different. This book not only helps us to understand current policies of the three countries, but it also constructs a theoretical framework of Pragmatism for foreign international politics in the world."---Professor Xufeng Zhu, Associate Dean, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University"Towards Strategic Pragmatism in Foreign Policy crafts a unique and integrative approach, embodying both academic rigor and practical relevance in treating the role of pragmatism in political process. Charles Chao Rong Phua unfolds a paradigm for optimizing unstable equilibria amidst ever-shifting currents of public policy, national interest, international relations, and geostrategic positioning. He authoritatively reconciles variegated meanings and nuances of pragmatism, without contradiction, among three contrasting polities: China, USA, and Singapore. This original and illuminating work is highly recommended!"---Lou Marinoff, Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy and Asian Studies, The City College of New York, founding President of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association, and author of The Middle Way."Charles Chao Rong Phua offers an important corrective to the realist notion that international structure compels pragmatism in foreign policy. Through a close examination of Chinese, American and Singapore foreign policies, Phua establishes that pragmatic leaders necessarily act as realists simultaneously in both domestic politics and international politics and that pragmatism is filtered through leadership personalities. Foreign policy pragmatism may be the ideal of realists,, but it is illusive, except in the extreme. More generally, Phua shows that foreign policy tends toward a hybrid mix of the imperatives of personal politics and international politics."---Professor Robert S. Ross, Professor of Political Science at Boston College and Associate, John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University.Table of Contents1. A Pragmatic Definition of Pragmatism (Problem Solving Approach) I. What is Pragmatism 2. Fitness Beats Truth: Towards a Definition of Pragmatism 3. Big P and Small P Pragmatism, Strategic Pragmatism and Grand Strategy 4. Agential and Structural Factors of (Pragmatic) Production 5. Pragmatism in Policy Process Framework 6. Varieties of Pragmatism II.China 7. The Dao of Pragmatism: Going With the Flow Without Being Swept Away 8. Seeking Truth from Facts 9. Red Lines (and Pink Lines) in Chinese Foreign Policy III. Singapore 10. The Ideology of Pragmatism 11. A Friend to Everybody and an Ally to None 12. The Geography of Pragmatism IV.The United States13. The System (Systemic Pendulums) of Pragmatism 14. Small P and Big P Pragmatism on the Election Trail 15. How the Emergent Properties of the US System Force Unpragmatic Actors to Make V. What Have We Learnt? 16. From Varieties of Pragmatism: Muddling Through, In Style 17. Strategic and Systemic Pragmatism Through Dynamic Equilibria
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Taylor & Francis Behavioural Economics and Regulation
Book SynopsisIn recent years, the idea of nudges small changes in individual choice architecture that do not involve incentives or coercion has entered policy discourse and practice to address various problems ranging from energy usage to retirement savings. However, how nudges can be incorporated into regulatory practice, and whether the experimental methodologies used to design nudges are still appropriate when they are being used as a regulatory instrument is still an unexplored issue. As this book shows, the translation of ideas into the world of regulation is not so simple and straightforward.By analysing the different experimental alternatives that regulators can use when designing nudges and through a close analysis of a real-world example the case of the European Union tobacco warnings this book proposes an alternative design process more in tune with the reality of regulation. The book explores the implications of iterative experimental methodologies and processes for
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Financialization and Macroeconomics
Book SynopsisFinancialisation has become a widely discussed and debated term leading to a plurality of perspectives, but no fixed definition or single reading. This book presents a critical exploration and review of the current literature on financialisation, focusing on the financialisation of NFCs and its possible implications for the macroeconomic and financial stability of advanced countries. Starting from this critical analysis, it proposes some new readings of the process of financialisation, linking it directly, on the one hand, to the evolution of interest-bearing capital and the credit system, and, on the other hand, to the historical tendencies of monopoly capital towards financial arrangements to manage corporate control. Finally, a conceptual scheme for interpretation and a mathematical model of corporate portfolio choice is developed to explain how the tendency in developed countries to place growing shares of social surplus in speculative financial channels can contribute toTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1.Post-Keynesian approaches. 2.The French Regulation School and the Social Structures of Accumulation approach. 3.Classical Marxist approaches. 4.Interest bearing capital vs industrial capital. 5.Financial rentiers and the revenant conflict between rent and profit. 6.Corporate saving glut and liquidity holding. 7.Financialisation of NFCs, globalisation and growth. 8.Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis International Political Economy and the Global
Book SynopsisInternational Political Economy and the Global South provides students from both the global South and the global North a textbook that speaks to distinct concepts, categories, and issues of International Political Economy, from a Southern and Northern perspective, while identifying how they differ.The primary goal is to provide an alternative or complementary reading of IPE derived from the experiences of the periphery. The textbook asks: how has the global South responded to the demands of a global economy? What is the meaning of sovereignty to those who have experienced colonialism and imperialism? How can the global South claim the âœinternationalâ when the global North sets its norms, institutions, and practices? It opens with a standard introduction, offering an intellectual history of key IPE concepts, including state, firm, capital, power, labor, globalization, and finance. Each subsequent chapter follows a similar structure: exploration of the problem; discussi
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Solidarity Economy
Book SynopsisSolidarity economy-based alternative spaces result from an interface among structural factors, institutional regimes and forms of collective action that mobilise narratives of change, collective identities and non-capitalist economic practices.This book analyses how solidarity economy initiatives develop alternative spatialities as counterpower to mainstream economy. Based on case studies in Europe, Latin America, and Asia, it elaborates on how different scales of solidarity economy-based alternative spaces result from an interface among structural factors, institutional regimes and forms of collective action that mobilise narratives of change, collective identities and non-capitalist economic practices.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Solidarity Economy: An ecology of worldviews, identities, and behaviours Chapter 1. A shared epistemological framework for the solidarity economy and the commons Chapter 2. Framing and building the commons: social movements and solidarity economy Chapter 3. Solidarity Economy as Ecology of Mind: Autopoiesis, Enchantment and the Commons Chapter 4. Building counterpower: a comparative case study analysis of “boundary commoning” by solidarity economy initiatives Chapter 5. Urban Regeneration and minority women: can solidarity economy contribute to environmental and social justice within the urban space? Chapter 6. Social and Solidarity Economy in Central/Eastern Europe - case studies from Poland and Czech Republic Chapter 7. A passion for soil: solidarity economy and regenerative agriculture Chapter 8. Exploring the Interface of Societal Inequities and Grassroots Solidarities as Drivers and Spaces of Social Innovation in India Chapter 9. Economic, institutional and political advocacy tensions in the field of solidarity economy and commons: an ethnographic approach drawing from three case studies Chapter 10. Solidarity Economy Movement in Colombia: Two Regional Experiences Promoted by Popular Education for Integral Change Chapter 11. Democratic Governance and Financial Commons Chapter 12. Policies of social and solidarity economy from the local in Argentina. Subjects, power and markets in San Martín and Moreno Chapter 13. Community Groups in Lisbon: 'Common' Paths to Democratic Co-Management in the City Chapter 14. The role of Social and Solidarity Economy in the inclusive urban regeneration power of nature-based solutions: what can we learn from the Nadezhda district in Sofia?
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Taylor & Francis COVID19 and European Banking Performance
Book SynopsisThe monograph presents a comprehensive analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on European banking, both at a macro and a micro level. It analyses the impact of the pandemic on bank stability, performance and credit policies, as well as their strategic adjustments to the challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. The initial chapters analyze the various governmental responses to the pandemic. Topics of discussion include the scale and scope of the wide range of public policies undertaken to mitigate the consequences of the crisis, and their efficiency in limiting the negative impact of the pandemic on the economy. The results suggest that the extensive public interventions have been largely successful in averting the possible disastrous consequences for the financial sector on a macro level. On a micro level, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the restructuring and recovery of the banking industry started after the 2008 crisis which has had a significant impaTable of Contents1. Introduction by the Editors (Paul Wachtel and Ewa Miklaszewska) 2. Crisis interventions and sovereign risk ratings (Cuadros-Solas Pedro J., Salvador Carlos, Suárez Nuria) 3. The impact of Covid-19 pandemic on European bank regulation and supervision: lessons from the past crises (Chesini Giuseppina) 4. The countercyclicality of the macroprudential policy in the EU. The case of the COVID-19 pandemic (Czaplicki Marcin) 5. Business continuity planning and management: a lifejacket in the Covid-19 storm? (Bongini Paola, Iwanicz-Drozdowska Małgorzata, Liberati Caterina) 6. Does the provision of moratorium changed SMEs’ liquidity needs during the Covid-19 outbreak? (Brighi Paola, Severini Sabrina) 7. The influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on bank lending. Evidence from European countries (Karkowska Renata) 8. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on bank stability and performance in the CEE region (Kil Krzysztof, Miklaszewska Ewa) 9. Relationship between banks and FinTechs. Does the pandemic have an impact on it? (Pawłowska Małgorzata, Staniszewska Aleksandra) 10. Competition between banks and FinTechs in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic (Kasiewicz Stanisław, Kurkliński Lech, Woźniak Jacek)
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Taylor & Francis International Trade Labor Relations and
Book SynopsisInternational Trade, Labor Relations, and Bargaining Power: International Strawberry Commodity Networks examines power in the commercial food system through the history of always available strawberries. Applying an interdisciplinary approach to case studies on strawberry production and sales in Mexico, Spain, and the United States, the author untangles the symbiotic relationships between the economic boom and labor strife in the sector. By comparing workers' struggles in the sector, he develops a novel model of workplace bargaining power in which the process of dignity catalyzes change.Since international trade in strawberries began three decades ago, the sector's growth has paralleled the rise of retailer dominance of food sales. Highlighting inequitable gains from the sales boom, workers have organized mass strikes, boycotts, and pressure campaigns. The divergent results ranged from ephemeral acknowledgments of workers' concerns to the establishment of union
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Taylor & Francis Histories of Tax Evasion Avoidance and Resistance
Book SynopsisTax evasion, tax avoidance and tax resistance are widespread phenomena in political, economic, social and fiscal history from antiquity through medieval, early modern and modern times. Histories of Tax Evasion, Avoidance and Resistance shows how different groups and individuals around the globe have succeeded or failed in not paying their due taxes, whether in kind or in cash, on their properties or on their crops. It analyses how, throughout history, wealthy and poor taxpayers have tried to avoid or reduce their tax burden by negotiating with tax authorities, through practices of legal or illegal tax evasion, by filing lawsuits, seeking armed resistance or by migration, and how state authorities have dealt with such acts of claim making, defiance, open resistance or elusion. It fills an important research gap in tax history, addressing questions of tax morale and fairness, and how social and political inequality was negotiated through taxation. It gives rich
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Deglobalization Financial Inequality and the
Book SynopsisOne of the most challenging issues for the current state of global economy is a highly uneven distribution of global financial assets and liabilities. Drawing on extensive data, this book analyses the new global divisions in economic and financial inequality across the globe in the first two decades of this century.After outlining the context of the global financial system in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008/2009, this book provides a detailed examination of the data on economic and financial inequality, analysing growth rates relative to financial liabilities and assets for all countries where data is available. The central issues in understanding the financial and environmental efficiency of economic growth are also addressed as well as the development of financial and regulatory technologies (FinTech and RegTech). The final part of this book explores the changes in economic growth and financial assets/liabilities as a result of major events in the past Table of Contents1. Globalization and deglobalization – introduction with literature review 2. The world economy in 2000–2020 3. Global financial inequality: 2000–2020 4. Economic growth in the context of financial and environmental efficiency 5. Disequilibrium economics and Black and Green Swans 6. FinTech and RegTech and their role in the structure of finance Concluding remarks Appendix - Tables
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge International Handbook of Economic
Book SynopsisThis handbook presents a systematic and comprehensive overview of economic sociology, an exemplary interdisciplinary field which draws on theoretical frameworks and empirical findings from both economics and sociology to present a unique lens on the interdependence of the economy and society. The handbook is arranged in four parts which together present the current state-of-the-art of economic sociology as well as pointing toward future directions for research. The first part outlines the theoretical foundations of economic sociology and its relations to other fields, particularly with regard to other alternative approaches to economics, and looks at conceptions and definitions of economic sociology vary. The second part provides an overview of the historical development of economic sociology from classical political economy to the present day. The third part explores the main problematics of economic sociology, analyzing the economy in relation to particular social institutions, the state, ideology, culture and art, religion, gender, race/ethnicity, and more. The fourth part focuses on the principal branches including sociology of the market, industrial organization and work, uncertainty, distribution and inequality, money and finance, and the environment. The stellar international cast of contributors is drawn from both economics and sociology, therefore presenting a holistic view of the field and contributing to a rejuvenation of economic sociology within economics. It is an indispensable reference work for researchers and students across a broad range of sociological and economic disciplines.
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Taylor & Francis State Political Power and Criminality in Civil
Book SynopsisThis book revisits and reframes the old, but active, debate on the relationship between criminality and civil war by bringing both the state and political power into the equation. It argues that the terms in which the debate is generally posed are still inadequate to address the complexities of this relationship, showing how criminalisation and de-criminalisation are deeply political and hotly contested processes. The shifting movements towards the separation -or convergence- between criminality and politics are part of the processes of constitution of both political power and state. The chapters in the volume flesh out the mechanisms and social dynamics through which this takes place.This edited volume will be of great interest to upper-level students, academics, and researchers in Politics, History and Criminology. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Political Power. Table of ContentsIntroduction—State, political power and criminality in civil war: an editorial revisiting old debates from different angles 1 Power and crime: a theoretical sketch 2 Tillyian process without a Tillyian effect: criminalised economies and statebuilding in the Colombian conflict 3 The difference mafias make: a triadic model of organized crime in ethnic conflicts 4 Illicit economies and political opportunity: the case of the Colombian paramilitaries (1982–2007) 5 Organized crime in Serbian politics during the Yugoslav wars 6 Colombian state reactions to peace: the legacies of the narcoguerrillanarcoterrorist discourses 7 The varieties of paramilitaries paper present to Dublin zoom conference June 10, 2021 8 Violence diffusion, illegal accumulation and norms of criminal authority: alternative configurations of politics and power in the 21st century? 9 Crime, violence, and coercive power 10 The criminalization of politics, the politics of criminalization and their paradoxes
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Taylor & Francis The Political Economy of the Creative and
Book SynopsisThe creative and cultural industries (CCIs) are often seen by markets as critical drivers of economic growth and by governments as feasible ways to foster development. The link between these two perspectives lies in the CCIsâ capacity to generate both economic value and social innovation simultaneously. While markets value their direct contribution to GDP and employment, governments recognise their potential to catalyse broader societal development through cultural expression, innovation and community engagement.Divided into key sections covering theoretical foundations, economic growth and development, innovation, policy and data analysis, this book presents a multifaceted view of CCIsâ role in modern economies and societies. It challenges traditional economic models, advocates for a holistic approach to socioâeconomic development and examines the transformative impact of digital technologies on creative work. This work makes significant contributions to the field by advanci
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Understanding Society through a Systems Approach
Book SynopsisKim offers an accessible, interdisciplinary textbook using systems theory as a framework to stimulate discussion about how the social sciences develop understanding of society and its evolution. It promotes an integrated view of the social sciences by proposing politics, economics, administration, and community as the core areas of society, and explains their characteristics, how they are moved by what kind of systems, and how they have evolved through their interrelationships.This book explains how the major areas of operate on certain structures and principles, and how they have developed while maintaining certain relationships with each other. The beauty of the entire field of social sciences lies in understanding society and social sciences as a whole and the relationships that intertwines it. It is unique in that it approaches social science from an Eastern perspective, using traditional Eastern thought and social phenomena as examples in its explanations and proposes a
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Taylor & Francis Contours of IndiaEU Engagements
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Taylor & Francis International Trade Regulation and the Global Economy
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Cambridge University Press Clean Power Politics The Democratization of
Book SynopsisThe United States has been experiencing an energy transition for over four decades, and now - thanks to the Clean Power Plan of the Obama Administration and the Paris climate agreement - a clean energy future is moving closer to reality. In Clean Power Politics, Joseph Tomain describes how clean energy policies have been developed and, more importantly, what's necessary for a successful transition to a clean energy future, including technological innovation, new business models, and regulatory reforms. The energy system of the future will minimize the environmental costs of traditional energy production and consumption, and emphasize expanded use of natural resources and energy efficiency. Because many new energy technologies can be produced and consumed at smaller scales, they will shift decision-making power away from traditional utilities and empower consumers to make energy choices about consumption and price. In this way, a clean energy future embodies a democratization of energy.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Preconditions for a Clean Power Transition: 1. The clean power plan and clean power politics; 2. Defining and measuring clean power; 3. The political economy of clean power; Part II. The Necessity of Innovation: 4. Innovation policy and institutions; 5. Clean power systems; 6. Regulatory innovation; Part III. The Democratization of Energy: 7. Energy and democracy.
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Cambridge University Press The Institutions Curse
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Cambridge University Press Power and Global Economic Institutions
Book SynopsisMajor shifts in economic power, marked by the rise of the Brazil, Russia, India, China and other emerging economies, have recently affected key multilateral economic institutions, such as the International Monetary Fund. Ayse Kaya advances a novel approach to understanding the relationship between states' economic power and their formal political power in multilateral economic institutions.Trade Review'This ambitious study opens up the black box of how power and institutions interact in the rapidly changing post-Crisis world of global economic governance. Kaya exposes the tensions between the formal and informal faces of power in the struggle to influence both rules and outcomes across the World Bank, the IMF, and the emerging G20 process. Her analysis tells us that where the 'declining old' might prove too slow in ceding their formal institutional prerogatives, the 'rising new' may up the ante and take the game elsewhere to new forums. Global governance thus becomes less predictable and institutions less effective at adapting to the need for change. In short, Kaya's analysis shows us how familiar institutions remain a potentially fragile part of an increasingly fragile world order. A 'must' for scholars and students alike.' Geoffrey Underhill, University of Amsterdam'Increasingly, students of international political economy are returning to consideration of the role of power in the functioning of the world economy. With this thoughtful analysis, Ayse Kaya makes a notable contribution to current debates, focusing in particular on the relationship between the economic power of states and formal power in multilateral institutions. Even seasoned specialists will find much to learn in this knowledgeable and well-crafted study.' Benjamin Jerry Cohen, University of California, Santa BarbaraTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Conceptualizing political asymmetries in multilateral economic institutions; 3. The origins of states' formal equality in the global financial institutions; 4. The origins of states' voting equality in the post-war multilateral trading system; 5. Shifts in political power in the IMF in 2008–10; 6. Shifts in political power in the World Bank in 2008–10; 7. The G20: a delegatory institution; 8. Conclusions.
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Cambridge University Press The Political Economy of Defence
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Cambridge University Press Thirsty Cities
Book SynopsisWhy does authoritarian China provide a higher level of public goods than democratic India? Studies based on regime type have shown that the level of public goods provision is higher in democratic systems than in authoritarian forms of government. However, public goods provision in China and India contradicts these findings. Whether in terms of access to education, healthcare, public transportation, and basic necessities, such as drinking water and electricity, China does consistently better than India. This book argues that regime type does not determine public goods outcomes. Using empirical evidence from the Chinese and Indian municipal water sectors, the study explains and demonstrates how a social contract, an informal institution, influences formal institutional design, which in turn accounts for the variations in public goods provision.Trade Review'An excellent study on the differential performances of China and India in distributing public goods provisions. With the aid of case studies of water supply in four Chinese and Indian cities, Selina Ho captures an enduring puzzle as to why India lags behind China in offering collective goods to its population, despite its democratic credentials. A must read for all interested in development as well as all politicians and bureaucrats in India!' T. V. Paul, James McGill Professor of International Relations, McGill University, Canada'Selina Ho's Thirsty Cities is an original, ingenious, and admirably researched account that sets out to explain why China's cities provide a much higher level of drinking water than do India's. But the book goes far beyond that. It introduces a novel concept, the 'social contract' - an informal institution that serves as an implicit agreement between leaders to rule in a manner that, to establish their own legitimacy, meets citizens' expectations. Using it, Ho skillfully contrasts China's with India's mode of governance in recent decades and thereby explicates a great deal about their divergent regimes. China's government, which fosters capacity and local government autonomy, is grounded in material-cum-moral performance, while India's (despite its democracy) is situated in ideals of socialism and populism, which afford far less administrative efficacy, she demonstrates. A book with wide applicability across the globe today.' Dorothy J. Solinger, Professor Emerita, University of California, Irvine'This book wrestles intelligently with the puzzle of why an authoritarian regime, China, is more proficient at providing essential public goods than a robust democracy, India. This counter-intuitive outcome is the subject of this important work by Selina Ho. She highlights the crucial role of informal institutions and normative principles in explaining service provision as determinant rather than regime type or other factors. The work is essential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between the politics of welfare, regime type and public goods provision.' Tony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Director, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy SchoolTable of Contents1. Public goods provision in China and India; Part I. Social Contracts: 2. Social contracts, institutional design, and public goods provision; 3. The Chinese social contract; 4. The Indian social contract; Part II. Comparing Urban Water Management in China and India: 5. Comparing China's and India's water institutional frameworks; 6. Quenching thirst in China's first-tier cities: Shenzhen and Beijing; 7. Water constraints in India's megacities: New Delhi and Hyderabad; 8. Conclusion: types of social contracts and can social contracts change?
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Cambridge University Press Coevolution in Economic Systems
Book SynopsisCoevolution in economic systems plays a key role in the dynamics of contemporary societies. Coevolution operates when, considering several evolving realms within a socioeconomic system, these realms mutually shape their respective innovation, replication and/or selection processes. The processes that emerge from coevolution should be analyzed as being globally codetermined in dynamic terms. The notion of coevolution appears in the literature on modern innovation economics since the neo-Schumpeterian inception four decades ago. In this Element, these antecedents are drawn on to formally clarify and develop how the coevolution notion can expand the analytical and methodological scope of evolutionary economics, allowing for further unification and advance of evolutionary subfields.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Coevolution: A Key Concept for Evolutionary Economics; 3. Coevolution in Markets; 4. Coevolution of Technology and Institutions: Growth; 5. Capitalism and Democracy in Coevolution; 6. Synthesis and the Road Ahead; Appendix A; Appendix B; References.
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Cambridge University Press The Age of Fragmentation
Book SynopsisThe field of economics has proliferated in complexity and importance since the Second World War. Alessandro Roncaglia recounts the history of the different approaches (marginalist, neoclassical, Keynesian, Austrian, monetarism, rational expectations, institutionalist, evolutionary, classical-Sraffian) and the different fields (micro, macro, money and finance, industrial and game theory, institutions, public finance, econometrics), illustrating the thought and personality of the most important contemporary economists (from Hayek to Sraffa, from Modigliani and Samuelson to Friedman, from Simon to Sen, and many others), focusing on the conceptual foundations of the different streams. At the same time he appraises critically the important debates and controversies in the field and concludes by discussing possible future directions for economic thought. This follow-up to The Wealth of Ideas: A History of Contemporary Economic Thought is a readable introduction to the contemporary economics Trade Review'Professor Roncaglia is one of the world's leading authorities on the history of economic thought. He has written intellectual biographies of William Petty and Piero Sraffa, and a recent magnus opus – The Wealth of Ideas: A History of Economic Thought. This new book is a worthy sequel, with extended detail on more recent developments in the history of economic thought, and beautifully written. The book should be essential reading for any serious economist who wants to master the origins and historical progress of their discipline.' A. P. Thirlwall, University of Kent'Alessandro Roncaglia provides a masterly survey of a field of enquiry – contemporary economic research from the Second World War to the present day – characterized by great breadth and complexity. His inquiry into their interrelations and the underlying philosophies of the fragmented landscape of modern economics combines highly scholarly investigation with passionate denunciation of its limits. An indispensable teaching aid and guide through the meanderings of the economic profession of our times.' Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, Sapienza, Università di Roma'Alessandro Roncaglia has crafted a tour de force. The Age of Fragmentation is a most worthwhile book, one that should be read by all economists no matter what their theoretical orientation is. Roncaglia demonstrates a vast storehouse of knowledge, acute analytical abilities, and sensible critical faculties.' John F. Henry, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College'… The reader can appreciate the bigger picture behind the usually fragmented approach to studying economics through his work. In addition, the often unseen and unappreciated threads linking the various economic schools of thought can be well appreciated as the author goes into great detail to present the growth of economic thought chronologically, providing the historical and political factors that shaped the various approaches.' Jiarui Wu, History of Economic Thought and PolicyTable of Contents1. Introduction. A non-linear discourse; Part I. The Background: 2. The foundations: classicals and marginalists; 3. The immediate precursors; Part II. The Giants of the Short Century: 4. The founder of neo-liberalism: Friedrick von Hayek; 5. The revolutionary: Piero Sraffa; Part III. The Fragmentation of the Mainstream: 6. The new microeconomics: general equilibrium and expected utilities, theory of industrial organization; 7. The macroeconomics of the neoclassical synthesis; 8. The myth of the invisible hand: neo-liberal streams; 9. Applied economics and econometrics; Part IV. The Weakening of the Paradigm: 10. Behavioural economics and bounded rationality; 11. From efficient financial markets to the theory of crises; Part V. Is a New Paradigm Possible?: 12. Post-Keynesian macroeconomics; 13. Marxism, evolutionism, institutionalism; 14. Ethics and the problem of power.
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Cambridge University Press Seven Deadly Economic Sins
Book SynopsisYou have heard of the Seven Deadly Sins: pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth. Each is a natural human weakness that impedes happiness. In addition to these vices, however, there are economic sins as well. And they, too, wreak havoc on our lives and in society. They can seem intuitively compelling, yet they lead to waste, loss, and forgone prosperity. In this thoughtful and compelling book, James Otteson tells the story of seven central economic fallacies, explaining why they are fallacies, why believing in them leads to mistakes and loss, and how exorcizing them from our thinking can help us avoid costly errors and enable us to live in peace and prosperity.Trade Review'Otteson, a philosopher, has written for non-economists the best short introduction to economics, and to a wider political economy. It is lucid, generous, open-handed yet thorough, and solidly based scientifically. Come to think of it, most economists should read it, too. They might stop using 'philosophical' as a term of contempt, and get back to an Adam-Smithian depth of understanding.' Deirdre McCloskey, University of Illinois, Chicago'The word 'Deadly' in Otteson's title is no exaggeration. The great frustrations and famines of recent decades have been failures of state management, rather than contradictions of capitalism. Otteson's contribution is to explain why these catastrophes are the result of good intentions, moral misunderstandings, and confusions about what markets can do. As society moves toward reopening the economy and restoring prosperity, this book is essential reading for what might be done, what can't be done, and the things that lie in between.' Michael C. Munger, Duke University'James Otteson is not just a scholar of markets, he is their Mozart. In this compelling tour, Otteson lays out economic principles the way Mozart laid out a sonata. Otteson orders and presents key principles in a fashion any American can understand and appreciate.' Amity Shlaes, author of Great SocietyJames R. Otteson's Seven Deadly Economic Sins is a fine effort to introduce readers to the basic principles of market economics. The hamartiological framing - the 'sins' are bad assumptions about how markets work - is part of the author's effort to make the subject more engaging than a typical treatise on economics. It works. Mr. Otteson, a professor of business ethics at Notre Dame, writes with an apt combination of casual wit and rigorous logic." Barton Swain, The Wall Street JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Wealth Is Positive-Sum; 2. Good Is Not Good Enough; 3. There Is No Great Mind; 4. Progress Is Not Inevitable; 5. Economics and/or Morality; 6. Equality of What?; 7. Markets Are Not Perfect; Conclusion. The World and I.
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Cambridge University Press Law and Politics on Export Restrictions
Book SynopsisDelving into export restrictive measures this book links the key areas of WTO law, public international law, investment and competition law to expose how and why WTO rules on export dimension are insufficient due to export bias; how public international law helps to justify their adoption or maintenance; and how investment and competition laws contribute to their regulation. Built on works on accession protocols and national security exceptions, this book goes beyond international trade law and looks into international political economy, competition and investment law. It contributes to debates in conceptualising public and private forms of export restrictions, appreciating the complementary nature of trade and competition law in disciplining them; capturing the dynamic between trade and investment policies for their effectuation and circumvention; and bridging trade law and public international law to better understand their impositions for political and diplomatic purposes with the iTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. WTO rules on export restrictions; 3. Governing export restrictions: national security and international political economy; 4. Export restrictions in the global supply chain: investment and competition; 5. Conclusion: reconfiguring global supply chain in the post-COVID-19 era; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Completing a Genuine Economic and Monetary Union
Book SynopsisThis Element examines efforts to strengthen Economic and Monetary Union in the European Union, especially over the last decade. It also reviews the wide-ranging reforms undertaken since the crises of the early 2010s and assesses whether they go far enough.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Was the EMU project wise?; 3. Defining a complete and genuine economic and monetary union; 4. The euro in its third decade: from crisis to serenity…and back?; 5. The broadening EMU governance framework assessed; 6. The findings of the survey are revealing; 7. Unfinished business; 8. Conclusions; References; Annex I.
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Cambridge University Press Ageing and Health
Book SynopsisOne of the most important political and economic challenges facing Europe and elsewhere is the ageing of societies. Must ageing populations create conflict between generations and crisis for health systems? Our answer is no. The problem is not so much demographic change as the political and policy challenge of creating fair, sustainable and effective policies for people of all ages. This book, based on a large European Observatory study, uses new evidence to challenge some of the myths surrounding ageing and its effects on economies and health systems. Cataclysmic views of population ageing are often based on stereotypes and anecdotes unsupported by evidence. How we address ageing societies is a choice. Societies can choose policies that benefit people of all ages, promoting equity both within and between generations, and political coalitions can be built to support such policies. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Older People in Europe; 3. Ageing Equally: Politics, Health and Solidarity; 4. The Coalitional Politics of Win-Wins; 5. Unequal Ageing: The Politics of Ageing as the Politics of Health Inequalities; 6. The Implications of High- and Win-Lose Policies for the 'Ageing Crisis'; 7. Conclusion.
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Palgrave MacMillan UK The Capability Approach Empowerment and
Book SynopsisThis book explores the linkages between Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach and participatory forms of development – especially those associated with critical pedagogy and empowerment from the bottom-up.Table of ContentsPart 1: Introduction1. The Human Development and Capability Approach – The Role of Empowerment and Participation Alexandre Apsan Frediani, David Clark and Mario BiggeriPart 2: Conceptual Foundations2. The Practice of Participation and the Capability ApproachJohn Hammock3. Power and Deliberative Participation in Sen’s Capability Approach Pepi Patrón4. Balancing Pessimism of the Intellect and Optimism of the Will: Some Reflections on the Capability Approach, Gender, Empowerment and EducationElaine Unterhalter5. Notions of Empowerment and Participation: Contributions from and to the Capability ApproachAlexandre Apsan Frediani, Jordi Peris and Alejandra Boni6. Process and Outcomes: participation and empowerment in a multidimensional poverty framework Shailaja FennellPart 3: Applications and Methods7. Participatory Development: A Sustainable Approach for Reducing Inequality and Fighting Poverty? The Example of Disability Policies in AfghanistanParul Bakhshi and Jean-Francois Trani8. Children and Youth Participation in Decision Making and Research ProcessesMario Biggeri, Caterina Arciprete and Ravi Karkara9. The Integrated Capabilities Framework: Exploring Multiculturalism and Human Well-Being in Participatory SettingsDavid A. Clark and Susan Hodgett10. Participatory Research Methods and the Capability Approach: Researching the Housing Dimensions of Squatter Upgrading Programmes in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil Alexandre Apsan Frediani11. Participatory Monitoring of Development Projects in the South PacificJohn Schischka12. Planning and Managing for Human Development: What Contribution Can the Capability Approach Make?Gabriel Ferrero y De Loma-Osorio and Carlos Salvador Zepeda13. Emancipatory Research as Empowerment: An Illustration from a Research Study of Persons with Disabilities in PalestineMario Biggeri and Federico CianiPart 4: Conclusions and Policy Lessons14. Capability Development and DecentralisationSantosh Mehrotra15. Participation, Empowerment and Capabilities: Key Lessons and Future ChallengesDavid A. Clark, Mario Biggeri and Alexandre Apsan Frediani
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Palgrave Macmillan Conservative Economic Policymaking and the Birth
Book SynopsisIn this book, Adrian Williamson investigates the processes by which Thatcherism became established in Tory thinking, and questions to what extent the politician herself is responsible for Thatcherism within the Conservative Party.Trade Review“This wide-ranging coverage of Conservative economic policymaking is based on a broad and impressive array of primary sources. … This book is an essential contribution to the incipient historical debate on the Thatcher governments, which challenges the assumption that Thatcherism existed as a novel and coherent political-economic project prior to 1979. Furthermore, it provides a solid foundation for future research into the development of the Conservative party’s radical approach to economic policymaking in government during the 1980s.” (Aled Davies, Twentieth Century British History, Vol. 28 (1), March, 2017)Table of ContentsPreface And Acknowledgements List Of Tables And Figures List Of Abbreviations About The Author 1. Introduction The Historiographical Context Methodology And Approach The Argument And Structure Of This Book 2. Policymaking: Structures, Ideas And Influences Introduction The Conservative Economic Inheritance Policymaking 1964-1970 How, Who And What? The Powellite Challenge 1970-1974: Crisis In Government How Who And What? Party Dissent Keynesian Loss Of Faith? 1974-9: Conservative Reappraisal Capture By The Think-Thanks? Reconsideration The Battle Of Ideas 3. Tax And Spend: Towards A Smaller State? Introduction Taxation Reform And Pacemakers, 1964-1974 The Outside World: Debating Tax In The 1970s The Conservatives And Tax, 1974-1979 Public Spending Less Is More: 1964 To 1971 1971 To 1974: Pump Priming The 1970s Spending Crisis The Conservatives And Spending, 1974-1979 A New Frontier? Less Welfare? Building Wealth? North Sea Oil To The Rescue? Conclusions 4. From Prices And Incomes Policy To Sado-Monetarism? Introduction Planning Prices And Incomes 1964-1971: Tory Indecision Was Final Statutory Restraint: Conservative Policy 1972-1974 Towards Prices And Incomes Policy The Importance Of Money The Debate About Inflation Labour In Power 1974-79: Tory Rethink On Prices And Incomes Policy The Social Contract Conservative Discussions On Prices And Incomes Policy Price And Dividend Control Were The Conservatives Theoretical Monetarists? Conclusions 5. Conservative Industrial Policy: The End Of The Mixed Economy? Introduction Industry And The State Industry, The State And Politics The Industrial Problem And Proposed Solutions Post-War Industrial Policy The Conservatives And The Nationalised Industries Policymaking 1964-1970 The Conservative Government 1970-1974: Confusion Confounded? The Nationalised Industries 1974-1979: The Origins Of Privatisation? The Conservatives And Industrial Decline 1964-1970 Lame Ducks: 1970-1974 Lame Ducks To The Slaughter 1974-1979? A Positive Policy For Industry? 1964-1970 Interventionism And The 1972 Act Policymaking 1974-1979: Trusting The Market And The Wider Debate Conclusions 6.Trade Unions: The Discipline Of Law? Introduction 239 The (Strong) Position Of The Unions Before 1979 The Trade Unions: Strengths And Weaknesses The Intellectual Context Bringing The State In: 1964-1974 Towards The Act: 1964-1971 The 1971 Act Fails: 1971-1974 Rethinking Policy, 1975-1979 Official Policymaking Other Voices Stepping Stones Conclusions 7.Britain's Role In The World Economy Introduction The Conservatives And Europe 1961-75: Getting In 1975-1979: Digging In Sterling, Trade And The Balance Of Payments Phase One: Defending Sterling, 1964-1971 Phase Two: Floating, Sinking And The Aes, 1972-1976 Phase Three: Let The Pound Rise, 1976- Monetarism In One Country? Flows Of Oil And Capital The European Monetary System Flows Of People: Immigration Conclusions 8. Conclusion Concluding Thoughts Further Work The 1950s Revisited The Thatcher Governments 1979-1990 (And To 2015?) What About The Voters? Thatcherism Now Notes Bibliography And Other Sources
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