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Palgrave MacMillan Us Marx and the Dynamic of the Capital Formation An Aesthetics of Political Economy
Book SynopsisThis study offers a close examination of Marx's dialectical method of analysis through the lens of current debates in cultural studies, political economy, and critical sociology. It seeks to reanimate Marx's theoretical reconstruction of the capitalist formation from the point of view of recent social dynamics within advanced consumer economies.Trade Review"Best s approach to rethinking a Marxian dialectical method comes at an extraordinarily appropriate time, one in which, as has so often been said, late capitalism has become an image society and in which aesthetics has in uniquely new historical ways been assimilated into economics. Any Marxism that claims to address the issues and problems of the renewed capitalist and globalized system of today s world must necessarily take some such path as this, which Beverley Best has so productively pioneered." - Fredric Jameson, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, Duke University "With her beautifully constructed and critically imaginative thesis, Beverley Best enhances our understanding of several key problems in critical theory: how to read Marx, today; how to read aesthetics politically, and political economy as aesthetics; what to do with cognitive mapping ; and how to deal in a lucid way as academics with an economy of obsolescence in ideas. This book is major contribution to the ethics of criticism as well as to the renewal of aesthetics and the study of Marx s method." - Meaghan Morris, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney, and Chair Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong "This is a remarkable book on a topic on which there has been a lot of recent interest: the relevance of Marx and particularly of his method of analysis to the most pressing problems of our time. The author has an excellent grasp of Marx s own writings and of the most important literature dealing with this aspect of his work. The book is a fascinating short course on the history of recent (and not so recent) debates on the history of Marx s dialectical method." - Bertell Ollman, Department of Politics, NYU, and author of Dance of the Dialectic: Steps in Marx s MethodTable of ContentsMarx's Critique of Abstraction * Capitalism's Process of Self-Mystification * Marx's Theoretical Process I: Abstraction and Representation * Marx's Theoretical Process II: Historicizing the Dialectic * Mediation as Allegory: Reading Political Economy Through the Artwork of Geoffrey Farmer * The Aesthetics of Political Economy * Mapping the Collective Subject
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Palgrave MacMillan Us The Social and Economic Origins of Monarchy in Jordan Middle East Today
Book SynopsisAn interpretative history of the emergence and consolidation of the modern state in Jordan, this book examines the resilience of the Hashemite monarchy and the economic sources of social power under Ottoman, British, and post-colonial Hashemite rule.Table of ContentsThe Paradoxes of an Enduring Monarchy Two Images of Hashemite Rule Before Hashemite Rule: Ottoman Order and Local Order in South-Eastern Syria The Origins of Hashemite Rule: From Ottomanism to Localism in South-Eastern Syria The Establishment of Hashemite Rule: The Evolution of TransJordan The Infrastructure of Hashemite Power in the Towns The Infrastructure of Mandatory Power in the Steppe From Mandate to Kingdom: The Social Origins of Hashemite Power in the Sown The Cohesion of the East Bank: The Consolidation of Hashemite Power The Moral Economy of Hashemite Rule in Jordan
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Palgrave MacMillan Us The New India Citizenship Subjectivity and
Book SynopsisThis book looks critically at various constructions of the Indian citizen from 1991 to 2007, the period when economic liberalization became established government policy. Examining differing images of citizenship and its rules and rituals, Chowdhury sheds light on the complex interactions between culture and political economy in the New India.Trade Review"For those interested in how citizenship and national belonging are being reimagined under neoliberal globalization, Kanishka Chowdhury provides an enormously detailed account of the emerging Indian dispensation. This is an insightful study from a meticulous reader of the cultural landscape." - Arvind Rajagopal, Professor of Media Studies, New York University and author of Politics After Television: Hindu Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Public in India "The New India deals with a timely subject - the emergence of new forms of subjectivity and citizenship in the context of India's economic policy of liberalization. The book is impressive in the wide ranging issues and questions Chowdhury links and analyzes. The author makes an important contribution to the scholarship on postcolonial studies and contemporary cultural politics in India." - Leela Fernandes, Professor of Women's Studies and Political Science, University of Michigan and author of India s New Middle Class "This is a timely and engaging study which provides an historicized account of the relationship between economic 'globalization', attempts to reimagine a New Indian subject and narratives of change, both literary and social. Chowdhury offers a thoughtful contribution to studies of the colonial and postcolonial present which must necessarily now involve questions of global capitalism and its modes of dispossession and disenfranchisement." - Priyamvada Gopal, University Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial and Related Literatures at Cambridge University and author of The Indian Novel in English: Nation, History and NarrationTable of ContentsGoing Global: Texts and Contexts in the New India Polemics and Promises: Constructing the Consumer Citizen The Prompter's Whisper: The National Imaginary and the Cosmopolitan Subject in Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land and A Hungry Tide Transnational Transgressions: Reading the New Indian Woman in Mira Nair's Kama Sutra , Deepa Mehta's Fire , and Gurinder Chadha's Bend it Like Beckham 'Who Will Build Our Taj Mahal?' Urban Displacement, Spatial Politics, and the Resistant Subject
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Palgrave Macmillan Military Economics The Interaction of Power and Money
Book SynopsisIntroduction Economics The Military Values Facts Theories Power and Money Producing Security Militarism Economic Concepts Uncertainty Economic-Security Interactions Security: Are we Safe? Individual Security National Security Global Security War Oil Arms Races and Arms Control Military Spending: How Much is Enough? Measures of Military Expenditure Motives for Arming Economic Functions of US Military Spending Hard Choices: UK and France An Arms Race: India and Pakistan Military Prices Military Balance Sheets Force Acquisition I, Demand: The Biggest Bang for a Buck? Labour Weapons Procurement Technology Force Acquisition II, Supply: The Merchants of Death? The Arms Industry Evolution of the Arms Trade Regulation Military Capability: How to Win? Force Employment Morale Logistics Peacekeeping Economic Choices: Swords or Plowshares? Budget Constraints Economic Effects Technological Spin-off Economic Warfare Understanding Military Economics Acknowledgements, Abbreviations, References, IndexTrade Review'The mathematical and statistical language of defence and peace economics has long been incomprehensible to many students of security and the military. In Military Economics, Britain's leading defence economist resolves this with an accessible synthesis of the technical literature and provides an authoritative survey of the key interactions between military power and money. This book is essential reading for academics and practitioners interested in relationships between the military dimensions of economics and conflict.' - Professor Matt Uttley, King's College London, UK 'This outstanding book makes an original contribution to the economic analysis of the military sector. The author uses his extensive knowledge of the field to present a highly readable, non-technical and scholarly treatment of why money matters to the military. This is a classic text in applied economics.' - Keith Hartley, University of York, UK 'This is an excellent and long needed book on the complex and important issues of military economics. It is comprehensive, accessible, well written and incisive, and will become an essential reference for professionals, politicians, activists, academics and students as well as the informed lay person. A real tour de force by an academic at the peak of his powers.' - J Paul Dunne, Professor of Economics, The British University, Egypt and UWE, BristolTable of ContentsIntroduction Economics The Military Values Facts Theories Power and Money Producing Security Militarism Economic Concepts Uncertainty Economic-Security Interactions Security: Are we Safe? Individual Security National Security Global Security War Oil Arms Races and Arms Control Military Spending: How Much is Enough? Measures of Military Expenditure Motives for Arming Economic Functions of US Military Spending Hard Choices: UK and France An Arms Race: India and Pakistan Military Prices Military Balance Sheets Force Acquisition I, Demand: The Biggest Bang for a Buck? Labour Weapons Procurement Technology Force Acquisition II, Supply: The Merchants of Death? The Arms Industry Evolution of the Arms Trade Regulation Military Capability: How to Win? Force Employment Morale Logistics Peacekeeping Economic Choices: Swords or Plowshares? Budget Constraints Economic Effects Technological Spin-off Economic Warfare Understanding Military Economics Acknowledgements, Abbreviations, References, Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Natural Resources and Social Conflict Towards Critical Environmental Security International Political Economy Series
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together international scholars reflecting on the theory and practice of international security, human security, natural resources and environmental change. It contributes by 'centring the margins' and privileging alternative conceptions and understandings of environmental (in)security.Trade Review'This is an exciting contribution that advances theories of environmental security. The chapters fuse critical perspectives on environmental security with evidence from developing and developed regions to offer a coherent perspective on the discursive practices of environmental security and their material consequences. Spanning global to local scales, and weaving together theories about justice, power, security and the state, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in critical environmental security studies.' - Jon Barnett, Professor of Resource Management and Geography, University of Melbourne, Australia 'The very ideas of environmental security and environmental conflict have been controversial from their inception. In mapping the complex connections between the biophysical world, natural resources and collective violence, the devil is always in the details. The great strength of this book is that it approaches the field with a critical eye and a refusal to accept conventional wisdom by always being attentive to what the editors call rethinking security from the bottom up. Whether tackling the challenges of the Canadian tar sands or coltan in Congo, this volume represents an important challenge to the old environmental world order of the first Earth Summit in Rio and offers us instead a compelling vision of how to grasp the radical environmental insecurities confronting the global underclasses.' - Michael Watts, Professor of Geography and Development Studies, University of California-Berkeley, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: Towards Critical Environmental Security; M.Schnurr & L.Swatuk What Are We Really Looking For? From Eco-violence to Environmental Injustice; P.Stoett Climatic Security and the Tipping Point Conception of the Earth System; C.Russill Insecurities of Non-Dominance: Re-Theorizing Human Security and Environmental Change in Developed States; W.Greaves Water and Security in Africa: State-Centric Narratives, Human Insecurities; L.Swatuk Avoiding the Resource Curse in Ghana: Assessing the Options; P.Arthur Sexual Violence, Coltan and the Democratic Republic of Congo; S.Whitman 'The Elephant in the Room?' Peak Oil on the Security Agenda; S.Mulligan Dirty Security? Tar Sands, Energy Security and Environmental Violence; P.Le Billon & A.Carter Loud Bangs and Quiet Canadians: An analysis of oil patch sabotage in British Columbia, Canada; C.Arsenault Bodies on the Line: The In/Security of Everyday Life in Aamjiwnaang; S.Wiebe Afterward: Ecoviolence, Security, Geopolitics; S.Dalby
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St. Martins Press-3PL The New Golden Age A Revolution Against Political Corruption and Economic Chaos
Book SynopsisBestselling author and economist Ravi Batra takes aim at the obstacles to global prosperity from corrupt financial institutions to political motivations and makes a big statement about what the economy needs.Trade Review"The analysis is keen and provocative, and the conclusions unorthodox as ever." -Publishers Weekly "Dr. Batra vividly portrays the way in which public disgust for corruption, both corporate and federal, is becoming a serious force for political change." -Dr. W. Curtiss Priest, Director, Center for Information, Technology,& Society, MIT Praise for Greenspan's Fraud: "The most thoroughgoing assault on the Maestro's legacy so far." -Cecil Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram "As always, his economic arguments are expressed elegantly." -Publishers Weekly "In this chilling expose of one of the most powerful men of our time, Ravi Batra reveals Greenspan for who he secretly is: An ideologue who has waged war on the American Dream and imperiled the world economy." -David Callahan, author of The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead Praise for Ravi Batra: "When it comes to the bottom line so beloved of economists, one can learn a lot about events by thinking about them in cyclical regularities, of which Batra gives a novel and brilliant exposition." -Lester C. Thurow "Ravi Batra has made an outstanding reputation in the United States as an international economic theorist in the best Western tradition." -Leonard Silk, New York TimesTable of ContentsA Globe in Poverty and Economic Chaos The Twin Bubbles: Housing and Oil The Cycles of Inflation and Money The Law of Social Cycle Western Society The U.S. Business Empire Lies, Damned Lies, and Economists The Muslim Civilization Contemporary Muslim Society Our Common Future Global Poverty: A Call for Voter's Revolution
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Penguin Random House LLC Monetary Policy Strategy The MIT Press
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Penguin Random House LLC Better Doctors Better Patients Better Decisions Envisioning Health Care 2020 Volume 6 Strüngmann Forum Reports 6
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Penguin Random House LLC The Logic of Political Survival
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MIT Press Polarized America The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches WalrasPareto Lectures
Book SynopsisUpdated analysis of how the increasing polarization of American politics has been accompanied and accelerated by greater income inequality.The idea of America as politically polarized—that there is an unbridgeable divide between right and left, red and blue states—has become a cliché. What commentators miss, however, is that increasing polarization has been closely accompanied by fundamental social and economic changes—most notably, a parallel rise in income inequality. In this second edition of Polarized America, Nolan McCarty, Keith Poole, and Howard Rosenthal use the latest data to examine the relationships of polarization, wealth disparity, immigration, and other forces. They find that inequality feeds directly into political polarization, and polarization in turn creates policies that further increase inequality. Paul Krugman called the first edition of Polarized America “Important.... Essential reading for anyone who wan
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MIT Press Ltd The Federal Estate Tax
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Penguin Random House LLC Warming the World Economic Models of Global Warming The MIT Press
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ABC-CLIO The Way It Worked and Why It Wont
Book SynopsisA comprehensive description and explanation of the decline of economic growth in the USA. The author argues that this is a natural consequence of economic maturity, but also points out that productivity is still growing within industries and the US economy as a whole.Table of ContentsPreface The Argument: The Way It Worked and Why It Won't Explanation and Description of Economic Growth and Structural Change The Quantitative Record of U.S. Economic Growth Understanding the Measurement of Economic Activity Structural Change and the Slowdown of Productivity Growth Structural Change and the Participation Rate Transfers to the Elder Generation: Taxes and Saving Transfers to the Younger Generation: Economic Growth and the Increasing Burden of Educational Costs Explaining the Slowdown: Developing a Theory of the Mature Economy Some Implications of the Slowdown in Economic Growth in the Mature Economy Appendices References
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ABC-CLIO Small Business Policy and the American Creed
Book SynopsisUnlike government programs for farmers and big businesses, which are usually invisible to the citizenry, small business aid programs are extremely and intentionally visible.Congress declared the policy of aiding small business and launched the contemporary era of small business assistance programs in the Small Business Act of 1953.Table of ContentsHow Do American Core Values Influence Public Policy? Problem and Policy Heritage: The Antitrust Tradition, Depression, and War Problems of Competition, Opportunity, and Equal Opportunity for a Victim: The Small Business Act of 1953 Problems Reprised: Institutionalizing Small Business Aid in the 1950s Problems Adrift: Expanding Without Innovation in the 1960s and 1970s Problems of Equalities for Small Disadvantaged Business: A Second Track in the 1960s and 1970s Problems of Jobs, Exports, Innovation, and Equal Opportunity for a Victim: Surviving and Expanding in the 1980s and 1990s Core Values, Problem Definitions, and Public Policy Appendices
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group White House Burning Our National Debt and Why It Matters to You
Book SynopsisFrom the authors of the national bestseller 13 Bankers, a chilling account of America’s unprecedented debt crisis: how it came to pass, why it threatens to topple the nation as a superpower, and what needs to be done about it. With bracing clarity, White House Burning explains why the national debt matters to your everyday life. Simon Johnson and James Kwak describe how the government has been able to pay off its debt in the past, even after the massive deficits incurred as a result of World War II, and analyze why this is near-impossible today. They closely examine, among other factors, macroeconomic shifts of the 1970s, Reaganism and the rise of conservatism, and demographic changes that led to the growth of major—and extremely popular—social insurance programs. What is unquestionably clear is how recent financial turmoil exacerbated the debt crisis while creating a political climate in which it is even more difficult to solve.
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St. Martin's Griffin Collision and Collusion The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Towards a Gendered Political Economy
Book SynopsisThis collection sets out how a gendered approach to political economy can help us understand the inherently gendered structures that characterise our society, and provide the foundation for a truly interdisciplinary social science.Trade Review'...the book illuminates the various ways that gender analysis is important to the relatively broad purview of the new political economy.' - Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Towards Gendered Political Economy; J.Cook & J.Roberts PART I Gendered Political Economy and Feminist Analysis; G.Waylen Rational Economic Families? Economics, the Family and the Economy; J.Humphries Gender and Family in the Formation of Human Capital; J.Gardiner Gender at the Macroeconomic Level; D.Elson Inclusion/Exclusion: The Janus Face of Citizenship; R.Lister PART II Comparative Perspectives on Gender and Citizenship: Latin America and the Former Socialist States; M.Molyneux Flexible Employment - Implication for a Gendered Political Economy of Citizenship; J.Cook The Restructuring of the Gendered Political Economy: Transformations in Women's Employment; S.Walby New Dimensions to Gendered Power Relations in Families; C.Smart Globalization, Gender and Migration: The Case of International Marriage in Japan; N.Piper The Political Economy of Social Reproduction: The Case of Cuba in the 1990s; R.Pearson Index
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Palgrave Macmillan The Unidad Popular and the Pinochet Dictatorship
Book SynopsisList of Tables and Figures Preface CHAPTER ONE: THE ROAD TO SOCIALISM OF THE UNIDAD POPULAR Brief Review of the Social Issue Brief Review of the Political Issue The Two Governments Prior to Unidad Popular The Unidad Popular View of the Chilean Economy The Macroeconomic Situation During the Unidad Popular The Structural Reforms of the Unidad Popular Property Rights CHAPTER TWO: THE ECONOMIC MODEL OF THE MILITARY DICTATORSHIP The Destruction of Chilean Democracy The Structural Reforms of the 1970s The Economic and Financial Collapse of 1981-83 The Adjustment Process of the 1980s The Structural Reforms of the 1980s Economic Freedom and Political Liberty CHAPTER THREE: A TENTATIVE SYNTHESIS The Legacy of the Unidad Popular The Legacy of the Military Dictatorship Human Rights and Historical Memory Bibliographical References IndexTable of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Preface CHAPTER ONE: THE ROAD TO SOCIALISM OF THE UNIDAD POPULAR Brief Review of the Social Issue Brief Review of the Political Issue The Two Governments Prior to Unidad Popular The Unidad Popular View of the Chilean Economy The Macroeconomic Situation During the Unidad Popular The Structural Reforms of the Unidad Popular Property Rights CHAPTER TWO: THE ECONOMIC MODEL OF THE MILITARY DICTATORSHIP The Destruction of Chilean Democracy The Structural Reforms of the 1970s The Economic and Financial Collapse of 1981-83 The Adjustment Process of the 1980s The Structural Reforms of the 1980s Economic Freedom and Political Liberty CHAPTER THREE: A TENTATIVE SYNTHESIS The Legacy of the Unidad Popular The Legacy of the Military Dictatorship Human Rights and Historical Memory Bibliographical References Index
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Taylor & Francis The PropertyOwning Democracy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Leadership Lessons from the Trump Presidency
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ReadHowYouWant Leading from the Emerging Future From EgoSystem to EcoSystem Economies 16pt Large Print Edition
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Talking to My Daughter about the Economy
Book SynopsisA Junior Library Guild Gold Standard SelectionIn Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece's former finance minister and the author of the international bestseller Adults in the Room, pens a series of letters to his young daughter, educating her about the business, politics, and corruption of world economics. Yanis Varoufakis has appeared before heads of nations, assemblies of experts, and countless students around the world. Now, he faces his most importantand difficultaudience yet. Using clear language and vivid examples, Varoufakis offers a series of letters to his young daughter about the economy: how it operates, where it came from, how it benefits some while impoverishing others. Taking bankers and politicians to task, he explains the historical origins of inequality among and within nations, questions the pervasive notion that everything has its price, and shows why economic instability is a chronic risk. Finally, he discusses the inability of market-driven policies to address the rapidly declining health of the planet his daughter's generation stands to inherit. Throughout, Varoufakis wears his expertise lightly. He writes as a parent whose aim is to instruct his daughter on the fundamental questions of our ageand through that knowledge, to equip her against the failures and obfuscations of our current system and point the way toward a more democratic alternative.
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Springer Consumers Policy and the Environment
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Springer Rentseeking Institutions and Reforms in Africa Theory and Empirical Evidence for Tanzania
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Springer The Demand for Money Theoretical and Empirical Approaches
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Springer Italian Institutional Reforms A Public Choice Perspective
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Springer Hedonic Methods in Housing Markets Pricing Environmental Amenities and Segregation
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Springer Competition Policies in Emerging Economies
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Springer Institutional Analysis and Praxis
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WW Norton & Co The Cost of Good Intentions
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Civil Society and Global Finance
Book SynopsisThis key text brings together twenty activists, officials and researchers from the five continents to discuss this burning question of today''s globalization debate. Providing rare, authoritative analyses by those who deal with the issues first hand, Civil Society and Global Finance is rich in insight and policy ideas for decision-makers, students and concerned citizens.Trade Review'This is a path-breaking volume with quality analyses that will speak to a substantial readership.' - Series Editor Richard Higgott, Director of CSGR, University of Warwick'Important and timely ... thoughtful and constructive' - Andrew Crockett, General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements'[Jan Aart Scholte] is one of the 'must read' people in contemporary globalisation studies' - Series Editor Richard Higgott, Director of CSGR, University of WarwickTable of ContentsPart One: General IssuesPart Two: Regional ExperiencesPart Three: Perspectives from Multilateral InstitutionsPart Four: Perspectives from Civil Society SectorsPart Five: Looking Ahead
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Distributional Justice Theory and Measurement
Book SynopsisIntroducing the main theories of distributional justice the book covers utilitarianism and welfare economics, moving on to Rawls''s social contract and the Sen/Nussbaum capability approach with a refreshingly readable style. There is a chapter covering the position of mothers and children in theories of justice. The book then studies empirical methods used in analysing the distribution of economic goods, covering Lorenz curves and inequality measures. The concepts of income, wealth and economic goods are comprehensively discussed, with a particular view to their role in theories of justice. This book is an important read for economists and other social scientists, as well as philosophers who want to quantify social and economic justice.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. About distibutional justice 3. Deserts and fruits of our labour 4. Welfarism: utilitarianism and welfare economics 5. John Rawls's theory of justice: the social contract 6. Equality of what? Resources and capabilities 7. Libertarianism and Marxism 8. Children and their mothers 9. Income and wealth 10. Household income 11. What we should measure? 12. Lorenz curves and inequality measures 13. Social evaluation of inequality 14. Some inequality measures 15. Poverty 16. Decomposition of inequality measures
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Taylor & Francis Reorganising Power in Indonesia
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Taylor & Francis Ltd eEconomy
Book SynopsisAs dot.com became dot.bomb, the hype that surrounded the meteoric growth of the network economy has given way to realism, or even scepticism, about the potential of ICT as a source of new business models. It is now appropriate to reflect critically on the e-economy hype, and to use this as a way of looking forward to new, more realistic possibilities. Using a business and socio-economic framework, this book investigates a range of challenges for restructuring the e-economy. This framework includes operations management, human resource management, e-learning, e-retailing, e-marketing, e-government, enterprise culture and digital divide. Divided into four themes (the changing business environment, knowledge management, learning in the public domain and e-business practices within and between organizations), each chapter considers the international context and critically explores a key aspect of the e-economy. Rigorous yet still retaining the accessible format whiTrade Review'In demystifying and making sense, as the chapters in this book do, of what we mean by the so-called ‘new’ and ‘e-economy’, it is the underlying continuities that emerge as more enlightening than the breathless assertions of change...'From the Foreword by Simon Caulkin, Management Correspondent of The ObserverTable of Contents1. Death of the 'New'? Re-Materialising the Economy 2. Entrepreneurial Chaos, Entrepreneurial Order and the Dotcom Bubble 3. Social Shaping of Government: What Can be Learned from the Adoption of Mobile-Mediated Communications? 4. e-Leadership: Challenges of New Governance Models 5. e-Management and Workforce Diversity 6. ICT and Institutional Change at the British Library 7. Coerced Evolution:A Study of the Integration of e-Mediated Learning into a Traditional University 8. e-Government: From Utopian Rhetoric to Practical Realism 9. e-Retail: Paradoxes for Suppliers and Consumers and 10. e-Business Processes: Information and Operations for Competitive Advantage 11. Building Trust in Stakeholder Relationships: Are Call Centres Sweat Shops or Massage Parlours?
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Political Economy of European Integration
Book SynopsisThis book provides a balanced introduction to diverse political economy perspectives on different aspects of European integration, demonstrating both the importance and the potential of research in this area. The volume includes three types of chapters: broad literature reviews, narrower applications of existing arguments, and new syntheses of competing claims. The authors also present a critical appraisal of how scholars in the EU and US use theory to understand European integration, and examine issues such as citizens' attitudes, perceptions and preferences of actors, the role of non-state actors, principle-agent questions, and the role and the autonomy of European institutions.This empirically informed and methodologically rigorous volume will be of great interest to students and researchers in the fields of comparative political economy, EU studies, international political economy and international organizations.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Political Economy and European Integration Erik Jones and Amy Verdun 1. An American/European Divide in European Integration Studies: Bridging the gap with international political economy Amy Verdun 2. Non-State Actors and False Dichotomies: Reviewing IR/IPE approaches to European integration Maria Green Cowles 3. The Principal-Agent Approach and the study of the European Union: Promise unfulfilled? Hussein Kassim and Anand Menon 4. Idiosyncrasy and Integration: Suggestions from comparative political economy Erik Jones 5. The Role of Organized Interests in the European Political Economy Justin Greenwood 6. Imagined European Unions: Perceptions of the EU and support for EU enlargement Maurits van der Veen 7. European Monetary Integration and Class Strategies: The federation of German industry's position on monetary union from Bretton Woods to EMU Marcus Pistor 8. The EU and Inter-Regional Cooperation: Interests, preferences and structural power Mary Farrell 9. Understanding New Forms of European Integration: A study in competing political economy explanations Waltraud Schelkle 10. The Political Economy of European Integration in a Spatial Model Robert Pahre Conclusion: Convergence and divergence in the study of european political economy: Anatomy of a research agenda Erik Jones and Amy Verdun
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Citizenship in Nordic Welfare States
Book SynopsisThis book offers an innovative analysis of the ways in which the relationship between citizens and welfare states - social citizenship - becomes more dynamic and multifaceted as a result of Europeanization and individualization.Table of ContentsPart 1: Citizenship in Contemporary Welfare States – Issues and Perspectives 1. Opening Citizenship: Why Do We Need a New Understanding of Social Citizenship? 2. From Active States to Active Citizenship? The Impact of Economic Openness and Transnational Governance 3. What Do We Mean by Active Citizenship? Part 2: Towards a New Balance of Rights and Duties – Activation Reform 4. Nordic Activation Reforms in a European Context: A Distinct Universalistic Model? 5. Individualizing Welfare Provision: The Integrated Approach of the Finnish Activation Reform 6. The Challenges of Decentralized Delivery of Services: The Scope for Active Citizenship in Swedish and Norwegian Activation Policies Part 3: The Increased Scope for Participation and Inclusion of Marginal Groups 7. Claiming Participation Rights: Social Mobilization and Citizenship in Denmark and Norway 8. Capabilities and Participation: Russian Women Immigrants in North Norway 9. Europeanization ‘From Below’: The OMC Process on Social Inclusion in the Swedish Welfare State Part 4: Marketization of Citizenship? Choice, Anti-Discrimination and Human Rights 10. Contrasting Legal Concepts of Active Citizenship: Europe and the Nordic Countries 11. Membership and Migration: Market Citizenship or European Citizenship? 12. Double Discrimination: Human Rights and Immigrant Women in Denmark within the Context of the Nordic Legal Tradition 13. From Disabling Barriers to Participation: The Opportunities Created by the EU Equality Strategy 14. Enlarging Freedom of Choice: Pension Reforms in the Nordic Countries and Germany 15. Conclusions: Remaking Social Citizenship in Nordic Welfare States
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Renaissance in Behavioral Economics Essays in
Book SynopsisEconomists working on behavioral economics have been awarded the Nobel Prize four times in recent years. This book explores this innovative area and in particular focuses on the work of Harvey Leibenstein, one of the pioneers of this discipline.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Leibenstein as a Behavioral Pioneer 2. The Neuroeconomics of Trust 3. Leibenstein's Selective Rationality and Dual Motives as Expressions of Brain Physiology 4. The Evolutionary Foundations of Behavioral Economics: Harvey Leibenstein' s Legacy 5. 'Efficacy' vs 'X-efficiency' 6. Consumer X-inefficiency and the Problem of Market Regulation 7. Leibenstein's Theory of Consumption Behavior 8. Effort Discretion and Economic Agency and Behavioral Economics: Transforming Economic Theory and Public Policy 9. Understanding High Performance Work Systems: The Joint Contribution of Economics and Human Resource Management 10. X-efficiency and Underdevelopment: A Leibenstein's Application of Behavioral Economics 11. Empirical Evidence on X-efficiency, 1967-2004
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Remapping Gender in the New Global Order 88
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