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Book SynopsisEver since the end of China's civil war in 1949, Taiwan has embarked on its own distinct, divergent path of development. In light of its remarkable achievements and inherent difficulties, therefore, Taiwan should not be considered a renegade province of China, but a society with a democratically-elected government that has taken a route different from the rest of China in developing its own cultural norms and values. This book examines the issues of democratic transition, political imprisonment and the political economy in Taiwan.Trade Review'Anyone even remotely interested in the Taiwan experience will have to take this book and its conclusions in consideration.' Dennis Hickey.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Wei Chin Lee Democracy as Hegemony, Globalization as Indigenization, or the “Culture” in Taiwanese National Politics, Allen Chun East Asian Culture and Democratic Transition, With Special Reference to the Case of Taiwan, John Fuh-Sheng Hsieh The Role of Political Imprisonment in Developing and Enhancing Political Leadership: A Comparative Study of South Africa’s and Taiwan’s Democratization, Fran Buntman and Tong-yi Huang What if We Don’t Party? Political Partisanship in Taiwan and korea in the 1990s, Alexander C. Tan, Karl Ho, Kyung-tue Kang and Tsung-chi Yu Taiwan’s Distorted Democracy in Comparative Perspective, Cheng-tian Kuo Politics of Foreign Labor Policy in Taiwan, Chien-yi Lu The Political Economy of Taiwan’s Relations with Malaysia: Opportunities and Challenges, Samuel C. Y. Ku “One China, One Taiwan”: An Analysis of the Democratic Progressive Party’s China Policy, T.Y. Wang Taiwan: Parent, Province, or Blackballed State?, Alan M. Wachman Contributors Epilogue Index

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Book SynopsisIn War, Capital, and the Dutch State (1588-1795), Pepijn Brandon traces the interaction between state and capital in the organisation of warfare in the Dutch Republic from the Dutch Revolt of the sixteenth century to the Batavian Revolution of 1795. Combining deep theoretical insight with a thorough examination of original source material, ranging from the role of the Dutch East- and West-India Companies to the inner workings of the Amsterdam naval shipyard, and from state policy to the role of private intermediaries in military finance, Brandon provides a sweeping new interpretation of the rise and fall of the Dutch Republic as a hegemonic power within the early modern capitalist world-system. Winner of the 2014 D.J. Veegens prize, awarded by the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities. Shortlisted for the 2015 World Economic History Congress dissertation prize (early modern period).Trade Review"War, Capital, and the Dutch State (1588-1795) has the potential to become a highly influential book." - Dr. Gijs Rommelse, International Journal of Maritime History, 28(3):606-607. "For the moment, ... Brandon's work probably provides the last word on these issues, and the decision to publish it in English will hopefully secure for it the wide circulation that it undoubtedly deserves." - Dr. Aaron Graham, The Economic History Review, 69, 4 (2016):1389-1390. "How could the Dutch Republic that was so unlike the ideal of a powerful, centralized state play a crucial role for so long in the war-torn state-system of early-modern Europe? For Pepijn Brandon the explanation resides in the fact that it was a ‘federal-brokerage state’. Dutch state-makers continued to devolve power downwards towards local and provincial institutions rather than to create national administrative bodies and to favour brokerage over bureaucracy. They mediated between merchants oriented toward the world market and more local interest groups and could thus draw on the impressive resources of the Dutch economy. It was only late in the eighteenth century that internal limits of this parcellized state structure became patent. To show its major strengths and its finally emerging weaknesses the author provides a very lucid in-depth analysis of three areas of interaction between the state and capitalists in the organization of warfare. This groundbreaking book provides a fascinating and knowledgeable case-study of the actual interplay of three of the main driving forces in the history of the early modern era: capitalism, state-formation and war and has major implications for many general claims that have been made with regard to their history and the history of the Dutch Republic." - Prof. dr. Peer Vries, University of Vienna "This research clearly makes an important contribution to our thinking about warfare and state formation." — Christiaan van Bochove, in: Continuity and Change, 32/2 (2017): 289-291 “… the publisher should be commended for making this study available to a large English-speaking audience, which it certainly deserves. Brandon’s contribution is a type of economic history that has unfortunately fallen out of favor in recent decades, replaced by reams of cultural history, so one can only hope that this notable study will inspire similar social science research into the complex symbiosis of states and capital accumulation elsewhere. Every university’s history department should acquire a copy for its own library collection.” – Eric Mielants, in: Science & Society (2018) "Brandon’s study is not only well researched, it is highly convincing and will undoubtedly lead to a reconsideration of the forces at play in the development of the early modern state." - Donald J. Harreld, in: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. LXX:3 (2017)Table of ContentsList of Charts and Tables Translations of Frequently Used Dutch Terms Note on Currency Introduction Dutch War-Making and State-Making: Three Solutions to a Riddle Typologies of the Early Modern State Form The Dutch Cycle of Accumulation The Federal-Brokerage State and its ‘Historic Bloc’ Content and Structure of the Book . Chapter 1 The Making of the Federal-Brokerage State 1.1 The Dutch Revolt and the Establishment of the State 1.2 Types of Brokerage 1: Merchant Warriors 1.3 Types of Brokerage 2: Merchants as Administrators 1.4 Types of Brokerage 3: Financial Intermediaries in Troop Payments 1.5 Political and Ideological Foundations of the Federal-Brokerage State Conclusions Chapter 2 Merchant Companies, Naval Power, and Trade Protection 2.1 The Naval Revolution and the Challenge to Dutch Trade 2.2 A Unified State Company for Colonial Trade? 2.3 The VOC and the Navy from Symbiosis to Division of Labour 2.4 The WIC between Private Trade and State Protection 2.5 European Commercial Directorates as Protection Lobbies 2.6 Protection Costs and Merchant Interests Conclusions Chapter 3 Production, Supply, and Labour Relations at the Naval Shipyards 3.1 Capitalist Rationality, Accounting, and the Naval Revolution 3.2 Personal Networks and Market Practices 3.3 Different Products, Different Systems of Supply 3.4 Naval Shipyards as Centres of Production 3.5 Shipyards and their Workforce 3.6 Admiralty Boards and the Labour Market 3.7 Combination, Coordination, and Control 3.8 Of Time, Theft, and Chips 3.9 Neptune’s Trident and Athena’s Gifts Conclusions Chapter 4 Troop Payments, Military Soliciting, and the World of Finance 4.1 From Disorder to Regulation 4.2 A Golden Age of Military Soliciting 4.3 Two Careers in Military Finance 4.4 The Daily Affairs of a Financial Middleman 4.5 Networks of Credit and Influence 4.6 Military Soliciting in the Age of Financialisation Conclusions Chapter 5 The Structural Crisis of the Federal-Brokerage State 5.1 The Rise and Limits of Reform Agendas 5.2 Warring Companies and the Debate over Free Trade 5.3 Admiralty Boards at the Centre of the Storm 5.4 From Citizens’ Militias to the Batavian Legion 5.5 The Afterlife of the Federal-Brokerage State Conclusions Conclusion Annex 1 Holland Members of the Amsterdam Admiralty Board Annex 2 Zeeland Members of the Zeeland Admiralty Board Annex 3 Income and Expenditure of the Amsterdam Admiralty: Steps from Figures in ‘Borderel’ to Reconstruction Sources and Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe first ever guide to the manifold uses and reinterpretations of the classical tradition in Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany, Brill’s Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany explores how political propaganda manipulated and reinvented the legacy of ancient Greece and Rome in order to create consensus and historical legitimation for the Fascist and National Socialist dictatorships. The memory of the past is a powerful tool to justify policy and create consensus, and, under the Fascist and Nazi regimes, the legacy of classical antiquity was often evoked to promote thorough transformations of Italian and German culture, society, and even landscape. At the same time, the classical past was constantly recreated to fit the ideology of each regime.Trade Review"The editors, Helen Roche and Kyriakos N. Demetriou, are to be commended for so successfully juxtaposing the totalitarian Classicism of Fascist Italy with that of National Socialist Germany, as there is much to be gained by examining these two approaches to “totalitarian Classicism” together. (...) This Companion is also a disturbing reminder of how often scholars and teachers have instigated and conspired in the dissemination of a particular version of history that aligns with a corrupt leader’s own identification with an idealized past." Susan A. Curry, University of New Hampshire, in: CJ-Online Review 2021.03.08. “The sixteen chapters by fourteen contributors are all well-written, relevant and carefully edited. Some offer useful overviews of broader themes (e.g. the fine chapters by Nelis and Arthurs), whereas other contributions discuss more specific topics in detail (e.g. interesting chapters by Wildmann, Piovan, and Porter). (…) One of the merits of this excellent concluding chapter is the fact that Fortuna’s contribution actively seeks a dialogue with the previous chapters, offering reflections that underline the high quality of this last section, and of the companion as a whole.” -Nathalie de Haan, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2020.03.30 "It may be tempting to mine an edited volume simply for the individual chapters that pertain to a researcher’s area of interest, but a complete reading here provides considerable additional rewards. To begin with, the Companion is masterfully edited, with not only numerous cross-references, but actual dialogue across chapters dealing with similar or parallel issues. As I hope to have described above, the volume, while organized thematically, is also constructed to introduce concepts and interpretations with increasing complexity." - Genevieve S. Gessert, in: History of Humanities, Fall 2018, pp. 456-459 "[I]n Brill’s Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany fourteen authors (in sixteen contributions) give an excellent introduction to the role and position of the classical tradition in Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany. (...) The classical past, so this companion brilliantly teaches its readers, was not only an ornamental, a rhetorical or aesthetic propaganda instrument, but an integral part of Fascist and National Socialist reality. (...) This rich and much-needed companion not only stimulates discussion on a factual and theoretical level, but also inspires additional research. After all, during the first part of the twentieth century, the classics were part and parcel of European society as a whole." - Martijn Eickhoff, in: Fascism vol. 7, no. 2 (2018)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction 1 “Distant Models”? Italian Fascism, National Socialism and the Lure of the Classics  Helen Roche People 2 The Aryans: Ideology and Historiographical Narrative Types in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries  Felix Wiedemann 3 Desired Bodies: Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia, Aryan Masculinity and the Classical Body  Daniel Wildmann 4 Ancient Historians and Fascism: How to React Intellectually to Totalitarianism (or Not)  Dino Piovan 5 Philology in Exile: Adorno, Auerbach, and Klemperer  James I. Porter Ideas 6 Fascist Modernity, Religion, and the Myth of Rome  Jan Nelis 7 Bathing in the Spirit of Eternal Rome: The Mostra Augustea della Romanità  Joshua Arthurs 8 “May a Ray from Hellas Shine upon Us”: Plato in the George-Circle  Stefan Rebenich 9 An Antique Echo: Plato and the Nazis  Alan Kim 10 Classics and Education in the Third Reich: Die Alten Sprachen and the Nazification of Latin- and Greek-Teaching in Secondary Schools  Helen Roche 11 Classical Antiquity, Cinema and Propaganda  Arthur J. Pomeroy Places 12 Classical Archaeology in Nazi Germany  Stefan Altekamp 13 Building the Image of Power: Images of Romanità in the Civic Architecture of Fascist Italy  Flavia Marcello 14 Forma urbis Mussolinii: Vision and Rhetoric in the Designs for Fascist Rome  Flavia Marcello 15 National Socialism, Classicism, and Architecture  Iain Boyd Whyte 16 Neoclassical Form and the Construction of Power in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany  James J. Fortuna General Index

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Book SynopsisDuring the second half of the twentieth century the countries of East Asia saw one of the most remarkable transformations in human history, from relatively poor societies to global powerhouses of accumulation, proletarianisation and mega-urbanisation. This volume features Marxist scholars from East Asia and Europe who are pioneering a new approach to this transformation using the theory of state capitalism. The essays analyse the histories of countries on either side of the Cold War divide within the broader framework of twentieth century global capitalist expansion, while at the same time offering a sophisticated critique of Developmental State Theory. Contributors are: Tobias ten Brink, Gareth Dale, Jeong Seongjin, Michael Haynes, Kim Ha-young, Kim Yong-uk, Lee Jeong-goo, and Owen MillerTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Note on Romanisation of East Asian words 1 The Emergence and Development of Capitalism in East Asia: The State Capitalist Approach  Owen Miller and Gareth Dale 2 The Trajectory of North Korean State Capitalism: from Formation to Crisis, 1945–90  Kim Ha-young 3 Mao’s China: the Chinese Working Class under State Capitalism, 1949–62  Kim Yong-uk 4 State Capitalism and the Permanent War Economy in South Korea, 1950–72  Jeong Seongjin 5 China’s State-Permeated Capitalism: a Global Political Economy Perspective  Tobias ten Brink 6 Developmental State Theory and Chinese Capitalism: a Critical Review  Lee Jeong-goo 7 Historical Dynamics and the History of Capitalism and State Capitalism  Michael Haynes Glossary of East Asian Terms Bibliography I: References in English and Other European Languages Bibliography II: References in East Asian Languages Index

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Book SynopsisThe Africa Yearbook covers major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa – all related to developments in one calendar year. The Yearbook contains articles on all sub-Saharan states, each of the four sub-regions (West, Central, Eastern, Southern Africa) focusing on major cross-border developments and sub-regional organizations as well as one article on continental developments and one on African-European relations. While the articles have thorough academic quality, the Yearbook is mainly oriented to the requirements of a large range of target groups: students, politicians, diplomats, administrators, journalists, teachers, practitioners in the field of development aid as well as business people. Including free access to the e-book version! The Africa Yearbook has won the ASA 2012 Conover-Porter Book Award!Table of ContentsContents i. Preface ii. List of Abbreviations iii. Factual Overview I. Sub-Saharan Africa (Andreas Mehler, Henning Melber & Klaas van Walraven) II. United Nations and Sub-Saharan Africa (Valerio Bosco) III. African-European Relations (Mark Furness) IV. West Africa (Klaas van Walraven) Benin (Eric Komlavi Hahonou) Burkina Faso (Alexander Stroh) Cape Verde (Gerhard Seibert) Côte d’Ivoire (Bruno Losch) Gambia (Alice Bellagamba) Ghana (Kwesi Aning & Nancy Annan) Guinea (Anita Schroven) Guinea-Bissau (Christoph Kohl) Liberia (Lansana Gberie) Mali (Martin van Vliet) Mauritania (Claes Olsson & Helena Olsson) Niger (Klaas van Walraven) Nigeria (Heinrich Bergstresser) Senegal (Vincent Foucher) Sierra Leone (Krijn Peters) Togo (Dirk Kohnert) V. Central Africa (Andreas Mehler) Cameroon (Fanny Pigeaud) Central African Republic (Andreas Mehler) Chad (Han van Dijk) Congo (Brett L. Carter) Democratic Republic of the Congo (Claudia Simons) Equatorial Guinea (Alicia Campos) Gabon (Douglas A. Yates) São Tomé and Príncipe (Gerhard Seibert) VI. Eastern Africa (Rolf Hofmeier) Burundi (Stef Vandeginste) Comoros (Rolf Hofmeier) Djibouti (Rolf Hofmeier) Eritrea (Nicole Hirt) Ethiopia (Jon Abbink) Kenya (Nic Cheeseman) Rwanda (Susan Thomson) Seychelles (Rolf Hofmeier) Somalia (Jon Abbink) South Sudan (Peter Woodward) Sudan (Peter Woodward) Tanzania (Kurt Hirschler & Rolf Hofmeier) Uganda (Volker Weyel) VII. Southern Africa (Henning Melber) Angola (Jon Schubert) Botswana (David Sebudubudu & Maitseo Bolaane) Lesotho (Roger Southall) Madagascar (Richard R. Marcus) Malawi (Tiyesere Mercy Chikapa-Jamali & Lewis B. Dzimbiri) Mauritius (Klaus-Peter Treydte) Mozambique (Joseph Hanlon) Namibia (Henning Melber) South Africa (Sanusha Naidu) Swaziland (John Daniel & Marisha Ramdeen) Zambia (Henning Melber) Zimbabwe (Amin Y. Kamete) List of Authors

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Book SynopsisUsing examples from different historical contexts, this book examines the relationship between class, nationalism, modernity and the agrarian myth. Essentializing rural identity, traditional culture and quotidian resistance, both aristocratic/plebeian and pastoral/Darwinian forms of agrarian myth discourse inform struggles waged 'from above' and 'from below', surfacing in peasant movements, film and travel writing. Film depictions of royalty, landowner and colonizer as disempowered, ‘ordinary’ or well-disposed towards ‘those below’, whose interests they share, underwrite populism and nationalism. Although these ideologies replaced the cosmopolitanism of the Grand Tour, twentieth century travel literature continued to reflect a fear of vanishing rural ‘otherness’ abroad, combined with the arrival there of the mass tourist, the plebeian from home.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction I. CULTURE, TRADITION AND MODERNITY 1 Cultural Struggle ‘From Below’ 2 Cultural Struggle ‘From Above’ 3 Development caught between Tradition and Modernity II. SCREEN IMAGES OF RURAL STRUGGLE 4 Horror, Humour, Fiends and Fools 5 Best of Friends, or Worst of Enemies? III. CULTURE, CLASS STRUGGLE AND TRAVEL 6 The Grand Tour, or From Cosmopolitanism to Nationalism 7 Mass Tourism, or the Mob-in-the-streets Travels Abroad 8 Venice – Being There Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisThe collected papers of Costas Lapavitsas are a pathway to Marxist monetary theory, a field that continues to attract strong interest. The papers range far and wide, including markets and money, finance and the enterprise, power and money, the financialisation of capitalism, finance and profit, even money as art. Despite its breadth, the collection remains highly coherent. Money and finance are pre-eminent, even dominant, features of contemporary capitalism. Lapavitsas has been one of the first political economists to notice their ascendancy and to devote his research to it. He offers a resolutely Marxist perspective on contemporary capitalism while remaining conversant with the history of political economy, sensitive to mainstream economic theory, and fully aware of the empirical reality of financialisation.Trade Review"The Wolfson Lecture Theatre (Senate House) was full and lively as Costas led off the afternoon by putting Marx’s analysis of ‘the universal equivalent’ to work in explaining money today in the current conjuncture and its role in overthrowing capitalism. His emphasis was more on the forms than the functions money has taken: commodity money (gold), simple fiat money, credit money, central bank fiat money and electronic monies. Costas foregrounded four ‘stylised facts’ of our current system: first, legal inconvertibility after 1971–1973; second, the quantitative dominance of credit money within the sphere of domestic money; third, the qualitative significance of legal tender as central bank created fiat money; and fourth, the pre-eminence of inconvertible legal tender from a small number of central banks forming international money. Furthermore, Costas made a significant comparison between Bitcoin and gold. [...] As Costas points out in this new book: ‘There is an ideology of money in capitalist society that is similar to religion in both its falseness and necessity.’ I have a firm opinion that everyone on the Left needs to better acknowledge the worth of understanding money as a concept and set of processes, in order to better appreciate money as a weapon of control and to actively resist the power of money to substitute for substantive democracy and genuine governance. Internationally, money is remarkably potent. In his talk, Costas emphasised it as ‘a lever for hierarchy among states’; our global history cannot be told without reference to the British pound, the US dollar and, more recently the €uro — as shown in the sorry story of Syriza’s reign in Greece. So, too, it becomes ‘a mechanism to entrench commercial advantage’ and ‘exercises power over entire societies through fear and identity’." – Anitra Nelson, Progress in Political EconomyTable of ContentsPreface 1. Money as Art: The Form, the Material, and Capital PART I: THE FORMS, THE FUNCTIONS AND THE QUANTITY OF MONEY 2. The Theory of Credit Money: A Structural Analysis 3. The Banking School and the Monetary Thought of Karl Marx 4. The Classical Adjustment Mechanism of International Balances: Marx’s Critique 5. Money and the Analysis of Capitalism: The Significance of Commodity Money PART II: CREDIT, INTEREST-BEARING CAPITAL, AND THE HOARDING OF MONEY 6. Two Approaches to the Concept of Interest-Bearing Capital 7. On Marx’s Analysis of Money Hoarding in the Turnover of Capital PART III: THE ORIGIN OF MONEY AND THE NATURE OF COMMODITIES 8. Commodities and Gifts: Why Commodities Represent More than Market Relations 9. The Emergence of Money in Commodity Exchange, or Money as Monopolist of the Ability to Buy 10. The Social Relations of Money as Universal Equivalent: A Response to Ingham PART IV: THE COMPLEX REALITY OF CONTEMPORARY MONEY 11. Relations of Power and Trust in Contemporary Finance 12. The Monetary Basis of Financialised Capitalism Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is the product of a joint research program between the Institute of West Asia & African Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing and the Energy Program Asia of the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University. China’s transition to an urban-industrial society relies on its abundant domestic coal supplies, and on an increase in oil and gas imports. However, authorities are confronted with trade-offs between investments in expanding supplies of fossils, environmental sustainability, energy efficiency and in clean energy. Resources spent on expanding imported energy have to weighted against clean energy investments and improving efficiency of the fossil-fuel sector. The same is no less true for the European Union and its member states. Import dependency on piped gas is again growing. Security of supply of natural gas depends on political cooperation with energy-rich countries. At the same the EU has to meet its clean energy commitments by compromises between member states and ‘Brussels’. Chinese National Oil Companies bridge the worlds of government in China and the extractive sector in hydrocarbon exporting-countries. At the global level, Chinese (Trans-)National Oil Companies maintain competitive and cooperative relations with privately owned International Oil companies. This book focuses, among others, on these networks with the objective to contribute to the study of the geopolitical economy of the energy sectors in the global system. Contributors are: M.P. Amineh, Eric K. Chu, Wina H.J. Crijns-Graus, Robert Cutler, Li Xiaohua, Liu Dong, Chen Mo, Nana de Graaff, Joyeeta Gupta, Sara Hardus, Barbara Hogenboom, Sun Hongbo and Yang Guang.Trade Review"[...] this thorough study is recommended to students interested in the supply of energy to China and the EU." - Henk Houweling, in: China Information, Vol. 33, Issue 1, pp. 115-116 "[...] high quality of research in the contributions to this book, presenting factual information as well as analyses of economic and political strategies by governments and oil companies that encompass major regions of strategic importance not only to the great powers, but also the economies and societies of countries that may not directly participate in the ‘great games’ of the major players." - Kurt Radtke, in: newbooks.asia, May 2018Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Maps, Tables and Figures List of Abbreviations List of Contributors Geopolitical Economy of Energy and Environment: China and the European Union—Introduction to the Volume  Mehdi P. Amineh and Yang Guang Part 1: The Transnationalization of Chinese-National Oil Companies 1 Energy and Geopolitical Economy in China: Theory and Concepts  Mehdi P. Amineh and Yang Guang 2 The Dual Face of China’s ‘Going Global’. Transnationalizing National Oil Companies, Elites, and Global Networks  Nana de Graaff 3 China’s Resource Demand and Market Opportunities in the Middle East: Policies and Operations in Iran and Iraq  Liu Dong 4 Strategies and Interactions in the Transnationalization of China’s National Oil Companies—The Cases of CNOOC and Sinopec in Ghana  Sarah Hardus 5 The Transnationalization Strategy of Chinese National Oil Companies with Case Studies of Sudan and Saudi Arabia  Chen Mo 6 Chinese Influences and the Governance of Oil in Latin America the Cases of Venezuela, Brazil, and Ecuador  Barbara Hogenboom 7 Actors and their Interactions in the Sino-Venezuelan Oil Cooperation Model  Sun Hongbo 8 Foundation of the East Central Eurasian Hydrocarbon Energy Complex: The Role of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Their National Oil Companies  Robert Cutler Part 2: Environment, Climate Change and Renewable Energy Resources the European Union and China 9 The Geo-Ecological Risks of Oil Investments by China and the Global South: The Right to Development Revisited  Joyeeta Gupta, Eric Chu, Kyra Bos, and Tessel Kuijten 10 Energy Transition and the Conflicts and Cooperation between China and EU Member States in Renewable Energy Fields—A Case Study of the Photovoltaic Industry  Li Xiaohua Part 3: Energy and Geopolitics: The European Union Energy Supply Security and Geopolitics 11 Geopolitical Economy of Energy Security in the European Union the Persian Gulf, the Caspian Region and China  Mehdi P. Amineh and Wina H.J. Crijns-Graus Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn 2010 Greece entered a period of extreme austerity measures, but also of intense struggles and protests. Social and political crisis led to tectonic shifts in the political landscape and the rise to power of SYRIZA. However, despite the impressive expression of resistance in the 2015 referendum, the EU-IMF-ECB ‘Troika’ managed to impose the continuation of the same politics of austerity, privatisations, and neoliberal reforms. This social and political sequence poses important theoretical and analytical questions regarding capitalist crisis, public debt, European integration, political crisis, the new forms of protest and social movements, and the rise of neo-fascist parties. It also brings forward all the open questions regarding radical left-wing strategy today. The contributions in this volume attempt from different perspectives to deal with some of these theoretical and strategic questions using the Greek experience as a case study. Contributors include: George Economakis, Stavros Mavroudeas, Ioannis Zisimopoulos, Alexios Anastasiadis, Maria Markaki, George Androulakis, Despina Paraskeva-Veloudogianni, Eirini Gaitanou, Alexandros Chrysis, Euclid Tsakalotos, Spyros Sakellaropoulos, Panagiotis Sotiris, Giannis Kouzis, Yiorgos Vassalos, Christos Laskos, Angelos Kontogiannis-Mandros.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction  Panagiotis Sotiris 1 The Greek Crisis: Causes and Alternative Strategies  Stavros Mavroudeas 2 Imperialist Exploitation and Crisis of the Greek Economy: A Study  George Economakis, Maria Markaki, George Androulakis and Alexios Anastasiadis 3 The Class Dimension of the Greek Public Debt Crisis  Ioannis Zisimopoulos and George Economakis 4 Consolidation of Autocratic Rule in the EU and Opposition: The Parallel Processes of the Troika’s Emergence and the Economic Governance Reforms and How They Could be Overthrown  Yiorgos Vassalos 5 Labour under Attack during the Period of Crisis and Austerity  Giannis Kouzis 6 ‘First Comes Indignation, Then Rebellion, Then We Shall See’: Political Crisis, Popular Perception of Politics and Consciousness Transformation amid the Rebellious Cycle of 2010–11 in Greece  Eirini Gaitanou 7 Reshaping Political Cultures: The ‘Squares Movement’ and Its Impact  Angelos Kontogiannis-Mandros 8 Political Crisis, Crisis of Hegemony and the Rise of Golden Dawn  Despina Paraskeva-Veloudogianni 9 The Crisis and the Strategy of the Greek Ruling Class  Spyros Sakellaropoulos 10 From Resistance to Transitional Programme: The Strange Rise of the Radical Left in Greece  Christos Laskos and Euclid Tsakalotos 11 In Search of the Modern Prince: A Critical Absence Reconfirmed through the Greek Experience  Alexandros Chrysis 12 From Resistance to Hegemony: The Struggle against Austerity and the Need for a New Historical Bloc  Panagiotis Sotiris Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is a key resource on the foundations of Marxist Media, Cultural and Communication Studies. It presents 18 contributions that show how Marx’s analyses of capitalism, the commodity, class, labour, work, exploitation, surplus-value, dialectics, crises, ideology, class struggles, and communism help us to understand media, cultural and communications in 21st century informational capitalism.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures About the Authors 1. Introduction: Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco 2. Marx is Back, But Which One? On Knowledge Labour and Media Practice Vincent Mosco 3. Cultural Work as a Site of Struggle: Freelancers and Exploitation Nicole S. Cohen 4. Against Commodification: The University, Cognitive Capitalism and Emergent Technologies Richard Hall and Bernd Stahl 5. Communication and Symbolic Capitalism. Rethinking Marxist Communication Theory in the Light of the Information Society George Pleios 6. Missing Marx: The Place of Marx in Current Communication Research and the Place of Communication in Marx’s Work İrfan Erdogan 7. Did Somebody Say Neoliberalism? On the Uses and Limitations of a Critical Concept in Media and Communication Studies Christian Garland and Stephen Harper 8. The Coolness of Capitalism Today Jim McGuigan 9. Critical Political Economy of Communication and the Problem of Method Brice Nixon 10. “Feminism” as Ideology: Sarah Palin’s Anti-feminist Feminism and Ideology Michelle Rodino-Colocino 11. Propaganda as Production Gerald Sussman 12. Updating Marx’s Concept of the Alternatives Peter Ludes 13. Conceptualising and Subverting the Capitalist Academic Publishing Model Wilhelm Peekhaus 14. Marx, Free Speech and the Indian Media Padmaja Shaw 15. The Ideology of Media Policy in Argentina Pablo Castagno 16. “Means of Communication as Means of Production” Revisited William Henning James Hebblewhite 17. Media and Power for 21st Century Socialism in Venezuela Lee Artz 18. Dallas Smythe Today – The Audience Commodity, the Digital Labour Debate, Marxist Political Economy and Critical Theory. Prolegomena to a Digital Labour Theory of Value. Christian Fuchs Index

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Book SynopsisThe Cooperativism and Democracy, edited by Bartłomiej Błesznowski is not purely a scientific book, but rather a guide which shows how scholars and activists wrote about the community, social participation and the politics in Poland in the early 20th century. The book contains a selection of texts in socio-political thought, led by the work of one of most important Polish thinkers – Edward Abramowski, socialist, philosopher and psychologist. Polish cooperativism can be inspiring to both contemporary researchers and political activists in Europe post the economic crisis, which brought about a crisis of faith in political and economic institutions. These works have a chance to become a significant voice in the debate over the relationship of contemporary economics and politics. Contributors are: Edward Abramowski, Fr. Stanisław Adamski, Bartłomiej Błesznowski, Zygmunt Chmielewski, Zofia Daszyńska-Golińska, Maria Dąbrowska, Jan Hempel, Jerzy Kurnatowski, Romuald Mielzarski, Remigiusz Okraska, Maria Orsetti, Adam Próchnik, Marian Rapacki, Franciszek Stefczyk, Edward Taylor, Stanisław Thugutt, Stanisław Wojciechowski, and Jan Wolski. First published in Polish as Kooperatyzm, spółdzielczość, demokracja. Wybór pism by Wydawnictwo Uniwerstytetu Warszawskiego in 2014. The current work includes an additional chapter ‘Through Cooperatives to the Future Order’ by Zofia Daszyńska-Golińska.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations About the Contributors 1 Utopia in the Service of Modernity: On the Sources of Cooperativism  Bartłomiej Błesznowski 2 From Self-Help to the Vision of New System: An Outline of the Material and Ideological Development of the Cooperative Movement in Poland to the Year 1939  Remigiusz Okraska Part 1: Cooperativism and Democracy 3 The Social Ideas of Cooperativism  Edward Abramowski 4 Clasped HandsWith of without the Idea  Maria Dąbrowska 5 Solidarism as a Doctrine of Democracy  Jerzy Kurnatowski 6 On Uniting the Movement  Romuald Mielczarski 7 Through Cooperatives to the Future Order  Zofia Daszyńska-Golińska Part 2: The Aims and Functions of Cooperativism 8 Woman, Whose Name is Millions (On the Responsibilities of Women in the Cooperative Movement)  Maria Orsetti 9 The Social Aims of Cooperatives  Stanisław Thugutt 10 A National Ideology of Cooperativism  Stanisław Wojciechowski 11 An Economic Program for Consumer Cooperativism  Marian Rapacki 12 The Concept of CooperativismCooperativism as the Organization of Relatively Weak Economic Elements  Edward Taylor Part 3: The Social Bases of Labor Cooperativism 13 Consumer Cooperatives and Trade Unions  Jan Hempel 14 Work Cooperatives  Jan Wolski Part 4: Universal Cooperativism or Labor Cooperativism 15 The Universal or Class Nature of Cooperativism  Marian Rapacki 16 The Ideology of Labor Cooperativism  Adam Próchnik Part 5: The Agricultural Cooperative Movement and the Stefczyk Savings and Loan Fund 17 The Past and Future of the Farmers’ Agricultural and Trade Cooperatives  Fr. Stanisław Adamski 18 The Position of Cooperativism in Agriculture  Franciszek Stefczyk 19 The Farming Cooperative and Its Development  Zygmunt Chmielewski Part 6: Housing Cooperativism 20 The Importance of Cooperative Housing  Teodor Toeplitz 21 “Glass Houses”: An Experiment in Cooperative Life  Adam Próchnik Bibliography Personal Index

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Book SynopsisCrises and Hegemonic Transitions reworks the concept of hegemony at the international level and analyses its relation to world market crises. Returning to the critical edition of Gramsci’s Quaderni and maintaining that the author’s work is permeated by Marx’s Capital and the law of value, Fusaro argues that imperialist states strive to constructing hegemonic relations in order to secure capital accumulation using domination and leadership, coercion and consensus, and that economic crises have only the potential to provoke crises of hegemony. Tracing the vicissitudes of US hegemony from the interwar period to the present and assessing the Great Depression’s and the Great Recession’s impact, Fusaro provides a novel way to interpret past and present developments within the world economy.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Figures and Tables Introduction: Which Gramsci?  1 Gramsci vs Capital?  2 Towards the Development of a New Concept  3 Argument and Plan of the Book 1 A Dissenting View  1 Theories of Hegemony  2 Crises and Hegemonic Transitions  3 Do Crises lead to Hegemonic Transitions?  4 A Critique Part 1 Theory 2 Hegemony  1 Readings of Gramsci  2 Hegemony at the National Level  3 Gramscian IR  4 Gramsci’s IR  5 Hegemony at the International Level (first cut) 3 Crises  1 Marx’s Method and Gramsci  2 Capital  3 An Integral Theory of Crises  4 From Capital to the International  5 Hegemony at the International Level (second cut)  6 World Market Crises and Hegemonic Transitions Part 2 History 4 Tantae Molis Erat: US Hegemony during the Interwar Period  1 Sturm und Drang Hegemony  2 In Crisis  3 The Full Realisation of US Hegemony 5 Not for Real, Yet: US Hegemony Today  1 Hegemony Unravelling (1970–2007)?  2 The Great Recession  3 Fight with Cudgels Conclusion: Crises and Hegemonic Transitions  1 The Concept  2 Hegemony  3 Crises and Hegemonic Transitions  4 US Hegemony and China’s Long March Ahead Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSuvin’s ‘X-Ray’ of Socialist Yugoslavia offers an indispensable overview of a unique and often overlooked twentieth-century socialism. It shows that the plebeian surge of revolutionary self-determination was halted in SFR Yugoslavia by 1965; that between 1965– 72 there was a confused and hidden but still open-ended clash; and that by 1972 the oligarchy in power was closed and static, leading to failure. The underlying reasons of this failure are analysed in a melding of semiotics and political history, which points beyond Yugoslavia – including its achievements and degeneration – to show how political and economic democracy fail when pursued in isolation. The emphasis on socialist Yugoslavia is at various points embedded into a wider historical and theoretical frame, including Left debates about the party, sociological debates about classes, and Marx’s great foray against a religious State doctrine in The Jewish Question.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Preface: Pro Doma Sua PART 1: FUNDAMENTS: FREEDOM AND ACCUMULATION 1: Radical Emancipation and Yugoslavia: On the Founding Singularities of SFRY 2: Accumulation and Its Discontents PART 2: CLASS INTERESTS AND POLITICS AS SFRY DOMINANTS 3: On Class Relationships in Yugoslavia 4: On a Hidden Ruling Class and Central Conflict 5: What Has Been and What Could Have Been 6: 15 Theses about Communism and Yugoslavia, Or the Two-Headed Janus of Emancipation through the State (Metamorphoses and Anamorphoses of ‘On The Jewish Question’ by Marx) 7: The Communist Party of Yugoslavia PART 3: SELF-GOVERNMENT VS. ALIENATION: A TRACTATE ON YUGOSLAV ECONOMICS AND POLITICS Part 3.1: On Self-management In S.F.R. Yugoslavia: A Critical Stock-Taking (1945-72) 8: Anatomy: Macro-Political Economics, Or the View from Above 9: Anatomy: Micro-Political Economics, Or the View from the Workers 10: Physiology: The Interests and Stakes behind the Macro-Events Part 3.2: On the Horizon of Disalienation in S.F.R. Yugoslavia: Self-Government and Plebeian Democracy 11: On the Politics of Disalienation, Inside and Outside Economic Production 12: In Production: Rise and Fall of Self-management 13: In Civic Life: Dis/Alienation and Oligarchy Monolithism 14: Conclusion: On Failures and Potentialities APPENDICES Appendix 1: Bureaucracy: A Term and Concept in the Socialist Discourse about State Power (Upstream of Yugoslavia) Appendix 2: The Discourse about Bureaucracy and State Power in Post-Revolutionary Yugoslavia 1945–72 References

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Book SynopsisIn The Political Economy of Indigo in India, 1580-1930: A Global Perspective Ghulam A. Nadri explores the dynamics of the indigo industry and trade from a long-term perspective and examines the local and global forces that affected the potentialities of production in India and elsewhere and caused periods of boom and slump in the industry. Using the commodity chains conceptual framework he examines the stages in the trajectory of indigo from production to consumption. Nadri shows convincingly that the growth or decline in indigo production and trade in India was a part of the global processes of production, trade, and consumption and that indigo as a global commodity was embedded in the politics of empire and colonial expansion.Trade Review"The book’s unique merit lies in shedding light on the early modern history of indigo that scholars have thus far passed over. There are a number of assertions on the history of indigo production on the Indian subcontinent going back to antiquity, but not until this book has there been any systematic study of this history in any era other than the modern, except in broader studies of oceanic trade by economic historians of the previous generation. Nadri has to be commended for dwelling on an uncharted chronology of the history of indigo on the subcontinent. His detailed consultation of Dutch archives and of scattered Persian archives in this regard is praiseworthy. [...] Nadri’s book entices other scholars to follow the lead he has provided." - Prakash Kumar, Pennsylvania State University, in: Economic History Review, 70, 2 (2017) "[...] Nadri’s relentless comparative commodity chain framework conceptual approach represents an important contribution to the growing corpus of new scholarship at the intersection of tradition and modernity, state and economy, and the local and global in South Asia. The chapters on the making of the world market and the political economy of indigo in particular are required reading for anyone interested in early modern and colonial India in the contexts of modernization, colonial capitalism, and globalization (or rather ‘glocalization’)." - Markus Vink, The State University of New York at Fredonia, in:The Mariner's Mirror, 103:3, pp. 353-354Table of ContentsGeneral Editor’s Foreword ... vii Acknowledgements ... x List of Illustrations ... xii List of Abbreviations and Short Titles ... xiv Currency, Weights, and Measures ... xvi Glossary ... xvii Introduction ... 1 1 The Making of Indigo: Cultivation and Manufacture ... 12 2 From Manufactory to Market: Logistics and Commerce ... 61 3 The Indigo Trade: Local and Global Demand ... 85 4 The Making of the World Market: Indigo Commodity Chains ... 124 5 The Political Economy of Indigo: States, Merchants, and Producers ... 154 Conclusions ... 192 Appendices 1 Annual Volumes (in Dutch pounds) and Values (in guilders) of the voc’s Indigo Exports from Surat, 1619–1742 ... 197 2 Quantities and Values of Annual Indigo Sales by the voc, 1642–1765 ... 200 3 Indigo Sale Prices (stivers/pound) in Amsterdam, 1695–1760 ... 206 4 Quantities (in lb.) of Indigo Exported by the eic from Surat/Bombay, 1615–1729 ... 208 5 Values (in rupees) of Annual Indigo Exports from India, 1795/96–1933/34 ... 211 6 Quantities (in Dutch pounds) and Values (in guilders) of voc’s Exports of Java Indigo to the Dutch Republic, 1704–1781 ... 216 7 Values (in guilder) and Volumes (in kilogram) of Indigo Exports from Java, 1824–1873 ... 217 8 Indigo Prices (rupees per man and stivers per Dutch pound) in India, 1609–1757 ... 219 9 Indigo Prices in Calcutta (rupees/factory man) and London (pence/lb.), 1843–1921 ... 221 Bibliography ... 223 Index ... 240

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Book SynopsisIn Marx and Social Justice, George E. McCarthy presents a detailed and comprehensive overview of the ethical, political, and economic foundations of Marx’s theory of social justice in his early and later writings. What is distinctive about Marx's theory is that he rejects the views of justice in liberalism and reform socialism based on legal rights and fair distribution by balancing ancient Greek philosophy with nineteenth-century political economy. Relying on Aristotle’s definition of social justice grounded in ethics and politics, virtue and democracy, Marx applies it to a broader range of issues, including workers’ control and creativity, producer associations, human rights and human needs, fairness and reciprocity in exchange, wealth distribution, political emancipation, economic and ecological crises, and economic democracy. Each chapter in the book represents a different aspect of social justice. Unlike Locke and Hegel, Marx is able to integrate natural law and natural rights, as he constructs a classical vision of self-government ‘of the people, by the people’.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: The Ethical Archaeology of Justice in Marx Dialectic between the Ancients and the Moderns: Natural Law and Natural Rights 1 Natural Law and Natural Rights in Locke: Indifference and Incoherence of Liberalism  Thomas Hobbes and the State of Nature and War  Richard Hooker and the Laws of Nature and Ecclesiastical Polity  Locke on Natural Rights and Natural Law  Ethics and Structure in Natural Law  Natural Law Limits to Natural Rights in the Original State of Nature  Eclipse of Natural Law and Social Justice in the Second State of Nature  Irrelevance of Natural Law, Incoherence of Liberalism, and the Return to Hobbes 2 Justice Beyond Liberalism: Natural Law and the Ethical Community in Hegel  Early Theological Writings and Dreams of Classical Antiquity in Hegel  Hegel’s Natural Law and Critique of Liberalism and Natural Rights  Social Ethics and Integration of Natural Law and Natural Rights  Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Law, and the State as Objective Spirit  Formation of the Ethical Life in the Family, Civil Society, and the State  Marx’s Critique of Hegel and the Revival of Classical Democracy in Spinoza and Rousseau Ethics, Virtue, and Natural Law in Marx 3 Civil and Legal Justice: Integrating Natural Rights and Natural Law  Religious Prejudice, Judaism, and Civil Rights  Natural Rights as Ideology and Alienation  Transition of Politics from Pure Ideology to Human Rights and Emancipation  Critique of Liberal Democracy and Contradictions between Economic and Political Rights  Marx’s Theory of Emancipation and Human Rights  Natural Rights of Free Press and Universal Suffrage 4 Workplace Justice: Ethics, Virtue, and Human Freedom  Alienation and the Virtue of Work and Self-Determination  Work as Productive Life and Creative Beauty  Ethics, Human Needs, and Natural Law  Virtue and Late Medieval Thomistic Natural Law 5 Ecological Justice: Historical Materialism and the Dialectic of Nature and Society  Alienation of Production, Labour, and Nature  Dialectic of Nature and the Alienation of Consciousness  Natural Science as the Objectification and Social Praxis of Species Being  Science as Objectivity and Alienation  Social Metabolism, Contradictions, and Ecological Crises  Social Justice and the Natural Laws of Ethics and Ecology Structures of Democracy, Economy, and Social Justice in Marx 6 Distributive Justice: Justice of Consumption, Economic Redistribution, and Social Reciprocity  Labour, Nature, and Society in the Gotha Program  Equality, Fair Distribution, and the Public Expenses of Production  Distribution, Fairness, and the Means of Social Consumption  Socialism, Self-Realisation, and Human Need  Critique of Reformist and Vulgar Socialism – Happiness without Meaning 7 Political Justice: Ethics and the Good Life of Democratic Socialism  Franco-Prussian War and the Formation of the Paris Commune of 1871  Dismantling the Old State and Rise of Political Democracy in the Commune  Organisation of Labour and Economic Democracy  ‘Declaration to the French People’ and the Social Programmes of the Commune  Marx, Lincoln, and the Human Emancipation from Racial and Wage Slavery 8 Economic Justice: Ethics, Production, and the Critique of Chrematistics and Political Economy  Commodities, Exchange, and the Labour Theory of Value  Labour Power, Surplus Value, and the Alienation of Chrematistic Production  Natural Law of Contradictions, Crises, and Capital  Natural Law of Justice and Natural Law of Value Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisValue and Crisis brings together selected essays written by Alfredo Saad-Filho, one of the most prominent Marxist political economists today. This book examines the labour theory of value from a rich and innovative perspective, from which fresh insights and new perspectives are derived, with applications for the nature of neoliberalism, financialisation, inflation, monetary policy, and the contradictions, limitations and crises of contemporary capitalism.Trade Review"Alfredo Saad-Filho has has done Marxism a great favour by providing us with some of the clearest theoretical work on neoliberalism to date. The book would be appropriate for a course on international political economy, as well as in Marxist study groups. Value and Crisis is one of the finest works of Marxist scholarship on neoliberalism, and should be studied by every student of Marxism." - Fabian Van Onzen, Lone Star College, in: Marx & Philosophy Review of Books (2019) [Full review]Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction  1 Method  2 The Theory of Value  3 Systems of Accumulation  4 Neoliberalism  5 Outline of the Book Part 1: Essays on the Theory of Value 1 Marxist Economics  1 The Method and Approach of Marxist Political Economy  2 The Labour Theory of Value  3 Commodities, Labour and Value  4 Capital and Capitalism  5 From Value to Surplus Value  6 Profit and (Increasing) Exploitation  7 Marxist Political Economy, Laws of Development and Contemporary Capitalism  8 Conclusion 2 The Relevance of Marx’s Theory of Value  1 Interpretations of Marx’s Theory of Value   1.1 Traditional Marxism   1.2 Sraffian Analyses   1.3 Value Form Theories   1.4 The ‘New Interpretation’  2 Value Theory and Class Analysis   2.1 Principles   2.2 Implications  3 Conclusion 3 Labour, Money and ‘Labour-Money’: A Review of Marx’s Critique of John Gray’s Monetary Analysis  1 Labour, Money, Exploitation  2 Marx on Labour and Money  3 Money, Value, and Price  4 The Other Functions of Money  5 Labour-Money in Retrospect  6 Conclusion 4 Capital Accumulation and the Composition of Capital  1 Capital and Exploitation  2 Understanding the Composition of Capital  3 Production and the Composition of Capital  4 Capital Accumulation  5 Conclusion 5 The ‘Transformation Problem’  1 The ‘Problem’  2 Alternative Interpretations   2.1 Neoclassical and Sraffian   2.2 Value-Form Theories   2.3 Dynamic Analysis  3 Marx’s Transformation: A Review  4 The Transformation and its Method  5 Conclusion 6 Transforming the Transformation Problem: Why the ‘New Interpretation’ is a Wrong Turning  1 The ‘New Interpretation’: A Simple Formal Presentation  2 Value of Money  3 Value of Labour Power  4 Structure, Sequence and Dynamics  5 Conclusion 7 The Supply of Credit Money and Capital Accumulation: A Critical View of Post-Keynesian Analysis  1 The Fundamental Process of Endogenous Money Creation  2 Commodity and Credit Money Systems  3 Money and Inflation  4 Two Steps Forward – One Step Back   4.1 The Origin and Role of Money in the Economy   4.2 Horizontal Money Supply   4.3 Inflation  5 Conclusion: What is Important for the Way Ahead? 8 Inflation Theory: A Critical Literature Review and a New Research Agenda  1 Conflict and Inflation   1.1 Conflict Theories   1.2 Assessment  2 Monopolies, Underconsumption, and Inflation   2.1 Inflation Theory   2.2 Assessment  3 Credit, Extra Money, and Inflation   3.1 Money and Credit   3.2 Extra Money Inflation   3.3 Inconvertibility and Inflation   3.4 Assessment  4 Conclusion Part 2: Essays on Contemporary Capitalism 9 Anti-capitalism: A Marxist Introduction  1 Capitalism and Anti-Capitalism  2 September 11 and Beyond  3 Four Pressing Issues   3.1 Neoliberalism   3.2 Globalisation   3.3 Corporate Power   3.4 Democracy  4 The Way Ahead  5 Leaving Capitalism Behind 10 Neoliberalism  1 Neoliberal Ideas  2 Policy Shifts and Institutional Changes  3 Classes and Class Struggle  4 Neoliberalism, Financialisation and Globalisation  5 Contradictions and Limitations 11Thirteen Things You Need to Know About Neoliberalism  1 A New Stage  2 An Ideology?  3 A Reaction?  4 Markets and States  5 Financialisation  6 Policy Changes  7 The Balance of Power  8 Scholarship, Policy and Practice  9 Two Phases  10 Variegated Neoliberalism  11 Everyday life  12 Growth, Volatility and Crises  13 Alternatives 12 Democracy Against Neoliberalism  1 Capitalism and Democracy  2 Democracy in the Age of Neoliberalism  3 The Limitations of Neoliberal Democracy  4 Economic and Political Imbalances  5 Globalism and (Nation-)States  6 New Authoritarianism  7 Transcending Neoliberalism through Radical Democracy  8 Conclusion 13 Monetary Policy and Neoliberalism  1 Monetary Policy for Mature Neoliberalism  2 Inflation Targeting and Central Bank Independence  3 The New Monetary Policy Consensus in Practice  4 The Performance of Inflation-Targeting Regime and Central Bank Independence  5 Costs of the New Monetary Policy Consensus   5.1 The Cost of High Interest Rates   5.2 The Cost of Conflicts between Inflation Targeting and Balance of Payments Equilibrium   5.3 The Cost of Financial Instability   5.4 The Cost of Central Bank ‘Independence’  6 The Impact of the Global Crisis  7 Conclusion 14 Neoliberal Development and Its Critics  1 Neoliberalism and Its Critics  2 Neoliberalism and Development  3 Neoliberalism, Politics and Development  4 Conclusion 15 CrisisinNeoliberalism or CrisisofNeoliberalism?  1 Neoliberalism and Financialisation  2 Financialisation and Social Discipline  3 Neoliberalism’s Contradictions  4 Not Moving Forward  5 Coming Out of Left Field References Index

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Book SynopsisCommercial Transitions and Abolition in West Africa 1630–1860 offers a fresh perspective on why, in the nineteenth century, the most important West African states and merchants who traded with Atlantic markets became exporters of commodities, instead of exporters of slaves. This study takes a long-term comparative approach and makes of use of new quantitative data. It argues that the timing and nature of the change from slave exports to so-called ‘legitimate commerce’ in the Gold Coast, the Bight of Biafra and the Bight of Benin, can be predicted by patterns of trade established in previous centuries by a range of African and European actors responding to the changing political and economic environments of the Atlantic world.Table of Contents List of Figures, Maps and Tables  List of Appendices  Introduction: Historiography of the Commercial Transition  1 From Slaves to ‘legitimate commerce’: Different Places, Different Times  2 West African Trade with the Atlantic World  3 Accounting for Regional Differences  4 Organisation Part 1 Trends in the (Non-Slave) Trade with West Africa Over the Eighteenth Century  1 Regional Patterns of (Non-Slave) Trade in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century  1 The Commodity Trade in the Early Eighteenth Century  2 Trade in Africa in the Eighteenth Century  2 Commercial Agriculture and Slave Ship Provisioning 1680–1800  1 Did the Transatlantic Slave Trade Boost West African Commercial Agriculture?  2 Main Results  3 Changing Relative Prices and Trade Risks  4 Revised Estimates of West African Food Exports, 1681–1807  5 Why did British Provisioning Strategies Differ and What were the Impacts on Different Regions?  3 The Transatlantic Slave and Commodity Trades in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century  1 Measuring the Volume and Value of the Commodity Trade  2 Real Value and Structure of West Africa’s Commodity Trade  3 Regional Trade  4 Market Exchange and the Slave Trade Part 2 The Long-Term Roots of the Commercial Transitions: Case Studies  4 The Gold Coast: Gold, Wealth and Power Amongst the Akans  1 Long-term Trade Contacts  2 A New Interpretation of the Impact of Abolition  3 Economic and Political Considerations in 1808  4 Gold and the Asante State  5 Household Labour Decisions  5 The Bight of Biafra: From Export Slavery to Slave Production  1 External Trade  2 The Value of the Commodity Trade and ‘comey’  3 Britain and Palm Oil Trading  4 Institutional Development in Biafra  5 The Demand for Labour and the Internal Slave Trade  6 Household Production of Palm Oil  6 The Bight of Benin: Dahomey and the Dominance of Export Slavery  1 Long-term Trends in Dahomey’s Trade  2 Comparative Value of the Slave and Commodity Trades  3 Trading Partners  4 Dahomean Militarism  5 Militarism and Labour  Conclusion  1 Long-Term Patterns of Trade  2 Diverging Trajectories  3 The Real Impact of Britain’s Abolition Campaign  4 Implications and Future Research  Bibliography   Published Contemporary Sources   Secondary Sources   Online Sources  Index

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Book SynopsisMarx and Critical Theory examines Marx’s main philosophical, political and social theoretical ideas. Its purpose is twofold: making sense of the concepts and theses of Marx, and showing that they remain relevant for contemporary critical theory. Part One focuses on Marx’s conception of philosophy. Part Two analyses the Marxian primacy of the practical. Part Three is devoted to Capital and the critique of political economy. This book will be useful for those who want to deepen their understanding of Marx’s main ideas, as well as for those who want to clarify what is at stake in contemporary debates about the ways in which contemporary critical theory could or should refer to Marx.

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Book SynopsisPolitical Economy of Globalization and China's Options offers the political economy of globalization and China’s options in response to globalization’s retrogression, and the construction of world order. What are the strategies for upgrading the competitiveness of an emerging major power? Why does world need a new concept of openness? What are the four major challenges for the world economy? How do Chinese scholars think of in an “Anti-Globalization” environment? What are the five major objectives of global politics? Besides answering these basic questions, we will also consider other issues: the triangular relationship among China, the United States, and Russia; Rise of China and transformation of international order; understanding nuclear security and safety issues from the perspective of global governance.Table of ContentsSeries Advisor’s Foreward List of Contributors Journal Information (第六辑) 1 The Political Economy of Globalization and China’s Options in Response to Globalization’s Retrogression  Cai Fang 2 Strategies for Upgrading the Competitiveness of an Emerging Major Power  Long Guoqiang 3 The World Needs a New Vision of Openness  Ye He 4 The Costs and Benefits to China in Leading Economic Globalization within an “Anti-Globalization” Environment  Li Xiangyang 5 Four Major Challenges for the World Economy  Yao Zhizhong 6 China’s Industrialization Process and Its Influence on Globalization  Huang Qunhui 7 China’s Industrial Transformation and Upgrading in Globalization’s New Era  Jin Bei 8 Inclusive Globalization: An Investigative Analysis  Xie Danyang and Cheng Kun 9 The Five Major Objectives of Global Politics  Wang Jisi 10 The Current Triangular Relationship between China, the United States, and Russia  Zou Zhibo 11 The Restructuring of Global Value Chains and Vitalization of China’s Manufacturing Sector in the Context of the “One Belt One Road” Initiative  Liu Zhibiao 12 China’s Rise and the Transformation of International Order (1985–2015)  Men Honghua 13 Understanding Nuclear Security and Safety Issues from the Perspective of Global Governance  Fu Xiaoqiang 14 China’s Trade and Investment Promotion Measures in the Context of Economic Globalization  Cui Xiaomin and Yu Miaojie 15 State Governance, Global Governance, and the Construction of World Order  Chen Zhimin

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Book SynopsisIn The Price and Promise of Specialness, Jin Li Lim revises narratives on the overseas Chinese and the People’s Republic of China by analysing the Communist approach to ‘overseas Chinese affairs’ in New China’s first decade as a function of a larger political economy. Jin Li Lim shows how the party-state centred its approach towards the overseas Chinese on a perception of their financial utility and thus sought to offer them a special identity and place in New China, so as to unlock their riches. Yet, this contradicted the quest for socialist transformation, and as its early pragmatism fell away, the radicalising party-state abandoned its promises to the overseas Chinese, who were left to pay the price for their difference.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Glossary of Chinese Terms List of Abbreviations List of Figures Introduction  1 The Political Economy of Overseas Chinese Policy  2 Historiography  3 Structure and Scope  4 Sources 1 Rights and Interests  1 Introduction  2 New Democracy and the Huaqiao  3 To Do Some Good  4 Openness and Sincerity  5 Common Program  6 Conclusion 2 Screaming for Socialism  1 Introduction  2 Like Another Province Overseas  3 If Only 1%  4 All Huaqiao Have Money  5 Conclusion 3 No Complaints, No Escapes, No Shortfalls  1 Introduction  2 They Will Fervently Leap  3 Rather Left than Right  4 More Money, More Problems  5 Conclusion 4 Fourth-Class Socialism  1 Introduction  2 ‘Is the Overseas Chinese Affairs Bureau Your Daddy?’  3 Special Circumstances  4 The Great Debate  5 Conclusion 5 Politics in Command  1 Introduction  2 A Great Leap Forward for Qiaowu  3 Keep Left  4 Conclusion Conclusion  1 Political Economy  2 Contradiction  3 Paradox  4 Caveat Emptor Appendices  Appendix I: Overseas Chinese Remittances to the People’s Republic of China, 1950–1960 Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe Fundamental Dynamic Effect on Reform and Opening in China is the seventh volume of the series China in the World. The year 2018 marks the fortieth year of China’s reform and opening. China’s reform and opening has involved many areas. This volume focuses on reform and opening’s dynamic mechanisms, but it also touches on how to look at some of the problems that these dynamic mechanisms face today. The articles in this volume explore the driving force of China’s reform and opening up from the perspective of institutional changes, such as the political economy of globalization and China’s options in response to globalization’s retrogression and the (re)construction of world order. What are the strategies for upgrading the competitiveness of an emerging major power? Why does world need a new concept of openness? What are the four major challenges for the world economy? How do Chinese scholars think in an “Anti-Globalization” environment?Table of ContentsSeries Advisor’s Foreword List of Contributors List of Journals 1 Introduction: the Cultural Value Drivers of the Economic Achievements of China’s Reform and Opening  Shao Binhong and He Huaihong 2 The Cost of Systemic Institutions and the Chinese Economy  Zhou Qiren 3 Historical Moments and Salient Facts: an Update on China’s Urbanization  Cai Fang 4 Land Issues in China’s Urban-Rural Stage of Development  Liu Shouying 5 A Trade War That is Unwarranted  Yu Yongding 6 Sino-US Trade: Multilateral and Bilateral Perspectives  Zhu Min and Miao Yanliang 7 Forty Years of China’s Development as an Open Economy: Retrospect and Prospects  Hong Junjie and Shang Hui 8 China’s Opening Up after 40 Years: Standing at a Historic Turning Point  Ju Jiandong and Yu Xinding 9 The Great Opening Up and the Roadmap for the Future: the Story of China’s International Trade  Du Yan and Lu Yi 10 Opening Up in the Upper Middle-Income Phase: Lessons from International Experience  Zou Jingxian and Zhang Bin 11 What Is “New” in China’s New Open Economy System?  Sheng Bin and Li Feng 12 Opening to the Outside World in the New Era Should Respond to Declining Demographic and Globalization Dividends  Xu Qiyuan 13 Actively and Prudently Open Up China’s Financial Sector  Huang Yiping 14 On Appropriately Sequencing in China’s Financial Opening Up around the “Three-in-One”  Guan Tao, Zhang Antian, and Liu Lipin Index

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Book SynopsisListen to the podcast! In Forces of Production, Climate Change and Canadian Fossil Capitalism, Nicolas Graham reinterprets the concept of forces of production from an ecological standpoint and in the context of the deepening climate crisis. He argues that ecological knowledge itself, as well as associated developments in renewable energy technology and green infrastructure, represent advancements in productive forces. However, such “green productive forces” are fettered by capitalist relations of production, including the power of carbon capital. In addition to a conceptual and theoretical reinterpretation, case studies focusing on Canadian fossil capitalism provide a concrete-complex analysis of the deepening of fossil-fuelled productive forces and the process of fettering in both renewable energies and in the development and application of ecological knowledge.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures List of Abbreviations Introduction Part 1 : The Collapse According to Granma 1 Written Sources on the Collapse 2 Granma and the Written News as a Method 3 Analyzing the News Accounts 4 Reflections on the Written News Part 2 : 5 Contextualizing the Testimonies 6 Oral Source Methodologies 7 Analysis of the Interviews 8 Insights from the Oral Testimonies Conclusion: Viewing the Collapse through the PCC Lens Afterword Appendix 1: Information for the Interviewees Appendix 2: Interview Guide Appendix 3 : Core Sources Appendix 4: Example Table for Data Visualization Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPopulism is a contested concept when applied to Asia. In Populism in Asian Democracies: Features, Structures and Impacts, members of the Asia Democracy Research Network (ADRN) discuss the diverse subtypes of populism in 11 countries across Asia, their structural elements and societal impacts. Populism takes on different forms in Asia according to its target, rhetoric and strategy. Redistributive populism stems from income inequality and rural poverty while ethno-religious populism represents a continued struggle between majority and minority groups. Progressive populism emphasizes democratic governance over corruption and factional politics, and authoritarian populism rises from government incompetence. As ADRN shows, the 11 Asian democracies have adopted various subtypes—and hybrids—of such populism models, adding importance to regional cooperation in safeguarding democracy.

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Book SynopsisCommercial Transitions and Abolition in West Africa 1630–1860 offers a fresh perspective on why, in the nineteenth century, the most important West African states and merchants who traded with Atlantic markets became exporters of commodities, instead of exporters of slaves. This study takes a long-term comparative approach and makes of use of new quantitative data. It argues that the timing and nature of the change from slave exports to so-called ‘legitimate commerce’ in the Gold Coast, the Bight of Biafra and the Bight of Benin, can be predicted by patterns of trade established in previous centuries by a range of African and European actors responding to the changing political and economic environments of the Atlantic world.Table of Contents List of Figures, Maps and Tables  List of Appendices  Introduction: Historiography of the Commercial Transition  1 From Slaves to ‘legitimate commerce’: Different Places, Different Times  2 West African Trade with the Atlantic World  3 Accounting for Regional Differences  4 Organisation Part 1 Trends in the (Non-Slave) Trade with West Africa Over the Eighteenth Century  1 Regional Patterns of (Non-Slave) Trade in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century  1 The Commodity Trade in the Early Eighteenth Century  2 Trade in Africa in the Eighteenth Century  2 Commercial Agriculture and Slave Ship Provisioning 1680–1800  1 Did the Transatlantic Slave Trade Boost West African Commercial Agriculture?  2 Main Results  3 Changing Relative Prices and Trade Risks  4 Revised Estimates of West African Food Exports, 1681–1807  5 Why did British Provisioning Strategies Differ and What were the Impacts on Different Regions?  3 The Transatlantic Slave and Commodity Trades in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century  1 Measuring the Volume and Value of the Commodity Trade  2 Real Value and Structure of West Africa’s Commodity Trade  3 Regional Trade  4 Market Exchange and the Slave Trade Part 2 The Long-Term Roots of the Commercial Transitions: Case Studies  4 The Gold Coast: Gold, Wealth and Power Amongst the Akans  1 Long-term Trade Contacts  2 A New Interpretation of the Impact of Abolition  3 Economic and Political Considerations in 1808  4 Gold and the Asante State  5 Household Labour Decisions  5 The Bight of Biafra: From Export Slavery to Slave Production  1 External Trade  2 The Value of the Commodity Trade and ‘comey’  3 Britain and Palm Oil Trading  4 Institutional Development in Biafra  5 The Demand for Labour and the Internal Slave Trade  6 Household Production of Palm Oil  6 The Bight of Benin: Dahomey and the Dominance of Export Slavery  1 Long-term Trends in Dahomey’s Trade  2 Comparative Value of the Slave and Commodity Trades  3 Trading Partners  4 Dahomean Militarism  5 Militarism and Labour  Conclusion  1 Long-Term Patterns of Trade  2 Diverging Trajectories  3 The Real Impact of Britain’s Abolition Campaign  4 Implications and Future Research  Bibliography   Published Contemporary Sources   Secondary Sources   Online Sources  Index

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Book SynopsisIn Constructing Change, Ezgi B. Unsal provides a political economy of electricity and housing provision in Turkey. By using the case studies of electricity and housing in Turkey, the book explores how social provision is increasingly commodified across the globe as a defining feature of financialisation. Distinguishing this trend from macroeconomic definitions of financialisation, the book offers a contextual narrative of economic change in Turkey, with undetermined macroeconomic outcomes. It contributes to the literature on the financialisation of social provision and the political economy of Turkey, by confirming the increasing influence of finance on social provision sectors, making them prone to volatility while contributing to their growth at the same time.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Illustrations 1 What Is This Book about? General Introduction and Methodology  1 Objectives and Contribution  2 Methodology and the Structure of Analysis   2.1 Systematic Dialectics and Hegelian Heritage   2.2 Marx’s Materialism and the Incorporation of Empirical Material into Theory   2.3 Essence and the Process of Change   2.4 Levels of Abstraction: Tendencies and Countertendencies   2.5 The Value of Labour Power   2.6 The Systems of Provision (sop) Approach to Social Reproduction  3 Conclusion 2 A Literature Survey on Financialisation  1 Introduction  2 Financialisation as an Object of Study: The Rise of Finance and Its Impacts on the Economy   2.1 Cambridge Theories of Distribution   2.2 How Do the Cambridge Theories of Distribution Relate to Financialisation?   2.3 Empirical Analyses on Firm-level: Decreasing Real Investment, Slowing Down of Accumulation   2.4 Empirical Analysis on Aggregate Level: The Impacts of Worsening Income Distribution, Determination of Different Accumulation Regimes   2.5 Emphasis upon Increasing Levels of Debt and Securitisation   2.6 Asset Price Inflation Approach and ‘Forced’ Indebtedness   2.7 Conclusion  3 Financialisation as a Reference Point for Periodisation   3.1 Annales School and Recurrent Financialisation   3.2 Financialisation as Coupon Pool: Social Accountancy and Cultural Economy Approach   3.3 Finance-led Accumulation Regime as an Alternative to Fordist Regime: French Regulation School   3.4 Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) Approach   3.5 Tri-partite Class Regime and the Crisis of Neoliberalism: Duménil and Lévy   3.6 Financial Expropriation Approach: Lapavitsas and Dos Santos   3.7 The Increasing Presence of Interest-bearing Capital  4 Conclusion 3 Financialisation in Developing and Emerging Economies  1 Introduction  2 Historical Development of Financialisation in Developing Countries   2.1 Reserve Accumulation Strategy and the Narrowing Down of the Policy Scope   2.2 Crowding-out of Investment and Changes in Firm and Institutional Behaviour  3 Conclusion 4 The Political Economy of Turkey Since 1980  Towards Differentiated Global Integration  1 Introduction  2 1980s and 1990s: Capital Account Liberalisation, Export Boom and Public Indebtedness  3 Political Economy of Transition: The Differentiated Impacts of the 2001 Crisis  4 After 2001: Restructuring of the Banking Sector  5 After 2001: Household Indebtedness  6 After 2001: Capital Restructuring?  7 Conclusion 5 The Political Economy of Electricity Provision in Turkey  1 Introduction  2 Privatisation of Electricity Provision: Rhetoric and Experiences around the World   2.1 Scholarship on Privatisation of Electricity Provision: How and What to Regulate?  3 Energy Sector Outlook in Turkey  4 Historical Background and Institutional Framework for Electricity Provision in Turkey   4.1 Privatisation Process i: Policy Design and Price Regulation   4.2 Privatisation Process ii: Addressing Losses and Theft and Other Problems in Implementation  5 The Case of Hydroelectric Power Plants (HEBB s) in Turkey: How They Are Built and Financed   5.1 Ilisu Dam: A HEBB Project   5.2 Coruh Development Plan  6 What Role to the Finance?   6.1 Firm Financing: An Investigation of Corporate Balance Sheets in the Electricity Industry  7 Conclusion 6 The Political Economy of Housing Provision in Turkey  1 Introduction  2 Production Matters in a Comparative Context: Housing Provision in Britain  3 Production upon Landed Property: Marx’s Agricultural Rent Theory   3.1 Rent in Urban Settings  4 The Dynamics of Housing Production in Turkey: A Construction Boom Facilitated through State Institutions   4.1 A History of Housing Provision in Turkey within the Context of Urbanisation   4.2 The Rise of a State Institution in the Transition towards Market-based Provision: toki (Housing Development Administration)  5 An Empirical Investigation of the Construction Sector Firms’ Financial Statements  6 The Dynamics of Housing Consumption in Turkey   6.1 Housing Consumption: Who Consumes How Much?  7 Conclusion 7 Conclusion  1 Introduction  2 Main Findings and Contribution  3 Further Issues and Concluding Remarks Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Making of Modern Japan, Myles Carroll offers a sweeping account of post-war Japanese political economy, exploring the transition from the post-war boom to the crisis of today and the connections between these seemingly discrete periods. Carroll explores the multifarious international and domestic political, economic, social and cultural conditions that fortified Japan’s post-war hegemonic order and enabled decades of prosperity and stability. Yet since the 1990s, a host of political, economic, social and cultural changes has left this same hegemonic order out of step with the realities of the contemporary world, a contradiction that has led to three decades of crisis in Japanese society. Can Japan make the bold changes required to reverse its decline?Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST OF TABLE AND FIGURES 1. Introduction  Analytical approach  Outline of the argument  Outline of chapters 2. Lineages of Japanese political economy  Creative conservatism and the developmental state: Japan’s post-war boom  Institutional approaches to the study of Japanese politics  The long decline: Theorizing crisis in Heisei Japan  The welfare state and social reproduction in post-war Japan  Conclusion 3. Towards a Gramscian understanding of Japanese political economy  Historical materialist methodology  Hegemony  Hegemony and hegemonic order  Social reproduction  Conditions for hegemonic order  Historic bloc  Explaining change: Conjunctural and organic  Organic crisis  World order, forms of state, social forces  Relations of force  Caesarism, passive revolution and trasformismo  Political ecology  Towards a Gramscian feminist approach to the Japanese post-war order  Conclusion 4. The post-war hegemonic order  The post-war hegemonic order  Conditions of post-war hegemonic order   Geopolitics: The Yoshida Doctrine and the US-Japan Security Treaty (Anpo)   Global political economy: The Bretton Woods System   The electoral and party system: The rise of LDP dominance   The state form: The rise of bureaucracy-driven governance   Production and capital: Japanese developmentalism and the keiretsu   Production and labour: Enterprise unionism and lifetime employment   Production and the petit bourgeoisie: Clientelism and the old middle class   Gender and the family: Extended families and the gender division of labour   Demography and welfare: Young society, small welfare state   Nation and ideology: The pacifist nationalism of the post-war era   Environment and national resources: Cheap oil  The post-war Japanese historic bloc  Conclusion 5. Contradictions and transitions of the Shōwa era  Structural changes to world order   The Nixon shocks   The oil shocks   American trade frictions and the Plaza Accord  Structural demographic changes   The beginning of an aging society   The decline of extended families   The rise of women in the workforce  Political changes  Institutional changes   The heyday of the kōenkai   The rise of factions and the PARC   Institutional changes and continuities in Japanese business relations   Lifetime employment and the dual system   Clientelism and the construction state  Implications of these changes for hegemonic order   Economic implications   Political implications   Social implications  Conclusion 6. The organic crisis of the Heisei era  Historical background to the crisis   1989-1993: Two electoral shocks   1993-1996: Coalition governments, political reform   1996-2001: LDP’s return to power, administrative and financial reform   2001-2006: Rise of Koizumi, postal privatization   2006-2009: LDP impasse   2009-2012: Rise and fall of the DPJ  Conditions of the crisis   Geopolitics: Security Alliance in a post-Cold War world   Global political economy: Japan in a global neoliberal era   The electoral and party system: Crisis, reform, and the end of LDP rule   The state form: Institutional decay and administrative reform   Production and capital: The Americanization of Japanese capitalism?   Production and labour: Deregulation and the rise of the working poor   Production and the petit bourgeoisie: End of the pork-barrel system?   Gender and the family: The end of the male breadwinner model and shōshika   Demography and welfare: The rise of the ‘pension state’   Nation and ideology: ‘Normal country’ or tan’itsu minzoku?   Political ecology: Climate change, the nuclear turn and 3/11  Implications of the crisis   Summary of the economic accumulation crisis   Summary of the political legitimation crisis   Summary of the social reproduction crisis  Conclusion 7. Caesarism, passive revolution and the return of the LDP under Abe  Abe’s political comeback  Breaking the deadlock: The Caesarism of “Abenomics”   Breaking the deadlock through expansionary Keynesian policy   Breaking the deadlock through neoliberal economic reform   Breaking the deadlock through welfare state expansion   Implications of Caesarism under Abe  The real Abe? Passive revolution, militarism and soft authoritarianism   Asserting control over the LDP   Passive revolution in administrative reform   Passive revolution in domestic security policy   Abe’s passive revolution  Consequences of Abe’s reign for the hegemonic order   Capital accumulation   Political legitimation   Social reproduction  Conclusion 8. Whither post-Abe Japan? Four scenarios for the future  The neo-conservative option   Overview   Relations of force behind neo-conservatism   The neo-conservative solution to organic crisis   Challenges and contradictions of neo-conservatism  The neo-liberal path   Overview   Relations of force behind neo-liberalism   The neo-liberal solution to organic crisis   Challenges and contradictions of neo-liberalism  Back to the future? Neo-communitarianism   Overview   Relations of force behind neo-liberalism   The neo-liberal solution to organic crisis   Challenges and contradictions of neo-liberalism  Counter-hegemony and a democratic socialist future   Overview   Relations of force behind democratic socialism   The democratic socialist solution to organic crisis   Challenges and contradictions of democratic socialism  Conclusion 9. Conclusion  Contradictions for hegemonic order: Political legitimation  Contradictions for hegemonic order: Capital accumulation  Contradictions for hegemonic order: Social reproduction  Overarching theoretical implications of the argument BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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Book SynopsisThe neoliberal policy response to the crisis in Ghana did not succeed in reversing the economic decline in both the medium and long term. In fact, quite the opposite, rather than undoing the economic decline, Frimpong argues that the policy prescriptions further weakened the country’s ability to develop. This is because the policies intentionally and unintentionally encouraged factors that destabilised the possibility of the real productive assets to earn commensurate returns to facilitate the flow of capital to the real sectors to ensure the survival of industrial enterprises. Rising profit in the financial sector incentivised financial capitalist to divert capital into financial assets at the expense of productive investment, further decelerating the pace of real capital accumulation in the country.Trade Review"Financial inclusion policy as a way of empowering the poor makes poverty a financial problem in Ghana – the financialisation of poverty. Francis Boateng Frimpong tackles this question with theoretical sophistication and vivid empirical detail. This is an original addition to our understanding of how-and-why neoliberal restructuring and its financialisation dimension work in a low middle-income country, the first country in Sub-Saharan Africa to achieve the Millennium Development Goal 1, which is the target of halving extreme poverty. Frimpong has authoritatively produced this important political economy contribution about the impact of the exponential growth of finance on poverty alleviation in Ghana. Highly recommended." - Bülent Gökay, Professor of International Relations, Keele University "This book provides original theoretically sophisticated, historically sensitive and empirically grounded analysis. The political economy history of Ghana is narrated in a way that makes the reader understand what the country went through, and where it is headed. The author has done justice in his narration." - Abraham Adu, University of Aberdeen "The book offers a comprehensive assessment of the nature and distinctive features of financialisation in the periphery, with a focus on Ghana. This book provides academics, professionals and policy makers with the understanding of policy response towards the alleviation of the overarching poverty in Ghana. Crucially, espousing an indispensable hypothetical approach to financialisation, the uniqueness of Ghana and its common features with the core. It is a must-read for supporters of both Keynesian and Marxism." - Emmanuel Affum-Osei, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology "All aspects of this book are fascinating to read. However, the one that fascinated me the most was the in-depth analysis on baking the unbanked, specifically the use of mobile money and how it still benefits the capitalists despite promises of relieving the poor. Frimpong’s analyses throughout are a very interesting read for researchers, students, and even Marx and Keynes enthusiasts. It is a must read." - Leah Mwainyekule, University of Hull "A book on this historically specific geographical setting contributes theoretically to studies on financialisation in general, helping to determine its prominent features better. It is a good source of information for researchers who want to explore the history of the political economy of Sub-Saharan Africa, and in particular, Ghana." - Mato Magobe, The Open University of TanzaniaTable of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations About Financialisation and Poverty Alleviation in Ghana 1 Introduction  1 The Historical Background of Finance and Growth  2 Scope and Limitations of the Book  3 Structure of the Book 2 Neoliberalisation and Financialisation The Debate  1 Introduction  2 The Rise of Neoliberal Capitalism  3 Theoretical Debates and Historical Precedents of Financialisation  4 From Stagnation to Financialisation  5 French Regulation School Theory of Financialisation  6 Post-Keynesianism and Financialisation  7 Trans-nationalisation and Liberalisation of Finance  8 Financialisation and Poverty Alleviation: Banking the Unbanked  9 Conclusion 3 Finance-Growth-Nexus Theoretical and Empirical Literature  1 Introduction  2 The Rise of Finance and the Financialisation of Everything  3 The Financial Profit Conundrum – Profit in Marxist Economics  4 Real Commodity Accumulation and Fictitious Accumulation  5 Contemporary Heterodox Perspectives on Finance-led Growth Debate  5.1 Banks, Financial Markets and Economic Growth: The Dilemma  6 Economic Functions of Financial Intermediaries  6.1 Empirical Evidence on Finance and Growth  6.2 Cross-country Studies of the Finance-Growth Nexus  6.3 Contemporary Literature on Econometric Models for Ghana  7 Dynamics of Financial Development, Income Distribution, Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Ghana  8 Poverty and the Pandemic: The Case of Ghana  8.1 The Economics of It All  9 Conclusion 4 The Case of Ghana  1 Introduction  2 Country Profile and Overview of Recent Economic Performance  3 The Political Economy of Ghana: From State-led Accumulation to Neoliberalism  3.1 Political and Economic Developments from Independence (1957) to 1982  3.2 Political and Economic Developments 1983–2019  4 Neoliberalism in Ghana  4.1 Neoliberalism and Housing Provision in Ghana  5 Financial Sector Reforms in Ghana – A Historical Perspective  5.1 Pre-structural Adjustment Financial Reforms 1957–1982  5.2 Post-liberalised Reforms  5.3 Relaxation of Bank Entry Restrictions, and Abolishment of Secondary Reserve Requirements 2005–2006  5.4 Recapitalising Banks  6 Financialisation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Accounting for the Ghanaian Paradox  6.1 Under-financed  6.2 … Yet Financialising  6.3 Reverse of Net Capital Flows – A Subordinate/Inferior Financialisation  7 Conclusion 5 Dimensions of Capital Structure and Liquidity Management in Ghana  1 Introduction  2 Theories of Capital Structure  2.1 Capital Structure: Traditionalists’ View  2.2 Value-irrelevance Theory by Modigliani-Miller  2.3 Capital Structure: Trade-off Theory  2.4 Capital Structure: Pecking-order Theory  3 Financialisation and Capital Structure Accumulation in Ghana  4 Classification of Capital Accumulation Process in Ghana  5 Contradictions in Political-Economic Arrangements in Ghana  5.1 Financing Challenges  5.2 Government Policies  5.2.1 Corruption  5.2.2 State of Infrastructural Development  6 Conclusion 6 The Issue of Poverty  1 Introduction  2 Poverty Measurement Conundrum  3 Absolute Poverty  3.1 Poverty in Administrative Regions  4 Relative Poverty  4.1 Using Non-monetary Deprivation  5 The Paradox of Sub-Saharan Africa’s Middle Class  5.1 The Two Competing Narratives on Africa  6 Neoliberal Globalisation and Poverty  7 Conclusion 7 Financialisation and Households From Theory to the Context of Ghana  1 Introduction  2 Theory of Consumption Function: Household Debt and the Life Cycle and Permanent Income Hypotheses  3 The Political Economy of Household Finance  4 Payment Systems in Ghana: A Route towards Financialisation  4.1 Background-Mobile Money Services in Ghana  4.2 The Role of Mobile Money in Financial Inclusion in Ghana  5 Financialisation, Financial Inclusion and Mobile Money  6 Conclusion 8 Conclusion  1 Summing Up the Argument  2 The Content of Financialisation in Ghana  2.1 Banking Sector  2.2 Industrial Enterprises  2.3 Households  3 Policy Recommendations References Index

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Book SynopsisChoice Award 2022: Outstanding Academic Title Marx Matters is an examination of how Marx remains more relevant than ever in dealing with contemporary crises. This volume explores how technical dimensions of a Marxian analytic frame remains relevant to our understanding of inequality, of exploitation and oppression, and of financialization in the age of global capitalism. Contributors track Marx in promoting emancipatory practices in Latin America, tackle how Marx informs issues of race and gender, explore current social movements and the populist turn, and demonstrate how Marx can guide strategies to deal with the existential environmental crises of the day. Marx matters because Marx still provides the best analysis of capitalism as a system, and his ideas still point to how society can organize for a better world. Contributors are: Jose Bell Lara, Ashley J. Bohrer, Tom Brass, Rose M. Brewer, William K. Carroll, Penelope Ciancanelli, Raju J. Das, Ricardo A. Dello Buono, David Fasenfest, Ben Fine, Lauren Langman, Alfredo Saad-Filho, Vishwas Satgar, and William K. Tabb.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 The Once and Future Marx   David Fasenfest 2 What Marx Anticipated That Is, or Should Be, Central to Political Economy Today   William K. Tabb part 1 Marx’s Political Economy for the Present 3 From Marxist Political Economy to Financialization or Is It the Other Way About?   Ben Fine 4 Value, Capital and Exploitation in Marx   Alfredo Saad-Filho 5 Social Oppression, Class Relation, and Capitalist Accumulation   Raju J. Das 6 The Power of Money   Penelope Ciancanelli 7 Great Replacement and/as the Industrial Reserve Populism or Marxism?   Tom Brass part 2 Marx and a Changing Society 8 Emancipatory Thought in Latin America The Enduring Legacy of Carlos Marx   Ricardo A. Dello Buono and José Bell Lara 9 Marx, the Commons and Democratic Eco-socialism   Vishwas Satgar 10 Marx Matters, in Theory and Practice Reflections from the Corporate Mapping Project   William K. Carroll 11 The Capitalist Racial State and Black Lives in Struggle   Rose M. Brewer 12 Marxism and Intersectionality A Critical Historiography   Ashley J. Bohrer 13 Marxism, Peasants, and the Cultural Turn The Myth of a ‘Nice’ Populism   Tom Brass 14 Marx on Social Movements Left and Right   Lauren Langman Index

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Book SynopsisIn Unravelling the Social Formation: Free Trade, the State and Business Associations in Turkey, Akif Avci examines the role of business associations and the state in Turkey in analysing the dialectical relationship between global free trade and Turkish social formation since 2002. The manuscript constructs a three-levels analysis based on the social relations of production, forms of state and world order. It explores the class characteristics of the business associations, the role of the Turkish state in the process of integration into global capitalism, and at the same time, internalisation of the global class relations inside Turkish social formation. It offers a fresh evaluation of imperialism theories and the uneven and combined development (U&CD) approach from a neo-Gramscian perspective.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Introduction On the Political Economy of Turkey 1 The New Phase of Imperialism and Uneven and Combined Development  1 Free Trade/Transnationalisation of Production and the Role of the State  2 Internationalisation of the State and Its Internal Functions  3 Conclusion 2 A Historical Materialist Analysis of Capitalism in Turkey  1 The Making of Capitalism in Turkey: The Defining Role of Uneven and Combined Development  2 Industrial Capital Accumulation Based on the isi Model until the 1980s  3 Transition to Neoliberalism: Integration into Free Trade and the Changing Role of the State  4 Transnationalisation of Productive Capital and the akp  5 Regional Expansion of Turkish Capital through Free Trade Agreements  6 The Role of the State in the Expansion of the Base of Production  7 Conclusion 3 The Formation of tnc, Global Free Trade, tusiad and the State  1 The Social Formation in Turkey and the Development of tusiad  2 The Class Characteristics of tusiad Affiliates  3 tusiad and Power Bloc: The Internal Relations between tusiad and the akp  4 The Shift in Global Free Trade and the Uneven Trajectory of tnc in Turkey  5 Conclusion 4 musiad, the State and Global Integration  1 The Emergence of musiad and the Social Formation in Turkey  2 A Class Based Analysis of musiad  3 Different Capital Fractions within musiad  4 Configurations of Relations in the Power Bloc  5 Reorganising the Power Bloc through Public Administration  6 Contradictions at the State Level  7 The Defining Role of Uneven and Combined Development  8 Conclusion 5 tuskon, the State and Free Trade  1 The Material Basis of tuskon  2 The Formation of the Relationship between the State and tuskon  3 The Collapse of the Relationship and 15 July Failed Coup Attempt  4 The Combination of tuskon Affiliated Companies with Global Free Trade  5 Conclusion 6 Conclusions to the Theoretical Arguments of the Book  1 From the Abstract to the Concrete: A Class-Based Analysis of Business Associations  2 Concluding Remarks: The Changing Tendencies of Free Trade and the Transformation of the State References Index

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Book SynopsisPopulism is a contested concept when applied to Asia. In Populism in Asian Democracies: Features, Structures and Impacts, members of the Asia Democracy Research Network (ADRN) discuss the diverse subtypes of populism in 11 countries across Asia, their structural elements and societal impacts. Populism takes on different forms in Asia according to its target, rhetoric and strategy. Redistributive populism stems from income inequality and rural poverty while ethno-religious populism represents a continued struggle between majority and minority groups. Progressive populism emphasizes democratic governance over corruption and factional politics, and authoritarian populism rises from government incompetence. As ADRN shows, the 11 Asian democracies have adopted various subtypes—and hybrids—of such populism models, adding importance to regional cooperation in safeguarding democracy.

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Book SynopsisASEAN, as being on the very core of this matter, deserves close attention through the case of Timor-Leste for understanding international strategic inclusion-exclusion dynamics. The manuscript we provide tackles this case through a small country ‘in-between’ the core global actors of economic and political concern: Timor-Leste as a ground for grasping large-scale complexities in decision-making processes, as much as the micro-understanding and dynamics of a small country ‘within the game’ – if not even on the forefront.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Figures and Tables Introduction  Paulo Castro Seixas, Nuno Canas Mendes and Nadine Lobner Part 1: Political Process, Internal-External Constellations and Meta-Analysis 1 ASEAN in the Making: Centralities and Peripheries  Paulo Castro Seixas, Nuno Canas Mendes and Nadine Lobner 2 Timor-Leste’s Membership of ASEAN: The Political Process and Its Discontents  Paulo Castro Seixas, Nuno Canas Mendes and Nadine Lobner 3 ASEAN and Timor-Leste: An Analysis of Decision-Making Dynamics  Paulo Castro Seixas, Nuno Canas Mendes and Nadine Lobner Part 2: Neighbors and Kin, Big Men and Brothers, and the Ecumene at Large 4 Is There an Endless Search for New (Overseas) Younger Brother(s)? Timor-Leste and Its Ecumenic Ambitions  Paulo Castro Seixas, Nuno Canas Mendes and Nadine Lobner 5 ASEAN and Timor-Leste: A Discourse on Centrality, Sociopolitical Negotiations and Relationships  Paulo Castro Seixas, Nuno Canas Mendes and Nadine Lobner 6 Neighbors and Kin: ASEAN as an Ecumene? Reality Constructions from a Timorese Perspective  Paulo Castro Seixas, Nuno Canas Mendes and Nadine Lobner 7 Disputing Centralities amidst Covid-19: The Triangular Relationship of ASEAN, China and Timor-Leste  Paulo Castro Seixas, Nuno Canas Mendes, Nadine Lobner and Kaian Lam Postscript: Timor-Leste ASEAN Membership: Rethinking the Debate  Ariel Mota Alves Index

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Book SynopsisChinese economic growth is an extraordinary phenomenon that deserves an original analysis. It is explained here from the origins of the People's Republic to the present day. Original first, because the authors have themselves reconstructed, on the country studied, statistical databases in time series for the stock of physical capital, the stock of human capital, expenditure on research and development, and Gini income inequality index. Original then, because the methodologies used screen a very wide range of theoretical currents: neoclassical, Pickettyan, and Marxist. Original finally, because the most modern tools of statistics and econometrics are mobilized to carry out this research. This book is aimed at economists and an audience with a solid knowledge of economics.

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Book SynopsisIn The Political Economy of Housing: The Case of Turkey, Sila Demirors explores the analytical and historical process of how housing, a special use-value and social relation, which is crucial for the social reproduction of labour-power, becomes an instrument of speculative finance to feed itself. While the second part of the book discusses the political economy of housing in Turkey, in which housing has been used by the state as both a political project and a macroeconomic tool for the last two decades, the first part of the book formulates a methodological and theoretical framework to provide a comprehensive approach for comparative housing research from a Marxist political economy perspective.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Acronyms and Abbreviations 1 General Introduction and Methodology  1 What Is This Book About?  2 Background  3 Analytical Framework and Methodology  4 An Intermediate (Operational) Methodology: from ‘Structures of Housing Provision’ to ‘Systems of Provision’  4.1 Structures of Housing Provision Approach  4.2 Systems of Provision Approach  5 Data Collection  6 The Structure of the Book 2 Ground Rent and Housing  1 Marx’s Theory of Agricultural Rent  1.1 Differential Rent  1.2 Absolute Rent  1.3 Monopoly Rent  2 Ground Rent in Urban Land  3 Ground Rent in Urban Residential Land  4 Scarcity, Monopoly Rent and Housing  5 Ground Rent and Housing Sub-markets  6 Housing, Ground Rent and Capital Accumulation  6.1 Localised Monopoly Rent (Development Gains) vs. General Monopoly Rent  7 Conclusion 3 A Theoretical Investigation for Financialisation with a Focus on Financialisation of Housing Provision  1 Financialisation: an Explanandum or Explanans?  1.1 Analytical: Understanding Financialisation through Marx’s Theory of Money and Finance  1.2 Historical: Thinking Financialisation within and through Neoliberalism  1.3 Uneven and Combined Development of Financialisation  2 Intensive and Extensive Expansion of Finance  2.1 Financialisation of Social Reproduction  3 Financialisation of Housing  3.1 Housing Development Finance  3.2 House Purchase Finance  3.3 Social Housing  4 Conclusion 4 Neoliberal Transformation and Financialisation in Turkey through an Authoritarian Form of State  1 Capitalist State as the Condensation of Class Relationship  2 The Transition to Neoliberalism and Financialisation in Turkey: from 1980 to 2001  3 The Consolidation and Institutionalisation of Neoliberalism and Financialisation in Turkey: Post-2001 Period  4 Conclusion 5 Housing Provision in Turkey — a Historical Overview  1 1950–1980: Housing SoP under isi  2 1980–2001: Housing SoP in the Early Phase of Neoliberalism  3 Conclusion 6 State in Housing Provision  1 toki as a Particular Articulation of Political and Economic Intervention  2 Land  3 Planning  4 Housing Provision: Is toki a Robin Hood or an Unrivalled Monopoly?  5 Emlak Konut reit  6 Finance of toki  7 Urban Transformation: from Slum Upgrading to Mass Regeneration  8 Conclusion 7 Consumption of Housing  1 Housing Purchase Finance and Mortgage Boom?  2 Two Sides of the Same Coin: Financial Inclusion and Exclusion  3 Alternative Searches for Further Financial Inclusion: a Shadow Banking-System in Turkey  4 Effective Demand in Housing  5 Residential Land and House Price Inflation  6 Housing as a Speculative Investment Tool: Consumption of Housing for the Appropriation of Monopoly Rents  7 Housing Inequality: Wealth Effect and Crisis of Social Reproduction  8 Conclusion 8 Production of Housing  1 A Bird’s Eye Shot to the Housing Supply-Side Dynamics in the Post-2002 Era  2 Housing Developers and Housing Production Process  3 Housing Development Finance  4 The Volume of Housing Production and Housing Stock  5 Construction Move: a Political Project and a Macroeconomic Tool  6 Conclusion 9 Conclusion Appendix 1 Interview Schedule and Codes Appendix 2 Distribution of Non-institutional Population by Equivalised Household Disposable Median Income Groups and Housing Living Conditions Indicators (2006–2018) Appendix 3 Divergence between Construction Costs and House Prices in Turkey (June 2016–September 2018) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe frontiers of extraction are expanding rapidly, driven by a growing demand for minerals and metals that is often motivated by sustainability considerations. Two volumes of International Development Policy are dedicated to the paradoxes and futures of green extractivism, with analyses of experiences from five continents. In this, the first of these two volumes, 16 authors offer a critical and nuanced understanding of the social, cultural and political dimensions of extraction. The experiences of communities, indigenous peoples and workers in extractive contexts are deeply shaped by narratives, imaginaries and the complexity of social contexts. These dimensions are crucial to making extraction possible and to sustaining its expansion, but also to identifying possibilities for resistance, and to paving the way for alternative, post-extractive economies. This volume is accompanied by IDP 16, The Afterlives of Extraction: Alternatives and Sustainable Futures.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: Global Lives of Extraction   Filipe Calvão, Matthew Archer and Asanda Benya Part 1 Community, Labout and Social Life 2 Migrants and the Politics of Presence on the South African Platinum Mining Belt   Melusi Nkomo 3 Chromite Mining Cooperatives, Tribute Mining Contracts, and Rural Livelihoods in Zimbabwe, 1985–2021   Joseph Mujere 4 ‘Le fléau de la soude caustique’: Bauxite Refining, Social Reproduction, and the Role of Women’s Promotion Groups   Luisa Lupo 5 Time for an Outcome Evaluation? The Experience of Indigenous Communities with Mining Benefit Sharing Agreements   Liz Wall and Fiona Haslam McKenzie Part 2 Scales of Space and Time 6 Struggles over Resource Decentralisation: Legislative Reform, Corporate Resistance and Canadian Aid Partnerships in Burkina Faso   Diana Ayeh 7 The Promise of Gold: Gold and Governance in China’s Borderlands, Then and Now   Eveline Bingaman 8 Spaces of Extraction in Europe: the Corporate–State–Mining Complex and Resistance in Greece and Romania   Konstantinos (Kostas) Petrakos 9 Muddled Times: Temporality and Gold Mining in Colombia and Venezuela   Jesse Jonkman and Eva van Roekel Part 3 Extractive Frontiers: Narratives and Discourses 10 Exploration, Storytelling and Frontier-Making in the Colombian Andes   Anneloes Hoff 11 (Im)mobility Economies: Extractivism of the Refugee as a Human Commodity   Julia C. Morris 12 Anti-extractive Rumouring in the Russian North-East   Sardana Nikolaeva Index

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Book SynopsisThe frontiers of extraction are expanding rapidly, driven by a growing demand for minerals and metals that is often motivated by sustainability considerations. Two volumes of International Development Policy are dedicated to the paradoxes and futures of green extractivism, with analyses of experiences from five continents. In this, the second of the two volumes, the 22 authors, using different conceptual approaches and in different empirical contexts, demonstrate the alarming obduracy of the logic of extractivism, even - and perhaps especially - in the growing support for the so-called green transition. The authors highlight the complex and enduring legacies of resource extraction and the urgent need to move beyond extractive models of development towards alternative pathways that prioritise social justice, environmental sustainability, democratic governance and the well-being of both humans and non-humans. They also caution us against the assumption that anti-extraction is anti-extractivist, that post-extraction is post-extractivism, and they critically attune us to the systemic nature of extractivism in ways that both connect and transcend any particular site or scale. This volume accompanies IDP 15, The Lives of Extraction: Identities, Communities, and the Politics of Place.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: Global Afterlives of Extraction   Filipe Calvão, Asanda Benya and Matthew Archer Part 1 Post-extractivism: Debates and Practices 2 Expanding Extractivisms: Extractivisms as Modes of Extraction Sustaining Imperial Modes of Living   Erik Post 3 The Structures of Conquest: Debating Extractivism(s), Infrastructures and Environmental Justice for Advancing Post-development Pathways   Alexander Dunlap 4 Logics of Extraction and of the Valorisation of Culture: the Role of Post-extraction Investment in the Creation of Inequality in China   Ryan Parsons 5 Regulating Mine Rehabilitation and Closure on Indigenous Held Lands: Insights from the Regulated Resource States of Australia and Canada   Emille Boulot and Ben Collins Part 2 Resilience, Contestation and Resistance 6 Aluminium in Suriname (1898–2020): an Industry Came and Went, But Its Impacts on the Maroon Communities Remain   Simon Lobach 7 Contesting Extraction: Challenges for Coalition Building between Agrarian and Anti-mining Movements   Louisa Prause 8 ‘We Are Nature Defending Itself’: the Forest of Dannenrod Occupation as an Example of Contested Extractivism in the Global North   Dorothea Hamilton and Sina Trölenberg 9 National Resources, Resistance, and the Afterlives of the New International Economic Order in Bangladesh   Paul Robert Gilbert Part 3 ‘Green’ Extractivism and Its Discontents 10 The ‘Alterlives’ of Green Extractivism: Lithium Mining and Exhausted Ecologies in the Atacama Desert   James J. A. Blair, Ramón M. Balcázar, Javiera Barandiarán and Amanda Maxwell 11 Green Masquerade: Neo-liberalism, Extractive Renewable Energy Transitions, and the ‘Good’ Anthropocene in South Africa   Michelle Pressend 12 Electric Vehicle Paradise? Exploring the Value Chains of Green Extractivism   Devyn Remme, Siddharth Sareen, Håvard Haarstad and Kjetil Rommetveit Index

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Book SynopsisChallenging mainstream nation-centred theories of economic development, Nicolás Grinberg examines the specificities of capitalist development in Brazil and South Korea by starting from their modes of participation in the international division of labour and hence in the production of surplus value on a global scale. Contrary to those theories, he does not consider these as resulting simply from the economic policies of nation states and their associated political institutions; nor from local class-struggle dynamics or geopolitical developments. Rather, drawing on key insights from Marx’s critique of political economy, his analysis begins by recognising that the process of capitalist development is global in terms of its economic dynamics and historical trends, and national only in its political and institutional forms of realisation. State-mediated patterns of economic development and institutional change in Brazil and Korea, as well as the intra- and inter-state political processes through which these have come about, are then considered mediations in the conformation and reproduction of the nationally differentiated, uneven process of capital’s valorisation on a global scale.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Graphs and Tables Introduction  0.1 State-centred accounts: neoliberal and statist approaches  0.2 Global capital accumulation and the development of the East Asian and Latin American national economies  0.3 Summary and conclusions Part 1 The Specificity of the Brazilian and Korean Processes of Capitalist Development Introduction to Part 1 1 Capital Accumulation in Brazil and Korea: An Overview  1.1 Capital accumulation and the Brazilian state  1.2 Capital accumulation and the Korean state  1.3 Summary and conclusions  Appendix 2 The Valorisation of Capital in Brazil and Korea  2.1 Valorisation of the total social capital and of the portions invested in the industrial and agrarian sectors  2.2 Rate of profit of social, industrial (manufacturing) and agrarian capital  2.3 Surplus value in the form of ground-rent  2.4 Inflows of aid resources and interest-bearing (loanable) capital  2.5 Summary and conclusions 3 Determinants of the Valorisation Capacity of Industrial Capital in Brazil and Korea: The Steel, Automotive and Semiconductor Industries  3.1 Development of the system of machinery and the productive attributes of the collective worker in large-scale industrial productions  3.2 Summary and conclusions  Appendix 3.1: The determinants of the rate of valorisation of industrial capital in the Korean, Japanese and Brazilian steel industries  Appendix 3.2: The rate of valorisation of industrial capital in the Korean and Japanese automobile industries  Appendix 3.3: Brazilian, Korean, Japanese, Argentinian and Mexican automotive industries: base data 4 Growth and Development Characteristics of the Brazilian and Korean Processes of Capital Accumulation  4.1 Economic growth  4.2 Industrial exports  4.3 Labour productivity in the industrial sector  4.4 Individual and collective characteristics of the industrial labour-force  4.5 Cost and reproduction patterns of the industrial labour-force  4.6 Labour-market institutions and working-class political representation  4.7 Summary and conclusions  Appendix: Tables A4.1–A4.17 Part 2 Historical Development of the Brazilian and Korean Processes of Capital Accumulation Introduction to Part 2 5 Brazil and Korea up to the mid-1960s  5.1 Brazil: From nationalistic to developmentalist populism  5.2 Korea: From autocratic democracy to electoral autocracy  5.3 End of chapter conclusions 6 Brazil and Korea between the mid-1960s and the early 1970s  6.1 Brazil: From ‘corrective inflation’ to the ‘economic miracle’  6.2 Korea: From the ‘democratic restoration’ to the Yusin Republic  6.3 End of chapter conclusions 7 Brazil and Korea between the early and the early 1980s  7.1 Brazil: From the first ‘oil shock’ to the ‘debt crisis’  7.2 Korea: From the Heavy and Chemical Industry Plan to the Comprehensive Stabilisation Programme  7.3 End of chapter conclusions 8 Brazil and Korea between the early 1980s and the early 1990s  8.1 Brazil: From the IMF ‘stabilisation’ programme to the hyperinflation crisis  8.2 Korea: From the Kwangju massacre to the Great Workers’ Struggle  8.3 End of chapter conclusions 9 Brazil and Korea between the early 1990s and the early 2000s  9.1 Brazil: From the neoliberal reforms to the neoliberal crisis  9.2 Korea: From the conservative coalition to the ‘democratic market economy’  9.3 End of chapter conclusions 10 Brazil and Korea between the early 2000s and the mid-2010s  10.1 Brazil: From neoliberalism to neodevelopmentalism  10.2 Korea: From ‘participatory government’ to ‘post-democracy’  10.3 End of chapter conclusions Summary and Conclusions of the Book Appendix A: The qualitative and quantitative determination of the capitalist ground-rent Appendix B: Methodological bases and sources Appendix C: Statistical tables Databases consulted References Index

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