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Book SynopsisUsing a newly assembled dataset and drawing on fieldwork data from Malaysia and Singapore, Liu finds that how linguistic power is distributed-specifically whether a lingua franca is recognized exclusively or above all others-can generate social trust, attract foreign investment, and therefore indirectly promote economic growth.Trade Review"A superb book, providing a richly documented, carefully reasoned, and innovative analysis of the economic imperative in the choice of language regimes. Addressing criteria of stability, efficiency, and inclusivity, and focusing especially on Asia, Amy Liu makes a convincing case for the role of lingua francas in power sharing and power neutralizing in multiethnic societies. It is a major contribution to the comparative study of the politics of language." * William Safran, University of Colorado at Boulder *

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Book SynopsisFocusing on the state of New York, home to the first American banks, utilities, canals, and transportation infrastructure projects, Building the Empire State examines the origins of American capitalism by tracing how and why business corporations were first introduced into the economy of the early republic.Trade Review"In Building the Empire State, Brian Murphy deftly revisits the founding of New York State, in the process revising our understanding of how the political economy of the early republic operated in practice. Rather than a strict separation between the public obligations of the state and the private interests of for-profit corporations, Murphy finds a much more integrated, reciprocal relationship that organically emerged from the experiences of the late colonial and Revolutionary periods. His fresh approach and sophisticated argument make a significant contribution to several fields, including political history, business history, and the history of capitalism more broadly." * Sharon Murphy, Providence College *Table of ContentsNote on Banking Terms Introduction. Strength in Structure Chapter 1. "The Most Dangerous and Effectual Engine of Power" Chapter 2. "An Enlarged American Scale" Chapter 3. "A Very Convenient Instrument" Chapter 4. "To Occupy All Points" Chapter 5. "If We Must Have War or a Canal, I Am in Favor of the Canal" Conclusion. Corporate Political Economy Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisDebates about poverty and inequality in the United States frequently invoke the early twentieth century as a time when new social legislation helped moderate corporate power. But as historian Daniel Amsterdam shows, the relationship between business interests and the development of American government was hardly so simple.Roaring Metropolis reconstructs the ideas and activism of urban capitalists roughly a century ago. Far from antigovernment stalwarts, business leaders in cities across the country often advocated extensive government spending on an array of social programs. They championed public schooling, public health, the construction of libraries, museums, parks, and playgrounds, and decentralized cities filled with freestanding homes—a set of initiatives that they believed would foster political stability and economic growth during an era of explosive, often chaotic, urban expansion.The efforts of businessmen on this front had deep historical roots buTrade Review"Roaring Metropolis is a great success . . . a terrific read." * EH.net *"[In] deeply researched and tightly drawn chapters . . . Amsterdam traces, with greater detail and acuity than any previous scholar, what kinds of social programs businessmen supported, and why, and with what consequences." * Business History Review *"Meticulously researched and elegantly written . . . [A] rich political history." * Planning Perspectives *"In Roaring Metropolis, Amsterdam joins a burgeoning community of scholars . . . combining compelling historical research with a sophisticated understanding of the complex nature of 'businessmen' as historical actors." * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"Amsterdam's highly engaging political and business history . . . convincingly demonstrates that business elites played decisive roles in shaping the substance, size, and scope of civic welfare projects, as well as limiting who benefited from them." * Enterprise & Society *"We tend to think of 1920s cities as cockpits of cultural conflict. In this exemplary study Daniel Amsterdam gives us a new perspective, showing with subtlety and precision the modern metropolis as businessmen wanted it to be. Anyone interested in the construction of urban America needs to read this enlightening book." * Kevin Boyle, Northwestern University *"Richly researched and elegantly written, Roaring Metropolis uncovers the forgotten explosion in municipal spending and businessmen's political activism during the supposedly conservative 1920s. With three smartly chosen case studies in Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta, Daniel Amsterdam illuminates distinct and unique urban political trajectories. This topic is important and the contributions original." * Sarah Phillips, Boston University *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. At Cross Purposes: Businessmen's Political Activism Before the Armistice Chapter 2. Detroit: Businessmen at Large Chapter 3. Philadelphia: Money and the Machine Chapter 4. Atlanta: City Building in Black and White Chapter 5. Businessmen's Social Politics Beyond the Civic Welfare State Epilogue. The 1930s and After Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisUnderfunded pension liabilities are severely threatening many cities, and policymakers are increasingly turning their attention to the legacy issues surrounding the funding of pensions. Public Pensions and City Solvency addresses this complex fiscal issue and presents strategies to achieve financial sustainability.Trade Review"Cities and states in America are facing fiscal stress in historic proportions. . . . This book will help the public to elect officials who deal with these issues responsibly so that our grandchildren are not burdened with the obligation to pay for the benefits our generation has been so fortunate to have enjoyed." * Richard Ravitch, from the Foreword *Table of ContentsForeword —Richard Ravitch Chapter 1. Why City Pension Problems Have Not Improved, and a Roadmap Forward —Joshua D. Rauh Chapter 2. The Law and Politics of Municipal Pensions —Amy B. Monahan Chapter 3. Erosion of the Foundation of Municipal Finance —D. Roderick Kiewiet and Mathew D. McCubbins Conclusion. A Call for Transparency —Robert Inman and Susan M. Wachter Notes List of Contributors References

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Book SynopsisCities in the North Atlantic coal and steel belt embodied industrial power in the early twentieth century, but by the 1970s, their economic and political might had been significantly diminished by newly industrializing regions in the Global South. This was not simply a North American phenomenon—the precipitous decline of mature steel centers like Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Hamilton, Ontario, was a bellwether for similar cities around the world.Contemporary narratives of the decline of basic industry on both sides of the Atlantic make the postindustrial transformation of old manufacturing centers seem inevitable, the product of natural business cycles and neutral market forces. In Remaking the Rust Belt, Tracy Neumann tells a different story, one in which local political and business elites, drawing on a limited set of internationally circulating redevelopment models, pursued postindustrial urban visions. They hired the same consulting firms; shared ideas about Trade Review"Remaking the Rust Belt is a powerful book which has much to offer, not just to historians of urban policy and political economy but also those seeking to understand the wider political, cultural and psephological shifts under way in the American industrial Northeast and Midwest." * History *"Remaking the Rust Belt is lucid, balanced, and engaging. Tracy Neumann's argument about the importance of place is compelling and well sustained." * Richard Harris, McMaster University *"Remaking the Rustbelt provides a welcome addition to the literature on the history of industrial policy and planning in North America. For Neumann, the 'Rustbelt' is as much a set of ideas and experiences as it is a place. Rejecting conventional narratives associated with terms like 'deindustrialization' and 'neoliberalism,' she tells a more complicated story of public officials and private interests acting across a variety of geographies and scales, sometimes in collusion, sometimes in conflict, always in tension. We see mayors, planners, economic development officers, corporate executives, labor leaders, and community activists grappling with the full range of problems that emerge from large-scale transformations in the global economy. In the end, Neumann demonstrates how the 'post-industrial' turn of the last fifty years was not simply the inevitable outcome of economic forces but, rather, a conscious production of a new social imaginary-a world in the making." * Joseph Heathcott, The New School *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Cities and the Postindustrial Imagination Chapter 1. The Roots of Postindustrialism Chapter 2. Forging Growth Partnerships Chapter 3. Postindustrialism and Its Critics Chapter 4. The New Geography of Downtown Chapter 5. Spaces of Production and Spaces of Consumption Chapter 6. Marketing Postindustrialism Epilogue. Cities for Whom? List of Abbreviations Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisNearly a decade after the housing market's collapse triggered the Great Recession, members of both sides of the political aisle are calling for reform. Principles of Housing Finance Reform lays out a roadmap for reforms for a new housing finance system to achieve liquidity, access, and sustainability.Trade Review"The book is straight on American housing financial system and is highly interesting, if you want to learn about and to analyze the system . . . It is magnificient that the authors present and analyze serious proposals instead of just criticizing, when something has got off the track." * Journal of Housing and the Built Environment *"Discussions of fixing the U.S. housing finance system often devolve into theoretical tussles that do not connect to the real world complexities of transforming a ten-trillion-dollar market. Not so with the practical, analytical and reasonable recommendations contained in Principles of Housing Finance Reform which provides a well-researched roadmap for reform." * Andrew Davidson, President, Andrew Davidson & Company *"Principles of Housing Finance Reform provides an instructive and realistic assessment of key legal, regulatory, and marketplace issues facing policymakers in reshaping the Nation's housing finance system." * Ed DeMarco, former Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and current Senior Fellow, Milliken Institute *"The shortcomings of America's housing finance system were vividly exposed after the crash of 2007, but we have yet to meaningfully reform that system. This edited volume provides an excellent guide to how reform should occur. Wachter and Tracy have brought together a terrific set of papers which map out the intellectual terrain and provide a rich set of ideas about fixing America's housing system. Anyone who is hoping that our future housing policies will be better than our past housing policies would do well to read this book." * Edward Glaeser, Harvard University *"Principles of Housing Finance Reform is full of interesting, often highly idiosyncratic information about how the U.S. housing finance system works, or often doesn't work. By collecting the essays of leading scholars into one volume, editors Susan M. Wachter and Joseph Tracy provide a very useful public service." * Robert Buckley, The New School *

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Book SynopsisAppealing to historians working in the fields of business history, political history, and the history of capitalism, Capital Gains highlights the causes, character, and consequences of business activism and underscores the centrality of business to any full understanding of the politics of the twentieth century-and today.Trade Review"Capital Gains provides nuanced and reasoned assessments which combine to form a great contribution to the history of capitalism and the shifting U.S. political economy." * Reviews in American History *"With Capital Gains: Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America, Richard John and Kim Phillips-Fein have brought together a collection of important essays on the relationship of business and politics in the twentieth century. Moving well beyond portrayals of business leaders as robber barons or industrial statesmen, the chapters, which proceed in chronological fashion, range in focus from local boosterism to military spending to corporate civil rights. . . . Taken as a whole, the authors sound a clarion call for the new kinds of questions scholars are asking about modern political economy." * Business History Review *"An outstanding book. The volume is sound from a scientific perspective, grounded in primary sources and wide archival research, and, at the same time, contributes remarkably to our knowledge in this field. This is due both to the new empirical evidence provided, and to the fact that it builds on different disciplines such as political history, business history, political science, historical sociology, and history of capitalism. This multidisciplinary attitude allows the reader to reconstruct effectively the complexity of businessmen's approach to the political world, as well as improving our understanding of government interaction with business elites." * The Economic History Review *"The essays collected for Capital Gains are eminently readable. Each stands on its own as a fascinating snapshot into topics as varied as antitrust and patent law, the public-university system, anti-Vietnam protests, and the history of workplace diversity initiatives. More importantly, these essays together help to contextualize the rise of corporate power in the twentieth-century United States." * The Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"With Capital Gains, the scholarly push to revive political economy and craft a new history of twentieth century business, politics, and capitalism has found its vehicle. No longer can we cast 'business elites' as the thoughtless tools of the capitalist machine. Through rich, compelling archival research and authoritative historiographical analysis, these sophisticated essays make a powerful case for business as a multidimensional, ideologically diverse set of historical actors." * Benjamin Waterhouse, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill *"What is the most productive way to study the history of capitalism? The authors in this volume pursue a multidisciplinary approach and believe in the importance of institutions and public policy. For these reasons, Capital Gains is a valuable contribution to the historiography of the twentieth-century United States." * Kenneth Lipartito, Florida International University *Table of ContentsPreface —Kim Phillips-Fein Introduction. Adversarial Relations? Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America —Richard R. John PART I. THE PROGRESSIVE ERA AND THE 1920s Chapter 1. Trade Associations, State Building, and the Sherman Act: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1912-25 —Laura Phillips Sawyer Chapter 2. Toward a Civic Welfare State: Business and City Building in the 1920s —Daniel Amsterdam PART II. THE NEW DEAL AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR Chapter 3. The "Monopoly" Hearings, Its Critics, and the Limits of Patent Reform in the New Deal —Eric S. Hintz Chapter 4. Farewell to Progressivism: The Second World War and the Privatization of the "Military-Industrial Complex" —Mark R. Wilson Chapter 5. Beyond the New Deal: Thomas K. McCraw and the Political Economy of Capitalism —Richard R. John and Jason Scott Smith PART III. THE POSTWAR ERA: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Chapter 6. "Free Enterprise" or Federal Aid? The Business Response to Economic Restructuring in the Long 1950s —Tami J. Friedman Chapter 7. "They Were the Moving Spirits": Business and Supply-Side Liberalism in the Postwar South —Brent Cebul Chapter 8. A Fraught Partnership: Business and the Public University Since the Second World War —Elizabeth Tandy Shermer PART IV. THE POSTWAR ERA: LIBERALISM AND ITS CRITICS Chapter 9. The Triumph of Social Responsibility in the National Association of Manufacturers in the 1950s —Jennifer Delton Chapter 10. "What Would Peace in Vietnam Mean for You as an Investor?" Business Executives and the Antiwar Movement, 1967-75 —Eric R. Smith Chapter 11. Entangled: Civil Rights in Corporate America Since 1964 —Pamela Walker Laird Notes Contributors Index * * * * *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"President Eisenhower's warning of a 'military-industrial complex' looms large in contemporary American politics. This book offers the crucial historical background to explain what Eisenhower meant. Grant Madsen shows how U.S. Army leaders after the Second World War worked to build a global economy hinged on low inflation, inexpensive capital, and free trade. He explains how this model seeded postwar prosperity at home as well as in Europe and Asia, and also how it unraveled in the 1960s and 1970s-a victim of its own successes. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the historical roots of our current global economy and its discontents." * Jeremi Suri, author of The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office *"Sovereign Soldiers offers a lively account of economic policymaking in post-World War II Germany, Japan, and the United States. Drawing on original research, Grant Madsen describes the activities of top American occupation officials, including Dwight Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur as well as General Lucius D. Clay and Detroit banker Joseph Dodge. Charged with overseeing the reconstruction of postwar Germany and Japan, these overseas American officials developed a distinctive approach to political economy, which, as Madsen shows, had lasting influence-not only in Europe and Asia but also back in the United States." * Mark R. Wilson, author of Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. When the Military Became an External State Chapter 2. The War, the Economy, and the Army Chapter 3. The Army in a Time of Depression Chapter 4. The Army, the New Deal, and the Planning for the Postwar Chapter 5. "The Thing Was Assembled by Economic Idiots" Chapter 6. The Army Creates a Plan for Germany Chapter 7. A German "Miracle" Chapter 8. Political Progress in Japan—and Economic Decline Chapter 9. "Recovery Without Fiction" Chapter 10. Implementing the Lessons of Victory in Japan Chapter 11. Truman and Eisenhower Chapter 12. "The Great Equation" Chapter 13. Protecting the Global Economy Epilogue Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. Analyzing China's Political Economy Insights, Gaps, and Desiderata in China Research Researching China from a Political Economy Perspective Chapter 2. From Mao to the Hu/Wen Era: The Origins and Trajectory of Capitalist-Driven Modernization Protocapitalism: The Historical Background to the Transition Under Deng The Emergence of State-Permeated Capitalism (1): Two Phases of Reform The Emergence of State-Permeated Capitalism (2): China's Integration into the Global Economy Chapter 3. Current Developments in Chinese Capitalism The Corporate Sector and Socioeconomic Dynamics Planning for and with the Market(s): The Heterogeneous Party-State The Limits of Chinese-Style Subordination? Developments in Labor Relations Conclusion Capitalist Development in China Paradoxes of Prosperity Theoretical Implications for Political Economic and China Studies Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"With the publication of William D. Adler’s excellent book, Engineering Expansion we now have a comprehensive account of the army as an institution of state power from 1787 until the Civil War....Any scholar of American Political Development, institutional development, or military history will benefit from a close reading of Engineering Expansion. Students, in particular, will find Adler’s book to be an excellent guide to current scholarly debates in APD. Although many questions remain about the army’s role in early America, Adler’s concise volume should inspire further studies of this long neglected institution of American state building. As Adler demonstrates so persuasively in this fine book, it is time for APD to bring the military back in." * Perspectives on Politics *"William D. Adler’s impressive book is a vitally important contribution to the history of nineteenth-century American political economy and the early American state. Adler convincingly argues that the United States’ military was a driving force in the development of the national state, in the expansion of national boundaries, and in the dramatic growth of the national marketplace....Engineering Expansion makes a fine contribution to our understanding of American political economy, state building, and foreign relations through a detailed examinationof the Army. However much the military has been missing from the literature, Adler has successfully brought it back in." * H-DIPLO *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Chapter 1. Coercion and Economic Development Chapter 2. Building the Nation, Building the Economy Chapter 3. Who Commands? Chapter 4. Political Entrepreneurs and Institutional Capacity Conclusion. The Army and American Political Development Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisThe decline of traditional manufacturing – deindustrialization - has been one of the most significant aspects of the restructuring of the American economy. In this volume, David Koistinen examines the demise of the textile industry in New England from the 1920s through the 1980s to better understand the impact of industrial decline.Trade Review“Koistinen puts the ‘political’ back in political economy in this fascinating account of New England’s twentieth-century industrial erosion. First-rate research and sound judgments make this study essential reading.”—Philip Scranton, Rutgers University–Camden“Well-organized and clearly written, Confronting Decline looks at one community to understand a process that has become truly national.”—David Stebenne, Ohio State University“Koistinen’s important book makes clear that many industrial cities and regions began to decline as early as the 1920s.”—Alan Brinkley, Columbia University“Sheds new light on a complex system of enterprise that sometimes blurs, and occasionally overrides, the distinctions of private and public, as well as those of locality, state, region, and nation. In so doing, it extends and deepens the insights of previous scholars of the American political economy.”—Robert M. Collins, University of Missouri

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Book Synopsis Gambling was once illegal and controlled by gangsters. But today, gambling is legal in forty-eight states. Are states now addicted to revenue from casinos, lotteries, and online gaming? Clary’s history of American gambling introduces us to the industry’s colorful kingpins while asking tough questions about the pros and cons of legal gambling.Trade Review“David Clary delivers an encompassing look at the fascinating, ongoing evolution of American gambling. He touches on all the right topics – the mob, Las Vegas, Atlantic City, fantasy sports – to tell the story of where we’ve been, how we got here, and where we’re headed.” -- David Purdum * ESPN Chalk *"This timely inquiry raises important questions about the relationship of Americans to gambling and is essential reading for those interested in the politics and policy behind gambling." -- David G. Schwartz * director of the Center for Gaming Research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas *"An inherently fascinating and impressively informative study, Gangsters to Governors... is unreservedly recommended for both community and academic library American History collections" -- Carl Logan * Midwest Book Review *"Gangsters to Governors: The New Bosses of Gambling in America... goes back to the earliest days of gambling in America, betting on horse racing in the early 19th century. It covers state-run lotteries, legal gambling in Nevada, and mob control over Las Vegas in the 20th century... Among the most compelling issues Clary raises is how states and their governors have become leading advocates of gambling because they’re ever more dependent on the revenue it provides." -- Michael Shapiro, author of “A Sense of Place" * San Francisco Chronicle *"It's a fascinating topic" - Full interview here -- Maureen Cavanaugh * KPBS *"A well-written, tidbit-laden reference book about gambling in the U.S. from its beginnings to 2017." * Las Vegas Review-Journal *"Journalist David Clary’s book, Gangsters to Governors, is a fascinating read, chronicling gaming from the time of the mobsters forward to the relationships of politicians and state legalized gambling." -- Howard Hian * travel/gaming writer for PokerResorts.net and managing editor of Travel Savvy News *"Deeply researched, easily readable and highly engaging, Gangsters to Governors is an excellent read for fans of gambling and of American business and political history." * Casino City Times *"How the Supreme Court's sports gambling decision may affect your bets" by David Clary op-ed * San Diego Union-Tribune *"Sports betting likely coming to California, but not soon" by Michael Shapiro mention of Gangers to Governors * San Francisco Chronicle *"Supreme Court ruling opens door to widespread sports betting" by Matt Villano Gangsters to Governors mention * GlobalSport Matters *Table of ContentsContents Prologue Bad Bet: New Jersey and the Revel Atlantic City Fiasco PART I Dens of Thieves: Government Muscles Out the Mob 1 The Sport of Kings: Horse Racing and the Dark Power of the Wire 2 Golden Ticket: State-Run Lotteries Topple Illegal Numbers Rackets 3 State of Play: Nevada Breaks New Ground with Legalized Gambling 4 Mob Scene: Crime Syndicates Overwhelm Authorities in Nevada 5 Enemy Within: Government Fights Back Against Mob Influence 6 Vegas, Inc.: Corporate America Takes Command in Sin City PART II All In: The New Masters of Gambling 7 Siren Song: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Atlantic City 8 Betting on a Boom: States Promote Casinos as Engines of Revival 9 Rise of the Tribes: Tribes and States Forge Uneasy Gambling Partnerships 10 A Tangled Web: America's Deeply Conflicted Approach to Online Gambling 11 Games without Frontiers: Scandals, Bookies, Fantasy Sports, and an Uncertain Future Epilogue Double or Nothing: States Neglect the Human Cost of Problem Gambling Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAddresses five areas of soft corruption: campaign financing, lobbying, conflict of interest, patronage, and the electoral process. Throughout the book, we see the serious consequences of soft corruption, such as higher cost of government and reduced public faith in its operations. With impressive detail, Schluter concludes by outlining a platform for reform.Trade Review"An encyclopedia of bad government in New Jersey, from the perspective of a man who had a front row seat to all the dirty dealings." * U.S. 1 Newspaper *"Soft Corruption should be read by anyone concerned about the appalling lack of ethics in our state's politics. It should be mandatory reading for the thousands of New Jersey elected officials. In fact, the NJ Leage of Municipalities should consider providing copies to each and every elected body in the state and strongly suggest that it be passed around among their members so it can be discussed at widely publicized public meetings." * The Trenton Times *"Senator Schluter's keen insights into the political process in New Jersey are based on his distinguished career in public service over the last half century. His book is a must read for every New Jerseyan interested in state electoral reform and ethics in government." -- Leonard Lance * U.S. Representative for New Jersey's 7th district *“Soft corruption has never before been explored or documented so thoroughly and persuasively. Schluter unflinchingly names names and recounts details to bring soft corruption in New Jersey vividly and compellingly to life." -- Richard L. McCormick * President Emeritus, Board of Governors Professor of History and Education *"A strong critique of corruption, which seeks to restore the promises of effective democracy." -- Gerald Pomper * Board of Governors Professor of Political Science *"Loose Ends 8/31 William Schluter is fondly remembered" * Central Jersey.com *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments 1. Soft Corruption—The Problem2. Campaign Financing: How It Works3. Campaign Financing: The New Jersey Version4. Lobbying5. Conflict of Interest6. Patronage: Jobs, Contracts, Perks7. The Electoral Process8. Agenda for Reform9. How to Achieve Reform NotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThoroughly researched, Gold and Freedom brings the perspective of a gifted French historian to a perennial topic in U.S. history. By reinterpreting Reconstruction through a sectional lens, Barreyre shifts our attention from party conflict to what he calls its 'spatial dynamics.' It may well be that an outsider is best positioned to appreciate the enormous significance of sectionalism in U.S. national politics. Barreyre proves here that he definitely 'gets it.'"" --Richard R. John, Columbia University, author of Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications. ""Nicolas Barreyre's Gold and Freedom is the first serious attempt to analyze congressional policy making during the era of Reconstruction to appear in forty to fifty years. It is a brilliant piece of work. None of the previous studies of economic policy making have tied those disputes so integrally to the evolution of federal Reconstruction policy as Barreyre does here. The book will make a splash with students of the Civil War/Reconstruction period as well as with specialists."" --Michael Holt, Williams Professor of American History Emeritus, University of Virginia.

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Book SynopsisA history of the politics of air pollution.Trade Review[A] fascinating, provocative, pathbreaking book. . . . Air pollution can no longer be understood simply as an issue of economics, science, and engineering, but one that implicates fundamental values and controversies surrounding justice, fairness, and the construction of knowledge. -- Gary Bryner,author of From Promises to Performance: Achieving Global Environmental GoalsEssential reading for social environmental historians, environmental scientists, cultural and social historians, and public policy specialists. -- Bill Luckin,author of Pollution and ControlThe well-told stories in its diverse chapters provide lessons for today as we continue to struggle to curb urban air pollution and its health effects. -- Jonathan Samet,coeditor of Indoor Air Pollution: A Health PerspectiveThis collection of richly detailed and pioneering essays will be welcomed as a major contribution . . . providing a broad-ranging and multifaceted overview of the history of society's reaction to and struggle to protect itself from air-borne industrial toxins. -- Christine Rosen,author of The Limits of PowerThis excellent collection offers a complex and nuanced introduction to a field that intersects with many others, including studies of social stratification and social movements. -- Graig Willse,City University of New YorkArguing the importance of the social dimensions of air pollution issues, this collection of 15 original essays addresses a wide range of topics ranging from the perception of the pollution in Victorian England to automotive pollution control in prewar Germany to pesticide drift in modern California. Several essays are provocative. well written, and richly detailed; others are vignettes. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroductionThe Emergence of Air Pollution as a ProblemPerceptions and E?ects of Late Victorian Air Pollution "The Invisible Evil": Noxious Vapor and Public Health in Manchester during the Age of Industry Public Perceptions of Smoke Pollution in Victorian Manchester Uplands Downwind: Acidity and Ecological Change in the Southeast Lancashire Moorlands The "Smoky City" between the Wars The Merits of the Precautionary Principle: Controlling Automobile Exhausts in Germany and the United States before Interpreting the London Fog Disaster Localizing Smog: Transgressions in the Therapeutic Landscape Air Pollution Policy TodayA Fine Balance: Automobile Pollution Control Strategies in California Who Owns the Air? Clean Air Act Implementation as a Negotiation of Common Property Rights Air Pollution in Spain: A "Peripheral" Nation Transforms Clearing the Air and Breathing Freely: The Health Politics of Air Pollution and Asthma Invisible People, Invisible Places: Connecting Air Pollution and Pesticide Drift in California Notes from the Field: Air Pollution Engineering as Cultural Experience The Social and Political Construction of Air Pollution: Air Pollution Policies for Mexico CityAfterword Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisShowing how scarcity and surplus populations can lead to disaster, the contributors to this text discuss ""ethnic cleansing"" and the world's expanding killing fields. They anticipate mass death and genocide for the 21st century and provide responses to this impending catastrophe.

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Book SynopsisThe third in a series of volumes based on the MIGA-Georgetown University Symposium in International Political Risk Management, this book offers assessments of needs, trends, and challenges in the international political risk insurance industry. It examines the lessons that can be learned from investment losses, insurance claims, and arbitrations.

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Book SynopsisExamines diaries, letters, and the more practical writings of the classical economists. This book argues that these private and practical writings reveal the real intentions and goals of classical political economy - to separate a rural peasantry from their access to land. It talks about the rise of capitalism to its state of world dominance.Trade Review“After reading Michael Perelman's excellent book we see our world in different colors. The origin of market capitalism is the product of strategies pursued to take away from people the conditions for developing alternative ways to live and produce. We also discover that classical political economy has been so instrumental in guiding these strategies. The book leaves us to wonder how the same mechanisms are reproduced today. This critical question pervades the book.”—Massimo De Angelis, University of East London“This study is to be admired for its comprehensiveness, scope, and the amount of unearthing and excavation Perelman provides. The indictment of political economists who addressed themselves to the matter of primitive accumulation is masterful.”—H. T. Wilson, York UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Dark Designs 1. The Enduring Importance of Primitive Accumulation 2. The Theory of Primitive Accumulation 3. Primitive Accumulation and the Game Laws 4. The Social Division of Labor and Household Production 5. Elaborating the Model of Primitive Accumulation 6. The Dawn of Political Economy 7. Sir James Steuart’s Secret History of Primitive Accumulation 8. Adam Smith’s Charming Obfuscation of Class 9. The Revisionist History of Professor Adam Smith 10. Adam Smith and the Ideological Role of the Colonies 11. Benjamin Franklin and the Smithian Ideology of Slavery and Wage Labor 12. The Classics as Cossacks: Classical Political Economy versus the Working Class 13. The Counterattack 14. Notes on Development Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisHow are we to understand capitalism at the millennium? Is it a singular or polythetic creature? What are we to make of the culture of neoliberalism that appears to accompany it, taking on simultaneously local and translocal forms? This title deals with these questions.Trade Review“In an extrarodinary introduction the editors of this book set out to interrogate the features of capitalism at the millennium, not only its technical but also its messianic and magical manifestations. This makes for an unusual treatment of familiar subjects. . . . [M]ust reading for anyone concerned with transnational processes.”—Saskia Sassen, author of The Global City“The savvy success of ‘postmodernism,’ that cynical sign of the fin de siecle, has prevented us from re-imagining the present and mapping the future. Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism steps into the breach and opens up a new chapter in our understanding of a world of contradictory forces and ambivalent affiliations. When the rapid expansion of free markets sends sovereign states into free fall, and the value of citizenship is measured in the currency of consumption, the time is ripe for a radical rethinking of political passion in the public interest. In a fine double act the Comaroffs, and their gifted contributors, provide us with brilliant ethnographic and ethical accounts of a world-system whose emergent structures are both older and newer than the globalizing jargon of our times.”—Homi K. Bhabha, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsMillennial Capitalism: First Thoughts on a Second Coming / John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff Millennial Transitions / Irene Stengs, Hylton White, Caitrin Lynch, and Jeffrey A. Zimmermann Towards a Critique of Globalcentrism: Speculations on Capitalism’s Nature / Fernando Coronil Lived Effects of the Contemporary Economy: Globalization, Inequality, and Consumer Society / Michael Storper The Dialectics of Still Life: Murder, Women, and Maquiladoreas / Melissa W. Wright Freeway to China (Version 2, for Liverpool) / Allan Sekula Capitalism and Autochthony: The Seesaw of Mobility and Belonging / Peter Geschiere and Francis Myamnjoh Millennial Coal Face / Luiz Paulo Lima, Scott Bradwell, and Seamus Walsh Modernity’s Media and the End of Mediumship? On the Aesthetic Economy of Transparency in Thailand / Rosalind C. Morris Living at the Edge: Religion, Capitalism, and the End of the Nation-State in Taiwan / Robert P. Weller Millenniums Past, Cuba’s Future? / Paul Ryer Consuming Geist: Popontology and the Spirit of Capital in Indigenous Australia / Elizabeth A. Povinelli Cosmopolitanism and the Banality of Geographical Evils / David Harvey Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisA compilation of essays by the author that reveals the value for science studies of examples arising within the history of economicsTrade Review“The Effortless Economy of Science is an outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science, history of economics, and science studies. Philip Mirowski shows why work in each of these fields can be better understood by looking through the lens of other fields.”—Bradley W. Bateman, Gertrude B. Austin Professor of Economics, Grinnell CollegeTable of ContentsPart One From Economics to Science Studies 1 Introduction: Cracks, Hidden Passageways, and False Bottoms: The Economics of Science and Social Studies Economics 3 1. Confessions of an Aging Enfant Terrible 37 Part Two Science as an Economic Phenomenon 51 2. On Playing the Economics Card in the Philosophy of Science: Why It Didn’t Work for Michael Polanyi 53 3. Economics, Science, and Knowledge: Polanyi versus Hayek 72 4. What’s Kuhn Got to Do with It? 85 5. The Economic Consequences of Philip Kitcher 97 6. Re-engineering Scientific Credit in the Era of Globalized Information Economy 116 Part Three Rigorous Quantitative Measurement as a Social Phenomenon 145 7. Looking for Those Natural Numbers: Dimensionless Constants and the Idea of Natural Measurement 147 8. A Visible Hand in the Marketplace of Ideas: Precision Measurement as Arbitrage 169 Part Four Is Econometrics an Empirical Endeavor? 193 9. Brewing, Betting, and Rationality in London, 1822-1844: What Econometrics Can and Cannot Tell Us about Historical Actors 195 10. Why Econometricians Don’t Replicate (Although They Do Reproduce) 213 11. From Mandlebrot to Chaos in Economic Theory 229 12. Mandelbrot’s Economics after a Quarter-Century 251 13. The Collected Economic Works of William Thomas Thornton: An Introduction and Justification 273 14. Smooth Operator: How Marshall’s Demand and Supply-Curves Made Neoclassicism Safe for Public Consumption but Unfit for Science 335 15. Problems in the Paternity of Econometrics: Harry Ludwell Moore 357 16. Refusing the Gift 376 Notes 401 References 427 Index 459

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Book SynopsisFamed anthropologist Ortner tracks down representative classmates from her mostly Jewish Newark, NJ high school class of '58 in order to examine class culture and ethnicity in America today.Trade Review"For thirty years [Ortner] has studied gender and social and cultural theory, helping invent the field of feminist anthropology. . . [In New Jersey Dreaming] Ms. Ortner vividly captured those days when girls took home economics and boys took shop. . . ." -- Felicia Lee * New York Times *"Ortner is an entertaining writer with a strong personal voice. . . ." -- Elaine Showalter * American Prospect *"[Ortner] convincingly argues that her classmates' success is not only a function of their work ethic and the level of acceptance of the dominant culture's value system, but also a function of how well they are able to benefit from their other group memberships. Recommended." -- G. Rabrenovic * Choice *"New Jersey Dreaming is consistently cogent, thought provoking and just plain fun to read. Because of the accessibility of the subject matter and the lucid descriptions of anthropological method and theory, I highly recommend this book for classroom use." -- Michael Chibnik * American Ethnologist *"Written by one of the most proficient anthropologists today, New Jersey Dreaming is an exemplar of the possibilities and limitations of multi-sited ethnography. It also is a fine contribution to the ethnography of schools and of class and socio-economic mobility in America. . . . Ortner's deft touch with both theory and method makes for a very readable and accessible book." -- Marilyn Silverman * Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology *"This is a lovely and interesting book. . . . [I]t offers valuable insights into class, race, ethnicity, gender, education, and friendship." -- Lynne Pettinger * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Ortner's book is a valuable contribution to the study of the role of class in contemporary America. New Jersey Dreaming is a tour de force exposition of the premise that class is not some natural object lying around in the world but is culturally or discursively constructed." -- J. Brian Sheehan * American Studies International *"New Jersey Dreaming is a distinctive and theoretically rigorous cultural analysis of class mobility that challenges the disciplinary apartheid in which anthropologists have tended to concede the study of U.S. social mobility and society to sociologists and historians. It offers a theoretical and methodological map of this terrain and will be a standout among books devoted to social change and class inequality." -- France Winddance Twine * Current Anthropology *"[E]xceptionally interesting . . . . [A]n important and genuinely innovative book. . . . New Jersey Dreaming is a real achievement in the study of American society. It offers a complex analysis that is a wonderful model for the study of class and culture, and it is a truly pioneering work in the ethnographic study of these critical features of American society." -- Riv-Ellen Prell * Jewish Quarterly Review *“Ortner’s book is what anthropology is at its best: an exploration of everyday life (whether old or new) and an analysis that uncovers life’s layers of subjective meanings and relations between them. Even more exciting, and perhaps more challenging for Ortner, is that New Jersey Dreaming is a book about an anthropologist’s own ‘culture,’ one’s own ‘nativity,’ so to speak.” -- Linwood H. Cousins * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *“Ortner’s engaging ethnography of the class of 1958 lays bare a fascinating slice of recent American life and shows convincingly how it participated in the larger movements of contemporary history.” -- William H. Sewell, Jr. * American Journal of Sociology *“Ortner is an accomplished and polished writer. The prose is clear and lucid yet vibrant. This is not a dry account of data collected and analyzed. It is a rendition of a time and place in New Jersey without the nostalgia, but with respect and a certain sense of affection. I would recommend this text not only for the professional, but as a teaching volume. This is how good ethnography is done.” -- Kathleen Shapiro * H-New Jersey, H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsList of Tables and Map ix Acknowledgments xi Letter to the Class of '58 xv 1. Introduction:A Genealogy of the Present / The Class of '58 and the Question of Class / The Research / The Native Ethnographer / Project Journal 1: Getting Started 1 The Making of the Class of '58 2. Reading Class:Families and Class / Behind Closed Doors / Hiding in Plain Sight / Project Journal 2: Florida 27 3. Drawing Boundaries:To Melt or Not? / The Ethnic Story / The Class Story / Project Journal 3: Los Angeles 51 4. Dealing with Boundaries:The Others / Overt Racism / Race and Ethnic Relations at Weequabic / Internalizing Limits / Survival Strategies / Project Journal 4: New Jersey 68 5. American High Schools:Memories and Categories / Deconstructing High School / High School Types across Time and Space / Permutations of the Structure / Project Journal 5: New York 90 6. Weekquahic:The Top of the Table: High-Capital Kids and Popularity / The Lower Half of the Table: Low-Capital Kids and Resistance / Identities I: The Wildness of the Tame / Identities II: The Tameness of the Wild / Project Journal 6: New Jersey 110 7. Tracks:Weequabic qua School / College Prep? / Cultural Capital / College as a Cultural System / Gender Tracks / Project Journal 7: New Jersey 141 What the Class of '58 Made 8. Counterlives:Earlier Causes / The Other Fifities / The Sixties / Project Journa 8: New Jersey 169 9. Money:Success / Upward Mobility / The Success of Jewish Men / High -Capital Jewish Boys / Downward Mobility / Low-Capital Jewish Boys / Mobility, Agency, and History / Project Journal 9: Children of the Class of '58, New Jersey 187 10. Happiness:Zero College / Success II: Happiness / Project Journal 10: Children of the Class of '58 (LA and Other Far-flung Places, Including New Jersey) 213 11. Liberation:Women and Higher Education / Class of '58 Women and the Feminist Movement / Divorce / Careers / Succeeding in Nontraditional Careers / Project Journal 11: Endgame 238 12. Late Capitalism:The Class of '58 and the Making of Late Capitalism / The Growth of the PMC / Race Again 262 Appendix 1. Finding People / Judy Epstein Rothbard 279 Appendix 2. In Memoriam 282 Appendix 3. Lost Classmates 283 Appendix 4. The Class of '58 Today 284 Notes 295 Works Cited 313 Index 331

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Book SynopsisAn ethnographic examination of the history and social effects of conservation and development efforts in Papua New GuineaTrade Review“Conservation Is Our Government Now is a timely and significant contribution to contemporary critical scholarship on conservation. More than any other study of which I am aware, it provides an ethnographically rich, nuanced account of the encounter between conservation practitioners and a local community. It is an exemplar of the power of ethnographic writing to reveal other subjectivities and other ways of being.”—J. Peter Brosius, coeditor of Communities and Conservation: Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management“Incisive, moving, and beautifully written, Conservation Is Our Government Now is an absolutely exemplary study and a completely absorbing narrative. It is quite simply one of the most sophisticated political ecology books I have read to date.”—Neil Smith, author of The Endgame of GlobalizationTable of ContentsPreface xi Acknowledgments xxiii Abbreviations and Acronyms xxix 1. New Guinea-New York 1 2. Making Crater Mountain 27 3. Articulations, Histories, Development 52 4. Conservation Histories 125 5. A Land of Pure Possibility 147 6. The Practices of Conservation-as-Development 183 7. Exchanging Conservation for Development 215 Appendices 239 Notes 251 Bibliography 279 Index 311

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Book SynopsisVerónica Gago provides a new theory of neoliberalism by examining how Latin American neoliberalism is propelled not just from above by international finance, corporations, and government, but by the activities of migrant workers, vendors, sweatshop workers, and other marginalized groups in and around the La Salada market in Buenos Aires.Trade Review“Verónica Gago’s Neoliberalism from Below represents an important milestone in this biopolitical turn in the study of neoliberalism. . . . In fact, Neoliberalism from Below has already in Latin America become a kind of field manual for the type of militant research of which Gago is herself an important purveyor.” -- Nicolas Allen * A Contracorriente *"A tour de force through more than a century of economic and political thought . . . It should be on the reading list of any scholar working with themes of informality, neoliberalism, or developmentalism." -- Calla Hummel * Latin American Politics and Society *"Brings a much-needed perspective from the Global South to theoretical debates concerning neoliberalism. . . . Neoliberalism from Below masterfully achieves the task it set out to do--namely to characterize neoliberalism . . . A necessary addition to the literature." -- Andrew Davis * Journal of Cultural Economy *"Gago presents her audience with a provocative argument that examines the contradictions of neoliberal capitalism, particularly how it uses, but is also used by, precarious labor. . . . A significant contribution that sits with neoliberalism’s paradoxical manifestations. It is critical reading for those interested in theorizing the shifting dynamics of late capitalism." -- Steven Schmidt * Journal of Latin American Geography *"A fascinating and original account of the production of neoliberalism from the perspective of popular economic practices in Argentina. . . . This skillful translation into English by Liz Mason-Deese . . . is a major theoretical contribution that sheds light on other rationalities which are permeating neoliberalism in Latin America." -- Mara Duer * Journal of Latin American Studies *"An enthralling read. . . . Such is the richness of the work that attempting to review it was a daunting, and at times seemingly thankless, task – should one focus on its contributions to (Southern) urban geography? Attempt to unpack the discussion of governmentality and populism? Or trace its refreshingly nuanced take on ‘slave labour’? . . . Gago is a voice that must be listened to. . . . Alongside the other books in Duke’s Radical Américas series, Gago has made an invaluable contribution that reiterates once more that Latin American thinking is among the most exciting in the world." -- Nick Clare * Dialogues in Human Geography *"Anthropologists of work will find the book significant for its discussion of migrants, blurring the classical definitions of work, as they mix wage labor with entrepreneurial projects or self-employment in ways that problematize the division between formal and informal work. . . . [Gago] effectively considers the ways in which configurations of work are generative for how urban space develops—a contribution that will extend beyond the book’s focus on Argentina." -- Schuyler Therese Marquez * Anthropology of Work Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Neoliberalism from Below: A Perspective from Latin America 1 1. Between the Proletarian Microeconomy and the Transnational Network: La Salada 29 2. Between La Salada and the Workshop: Communitarian Wealth in Dispute 78 3. Between Servitude and the New Popular Entrepreneurship: The Clandestine Textile Workshop 108 4. Between the Workshop and the Villa: A Discussion about Neoliberalism 153 5. Between Postnational Citizenship and the Ghetto: The Motley City 178 6. Between Populism and the Politics of the Governed: Governmentality and Autonomy 218 Conclusion. Neoliberal Reason 234 Notes 237 References 257 Index 271

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Book SynopsisNatural resource extraction has fueled protest movements in Latin America and existing research has drawn considerable scholarly attention to the politics of antimarket contention at the national level, particularly in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Argentina.

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection examines the connections between the new face of progressive, civil reform in Latin America and new kinds of openness to reform on the part of the private sector. It is the first to focus on the response of business to reform efforts arising from civil society.

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Book SynopsisCanavan's treatment of the relationship of Edmund Burke's economic theory to his political theory, aims to show that Burke's own emphasis was not on capitalistic laissez-faire economics, but that his goals were primarily political and cultural, dependent on the support of landed property owners.

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsSydney Lectures 1. Money, or The Other Side of Images 3 2. The Point of (No) Exchange, or The Debt- Image 27 3. Innervation, or The Gaze of Capital 43 Additional Features Merchandise: Godzilla’s Eye 79 Deleted Scenes: Doors and Slide Changers in Pickpocket and Obsession 84 Deleted Scenes: Three Variations on Time and Money (Antonioni, De Palma, Bresson) 88 Photo Gallery: Blow- Up, or Why There Are No Images 92 Locations: 23, rue Bénard, Paris, 75014 99 Deleted Scene: The Fluctuations of the Unchained Camera (L’Herbier) 101 Deleted Scenes: The General Fetishism of the Marxes 103 Deleted Scenes: The Amortization of the Gaze (King Kong) 106 Formats: Surplus Definition (Redacted) 112 Credits 121 Notes 123 Index 155

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsSydney Lectures 1. Money, or The Other Side of Images 3 2. The Point of (No) Exchange, or The Debt- Image 27 3. Innervation, or The Gaze of Capital 43 Additional Features Merchandise: Godzilla’s Eye 79 Deleted Scenes: Doors and Slide Changers in Pickpocket and Obsession 84 Deleted Scenes: Three Variations on Time and Money (Antonioni, De Palma, Bresson) 88 Photo Gallery: Blow- Up, or Why There Are No Images 92 Locations: 23, rue Bénard, Paris, 75014 99 Deleted Scene: The Fluctuations of the Unchained Camera (L’Herbier) 101 Deleted Scenes: The General Fetishism of the Marxes 103 Deleted Scenes: The Amortization of the Gaze (King Kong) 106 Formats: Surplus Definition (Redacted) 112 Credits 121 Notes 123 Index 155

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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary collection, featuring some of today’s most prominent political theorists, sociologists, philosophers, and historians, challenges narratives of neoliberalism’s demise. The book queries whether contemporary political ruptures—including the rise of far-right forces—will challenge, support, or extend the reach of market rule around the globe.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Theorizing Mutant Neoliberalism | 1 William Callison and Zachary Manfredi 1. Neoliberalism’s Scorpion Tail | 39 Wendy Brown 2. The Market’s People: Milton Friedman and the Making of Neoliberal Populism | 61 Sören Brandes 3. Neoliberals against Europe | 89 Quinn Slobodian and Dieter Plehwe 4. Anti-Austerity on the Far Right | 112 Melinda Cooper 5. Disposing of the Discredited: A European Project | 146 Michel Feher 6. Neoliberalism, Rationality, and the Savage Slot | 177 Julia Elyachar 7. Sexing Homo OEconomicus: Finding Masculinity at Work | 196 Leslie Salzinger 8. Feminist Theory Redux: Neoliberalism’s Public-Private Divide | 215 Megan Moodie and Lisa Rofel 9. “Innovation” Discourse and the Neoliberal University: Top Ten Reasons to Abolish Disruptive Innovation | 244 Christopher Newfield 10. Absolute Capitalism | 269 Étienne Balibar List of Contributors | 291 Index | 295

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Book SynopsisManagers practice in a constantly changing environment, creating the need for effective strategic planning. However, to date the importance of strategic planning to hospitality and tourism has not been the subject of detailed empirical academic research. This book fills that gap. It contains the latest research which integrates theory with practice, including two new diagnostic tools developed by the authors, the Strategic Planning Index (SPI) and Marketing Planning Index (MPI). The tourism and hospitality industry is examined from a strategic perspective, including case illustrations and detailed studies of two major hotel groups, along with the relevance of the strategic planning process. The book goes on to describe strategic planning systems, at both the corporate and business unit level. International examples are used to demonstrate how these concepts and techniques can be incorporated into the design and implementation of effective strategic planning systems, in order to improveTable of Contents1: The Relevance of Strategic Planning Systems 2: The Hospitality and Tourism Industry: A Strategic Perspective 3: The Strategic Planning Process 4: Strategic Planning and Performance 5: Strategic Planning Systems 6: The Strategic Planning Index 7: The Marketing Planning Index 8: Designing and Implementing Effective Strategic Planning Systems I: References II: Index

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Book SynopsisA considerable amount of work has been conducted in the field of peace studies, conflict management, peace science in economics, sociology, anthropology and management. This title presents research with an emphasis on theoretical and mathematical constructs in the area of peace economics & peace science.Table of ContentsLIST OF CONTRIBUTORS FOREWORD - Manas Chatterji INTRODUCTION - Lloyd J. Dumas 1.Does the Capitalist Peace Exist? Yes, it did! But will it apply to China and the West? Erich Weede, formerly University of Bonn, Germany 2.The governance of conflicts and partnerships in knowledge and innovation networks - Riccardo Cappellin, University of Roma Tor VergataA", Rome, Italy 3.Macroprudential Monitoring of Financial Crisis: An Empirical Framework - Biswa N. Bhattacharyay, Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Tokyo, Japan 4.A Systemic Perspective on Multi-Stakeholder Sustainable Development Strategies - Aliye Ahu Akgun, Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Istanbul, Turkey, Eveline van Leeuwe and Peter Nijkamp, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands 5.Conflicts And Convergence In The Southwestern-European Border : Spain, South-Spain And The Maghreb(1995-2010)- Fernando Barreiro-Pereira, Spanish National University for Distance Learning (UNED), Madrid, Spain 6.Facilitators and Inhibitors of Political Mass Killing - Sheldon G Levy, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA 7.On the Economics of Arab Economic Integration Partha Gangopadhyay and Mohamed Elafif, University of Western Sydney, Penrith, Australia 8. Not all quiet on the Middle Eastern Fronts Riad A.Attar, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA 9. Afghan War- Global Jihad and Sectarian Conflict in Pakistan- Internal and External Links Riaz Ahmed Shaikh, Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology- SZABIST, Karachi, Pakistan 10. Conflict Prevention In Japan Seifudein Adem, Binghamton University, New York, USA 11. Nuclear India And Pakistan And Quest For Peaceful Dialogue Mohammed Badrul Alam, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, India 12.Multidimensional changes in "ripeness" in Angola around the 1989 Gbadolite peace accords - Ricardo Sousa, Erasmus University of Rotterdam (EUR), Netherlands 13. Conflict, Environment and the Dynamics of Fear: The Example of Rwanda and Nepal - Urs Luterbacher, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland with collaboration of Sebastian Di Iorio, Colin Nippert and Beatrice Mosello

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Book SynopsisThe Handbook on the Economics of Conflict conveys how economics can contribute to the understanding of conflict in its various dimensions embracing world wars, regional conflicts, terrorism and the role of peacekeeping in conflict prevention.Trade Review’Conflict and the need for defense against conventional and nonconventional threats are as important today as they have ever been owing to nuclear proliferation, terrorism, and myriad conflicts. The Handbook offers a new look at many of the key conflict concerns that challenge the world today. The papers are authored by many of the best researchers in the field and is a must read for any policymaker, scholar, or student interested in cutting-edge treatment of these problems.’ -- Todd Sandler, University of Texas at Dallas, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Derek L. Braddon and Keith Hartley 2. The History of Economic Thought on Conflict Fanny Coulomb PART I: THEORY 3. A Bargaining Theory Perspective on War Charles H. Anderton and John R. Carter 4. Modeling Mass Killing: For Gain or Ethnic Cleansing? Attiat F. Ott and Sang Hoo Bae 5. The Economics of Destructive Power Mehrdad Vahabi 6. The Government Budget Allocation Process and National Security: An Application to the Israeli–Syrian Arms Race Itay Ringel and Asher Tishler 7. Characteristics of Terrorism Karen Pittel and Dirk Rübbelke 8. Conflict and Corruption John R. Hudson 9. Conflict in Space Vasilis Zervos 10. The Economics of Peacekeeping Vincenzo Bove and Ron Smith 11. Peacekeeping, Private Benefits and Common Agency Ugurhan G. Berkok and Binyam Solomon 12. The Long-term Costs of Conflict: The Case of the Iraq War Linda J. Bilmes and Joseph E. Stiglitz 13. Macroeconomics and Violence Jurgen Brauer and J. Paul Dunne PART II: CASE STUDIES 14. The Macroeconomic Effects of Conflict: Three Case Studies Christos Kollias and Suzanna-Maria Paleologou 15. Economics of Conflict: Turkey’s Experience Sennur Sezgin and Selami Sezgin 16. Terrorism: The Case of ETA Carlos P. Barros and Luis A. Gil-Alana 17. Helping Secure the ‘Biggest Bang for the Taxpayers’ Buck’: Defence Resource Management in the United Kingdom Neil Davies, Tony Turner, Andrew Gibbons, Stuart Davies, David Jones and Nick Bennett 18. The Economic Impact of the Conflict in the Balkans: The Case of Serbia Derek L. Braddon, Jonathan Bradley and Paul Dowdall 19. The Strategic Bombing of Germany in the Second World War: An Economic Perspective Keith Hartley 20. The Reprivatization of War Stefan Markowski and Peter Hall Index

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Book SynopsisThe Elgar Companion to Hayekian Economics provides an in-depth treatment of Friedrich August von Hayekâs economic thought from his technical economics of the 1920s and 1930s to his broader views on the spontaneous order of a free society. Taken together, the chapters show evidence both of continuity of thought and of significant changes in focus.Table of ContentsContents List of Contributors Tribute to Norman Barry Martin Rickets 1. Introduction Roger W. Garrison 2. Hayek in the History of Economic Thought Denis O’Brien 3. Hayek and Economic Theory in the 1930s Martin Ricketts 4. Hayek’s Pure Theory of Capital Gerald R. Steele 5. Hayek and Keynes Roger E. Backhouse 6. Hayek and Friedman Roger W. Garrison 7. Hayek and Mises Richard M. Ebeling 8. Hayek and Lachman Peter Lewin 9. Hayek: From Economics as Equilibrium Analysis to Economics as Social Theory Paul Lewis 10. Hayek and Spontaneous Order Craig Smith 11. Hayek on Socialism Mark Pennington 12. Hayek vs. the Neoclassicists: Lessons from the Socialist Calculation Debate Peter J. Boettke, Christopher J. Coyne, Peter T. Leeson 13. Spontaneous Order, Free Trade and Globalization Steven G. Horwitz 14. Hayek on Labor Unions Charles W. Baird 15. Hayek on Economic Policy (the Austrian Road to the Third Way) Enrico Colombato 16. What Remains of Hayek’s Critique of ‘Social Justice’? Twenty Propositions Robert Nef Index

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Book SynopsisThe prospects and value of economic integration and regionalism in Asia are increasingly evident in what could turn out to be âthe Asian Centuryâ. It is within this context that this important book explores the critical economic issues, security concerns and political themes pertinent to Asia in general, and to East Asia in particular.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction Jehoon Park 2. Towards Asia’s Century Guy Sorman 3. Exploring an Ideal New Economy for Asia: The Path from the One to the Many Chi-ha Kim 4. A Comparative Analysis on Regional Integration Communities and Implications for East Asia: A Regional Integration Index Approach Won-Ho Kim, Heungchong Kim and Jehoon Park 5. Multilateralizing East Asian Regionalism Inkyo Cheong 6. Inter-regional Trade, Intra-regional Trade, and Globalization based on Regionalization Shuji Matsuno 7. Lessons for East Asia: The EU Institutions – Catalyst for Integration? Fraser Cameron 8. The Role of the Benelux in the European Integration Process: Implications for East Asia Amy Verdun 9. Reducing Security Tensions in Northeast Asia: Lessons from Economics and Institutions T.J. Pempel 10. Regional Cooperation and the DPRK Nuclear Issue Wu Chunsi 11. US–China–EU ‘Grand Compromise’: In Search of a New Saviour? Alexander Zhebin 12. China’s Foreign Policy-Making in Post-Cold War East Asia with its Implications for Asian Regionalism Hochul Lee 13. Conclusion: Expanding the Perspective Beyond Political Economy Jehoon Park and Hyunsook Chung Index

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Book SynopsisEconomic governance institutions (rules, norms and enforcement practices) define the cost and incentive structures that influence the decisions of economic actors.Trade Review'This book is a welcome addition to the lively field of economic governance. The editors give a thoughtful review of ideas and landmarks in the literature and an organizing framework; the other chapters are a good mixture of theoretical, empirical, and case studies. The whole will significantly advance our understanding of institutions and economic performance.' --- Avinash Dixit, Princeton University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Does Economic Governance Matter? New Contributions to the Debate Mehmet Ugur and David Sunderland PART I: GOVERNANCE INSTITUTIONS AND MICRO-LEVEL BEHAVIOUR 2. Governance and Asymmetric Power Korkut Alp Ertürk 3. Norms, Advice Networks and Joint Economic Governance: The Case of Conflicts Among Shareholders at the Commercial Court of Paris Emmanuel Lazega, Lise Mounier and Paola Tubaro 4. Legal versus Reputational Penalties in Deterring Corporate Misconduct Peter-Jan Engelen 5. Strategies of Transnational Companies in the Context of the Governance Systems of Nation-states Grazia Ietto-Gillies PART II: GOVERNANCE INSTITUTIONS AND MACROECONOMIC OUTCOMES 6. The Effects of Convergence in Governance on Capital Accumulation in the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Countries Ahmet Faruk Aysan, Ömer Faruk Baykal and Marie-Ange Véganzonès–Varoudakis 7. Taxes, Foreign Aid and Quality of Governance Institutions José Antonio Alonso, Carlos Garcimartín and Luis Rivas 8. Economic Governance and Full Employment Constantine E. Passaris PART III: THE GOVERNANCE AND REGULATION INTERFACE 9. The Political Economy of Deregulation in the US Gas Distribution Market Vladimir Hlasny 10. Electricity Sector Reforms and the Tariff Review Process in Brazil Cláudio de Araújo Wanderley, John Cullen and Mathew Tsamenyi Index

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Book SynopsisThis critical and thought-provoking book explores the causes and consequences of Europe’s failed political and economic institutions. Most strikingly, the interplay between Europe’s political and economic realms is exposed as the boondoggle it is, with increasingly bureaucratic institutions plaguing the continent and endangering future potential.Trade Review'An important and timely contribution. David Howden has brought together an excellent collection of essays which go beyond the theoretical discussion of Austrian business cycle theory, exploring instead its empirical relevance to one of the most serious financial crises in modern European history.'- Mark Pennington, Queen Mary, University of London, UK 'This is an important and refreshing book which provides an approach of current problems quite different from what is (too often) written. In my opinion it is the only correct analysis of the economic crisis and of European problems. In spite of the diversity both of contributors and topics, a common and rigorous intellectual foundation gives unity and strength to this book. It offers the clues for the best understanding of present and future economic problems.'- Pascal Salin, Emeritus Professor of Economics, University Paris-Dauphine, France 'The current European recession is being offered as an excuse for a wider, more expansive centralized Europe. Failure to recognize the true causes of the recession - failed institutions that have plagued Europe for years, and will continue to do so if permitted to continue - will prolong the current malaise, and hold Europe back from its new future. Let us hope that the current volume does much to bring this new Europe to us.' --- From the foreword by Jesus Huerta de SotoTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Jesús Huerta de Soto 1. Institutional Illusion and Financial Entrepreneurship in the European Debt Scheme Gabriel A. Giménez-Roche 2. A Stock-taking of the Impact of the Crisis Jörg Guido Hülsmann 3. The Irish Economic ‘Miracle’: Celtic Tiger or Bengal Kitten? Anthony J. Evans 4. Europe’s Unemployment Crisis: Some Hidden Relief? David Howden 5. Europe’s Crisis of Accounting Maria Alvarado, Laura Muro and Kirk Lee Tennant 6. Solvency II and the European Sovereign Debt Crisis: The Case of Misplaced Prudence Antonio Zanella 7. The Eurosystem: Costs and Tragedies Philipp Bagus 8. Fiscal Stimulus, Financial Ruin Fernando Ulrich 9. From German Rules to European Discretion: Policy’s Slippery Slope Malte Tobias Kähler 10. The Euro as a Hindrance to Recovery? A Comparative Analysis of the Czech Republic and Slovakia Jiří Schwarz and Josef Šima 11. Compounding Agricultural Poverty: How the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy is Strangling European Recovery Brian Ó Caithnia Index

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Book SynopsisAll these methods address the benefits of the programs and most compare the benefits to costs, but the types of benefits and their measures vary greatly across the studies and across the different types of public programs.Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Thoughts about the Diversity of Evaluations Albert N. Link and John T. Scott PART I CRITICAL DISCUSSION AND COMMENTARY ABOUT EVALUATION METHODS 1. William J. Baumol (1968), ‘On the Social Rate of Discount’ 2. Arthur Maass (1966), ‘Benefit-Cost Analysis: Its Relevance to Public Investment Decisions’ 3. Amartya Sen (2000), ‘The Discipline of Cost-Benefit Analysis’ PART II PROGRAM ASSESSMENT 4. Luke Georghiou and David Roessner (2000), ‘Evaluating Technology Programs: Tools and Methods’ 5. Paul A. David, David Mowery and W. Edward Steinmueller (1992), 'Analysing the Economic Payoffs from Basic Research’ 6. F. Narin and Kimberly S. Hamilton (1996), ‘Bibliometric Performance Measures’ 7. Barry Bozeman and Gordon Kingsley (1997), ‘R&D Value Mapping: A New Approach to Case Study-Based Evaluation’ PART III PROGRAM EVALUATION A Agriculture 8. Zvi Griliches (1958), ‘Research Costs and Social Returns: Hybrid Corn and Related Innovations’ 9. David N. Bengston (1985), ‘Economic Evaluation of Agricultural Research: An Assessment’ B Modernization and Quality 10. Irwin Feller and Jon P. Nelson (1999), ‘The Microeconomics of Manufacturing Modernization Programs’ 11. Albert N. Link and John T. Scott (2006), ‘An Economic Evaluation of the Baldrige National Quality Program’ C Energy and Environment 12. Gideon Fishelson (1979), ‘Measuring the Benefits from an Innovation: An Application to Energy’ 13. Michael Gallaher and K. Casey Delhotal (2005), ‘Modeling the Impact of Technical Change on Emissions Abatement Investments in Developing Countries’ D Transportation 14. Robert William Fogel (1962), ‘A Quantitative Approach to the Study of Railroads in American Economic Growth: A Report of Some Preliminary Findings’ 15. Ian W.H. Parry and Kenneth A. Small (2009), ‘Should Urban Transit Subsidies be Reduced?’ E Support of National Infrastructure 16. Gregory Tassey (2008), ‘Modeling and Measuring the Economic Roles of Technology Infrastructure’ 17. Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Kent Smetters and Jan Walliser (2007), ‘Mitigating America’s Demographic Dilemma by Pre-Funding Social Security’ F Information Technology 18. Michael P. Gallaher and Brent R. Rowe (2006), ‘The Costs and Benefits of Transferring Technology Infrastructures Underlying Complex Standards: The Case of IPv6’ 19. Albert N. Link and John T. Scott (2005), ‘Evaluating Public Sector R&D Programs: The Advanced Technology Program’s Investment in Wavelength References for Optical Fiber Communications’ 20. David P. Leech and John T. Scott (2008), ‘Intelligent Machine Technology and Productivity Growth’ 21. Albert N. Link and John T. Scott (2001), ‘Public/Private Partnerships: Stimulating Competition in a Dynamic Market’ G Health Care 22. Burton A. Weisbrod (1981), ‘Benefit–Cost Analysis of a Controlled Experiment: Treating the Mentally Ill’ 23. Ted R. Miller, Maury S. Galbraith and Bruce A. Lawrence (1998), ‘Costs and Benefits of a Community Sobriety Checkpoint Program’ 24. Michael T. French, Kathryn E. McCollister, Stanley Sacks, Karen McKendrick and George De Leon (2002), ‘Benefit-Cost Analysis of a Modified Therapeutic Community for Mentally Ill Chemical Abusers’ 25. Bert M. Coursey and Albert N. Link (1998), ‘Evaluating Technology-based Public Institutions: The Case of Radiopharmaceutical Standards Research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology’ 26. Joshua T. Cohen, Peter J. Neumann and Milton C. Weinstein (2008), ‘Does Preventive Care Save Money? Health Economics and the Presidential Candidates’ H Local Public Goods 27. Steven C. Deller (1990), ‘An Application of a Test for Allocative Efficiency in the Local Public Sector’ 28. Stephanie Riegg Cellini, Fernando Ferreira and Jesse Rothstein (2010), ‘The Value of School Facility Investments: Evidence from a Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Design’

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Book SynopsisSince the 1990s many of the assumptions that anchored the study of governance in international political economy (IPE) have been shaken loose.Trade Review‘This intellectually stimulating Handbook will appeal to anyone with an interest in the spheres of governance, international political economy (IPE), international relations (IR), and political science. . . . the editors promise to generate refreshed debates on governance in IPE through innovative research. Anyone who successfully makes it to the concluding chapter will be thoroughly satisfied that they do deliver on their promise. The volume is dense with detail on both historical and current governance debates, and leaves no stone unturned in its coverage of them. There is no doubt that the main objectives of the book are effectively accomplished. The Handbook of Political Economy on Governance is a celebration of outstanding scholarship and critical thinking. This volume is a must read for scholars in any of the sub-disciplines of IR and IPE who are interested in examining and reexamining common-sense assumptions not only in the realm of governance but other topical issue areas in their respective fields.’ -- Geneve Phillip, Caribbean Journal of International Relations & Diplomacy‘Certainly one of the most inclusive books in international political economy, which successfully combines a strong and very innovative theoretical investigation with a wonderful diversity of case studies. The book is highly pedagogic and particularly meets the expectations of students and educated persons who are short of updated analysis in this field.’ -- Bertrand Badie, Sciences Po, FranceTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: The International Political Economy of Governance Nicola Phillips and Anthony Payne PART I: THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GOVERNANCE 1. Ideologies of Governance Andrew Gamble 2. Levels of Governance and their Interaction Colin Hay 3. Transnational Neopluralism and the Process of Governance Philip G. Cerny 4. The Ethical Dimensions of Global Governance James Brassett PART II: THE GOVERNANCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY 5. Flexible ‘G Groups’ and Network Governance in an Era of Uncertainty and Experimentation Andrew Baker and Brendan Carey 6. The International Monetary Fund and the Governance of International Surveillance Manuela Moschella 7. Private Actors in the Governance of Global Finance after the Global Crisis of 2008 Tony Porter 8. The Governance of the Global Financial Crisis in the Eurozone Geoffrey R.D. Underhill 9. The Governance of Money Laundering Eleni Tsingou 10. ‘Emerging’ Powers and the Governance of Global Trade Rorden Wilkinson 11. The Governance of Primary Commodities: Biofuel Certification in the European Union Ben Richardson 12. Food Price Volatility and Global Economic Governance Jennifer Clapp 13. The Global Governance of Development: Development Financing, Good Governance and the Domestication of Poverty David Hudson and Niheer Dasandi 14. The Governance of the World Bank Liam Clegg 15. The Role of the United Nations in the Governance of Development Jean-Philippe Thérien 16. Governing Intellectual Property Rights and Development Valbona Muzaka 17. Innovation and the Limits of Rebranded Privatisation in Global Health Sophie Harman 18. The Global Governance of Gender Jacqui True 19. Leveraging Private Governance for Public Purpose: Business, Civil Society and the State in Labour Regulation Frederick W. Mayer 20. Private Governance and Social Legitimacy in Production Peter Knorringa 21. The Governance of Migration Beyond the State George Menz 22. Migration in European Governance: The Constitution of a Transgovernmental Policy Field Andrew Geddes 23. The International Political Economy of Governing Carbon Peter Newell 24. Global Climate Governance Matthew J. Hoffmann 25. Governing the International Political Economy of Transnational Economic Crime Lorraine Elliott Conclusion: The Governance of the International Political Economy Anthony Payne and Nicola Phillips Index

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Book SynopsisThe Handbook on the Political Economy of War highlights and explores important research questions and discusses the core elements of the political economy of war.Trade Review‘From why wars begin and how they are waged to alternatives to conflict ,civil war, arms issues, and nation building, this offers a detailed, in-depth and comprehensive reference perfect for any military or political issues holding.’ -- The Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Christopher J. Coyne and Rachel L. Mathers PART I: WHY WARS ARE WAGED 2. Theories and Causes of War Jack S. Levy 3. The Reasons for Wars: An Updated Survey Matthew O. Jackson and Massimo Morelli 4. Can’t We All Just Get Along? Fractionalization, Institutions and Economic Consequences Peter T. Leeson and Claudia R. Williamson 5. Psychological Aspects of War Iain Hardie, Dominic Johnson and Dominic Tierney PART II: WAYS OF WAGING WAR 6. What is Guerrilla Warfare? Anthony James Joes 7. The Economics of Torture Pavel Yakovlev 8. Terrorism in Rational Choice Perspective William F. Shughart II 9. The Political Economy of Conscription Panu Poutvaara and Andreas Wagener PART III: CIVIL WAR AND REVOLUTION 10. Economic Perspectives on Civil Wars Nathan Fiala and Stergios Skaperdas 11. Political Economy of Third World Revolutions Misagh Parsa PART IV: THE ARMS TRADE 12. The Arms Trade David Kinsella 13. Arms Trade Offsets: What Do We Know? Jurgen Brauer and John Paul Dunne PART V: POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC SYSTEMS 14. The Capitalist Peace Erich Weede 15. On the Democratic Peace Sebastian Rosato 16. International Conflict and Leadership Tenure Randall J. Blimes 17. A Public Choice Perspective on Defense and Alliance Policy Bernhard Klingen 18. International Regimes and War James Ashley Morrison and Avery F. White PART VI: POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION AND NATION BUILDING 19. Fixing Failed States: A Dissenting View Justin Logan and Christopher Preble 20. Choice and Consequence in Strategies of Transitional Justice Geoff Dancy 21. Dynamics of Military Occupation Michael Hechter and Oriol Vidal-Aparicio 22. Three’s Company? Towards an Understanding of Third-Party Intervention Effectiveness David Carment and Martin Fischer 23. Credible Commitment in Post-Conflict Recovery Thomas Edward Flores and Irfan Nooruddin 24. Conflict, Credibility and Asset Prices Gregory M. Dempster and Justin P. Isaacs PART VII: ALTERNATIVES TO WAR 25. Disaggregated Trade Flows and International Conflict Han Dorussen and Hugh Ward 26. Sanctions as Alternatives to War David Cortright and George A. Lopez 27. International Negotiation and Conflict Prevention I. William Zartman 28. The Economics of Peacekeeping Lloyd J. Dumas Index

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Book SynopsisThis thought-provoking book illustrates why the `old’ international order is unable to provide crucial global public goods such as monetary and financial stability in the fight against mass poverty and climate change.Table of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: Why a Supranational Political Economy? 1. The Invisible Leviathan Part II: Global Imbalances, Income Inequalities and Regional Integration 2. Global Imbalances and the Dollar Standard 3. Globalization and Income Inequalities 4. Multipolarity and Regional Integration Part III: Money and Finance as Supranational Public Goods 5. Money as a Supranational Public Good 6. Finance as a Supranational Public Good References Index

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Book SynopsisTaking a realist approach, this insightful book looks at the forces shaping the evolution of global infrastructure networks. Examined through the lens of economic infrastructure (including transport, energy and information) this book addresses the forces of integration and fragmentation in the development of global networks.Trade Review'Globalisation depends on the physical and digital connectivity that infrastructure systems provide, and it is powered by global energy networks. Yet globalisation is also transforming the nature of infrastructure, for example, establishing it as a financial asset class and reviving its colonial role as an instrument of power. Turner and Johnson look through the lens of political economy to untangle the complex processes of infrastructure development that are shaping societies, economies and landscapes worldwide.' --Jim Hall, University of Oxford, UK'This book can be considered as ''the next level'' in the analysis of global infrastructure networks. The term 'infrastructure' is used here to mean a wide range of technical, economic and political arrangements, including daily commuting systems, container shipping networks, airline networks, and energy networks. Collectively these infrastructures support the flows of people, ideas, knowledge, capital, goods, etc. that facilitate the (re)production of cities as strategic places in the economy. The guiding principle in this book is that (global) cities are not only prominently connected in infrastructure networks, but above all combine the advantages of assuming central positions in these networks to support the global work that is routinely done within and between these cities. A stimulating read for all interested in how global infrastructure networks perform such functions as control, integration, security, and growth.' --Frank Witlox, Ghent University, Belgium'By combining International Political Economy theory and new data, Turner and Johnson provide fresh insight into the evolution and recent trends in infrastructure development which will be of interest to specialists as well as social scientists in general.' --Judith Clifton, University of Cantabria, SpainTable of ContentsContents: 1. Infrastructure and Territoriality 2. The nature of the Global Infrastructure System 3. The Global Transport Infrastructure System 4. The Global Information Infrastructure System 5. The Global Energy System 6. Reflections on the Global Infrastructure System Index

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Book SynopsisEconomists interested in public finance, public policy and political economy along with scholars of political science, public administration, law and political philosophy will find this book intriguing.Trade ReviewDeficits, Debt, and Democracy is an important book which should hopefully shakeup public finance. Wagner's focus on the entanglement of politics and markets and on budgetary outcomes as the products of competition and spontaneous ordering on the fiscal commons is insightful. His framework provides plausible explanations for observed budgetary outcomes (e.g., persistent deficits) and casts serious doubt on continued efforts to correct them. It also injects a welcome degree of complexity to an area which for far too long has been treated as relatively easy to model. As such, it is a welcome addition to the literature, and presents a formidable challenge to those who would espouse the merits and conclusions of more traditional approaches.' --George R. Crowley, Review of Austrian Economics'With Wagner's book, we now have a theoretical ice pick to pierce through the obvious outcomes on the surface to get a glimpse at the processes behind it.' --Wolf von Laer, Journal of the History of Economic Thought'Richard Wagner's Deficits, Debt, and Democracy: Wrestling with Tragedy on the Fiscal Commons is essentially a sequel to his 2007 book, Fiscal Sociology and the Theory of Public Finance. . . Wagner's framework merits wide attention. Specialists in public choice or public nance should put both Deficits, Debt and Democracy and Fiscal Sociology at the top of their reading lists. Wagner's framework could shed light on a great many questions beyond public finance, leading one to hope that this book is but one sequel in an ongoing franchise.' --Adam Martin, Zentralblatt MATHTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Budgeting: The Elusive Quest for Fiscal Responsibility 2. Budgeting and Political Economy: A Theoretical Framework 3. Budget Deficits, Ricardian Equivalence, and Macro–Micro Supervenience 4. Property Rights, Societal Tectonics, and the Fiscal Commons 5. Parliamentary Assemblies as Peculiar Market Bazaars 6. Taxation, Fiscal Politics, and Political Pricing 7. Regulation as Alternative Taxation 8. Public Finance for a Constitution of Liberty Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis absorbing book addresses the seemingly simple question of who rules the world by linking it to debates about who owns the world and what this means for the dynamics of global power distribution. Others examine how these issues at the global level interact with the regional or nation state level in the US, the UK, China, Australia and Mexico.Trade ReviewThis volume brings together leading scholars from around the world and a cross-section of some of the most exciting and cutting edge of research on transnational capitalists. The varied contributions are timely. They provide great insight into the structures and processes behind today's international business and political headlines. It is a must read for scholars and students of the new global capitalism. --William I. Robinson, University of California, Santa BarbaraTable of ContentsContents: 1. Capital Mobilization, Transnational Structures, and Capitalist Classes John Scott 2. The Financialization of Global Corporate Ownership David Peetz and Georgina Murray 3. Capital Relations and Directorate Interlocking: The Global Network in 2007 William K. Carroll 4. The Transnational Capitalist Class and Tax Havens Anthony van Fossen 5. The Business Roundtable and the Transnational Capitalist Class Clifford L. Staples 6. Transnational Business Networks in the Eurozone: A Focus on Four Major Stock Exchange Indices François-Xavier Dudouet, Eric Grémont and Antoine Vion 7. The Transnational Class in Mexico: New and Old Mechanisms Structuring Corporate Networks (1981–2010) Alejandra Salas-Porras 8. National and Transnational Structuring of the British Corporate Elite Bruce Cronin 9. Australia’s Ruling Class: A Local Elite, a Transnational Capitalist Class or Bits of Both? Georgina Murray 10. Outward Bound: Transnational Capitalism in China Jerry Harris 11. Corporate Futures and the Consequences from the Top End of Town Georgina Murray Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely book presents a critical examination of the developmental premises of Japan’s high-growth success and its subsequent drift into recession, stagnation and piecemeal reform.Trade ReviewRecent events have rendered Japan's lost decades all the more relevant to the rest of us. Rick Garside, in this wide-ranging and accessible account, explores the political economy of Japan's great stagnation with an eye toward describing how other advanced economies can avoid going down the same path. - Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley, US Professor Garside's timely book transcends the national preoccupation suggested by its title. From one viewpoint this is a case study (admittedly on a grand scale) of the experience of one country in one historical period. But in analyzing the dynamic relationship between Japan's post-war economic miracle and its chronic stagnation from the 1990's he offers a penetrating insight into the links between profound and embedded institutional and ideological influences, global upheaval, and almost disastrous national economic performance. Hence, Japan's Great Stagnation - the unfolding story of that country's declining experience from masterful economic power to seeming economic paralysis - provides us with an all-too familiar scenario with which to approach the contemporaneous ills of the world's developed economies. The interaction between banking crises, unwieldy institutions (especially, but not only, financial institutions), policy frailties, and stagnating demand - all conspired to create crisis and then handicap or prevent recovery. And the familiarity of the story is aggravated by the global financial crisis which now threatens to engulf us. History never fully repeats itself, but Professor Garside's illuminating examination of Japan's recent experiences must surely provide important points of relevance for the world's current malaise. He is to be congratulated on the depth and scope of what he has achieved - and for its relevance to what we are experiencing. --- Barry Supple, University of Cambridge, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Before Stagnation: Legacies of the High-growth Period 2. Catch-up Growth and Maturity: Developmentalism in Retrospect 3. Developmentalism as Ideology 4. Economic and Financial Policy in a Changing International Environment: The Origins and Course of the Bubble Economy 5. ‘Losing a Decade’: Economic and Financial Hubris in Recessionary Japan, 1990–97 6. Funding a Recovery: The Impact and Fate of Fiscal Policy, 1990–97 7. Banking Crises, Monetary Policy and Deflation, 1997–2000 8. Reform Without Salvation: Japan 1997–2000 9. Recession, Stagnation and the Labour Market: Continuity and Change in the 1990s 10. ‘Lost Decades?’ Japan’s Political Economy in the New Millennium Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis extensive Handbook provides an in-depth exploration of the political economy dynamics associated with the international monetary and financial systems.Trade Review‘In this book, outstanding political economists provide wide-ranging and accessible essays on the global monetary system and its interaction with dynamic and crisis-prone financial markets. The essays are filled with fresh and well-articulated insights. This timely survey of an increasingly important field deserves a prominent place on the syllabi of graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in international political economy, global governance, and international finance.’ -- Louis W. Pauly, University of Toronto, Canada‘Here is an intellectual feast for anyone interested in the political economy of international monetary and financial systems, served up by an impressive collection of experts. Students and specialists alike can gorge themselves on the many fascinating analyses of core issues and latest debates in the field. Highly recommended for anyone with an appetite to learn more about global money and finance.’ -- Eric Helleiner, University of Waterloo, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: 1. The Political Economy of the International Monetary and Financial Systems Thomas Oatley and W. Kindred Winecoff PART I: STRUCTURE, POWER, AND THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM 2. Financial Roots of Hegemony, Cooperation, and Globalization Andrew C. Sobel 3. Political Economy of Currency Internationalization Hyoung-kyu Chey 4. The Political Economy of the Contemporary Dollar Standard Thomas Oatley 5. Global Imbalances and the International Monetary System Herman Schwartz 6. The Triffin Dilemma, the Lucas Paradox, and Monetary Politics in the 21st Century W. Kindred Winecoff 7. The Renminbi-Dollar Relationship: Politics and Economics of a Diminishing Issue Yale H. Ferguson 8. Absolute or Relative Gains? How Status Quo and Emerging Powers Conceptualize Global Finance Leslie Elliott Armijo and John Echeverri-Gent PART II: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF EXCHANGE RATES Core Theoretical Perspectives 9. Private Actor Exchange Rate Policy Preferences Stephanie Walter 10. Domestic Institutions and Exchange Rates David H. Bearce Regional Exchange Rate Systems 11. Exchange Rates In Transition Economies Jana Grittersová 12. Currency Unions in the Developing World Scott Cooper 13. The Political Economy of Exchange Rates in East Asia Hongying Wang PART III: GLOBAL FINANCE: CRISES AND REGULATION 14. Financial Crises and the Politics of Adjustment and Reform Thomas B. Pepinsky 15. Fixed Exchange Rate Regimes and Financial Markets as Sources of Macroeconomic Discipline Thomas D. Willett, Eric M.P. Chiu and Stefanie Walter 16. The Politics of Global Financial Regulation Kevin Young 17. Why Club Goods Proliferated in Investment Finance W. Travis Selmier II 18. Rethinking Financial Regulation: Risk, Club Goods, and Regulatory Fatigue Philip G. Cerny 19. The Gnomes of Zurich Meet the Dogs of War: Financial Leadership and Regulation, 1850–2013 Michael Lee PART IV: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY INSTITUTIONS 20. Financial Governance in a Globalizing World Richard W. Mansbach 21. IMF Programs: Participation, Implementation, and Effects Graham Bird and Dane Rowlands 22. In Lieu of an Anchor: The Fund and its Surveillance Function Bessma Momani and Kevin A. English 23. The EU and the Euro Michele Chang 24. Our (Gracious?) Benefactors: US, Japan, China and East Asian Monetary Relations Emmanuel Yujuico Index

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Book SynopsisThomas Marois’ groundbreaking interpretation of banking and development in Mexico and Turkey builds on a Marxian-inspired framework premised on understanding states and banks as social relationships alongside crisis and labor as vital to finance today.Trade ReviewMarois has provided us with a fascinating, rigorous and important study of the rise and persistence of finance capitalism in Mexico and Turkey. Drawing on an innovative historical materialist lens, Marois' analysis reveals the struggles, contradictions, and continued significance of the banking sector in defining and redefining neoliberal-led development in these so-called ''emerging markets''. This is a very welcome addition to critical understandings of the role of finance and states in the global South. --Susanne Soederberg, Queen's University, CanadaThis book attempts to provide a critique of neoclassical and liberal political economists as well as the much-hyped and influential ''varieties of capitalism'' approach, a variant of institutionalist political economy, by claiming that they are dismissive of ''the structural power of financial capital''. In this regard, it makes an important contribution to the critical political economy tradition with its detailed analysis of the relations between the state, finance capital and labour in the context of two ''emerging capitalisms'', Mexico and Turkey. Thereby, it enhances our understanding of how the financial crises function as driving forces of neoliberal transformation by initiating new forms of state specific to peripheral capitalism. --Galip Yalman, Middle East Technical University, TurkeyFinancialization is as financialization does. It is a mix of the universal characteristics of finance within capitalism, its contemporary powerful hold over, even defining feature of, the neoliberal age, and the myriad of specific global markets and countries into which it has penetrated. In a stunning work of comparative political economy, Marois brilliantly weaves together these aspects of finance drawing on both innovative theoretical insights and primary case study evidence from Turkey and Mexico to furnish what will become a classic and original contribution to the understanding of financialization in the developing world, highlighting both the role of the state in the era of putatively free markets and the possibility, indeed, necessity of alternatives. --Ben Fine, University of London, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introducing Emerging Finance Capitalism 2. States, Banks, and Crisis in Emerging Finance Capitalism 3. States, Banks, and the History of Postwar Development in Mexico and Turkey 4. Neoliberal Idealism, Crisis, and Banking in Mexico’s State-led Structural Transformation, 1982–94 5. Crisis and the Neoliberal Idealism of State and Bank Restructuring in Turkey, 1980–2000 6. Another Round of Tequila? Interpreting the Costs and Benefits of Emerging Finance Capitalism in Mexico 7. Richer than Croesus? Understanding the Subordination of State and Banks to Emerging Finance Capitalism in Turkey 8. Comparing Alternatives in an Era of Emerging Finance Capitalism Bibliography Index

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