Political economy Books
Johns Hopkins University Press Crash
Book SynopsisPayne's book will help students recognize the telltale signs of bubbles and busts, so that they may become savvier consumers and investors.Trade ReviewComparing favorably with works by John Kenneth Galbraith, Frederick Lewis Allen, and Maury Klein, Crash! is an invaluable resource for students of history as well as economics. Essential. ChoiceTable of ContentsPrefacePrologue1. How in the 1920s the American Economy Promoted Speculation2. How Business Culture Encouraged Consumer Spending3. How the Market Grew Bullish4. How the Economy Crashed5. How the New Deal Changed the Financial SectorEpilogueNotesSuggested Further ReadingIndex
£35.10
Johns Hopkins University Press Crash
Book SynopsisPayne's book will help students recognize the telltale signs of bubbles and busts, so that they may become savvier consumers and investors.Trade ReviewComparing favorably with works by John Kenneth Galbraith, Frederick Lewis Allen, and Maury Klein, Crash! is an invaluable resource for students of history as well as economics. Essential. ChoiceTable of ContentsPrefacePrologue1. How in the 1920s the American Economy Promoted Speculation2. How Business Culture Encouraged Consumer Spending3. How the Market Grew Bullish4. How the Economy Crashed5. How the New Deal Changed the Financial SectorEpilogueNotesSuggested Further ReadingIndex
£17.58
Johns Hopkins University Press Reengineering the University
Book SynopsisHigher education expert William F. Massy's decades as a professor, senior university officer, and consultant have left him with a passionate belief in the need for reform in America's traditional universities. In Reengineering the University, he addresses widespread concerns that higher education's costs are too high, learning falls short of objectives, disruptive technology and education models are mounting serious challenges to traditional institutions, and administrators and faculty are too often unwilling or unable to change. An expert microeconomist, Massy approaches the challenge of reform in a genuinely new way by applying rigorous economic principles, informed by financial data and other evidence, to explain the forces at work on universities and the flaws in the academic business model. Ultimately, he argues that computer models that draw on data from college transaction systems can help both administrators and faculty address problems of educational performance and cost analTrade ReviewMassy's in-depth yet highly accessible analysis is a must-read for any academic leader. Academic Leader Massy has done an excellent job of explaining the interaction between the university budget, which creates the margin, or the financial return on investment, and the role of teaching and learning being core to the university mission. He spends considerable time helping integrate and resolve the two dimensions of mission and margin. Canadian Journal of Higher EducationTable of ContentsPreface1. Understanding the Traditional UniversityProblems and OpportunitiesAssets Worthy of PreservationWhy Traditional Universities Do What They DoImplications for Tuition and Cost ContainmentBusiness Models and Value Propositions2. The Reengineering ChallengeFlaws in the Academic Business ModelBuilding a Reengineering PortfolioImplementation ConsiderationsResponsibilities for Reengineering3. The New Scholarship of TeachingConceptual UnderpinningsIllustrative ApplicationsTwo "Outside the Box" ProposalsOrganizing for Improvement4. The Cost of TeachingAlternative ApproachesDesign of Teaching SystemsModeling from University Transactional DataExtending the Model across the CampusAreas of Application5. Financial Planning and BudgetingEnvisioning University InformationCoherent Financial PlanningCoherent Resource AllocationA Model for Balancing Mission and MarginConclusionAppendixesA. Teaching and Learning PrinciplesB. Course-Based ABCC. Computer-Aided Course DesignD. Incremental Cost of EnrollmentE. Smart What-Ifs in the Course-Based ABC ModelF. Margin Equivalents for Start-Up ProgramsG. Extensions to the Mission-Margin ModelNotesBibliographyIndex
£26.10
Johns Hopkins University Press Reading the Market
Book SynopsisFrom the rise of ticker-tape technology to the development of conspiracy theories, Reading the Market argues that commentary on the Stock Exchange between 1870 and 1915 changed how Americans understood finance-and explains what our pervasive interest in Wall Street says about us now.Trade ReviewHe offers a vivid picture and unique insight and perspective on the significance of the emerging new financial genre and the impact that it was having and would continue to have on the extraordinary American emotional and financial interest in Wall Street and the stock markets. Highly recommended. Choice Reading the Market offers many evidentiary and analytical gems... A provocative and well-written study, this book also adds new dimension to our understanding of the literatures and popular culture of American finance. Knight's model literary analysis should provide ample material for students of American studies and cultural history, and could easily be incorporated into advanced undergraduate and graduate-level coursework. H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Mind the Gap—Why Reputational Risk MattersChapter 1: A Reputational Risk FrameworkChapter 2: A Reputational Risk FrameworkChapter 3: Effective Crisis Management Part 1: Getting Ahead of a CrisisChapter 4: Effective Crisis Management Part 2: Defining Roles And ResponsibilitiesChapter 5: Effective Crisis Management Part 3: From Chaos to Managed ProcessChapter 6: Crisis CommunicationsChapter 7: Redefining Issues ManagementChapter 8: The Role of Leadership In CrisisChapter 9: Frameworks and Models to Manage Reputational Risk
£38.70
Johns Hopkins University Press Reengineering the University
Book SynopsisHigher education expert William F. Massy's decades as a professor, senior university officer, and consultant have left him with a passionate belief in the need for reform in America's traditional universities. In Reengineering the University, he addresses widespread concerns that higher education's costs are too high, learning falls short of objectives, disruptive technology and education models are mounting serious challenges to traditional institutions, and administrators and faculty are too often unwilling or unable to change. An expert microeconomist, Massy approaches the challenge of reform in a genuinely new way by applying rigorous economic principles, informed by financial data and other evidence, to explain the forces at work on universities and the flaws in the academic business model. Ultimately, he argues that computer models that draw on data from college transaction systems can help both administrators and faculty address problems of educational performance and cost analTrade ReviewMassy's in-depth yet highly accessible analysis is a must-read for any academic leader. Academic Leader Massy has done an excellent job of explaining the interaction between the university budget, which creates the margin, or the financial return on investment, and the role of teaching and learning being core to the university mission. He spends considerable time helping integrate and resolve the two dimensions of mission and margin. Canadian Journal of Higher EducationTable of ContentsPreface1. Understanding the Traditional UniversityProblems and OpportunitiesAssets Worthy of PreservationWhy Traditional Universities Do What They DoImplications for Tuition and Cost ContainmentBusiness Models and Value Propositions2. The Reengineering ChallengeFlaws in the Academic Business ModelBuilding a Reengineering PortfolioImplementation ConsiderationsResponsibilities for Reengineering3. The New Scholarship of TeachingConceptual UnderpinningsIllustrative ApplicationsTwo "Outside the Box" ProposalsOrganizing for Improvement4. The Cost of TeachingAlternative ApproachesDesign of Teaching SystemsModeling from University Transactional DataExtending the Model across the CampusAreas of Application5. Financial Planning and BudgetingEnvisioning University InformationCoherent Financial PlanningCoherent Resource AllocationA Model for Balancing Mission and MarginConclusionAppendixesA. Teaching and Learning PrinciplesB. Course-Based ABCC. Computer-Aided Course DesignD. Incremental Cost of EnrollmentE. Smart What-Ifs in the Course-Based ABC ModelF. Margin Equivalents for Start-Up ProgramsG. Extensions to the Mission-Margin ModelNotesBibliographyIndex
£23.85
Johns Hopkins University Press Reading the Market
Book SynopsisAmerica's fascination with the stock market dates back to the Gilded Age. Winner of the BAAS Book Prize of the British Association of American StudiesAmericans pay famously close attention to the market, obsessively watching trends, patterns, and swings and looking for clues in every fluctuation. In Reading the Market, Peter Knight explores the Gilded Age origins and development of this peculiar interest. He tracks the historic shift in market operations from local to national while examining how present-day ideas about the nature of markets are tied to past genres of financial representation. Drawing on the late nineteenth-century explosion of art, literature, and media, which sought to dramatize the workings of the stock market for a wide audience, Knight shows how ordinary Americans became both emotionally and financially invested in the market. He analyzes popular investment manuals, brokers' newsletters, newspaper columns, magazine articles, illustrations, and cartoons. He alsTrade ReviewOffers a vivid picture and unique insight and perspective on the significance of the emerging new financial genre and the impact that it was having and would continue to have on the extraordinary American emotional and financial interest in Wall Street and the stock markets. Highly recommended.—ChoiceReading the Market offers many evidentiary and analytical gems . . . A provocative and well-written study, this book also adds new dimension to our understanding of the literatures and popular culture of American finance. Knight’s model literary analysis should provide ample material for students of American studies and cultural history, and could easily be incorporated into advanced undergraduate and graduate-level coursework.—H-Net ReviewsThis intriguing book illuminates much about markets and, particularly, about the 'culture of the market' as financial capitalism began its will to power in America.—Civil War Book ReviewKnight’s contribution in Reading the Market to the discussion of America’s financial past is powerful and persuasive. His larger work of personalizing its academic genealogy will have a lasting effect on the future scholarly reading of the market’s past.—Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive EraExcellently researched and intricately orchestrated. Reading the Market offers a fresh and original contribution to the history of capitalism, and also to Gilded Age history generally.—American Historical ReviewCurating a rich assemblage of commercial, political, historical, and literary materials, Knight offers a welcome interdisciplinary study that contributes to the social studies of finance, the new history of capitalism, financial print culture, and visual studies in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.—Business History ReviewKnight . . . ably blend[s] close readings of literary texts with careful examinations of bank records, bond circulars, and other financial arcana, persuasively suggesting that the history of finance cannot be ceded to the conventional realms of economic, social, or cultural analysis . . . Contribute[s] not only to the field of financial history but also to conversations that have long engaged rural and urban historians; scholars of work, labor organizing, and the corporation; and women's and gender historians . . . Lively analysis of an esoteric archive will be of value to students, specialists, and generalists alike.—Daniel Platt, Brown University, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive EraTable of ContentsIntroduction: Mind the Gap—Why Reputational Risk MattersChapter 1: A Reputational Risk FrameworkChapter 2: A Reputational Risk FrameworkChapter 3: Effective Crisis Management Part 1: Getting Ahead of a CrisisChapter 4: Effective Crisis Management Part 2: Defining Roles And ResponsibilitiesChapter 5: Effective Crisis Management Part 3: From Chaos to Managed ProcessChapter 6: Crisis CommunicationsChapter 7: Redefining Issues ManagementChapter 8: The Role of Leadership In CrisisChapter 9: Frameworks and Models to Manage Reputational Risk
£21.38
Johns Hopkins University Press Workers World
Book SynopsisOriginally published 1982. Bodnar's central concern in Workers' World is with the working people of Pennsylvania prior to World War II. He examines how ordinary people throughout the state navigated the changing set of industrial relations that fanned out across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Since workers could not rely on unionism or government-sponsored safety nets, workers in Pennsylvania relied on kinship ties, job structures, and community relationships. In the past, Bodnar contends, American labor historians have focused mainly on the history of strikes, the rise of unionism, and the struggle for control over the workplace. In an effort to mitigate historians' flattening of workers into the two-dimensional plane of politics and protest, Bodnar revives workers and the world in which they lived by conducting oral interviews with textile workers, coal miners, steelworkers, and others in Pennsylvania.Trade ReviewIndispensable for an understanding of immigrants and their children in early twentieth century industrial America . . . Insightful and stimulating.—Journal of Social HistoryTable of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Kinship: The Ties That Bind Part II. The Enclave: A World Within a World Part III. Organizing in the Thirties: Defending the Workers' World Conclusion. Culture and Protest A Note on Sources Index 195
£23.85
Johns Hopkins University Press The Conversation on Biotechnology
Book SynopsisFrom the contributors to The Conversation, this collection of essays by leading experts in biotechnology provides foundational knowledge on a range of topics, from CRISPR gene sequencing to the ethics of GMOs and designer babies.In The Conversation on Biotechnology, editor Marc Zimmer collects essays from The Conversation U.S. by top scholars and experts in the field, who present a primer on the latest biotechnology research, the overwhelming possibilities it offers, and the risks of its abuse. From an overview of CRISPR technology and gene editing in GMOs to the ethical questions surrounding designer babies and other applications of biotechnology in humans, it highlights the major implications biotechnology will bring for health and society. Topics range from the spectacular use of light to fire individual neurons in the brain to making plant-based meats; from curbing diseases with genetically modified mosquitoes to looking back on 40 years of opinions on IVF babies. The Critical CoTable of ContentsSeries Editor's ForewordPrefacePart I. Building Blocks of Life1. What Is mRNA? The Messenger Molecule That's Been in Every Living Cell for Billions of Years Is of Great Interest to Vaccine Developers2. What Is CRISPR, the Gene Editing Technology That Won the Chemistry Nobel Prize?3. What Is a Protein? A Biologist Explains4. Three Ways RNA Is Being Used in the Next Generation of Medical Treatment5. Why Sequencing the Human Genome Failed to Produce Big Breakthroughs in Disease6. Editing Genes Shouldn't Be Too Scary—Unless They Are the Ones That Get Passed to Future Generations7. How Many Genes Does It Take to Make a Person?8. Everything You Wanted to Know about the First Cloned Mammal—Dolly the Sheep9. From CRISPR to Glowing Proteins to Optogenetics—Scientists' Most Powerful Technologies Have Been Borrowed from NaturePart II. Biotechnology, Food, and the Environment10. What Is Bioengineered Food? An Agriculture Expert Explains11. Organic Farming with Gene Editing: An Oxymoron or a Tool for Sustainable Agriculture?12. How We Got to Now: Why the US and Europe Went Different Ways on GMOs13. Can Genetic Engineering Save Disappearing Forests?14. How Scientists Make Plant-Based Foods Taste and Look More Like Meat15. Genetically Modified Mosquitoes May Be the Best Weapon for Curbing Disease Transmission16. How Engineered Bacteria Could Clean Up Oil Sands Pollution and Mining WastePart III. Powerful Tools for Medicine and Health17. New Gene Therapies May Soon Treat Dozens of Rare Diseases, but Million-Dollar Price Tags Will Put Them out of Reach for Many18. Engineered Viruses Can Fight the Rise of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria19. Genetic Engineering Transformed Stem Cells into Working Mini-livers That Extended the Life of Mice with Liver Disease20. We're Creating "Humanized Pigs" in Our Ultraclean Lab to Study Human Illnesses and Treatments21. When Researchers Don't Have the Proteins They Need, They Can Get AI to "Hallucinate" New Structures22. Living Drugs: Engineering Bacteria to Treat Genetic Diseases23. How Gene-Editing a Person's Brain Cells Could Be Used to Curb the Opioid Epidemic24. CRISPR Can Help Combat the Troubling Immune Response against Gene Therapy25. 3D-Printed Organs Could Save Lives by Addressing the Transplant Shortage26. From Marmots to Mole-Rats to Marmosets—Studying Many Genes in Many Animals Is Key to Understanding How Humans Can Live LongerPart IV. Genetic Frontiers and Ethics 27. Scared of CRISPR? 45 Years on, IVF Shows How Fears of New Medical Technology Can Fade28. How Can a Baby Have 3 Parents?29. Ethicists Need More Flexible Tools for Evaluating Gene-Edited Food30. Lab-Grown Embryos and Human-Monkey Hybrids: Medical Marvels or Ethical Missteps?31. Those Designer Babies Everyone Is Freaking Out about Are Not Likely to Happen32. Bioweapons Research Is Banned by an International Treaty—but Nobody Is Checking for Violations33. From Coronavirus Tests to Open-Source Insulin and Beyond, "Biohackers" Are Showing the Power of DIY ScienceContributorsIndex
£13.30
Temple University Press,U.S. Technocapitalism
Book SynopsisA radical critique of a new phase of capitalism grounded in corporate power and its exploitation of technological creativityTrade Review"In an era when technology is routinely treated as magical and liberatory, Luis Suarez-Villa has written the long overdue and necessary antidote to such flabby analysis and ludicrous self-congratulation. Technocapitalism is an outstanding book that should be read by all students, scholars and citizens who need to understand technology in the real world of capitalism and corporate power rather than the fairy tale world of the upper-middle class individuals doing their own thing in the sacred free marketplace. Our species faces extraordinarily serious issues in the coming generation, and an honest assessment of the political and economic forces around us is the necessary place to begin." —Robert W. McChesney, Gutgsell Endowed Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"Suarez-Villa has created a highly original work, carefully crafted and well-written. This is a sweeping and grand theoretical analysis of the post post-industrial iteration of capitalism that he terms 'technocapitalism'. The synthesis of literatures is very impressive but the work goes well beyond synthesis to create new arguments and paradigms for understanding contemporary capitalism and its possible futures. The analysis is rooted in a strong humanism that embraces technological change whilst regretting the corporatist forces that shape its direction and manifestations. Technocapitalism represents an important contribution to the scholarly literature." —Joel Bakan, author/filmmaker of The Corporation, Professor of Law, University of British Columbia"Technocapitalism raises important critical perspectives about what Suarez-Villa finds to be the latest major stage of global capitalism. He gathers and analyzes several aspects of the social organization of technological change to provide a distinctive synthesis of literatures and arguments" —Rick Wolff, Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a Visiting Professor at the New School University in New YorkTable of ContentsIntroductionExperimentalism Society as Laboratory Accumulation and Power Experimentalism as System ConclusionCreativity as a Commodity Creativity versus Commodification Utility and Value Reproduction and Commodification Commodification as Process ConclusionNetworks as Mediators Network Extent Hierarchies and Control Power and Inequity Change over Change ConclusionDecomposing the Corporation Networks versus the Corporation Decomposition and Power Pathology of Decomposition ConclusionExperimentalist Organizations Systematized Research Regimes Collaboration and Power Pathological Pursuits ConclusionChallenges Downfall of Public Democracy Hegemony of Corporatism Empowering Creativity Rediscovering the SocialNotes Index
£45.90
Temple University Press,U.S. Pennsylvania Politics and Policy
Book SynopsisThe activities of state governments have always been important in the American federal system. However, recent partisan gridlock in Washington, DC has placed states at the forefront of policymaking as the national government maintains the status quo. Pennsylvania Politics and Policy, Volume 1 is designed to showcase current issues of interest to Pennsylvanians. This reader contains updated chapters from recent issues of Commonwealth: A Journal of Pennsylvania Politics and Policy on education, health care, public finance, tax policy, environmental policy, alcohol policy and more. Each chapter is supplemented by forums with arguments in support of or opposed to contested elements of state policy, discussion questions, and suggestions for further reading.In addition, Pennsylvania Politics and Policy, Volume 1 includes a comprehensive guide to researching state government and policy online. It is designed as a text or supplement for college or advanced high school classes in American gover
£22.79
Temple University Press,U.S. Pennsylvania Politics and Policy Volume 2
Book SynopsisDesigned to showcase current issues of interest, Pennsylvania Politics and Policy, Volume 2 isthe second reader consisting of updated chapters from recent issues of Commonwealth: A Journal of Pennsylvania Politics and Policy. The editors and contributors to this volume focus on government institutions, election laws, the judiciary, government finance and budgeting, the opioid crisis, childcare, property taxes, environmental policy, demographics, and more. Each chapter is supplemented by discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, and forums with arguments in support of or opposed to contested elements of state policy. In addition, Pennsylvania Politics and Policy, Volume 2 includes a detailed guide to researching state government and policy online, as well as a comprehensive chapter on the structure of Pennsylvania government. It is designed as a text or supplement for college or advanced high school classes in American government, state and local politics, public policy,
£22.79
University of Toronto Press On Oligarchy
Book SynopsisOn Oligarchy deftly illuminates the significance of this regime in the context of pressing global economic and political issues.Trade Review'This volume edited by Tabachnick and Koivukoski (both, Nippising Univ., Canada) is the third in a series of books that apply the lessons of the great tradition of political philosophy to contemporary politics; in that regard, the series serves as a fine illustration of the continuing relevance of political philosophy to the understanding of contemporary politics. Such a series is both valuable and praiseworthy, as is this particular volume. Contributors discuss Aristotle, Thucydides, the Federalist, and Cicero in an effort to understand the phenomena of oligarchy. Filled with high-quality, provocative essays, this volume is highly recommended for those who have a theoretical interest in political philosophy in general and oligarchy in particular, but it is also (and especially) recommended to thoughtful readers who have a serious concern with the preservation of democracy. Waller Newell's "Oligarchy and Oikonomia," Jeffrey Sikkenga's "Overcoming Oligarchy," Peter Simpson's "A Corruption of Oligarchs," and Toivo Koivukoski's "On Oligarchy: An Ontological Account" are particular standouts, but the entire collection is excellent. This thought-provoking collection of essays is enthusiastically recommended for specialists and general readers alike. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels.' -- M. Harding University of Dallas Choice Review 'Thought-provoking...An exemplary case of bringing ancient wisdom to bear on a pressing modern issue.' -- Matthew Simonton Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews; May 2013Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: David Edward Tabachnick & Toivo Koivukoski OLIGARCHY AND OIKONOMIA: ARISTOTLE'S AMBIVALENT ASSESSMENT OF PRIVATE PROPERTY Waller Newell ARISTOTLE AND AMERICAN OLIGARCHY: A STUDY IN POLITICAL INFLUENCE Jeremy Neill OVERCOMING OLIGARCHY: REPUBLICANISM AND THE RIGHT TO PROPERTY IN THE FEDERALIST Jeff Sikkenga A CORRUPTION OF OLIGARCHS Peter Simpson THE THREAT OF MISGUIDED ELITES: ARISTOTLE ON OLIGARCHY Steven Skultety THUCYDIDES AND THE IMPORTANCE OF IDEOLOGY IN CONFLICT Laurie Bagby OLIGARCHS AND DEMOCRATS Leah Bradshaw A SHORTAGE OF MEN: WEALTH, RANK AND RECOGNITION IN CICERO'S CIVIC EDUCATION Geoffrey Kellow ON OLIGARCHY: AN ONTOLOGICAL ACCOUNT Toivo Koivukoski OLIGARCHY AND THE RULE OF LAW Craig Cooper
£25.19
University of Toronto Press Foreign Ownership of Canadian Industry
Book SynopsisForeign ownership is an ongoing national policy issue for Canadians, and a matter of utmost concern in the public mind. Recently, the issue has been hotly debated in sectors as diverse as telecommunications, mining, technology, retail, steel, and aerospace.Foreign Ownership of Canadian Industry, A.E. Safarian''s classic investigation into the behaviour of branch-plant firms in Canada, has proven an enduring and important analysis of this national policy problem and is now back in print. This third edition of Foreign Ownership of Canadian Industry features a new preface contextualizing Safarian''s influential work against contemporary economic issues and policies. As the question of foreign takeovers becomes increasingly critical not only in Canada but in other countries as well, Safarian emphasizes the continuity of concerns over who owns a country''s industries.Table of ContentsChapter 1 - Introduction Direct investment in the Canadian economy The controversy about the international firm Chapter 2 - The Statistical Background to the study The nature of the interviews and questionnaire Comparisons of respondent firms with all direct investment companies Cross-classifications of the variables Chapter 3 - The Managers and Their Powers The senior executives The board of directors The management or executive committee Other methods of maintaining contact with the affiliate The delegation of powers The degree of decentralization of responsibility The degree of supervision Chapter 4 - The Exports of Subsidiary Companies The evidence on private international trade restriction The export pattern of direct investment companies The nature of the export sales organization The effect of affiliation on exports External pressures on foreign-owned firms Chapter 5 - The Imports of Subsidiary Companies The import pattern of direct investment companies Policy and organization with regard to purchasing The effect of affiliation on purchases Chapter 6 - The Transfer of Knowledge The performance of research by the respondent companies The nature of the Canadian research programs Access to the parent's knowledge Chapter 7 - Comparative Costs of Production Unit production costs compared with affiliates Broader issues regarding efficiency Chapter 8 - The Pattern of Ownership and Finance The ownership of voting stock Sources of funds Payment of dividends The United States guidelines program Chapter 9 - Nationality of Ownership and Performance of the Firm Degrees of foreign ownership and performance The nature of the resident-owned firms in this study Senior personnel Marketing and purchasing Research and development Ownership and finance Further tests of difference regarding performance Chapter 10 - Concluding Comments Appendices A - Additional tables by country of control B - Questionnaires and letters to non-resident owned and resident-owned companies Bibliography Index
£32.40
University of Toronto Press Fiscal Federalism and Equalization Policy in
Book SynopsisFiscal Federalism and Equalization Policy in Canada aims to increase public understanding of equalization and fiscal federalism by providing a comparative and multidisciplinary perspective on the history, politics, and economics of equalization policy in Canada.Trade Review“I highly recommend the book to anyone (academics, students and citizens) learning about equalization for the first time. I also recommend it to experts looking to refine or consolidate their learning, because nowhere else will they find so much about the program in just 114 pages. Finally, I recommend it to anyone interested in contemporary equalization policy debates.” -- Kyle Hanniman, Canadian Journal of Political ScienceTable of ContentsAcknowledgements The Authors Introduction 1. Equalization in Comparative and Historical Perspective 2. The Politics of Equalization 3. The Economics of Equalization 4. Equalization and the Federal Transfer System Conclusion Data Appendix References
£24.29
University of Toronto Press Industrial Relations
Book SynopsisIndustrial relations, which in the past have focused almost entirely on union-management relations, have recently been expanded to include such new areas of interest as manpower and poverty problems. At the University of Toronto a new Centre for Industrial Relations has been established, a research-oriented institution whose primary objective is to further scholarly investigations into all phases of industrial relations. To launch the new Centre a conference was held with distinguished Canadian and international authorities invited to discuss the challenges and responses for Industrial Relations in the next decade, from various points of view. This volume, based on the papers presented, will be a welcome contribution to knowledge in this challenging field.In Part I, "An International Perspective," David A. Morse considers the conference's general theme in terms of its world-wide ramifications. Part II, "Collective Bargaining in an Age of Change," is devoted mainly to a discus
£19.79
University of Toronto Press Wages Prices Profits and Economic Policy
Book SynopsisThe essays included in this book are the proceedings of a conference held by the Centre for Industrial Relations at the University of Toronto, 1967. They have been divided into five sections: "Wage-Price-Profit Relations in Canada—The Problem in Perspective," "A Diagnosis of the Problem," "Foreign Experience," "The Government and Wage-Price-Profit Relations," and "A Policy for Canada." The essays included are by such eminent contributors as Dr. John Deutsch, Professor G.L. Reuber, Mr. David McQueen, Dr. Arthur M. Ross, and The Honourable Mitchell Sharp.
£19.79
University of Toronto Press Europeanizing Greece
Book SynopsisEuropeanizing Greece serves as a perceptive case study of the EU's continual enlargement and resulting regional challenges.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1. Europeanization in the Case of Greece 2. Europeanization as it is Manifested in Legislative Reform 3. Europeanization as Political Adaptation to the Structural Programs (1989-1999) 4. Political Adaptation and Centre Periphery Politics 5. A few tentative Conclusions Postscript References
£26.99
University of Toronto Press Governance in Northern Ontario
Book SynopsisThis book analyzes economic development policy governance in northern Ontario over the past thirty years, with the goal of making practical policy recommendations for present and future government engagement with the region.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction Charles Conteh (Brock University) and Bob Segsworth (Laurentian University) Chapter 2: Regional Economic Development and Socio-economic Change in Northern Ontario Chris Southcott (Lakehead University) Chapter 3: Administering Regional Development Policy in Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Regions Charles Conteh (Brock University) Chapter 4: Results Measurement and Economic Development in Northern Ontario Bob Segsworth (Laurentian University) Chapter 5: First Nation Inclusion: A Key Requirement to Building the Northern Ontario Economy Dawn Madahbee (Waubetek Business Development Corporation) Chapter 6: An Historic Overview of Policies Effecting Non-Aboriginal Development in Northern Ontario 1900 - 1990 Michel S. Beaulieu (Lakehead University) Chapter 7: Destiny Delayed? Turning Mineral Wealth Into Sustainable Development David Robinson (Laurentian University) Chapter 8: Agri-Food Policy in Northern Ontario: Is It Possible to Steward a Local or Regional Agri-Food Economy? Doug West (Lakehead University) Chapter 9: The Forgotten Industry in the Forgotten North: Tourism Developments in Northern Ontario Rhonda Koster (Lakehead University) and Raynald Harvey Lemelin (Lakehead University) Chapter 10: Forest Tenure Systems for Development and Underdevelopment David Robinson (Laurentian University) Chapter 11: Conclusion Bob Segsworth (Laurentian University) and Charles Conteh (Brock University) Contributors
£49.50
University of Toronto Press An Introduction to Political Economy
Book SynopsisNewly revised by the author (1956), this text-book for beginning students is also designed for general readers who want to know what economics is and how economists think. It analyses the size and composition of the wage-earner in modern industry, Canadian public policy in relation to combines, and the the social problems of the special problems of the Canadian wheat-growing and newsprint industries. '...an interesting, instructive, and valuable book full of essential information.'
£25.19
University of Toronto Press Monetary and Fiscal Thought and Policy in Canada
Book SynopsisIn this careful and thorough study of a Canadian field which has been relatively untouched in recent years, Dr. Brecher records and comments on the development of monetary and fiscal thinking in Canada in the inter-war period, and its impact on public policy in the federal sphere. Examining Canadian opinion about economic theory during this time, the author draws on four fields of thought: that of government and other public officials; of businessmen, such as bankers, and their views on what should be done about the depression; of the 'radical group', such as those prominent in the formation of the CCF and Social Credit parties; and of economists, prominent in the universities.Dr. Brecher points out in his preface that his inquiry is rooted in the conviction that the problems associated with cyclical fluctuations remain sufficiently complex to make an understanding of the developments of the twenties and thirties an indispensable condition for effective stabilization policy.
£26.99
University of Toronto Press The Economic Constitution of Federal States
Book SynopsisA study of 'economic imperialism' based on a theoretical inquiry into the most important research frontier in the scholarly field: the analysis of constitutions. The book evaluates constitutional arrangements by the degree to which they economize on the scarcity of resources available in any society, demonstrating a preference for constitutions that make governments efficient.
£18.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Banking Across Boundaries
Book SynopsisThis compelling contribution to contemporary debates about the banking industry offers a unique perspective on its geographical and conceptual ''placement''. It traces the evolving links between the two, revealing how our notions of banking ''productiveness'' have evolved alongside the shifting loci of banking activity. An original contribution to the urgent debates taking place on banking sparked by the current economic crisis Offers a unique perspective on the geographical and social concept of ''placement'' of the banking industry Combines theoretical approaches from political economy with contemporary literature on the performativity of economics Details the globalization of Western banking, and analyzes how representations of the banking sector''s productiveness have shifted throughout the evolution of Western economic theory Analyzes the social conceptualization of the nature and value of the banking industry IlluminaTrade Review“Christophers has produced what is sure to be one of the most widely read books generated by the still-developing subfield of financial geography. Banking Across Boundariesleaves no doubt about the centrality of geography to past debates and present anxieties about the role of finance and banking in “the economy.” (The AAG Review of Books, 1 March 2014) “The overall effect is a compelling geopolitical analysis of the historical development of banking that explains present banking institutions and powers, and the political impasse that has permeated Anglo-American capitalist systems since the 2008 financial crisis.” (Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 24 September 2014) “That said, Christophers has produced an impressive and ambitious piece of scholarship that demonstrates the power of ideas and epistemic communities in shaping the global economy and placed banking more centrally within this. In so doing, Banking across Boundaries will be essential reading for researchers working on the geographies of money and finance and the international financial system within economic geography and cognate disciplines.” (Journal of Economic Geography, 5 November 2013) "Banking Across Boundaries: Placing Finance in Capitalism [is] a probing examination of the boundaries, conceptual and geographic, at stake in financial intermediation. ... [Christophers] succeeds in uncovering fresh connections between material and discursive change, ranging across centuries of financial history, while profitably assimilating various theoretical and empirical literatures, including, but not limited to, critical accounting studies, the sociology of finance, international political economy, and Christophers’ home discipline of human geography. It is done with admirable fluency and alacrity." Jonathan Levy, Princeton University (in Economic Geography) "Brett Christophers has written a wide-ranging, brilliant, and imaginative book about one of the most important topics in contemporary social science—the role of banks in the contemporary global economy." Fred Block, Department of Sociology, University of California at Davis "BAB is an important book that gives us important correctives to established narratives." Mark Blyth, Political Science, Brown University "Banking Across Boundaries is a theoretically precise and empirically meticulous work of political economy that grapples seriously with the large-scale spatial patterns and dynamics of capitalist development and adds to our knowledge and understanding of them. It belongs on the shelf with works such as Harvey's Limits to Capital (1982), Henderson's California and the Fictions of Capital (1998), and Arrighi's The Long Twentieth Century (1994). ... Banking Across Boundaries should be read not just by economic geographers, political economists, or those concerned with the financial crisis, but by anyone who wants to understand key aspects of the “global” economy." (Geographical Review, 16 December 2013) “This is a hugely ambitious, powerful and provocative book … The sheer scale and ambition of his project is one of its stand-out features; this is an argument conceived with a grand sweep in mind, designed to produce an aggregate picture and perspective that allows some meaningful international comparisons to be drawn. This attention to history and geography as the context for the development and refinement of ideas is a key strength of the book … It provides a powerful demonstration of how political economic geographical analysis can operate through both the performative and material worlds of institutions, people, ideas, models and metrics … A compelling book that should be widely read in economic geography and across the social sciences.” Jane Pollard, Newcastle University, UK - Progress in Human Geography book review symposium (September 2013) “Christophers displays many of the skills required of a good detective, being both forensic in his approach and resolute in his persistence: his refusal to let claims go unchallenged or data unexamined is an admirable feature throughout … Clearly a major contribution to the field.” Andrew Leyshon, University of Nottingham, UK - Progress in Human Geography book review symposium (September 2013) “Christophers has written, first, a deeply informative and, second, a very gutsy account of the expansion, contraction, and once again expansion of international banking. The book is gutsy because Christophers challenges the common wisdom that capitalism has undergone a basic restructuring and become ‘financialized’. The challenge rests upon a foundation of quite extraordinary scholarship: it is impossible not to appreciate Christophers’ sustained engagement with banking’s centuries-long history and its extensive historical geography, too.” George Henderson, University of Minnesota, USA -Progress in Human Geography book review symposium (September 2013) “Brett Christophers’ Banking Across Boundaries … will surely be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, from economic geography to international political economy and economic sociology.” Regional Studies (September 2013) “What is of particular interest is the way in which Banking Across Boundaries explicitly takes aim at performativity, a conceptual mainstay of the cultural economy of finance.” Journal of Cultural Economy (March 2013) Table of ContentsList of Figures viii List of Abbreviations ix Acknowledgments x Introduction 1 Part I Worlds Apart: Before Keynes 25 1 The Birth of Economic Productiveness 27 2 Instrumental Internationalism 57 Part II Worlds Aligned: From the Great Depression to the Eve of the Big Bang 101 3 Enclosing the Unproductive 103 4 America, and Boundaries Breached 146 Part III Co-Constituted Worlds: The Age of Financialization? 185 5 Layering the Logics of Free Trade in Banking 187 6 Anaemic Geographies of Productive Finance 229 Afterword 275 Index 282
£18.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Banking Across Boundaries
Book SynopsisThis compelling contribution to contemporary debates about the banking industry offers a unique perspective on its geographical and conceptual ''placement''. It traces the evolving links between the two, revealing how our notions of banking ''productiveness'' have evolved alongside the shifting loci of banking activity. An original contribution to the urgent debates taking place on banking sparked by the current economic crisis Offers a unique perspective on the geographical and social concept of ''placement'' of the banking industry Combines theoretical approaches from political economy with contemporary literature on the performativity of economics Details the globalization of Western banking, and analyzes how representations of the banking sector''s productiveness have shifted throughout the evolution of Western economic theory Analyzes the social conceptualization of the nature and value of the banking industry IlluminaTrade Review“Christophers has produced what is sure to be one of the most widely read books generated by the still-developing subfield of financial geography. Banking Across Boundariesleaves no doubt about the centrality of geography to past debates and present anxieties about the role of finance and banking in “the economy.” (The AAG Review of Books, 1 March 2014) “The overall effect is a compelling geopolitical analysis of the historical development of banking that explains present banking institutions and powers, and the political impasse that has permeated Anglo-American capitalist systems since the 2008 financial crisis.” (Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 24 September 2014) “That said, Christophers has produced an impressive and ambitious piece of scholarship that demonstrates the power of ideas and epistemic communities in shaping the global economy and placed banking more centrally within this. In so doing, Banking across Boundaries will be essential reading for researchers working on the geographies of money and finance and the international financial system within economic geography and cognate disciplines.” (Journal of Economic Geography, 5 November 2013) "Banking Across Boundaries: Placing Finance in Capitalism [is] a probing examination of the boundaries, conceptual and geographic, at stake in financial intermediation. ... [Christophers] succeeds in uncovering fresh connections between material and discursive change, ranging across centuries of financial history, while profitably assimilating various theoretical and empirical literatures, including, but not limited to, critical accounting studies, the sociology of finance, international political economy, and Christophers’ home discipline of human geography. It is done with admirable fluency and alacrity." Jonathan Levy, Princeton University (in Economic Geography) "Brett Christophers has written a wide-ranging, brilliant, and imaginative book about one of the most important topics in contemporary social science—the role of banks in the contemporary global economy." Fred Block, Department of Sociology, University of California at Davis "BAB is an important book that gives us important correctives to established narratives." Mark Blyth, Political Science, Brown University "Banking Across Boundaries is a theoretically precise and empirically meticulous work of political economy that grapples seriously with the large-scale spatial patterns and dynamics of capitalist development and adds to our knowledge and understanding of them. It belongs on the shelf with works such as Harvey's Limits to Capital (1982), Henderson's California and the Fictions of Capital (1998), and Arrighi's The Long Twentieth Century (1994). ... Banking Across Boundaries should be read not just by economic geographers, political economists, or those concerned with the financial crisis, but by anyone who wants to understand key aspects of the “global” economy." (Geographical Review, 16 December 2013) “This is a hugely ambitious, powerful and provocative book … Overall, this is an immensely impressive book. It provides a powerful demonstration of how political economic geographical analysis can operate through both the performative and material worlds of institutions, people, ideas, models and metrics … Brett Christophers has produced a compelling book that should be widely read in economic geography and across the social sciences.” —Jane Pollard, Newcastle University, UK (Progress in Human Geography book review symposium, 2013) “Christophers displays many of the skills required of a good detective, being both forensic in his approach and resolute in his persistence: his refusal to let claims go unchallenged or data unexamined is an admirable feature throughout … Clearly a major contribution to the field.” —Andrew Leyshon, University of Nottingham, UK (Progress in Human Geography book review symposium, 2013) “Christophers has written, first, a deeply informative and, second, a very gutsy account of the expansion, contraction, and once again expansion of international banking. The book is gutsy because Christophers challenges the common wisdom that capitalism has undergone a basic restructuring and become ‘financialized’. The challenge rests upon a foundation of quite extraordinary scholarship: it is impossible not to appreciate Christophers’ sustained engagement with banking’s centuries-long history and its extensive historical geography, too.” George Henderson, University of Minnesota, USA (Progress in Human Geography book review symposium, 2013) “This is an immensely impressive … [and] compelling book that should be widely read in economic geography and across the social sciences … Christophers displays many of the skills required of a good detective, being both forensic in his approach and resolute in his persistence: his refusal to let claims go unchallenged or data unexamined is an admirable feature throughout … A deeply informative and … a very gutsy account of the expansion, contraction, and once again expansion of international banking.” (Progress in Human Geography , 1 September 2013) “Brett Christophers’ Banking Across Boundaries is one such contribution that will surely be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, from economic geography to international political economy and economic sociology.” (Regional Studies, 1 September 2013) “That said, and what is of particular interest here, is the way in which Banking Across Boundaries explicitly takes aim at performativity, a conceptual mainstay of the cultural economy of finance.” (Journal of Cultural Economy, 22 March 2013) Table of ContentsList of Figures viii List of Abbreviations ix Acknowledgments x Introduction 1 Part I Worlds Apart: Before Keynes 25 1 The Birth of Economic Productiveness 27 2 Instrumental Internationalism 57 Part II Worlds Aligned: From the Great Depression to the Eve of the Big Bang 101 3 Enclosing the Unproductive 103 4 America, and Boundaries Breached 146 Part III Co-Constituted Worlds: The Age of Financialization? 185 5 Layering the Logics of Free Trade in Banking 187 6 Anaemic Geographies of Productive Finance 229 Afterword 275 Index 282
£54.00
Bristol University Press From Greed to Wellbeing
Book SynopsisThe global financial system seems caught in a cycle of boom and bust, instability and scandal. Building on the classic works of E F Schumacher and other kindred spirits, Magnuson provides a Buddhist economics perspective on this recurring pattern and offers new possibilities for change.Trade Review“This is an insightful critique of our dysfunctional economic system, informed by Buddhist principles. Magnuson shows that the reforms usually proposed cannot alleviate the basic problem: a system that is self-destructive because it institutionalizes greed. And he offers a way forward implied by Buddhist teachings.” David Loy, author of The Great Awakening: A Buddhist Social Theory"a creative approach to understanding our world and will motivate and inspire you as a Buddhist, citizen, and human being." - Tricycle"Magnuson presents an ethical critique of conventional economics based in Buddhist principles, offering a hopeful and creative path to system stability, personal satisfaction, and liberating transformation." Stephanie Kaza, Professor emerita, University of Vermont"From Greed to Wellbeing is a tour de force. If you really want to get a close look at the socioeconomic merry-go-round we've been on since 1776 (and before), this is the book for you." Review by Morris Berman on Amazon.com"Joel Magnuson skillfully applies Buddhist teachings to quench the flames of greed, hatred, and delusion that are consuming our world." Christopher Queen, Harvard University, Editor of Engaged Buddhism in the West.“Institutionalist economist, Joel Magnuson, is a man with passion, a man on a mission. He offers a stinging critique of hegemonic capitalistic practices, especially of the vagaries of the banking and financial sectors, and the reductionist calculations of the official GDP, and proposes remedies based in socially engaged Buddhism to help us avoid the cyclical crises that plague this sector and the entire social body. He skillfully analyzes how the three fires long recognized by the Buddha—greed, aggression and delusion—fuel all manners of “fads, bubbles, and panics” in our individual and collective behavior. Magnuson shows from various angles and with a wealth of examples how defiled perceptions of self and reality feed economic toxicity and general suffering. He is at his inspired best when he details how our “witless attachment to mental fiction” plays itself out through social institutions such as money, credit, or formal institutions such as the Feds. He carefully demonstrates the sad straight line running from individual “craving and covetousness” to collective celebration of greed (the reification of ignorance) to institutionalization of greed by social structures, and finally to the cynical protection of greed and banksters (moral hazard) by political actors and governmental agencies. To remedy such dire situations, he calls for wholesomeness at the individual level, for locally-owned community banks, for holistic accounting aggregates to measure human happiness, and for what may be broadly termed social responsibility and an ethical economy. Since self and society are inseparable parts of the same complex whole, Prof. Magnuson reminds us to both meditate and chop wood and carry water in the conditions of our age. Indeed, the practice of the dharma is by essence connected to our social selves and our mission in society, and asks us to address both individual and collective, both gross and subtle dukkhas. His is a prudently optimistic perspective, as he draws on many examples of socially-engaged Buddhism, such as Bernie Glassman’s Greyston Bakery or Thich Nhat Hanh’s Order of Interbeing, to get us out of “our state of somnambulant apathy” and toward a better society. Magnuson proposes a commendable yet difficult journey toward personal enlightenment, a more humane economy, and a better future.” Michel Gueldry, PhD, Professor, International Relations and Sustainability Studies, Middlebury Institute of International Studies, California"Restructuring individual consciousness and restructuring society are complementary activities, and both are desperately needed. This new book from Joel Magnuson shows us how to do this." Sulak Sivaraksa, author and founder/chair of International Network of Engaged BuddhistsTable of ContentsBuddhist Economics and the Three Fires; Buddhist Economics and Socially Engaged Buddhism; Happiness Failing on the World Stage; The Greed-Infected Cloud of Hot Money; If the Buddha Chaired the Federal Reserve--Banking for Right Livelihood; Stepping out of the Circle of Pathology; Accepting Impermanence.
£15.99
Bristol University Press Towards Just and Sustainable Economies
Book SynopsisAcademics from a range of disciplines and from a number of European and Latin American countries come together to question what it means to have a `sustainable society' and to ask what role alternative social and solidarity economies can play.Trade Review"This ambitious and engaging set of dialogues on the dynamics of the social and solidarity economy is both timely and necessary. By bringing together an international set of scholars from Latin America and the UK Towards Just and Sustainable Economies develops important and insightful contributions to fostering alternatives to the deleterious consequences of neoliberalism." Dr David Featherstone, University of GlasgowTable of ContentsIntroduction: New Economies North and South: Sharing the Evolution to a Just and Sustainable Future ~ Peter North and Molly Scott Cato; Part I: Theoretical Perspectives on the Social and Solidarity Economy; Towards a new economics: Concepts and experiences from Latin America ~ Jose Luis Coraggio; Towards low carbon solidarity economies ~ Peter North; Monsieur le Capital and Madame la Terre on the Brink ~ Penelope Ciancanelli and David Fasenfest; Part II: The Social and Solidarity Economy as a Site of Social Innovation; Developing the solidarity economy: Brazil's social economy incubators ~ Reinaldo Pacheco da Costa; Innovation, cooperativism and inclusive development: Rethinking technological change and social inclusion ~ Hernán Thomas and Lucas Becerra; The solidarity economy and the University’s role in creating sustainable evolution ~ Luiz Roberto Alves, Marco Aurelio Bernardes, Victor Gil Neto and Waverli Maia Maratozzo-Neuberger; Community governance of common resources in North-Eastern Brazil ~ Gilca Oliveira; Part III: The Social and Solidarity Economy and the State; The Danish low carbon transition and the prospects for a democratic economy ~ Andrew Cumbers; A Brazilian perspective on the solidarity economy: Transferring Argentine experiences of Barter to Brazil ~ Paul I. Singer and Heloisa Pimavera; 21st century socialism? Venezuela’s solidarity, social, popular and communal economy ~ Dario Azzellini; Co-construction or prefiguration? Rethinking the `translation’ of SSE practices into policy ~ Ana Cecilia Dinerstein; Part IV: Inspiration between north and south; Being a Zapatista wherever you are: Reflections on academic/activist practice from Latin America ~ Paul Chatterton; Living Sin Patron: Lessons from Argentina’s societies in movement ~ Marina Sitrin; The social and solidarity economy in Argentina and the UK: Convergence from opposite directions ~ Molly Scott Cato and Paolo Raffaelli; Conclusion ~ Peter North and Molly Scott Cato.
£77.39
Bristol University Press The Global Financial Crisis and Austerity
Book SynopsisWritten by an expert in political science and straddling finance, economics and political science, this entry-level summary demystifies global finance and puts the financial crisis in its historical context. It also outlines the policy responses of Western governments to the crash and the ensuing recession and turn to austerity.Trade Review“As a simple-to-read introduction to and look back upon the financial crisis this is as good at it gets.” Professor Andrew Hindmoor, University of Sheffield, UK"David Clark has written an insightful introduction to the causes and consequences of the global financial crisis, to be welcomed both for its brevity and clarity" Dr Simon Lee, University of Hull, UK"This book is a `must read’ for anyone who wants a crash course on the global financial crisis and austerity. Written in a highly accessible manner, it uses academic experts’ insights to great effect to explain what happened and why." Professor Vivien A. Schmidt, Boston University, USA"Clark's political economy of the global financial crisis and its aftermaths is as clinical as it is accessible. It systematically demystifies and therefore empowers. This book deserves a wide readership." Professor Steve Tombs, The Open University, UK"We are still living in the shadow of the 2008 financial crash. David Clark provides an impressive overview of its causes and consequences, and how it has been interpreted." Professor Andrew Gamble, University of Cambridge, UK"Without deeper understanding of finance and economics, citizens cannot truly exercise their democratic agency. David Clark has met this challenge with a highly readable book that guides us through the complex landscape of the global financial crisis and its aftermath. Reading it is as much a democratic act as an educational one." Tony Greenham, Director, RSATable of ContentsIntroduction; Banking and shadow banking: an overview; From boom to bust and beyond; Putting the great financial crash in its place; Exploring the neoliberal heartland; Post-crash austerity; Finance-led capitalism at a crossroads?
£13.38
Bristol University Press Too Much Stuff
Book SynopsisWe now enjoy the highest living standard in history yet spend more of our income on pointless luxury. Instead, we should tax more in order to invest much more in societal needs, which will in turn reinvigorate the economy and reduce economic inequality and environmental degradation.Trade Review"an accessible and clearly written book for anyone with an interest in economics who is wondering “where next” for government economic policy." Nat O’Connor, Ulster University"In our world of “necessary luxuries”, incorrect investment incentives, disparate and worsening income distribution, this cogent, important, skeptical, provocative analysis proposes what must change in the US, Japan, Germany, and elsewhere." Hugh Patrick, Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia Business School"A timely and urgent read given that western economies are at a political and environmental tipping point." Ann Pettifor, Policy Research in Macroeconomics"A bold and heterodox diagnosis of capitalism's illness, and a bracing prescription: It's time for government to invest in basic needs, rather than encouraging us to make and buy growing mounds of junk. We will be talking about this book for years." Walter Hatch, Oak Institute for Human Rights, Colby College"A compelling argument for a fairer, smarter form of capitalism which prioritises spending on public goods like health, infrastructure, education, and the environment. At a time of sharpening political end economic divides, this book is a must read." Miranda Schreurs, Bavarian School of Public Policy, Technical University of Munich"This book is right on time: the leading post-WWII economies are losing economic momentum and facing threats to their democratic institutions. Kozo Yamamura demands a prompt systemic change of the capitalist system in order to revitalize growth and secure democracy." Guenter Heiduk, World Economy Research Institute, Warsaw School of EconomicsTable of ContentsA new perspective on capitalism's "sickness"; Inspiration in the Kaufhaus des Westens; Unreal tax rates; Printing money; Inequality and discontent; Buckling bridges and crumbling mountains; The United States: stagnation and gridlock; Japan: bubbles, "lost years" and Abenomics; Unified Germany: a divided nation; Four European economies; Reform to the rescue; Adapting capitalism and changing politics; Conclusion.
£19.94
Bristol University Press The Shame Game
Book SynopsisDrawing on a two-year multi-platform initiative, this book by award-winning journalist and author Mary O'Hara, asks how we can overturn the portrayal of poverty once and for all. Crucially, she turns to the real experts to try to find answers the people who live it.Trade Review"A necessary book in divisive times." Jameela Jamil, actress and activist"Following up on Austerity Bites, Mary O’Hara shows us why poverty sucks. Not just for the obvious reasons of struggle and deprivation, but because poverty is produced by a specific style of politics that revels in the shame of others, a politics where the US and the UK are past masters." Mark Blyth, Brown University and author of Austerity: The history of a dangerous idea"The Shame Game is the book we need right now. Real stories, by people who have lived that story, smashing apart the divisive narratives around poverty that are so damaging to all of us." Kerry Hudson, Author, Lowborn"In a time of extreme social and economic division, Mary O'Hara lifts the lid on who truly benefits from keeping us divided and how we can flip the script of poverty to make a fairer society for all. A powerful and important book." Mahsuda Snaith, author of How to Find Home“Rich people should be required to read this book and poor people should be allowed to. I have rarely seen a more broad and beautiful picture of people who have done more with less than this book. O’Hara has woven a rich tapestry of joy and terror and talent and lost opportunities and the picture she draws is the most comprehensive description of poverty I’ve seen yet.” Linda Tirado, journalist and author of “Hand to mouth"I worked with Mary, and she sees the potential of talent and magic in every kid and every adult. This book explores the absolute travesty of blaming each other." Conrad Murray, BAC Beatbox AcademyTable of ContentsPART I : The inconvenient truth: poverty is real A short prologue Introduction 1 Who are these ‘poor’ people anyway? Being on the breadline in Britain 2 What? There are poor people in the richest nation on earth? PART II: Turning the screw on poor people: shame, stigma and cementing of a toxic poverty narrative 3 A twisted tale: evolution of a the poverty narrative 4 Lights, camera, vilification: the narrative in action 5 The games we play: weaponising the narrative 6 Shame on you: making the toxic narrative stick PART III: Flipping the script: challenging the narrative war on the poor 7 Feeling it: the truth about living in poverty 8 Changing times: fighting poverty, not the poor 9 New generation: young people writing their own script 10 Altered images: constructing a new narrative
£12.34
Policy Press Rethinking Britain
Book SynopsisRethinking Britain presents a range of ideas from some of the country's most influential thinkers, offering solutions which, if implemented, would lead to a fairer society. This book is an essential aid for citizens who are interested in critiquing inequalities while looking to build a better future.Trade Review"In the face of climate and social breakdown we urgently need new public policy ideas. Rethinking Britain has them in wonderful, creative and powerful bucketfuls. It’s a must read for anyone who wants to reclaim Britain for the many, not the few." Paul Chatterton, University of Leeds"Essential reading for politicians and citizens alike. It provides an insightful and accessible guide to progressive policies towards the economy and social sectors, challenging prevalent ‘austerity’ and market-dominated approaches." Frances Stewart, Oxford Department of International Development"Brexit has displaced other policy issues, so this review of a variety of progressive proposals, with its helpful jargon buster, is a very valuable reminder of what needs to be done." Ron Smith, Birkbeck University of London"The professional economists behind this book write with the conviction that informed citizens are empowered citizens - and the foundation of democracy. For those wanting to understand the economic forces shaping our lives and our country, this is a must-read." Ann Pettifor, Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME)“Convincingly makes the case for a radical approach to policy making. Rethinking Britain is as urgent as it is readable.” Robert Skidelsky, University of WarwickTable of ContentsForeword by Patrick Allen Introduction Interlude: ‘Mirror, mirror, on the wall – who has the highest debt of all?' PART ONE: BUILDING A FULL-EMPLOYMENT ECONOMY When is austerity an appropriate economic policy? Using the budget to manage output and employment Why assessing the equality impact of economic policies matters How should we manage inflation? What should guide monetary policy? Does the UK really have too much debt? The macroeconomic role of progressive taxation How do we build a fairer tax system? Should we have fiscal rules? Interlude: Has privatisation come off the rails? PART TWO: PUBLIC INVESTMENT – PRIORITISING SOCIETY RATHER THAN PROFIT How could we build competitive new UK industries? Reindustrialising the UK How can labour law be the instrument of progressive economic policy? Wage policy and public investment for sustainable development How do we build a sustainable economy? Investing in social infrastructure Why should the railway be renationalised? How can we fix the broken energy sector? Interlude: Why should citizens invest in losses, rather than for profit? PART THREE: MAKING FINANCE WORK FOR SOCIETY Why the UK needs a much better Companies Act What should be the limits to limited liability? Why do we need publicly listed companies? How can citizens’ wealth funds address the problem of inequality? How can finance better serve the real economy? How can we channel credit to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)? What can we learn from Germany’s national development bank? Interlude: Safe as (council) houses... PART FOUR: GENUINE SOCIAL SECURITY How can we tackle the UK’s private debt crisis? How can we address the concerns of renters, without crashing house prices? How do we make occupational pension funds fit for purpose? How can we stop the social security system aggravating mental distress? Reconstructing social security How could Universal Basic Income (UBI) improve social security? Would Universal Basic Income (UBI) address the causes of inequality, ill-being and injustice? Interlude: What is ‘social’ infrastructure – and why does it matter so much? PART FIVE: HOW TO PROVIDE FOR SOCIAL NEEDS How can we stop privatisation of public services? What has the market done to the English NHS and with what should we replace it? What’s the best way to tackle health inequalities? What’s the best way of delivering social care? How do we make drug prices an easier pill for the NHS to swallow? How much would high-quality childcare cost and how would we pay for it? What should be done about private schools? How do we make lifelong learning a reality for all? Conclusion Jargon busters References and further reading
£14.24
Bristol University Press The Foundational Economy and Citizenship
Book SynopsisWith thinking around the foundational economy becoming increasingly influential, this interdisciplinary collection sets out its role in renewing citizenship and informing policy. Drawing on case studies in areas of social and economic concern, it explores how foundational experiments can foster collective consumption and promote social justice.Table of ContentsIntroduction ~ Filippo Barbera and Ian Rees Jones The Foundational Economy and the Civil Sphere ~ Filippo Barbera and Ian Rees Jones Part 1: Governance and Public Action Re-embedding the Economy within Digitalized Foundational Sectors: The Case of Platform Cooperativism ~ Davide Arcidiacono Ivana Pais Reframing Public Ownership in the Foundational Economy: (Re)discovering a Variety of Forms ~ Leonhard Plank The Nonprofit Paradox after the Crisis: How to Survive within a Changing Scenario ~ Sandro Busso and Joselle Dagnes Part 2: Housing and Urban Life Planning with Citizenship: An Idea whose time has come in Greater Manchester? ~ Julie Froud, Mike Hodson, Sukhdev Johal, Hua Wei and Karel Williams Housing and the grounded city: Rent extraction and social innovations ~ Massimo Bricocoli and Angelo Salento Part 3: Water and Waste Waste Management and Value Extraction in Italy: Where is the Citizen? Waste to Worth ~ Dario Minervini Civil Society and the Movement for Public Water: Water Management and its Transformation in England and Italy ~ Sergio Marotta and Ferdinando Spina Part 4: Food Changing Food Supply Chains: The Role of Citizens and Civil Society Organisations in Working Towards a Social Economy ~ Fabio Mostaccio Foodscapes of Hope: The Foundational Economy of Food ~ Kevin Morgan Conclusion Conclusions and New Policy Directions ~ Filippo Barbera and Ian Rees Jones
£75.99
Bristol University Press The Foundational Economy and Citizenship
Book SynopsisWith thinking around the foundational economy becoming increasingly influential, this interdisciplinary collection sets out its role in renewing citizenship and informing policy. Drawing on case studies in areas of social and economic concern, it explores how foundational experiments can foster collective consumption and promote social justice.Table of ContentsIntroduction ~ Filippo Barbera and Ian Rees Jones The Foundational Economy and the Civil Sphere ~ Filippo Barbera and Ian Rees Jones Part 1: Governance and Public Action Re-embedding the Economy within Digitalized Foundational Sectors: The Case of Platform Cooperativism ~ Davide Arcidiacono Ivana Pais Reframing Public Ownership in the Foundational Economy: (Re)discovering a Variety of Forms ~ Leonhard Plank The Nonprofit Paradox after the Crisis: How to Survive within a Changing Scenario ~ Sandro Busso and Joselle Dagnes Part 2: Housing and Urban Life Planning with Citizenship: An Idea whose time has come in Greater Manchester? ~ Julie Froud, Mike Hodson, Sukhdev Johal, Hua Wei and Karel Williams Housing and the grounded city: Rent extraction and social innovations ~ Massimo Bricocoli and Angelo Salento Part 3: Water and Waste Waste Management and Value Extraction in Italy: Where is the Citizen? Waste to Worth ~ Dario Minervini Civil Society and the Movement for Public Water: Water Management and its Transformation in England and Italy ~ Sergio Marotta and Ferdinando Spina Part 4: Food Changing Food Supply Chains: The Role of Citizens and Civil Society Organisations in Working Towards a Social Economy ~ Fabio Mostaccio Foodscapes of Hope: The Foundational Economy of Food ~ Kevin Morgan Conclusion Conclusions and New Policy Directions ~ Filippo Barbera and Ian Rees Jones
£25.64
Bristol University Press Putting Civil Society in Its Place
Book SynopsisThrough theories of metagovernance and case studies of mobilisations against economic and social problems, Bob Jessop explores the idea of civil society as a mode of governance. Reviewing concepts of self-emancipation and self-responsibilisation, he challenges conventional thinking and identifies lessons for future social innovation.Table of Contents1 Introduction Part I: Complexity, contingency and governance 2 The governance of complexity and the complexity of governance 3 Governance failure, metagovernance and its failure 4 Semantic, institutional and spatio-temporal fixes Part II: Locating civil society as a mode of governance 5 Locating the WISERD Project: Public policy governance towards common good 6 Locating civil society in Marx and Gramsci 7 Locating civil society in Foucault Part III: Governance failure and metagovernance 8 The multispatial governance of social and economic policy 9 The dynamics of economic and social partnerships and governance failure 10 Competitiveness vs civil society as modes of governance 11 Conclusions
£75.99
Bristol University Press City Regions and Devolution in the UK
Book SynopsisRich in case study insights, this book provides an overview of city-region building and considers how governance restructuring shapes political, economic, social and cultural landscapes. Reviewing city regions in Britain, the authors address the tensions and opportunities for local elites and civil society actors.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Onward devolution and city regions Northern powerhouses Metro governance dynamics Precarious city regions Elite city deals Beyond cities in regions City- region limits Conclusions: City- regional futures
£25.64
Bristol University Press The Next Welfare State
Book SynopsisIn this book, Chris Pierson argues that we will need to think quite differently about the British welfare state after COVID-19. He looks back to the welfare state’s origins and development as well as forwards, unearthing some surprising solutions in unexpected places.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Welfare in an age of austerity 2. The last social democratic welfare state 3. Back to the future, again 4. Future imperfect 5. COVID-19 and after Conclusion
£76.50
Bristol University Press Private Renting in the Advanced Economies
Book SynopsisThis edited collection analyses recent changes in the private rental housing market, using case studies from the UK, Europe, Australia and the USA, and assesses the initial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.Table of Contents1. New Trajectories in Private Rental Housing - Peter A. Kemp 2. Growth and Change: Private Renting in Australia in the 21st Century - Kath Hulse 3. Rental Housing Dynamics and Their Affordability Impact in the United States - Alex Schwartz 4. The Irish Rental Sector and the Post-homeownership Society: Issues and Challenges - Michael Byrne 5. Private Renting in England: Growth, Change and Contestation - Tony Crook and Peter A. Kemp 6. Private Renting in the Netherlands: Set to Grow? - Marietta E.A. Haffner 7. Suppressive Regulation and Lower Political Esteem: Private Renting in Germany at the Beginning of Decline - Stefan Kofner 8. Private Renting in Denmark: Foreign Investors in the Crosshairs - Kath Scanlon 9. Norway: Booming Housing Market and Increasing Small-scale Landlordism - Mary Ann Stamsø 10. Private Rented Markets in Spain and Housing Affordability - Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway and Teresa Sánchez-Martínez 11. The Short Run Impact of Covid-19 on the Private Rented Sector - Tony Crook 12. Change and Continuity in Private Rental Housing - Peter A. Kemp
£76.50
MP-WBK World Bank Group Publ The fallout of war
Book SynopsisIdentifies the impact of the Syrian conflict on economic and social outcomes in Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon. The publication combines a large number of data sources, statistical approaches, and a suite of economic models that isolate the specific impact of the Syrian conflict among numerous global and regional factors.
£36.86
The University of North Carolina Press Seeing Red
Book SynopsisTelling the stories of mixed-race traders and missionaries, tribal leaders and territorial governors, Michael Witgen challenges our assumptions about the inevitability of US expansion. Deeply researched and passionately written, this book will command attention from readers who are invested in issues of equality, equity, and national belonging.Trade Review“A searing account. . . . [Witgen’s] incisive and deeply researched study lays bar the mechanisms of this historical land grab.” - Publishers Weekly"An important analysis of Indigenous resistance to U.S. colonialism in the lands that would become Michigan and Wisconsin during the first half of the nineteenth century." - Civil War Book Review"An important work that draws together multiple threads that have all too often remained stubbornly disparate in the field of early American history. Witgen's "political economy of plunder" model achieves something simultaneously noteworthy and quite difficult. . . . Witgen makes the unthinkable imaginable, and even tangible, to his audience." - H-Early-America“A critical story of survivance. . . . This book joins a growing body of literature by Indigenous scholars and others working to rightly account for the Indigenous history of North America.” - Early American Literature“Brilliant and engrossing. Challenging the dominant narrative of American history, which assumes a rapid decline in Native power after the War of 1812, Witgen charts Indigenous persistence in the Old Northwest despite relentless pressure from both the United States and Canada. Witgen’s compelling analysis of ‘the political economy of plunder’ transforms our view of settler colonialism.” - Christina Snyder, Pennsylvania State University“Witgen reframes the history of the United States around settler colonialism and fills out the picture with a granular understanding of both the practical mechanisms of ‘the political economy of plunder’ and the terrible human costs of American imperialism on the continent of North America.” - Walter Johnson, Harvard University
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New York University Press Beyond Economic Migration
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An important addition to the literature on immigration. The multidisciplinary analyses of cross-border movements and resettlement underscore the urgent need for immigration reform." -- Carl Bankston, Tulane University"Edited and written by leading scholars in the study of international migration, this highly original volume offers a nuanced, multilevel, and empirically grounded resource for understanding the significance of non-economic factors in shaping the migration experiences of diverse groups in the US. . . . Includes valuable research on understudied populations, such as skilled Africans, skilled Pakistani women, skilled Latin Americans, and transnational women. A groundbreaking contribution to the field." -- Steven Gold, Michigan State University
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New York University Press Wealth
Book SynopsisAn in-depth political, legal, and philosophical study into the implications of wealth inequality in modern societies.Wealth, and specifically its distribution, has been a topic of great debate in recent years. Calls for justice against corporations implicated in the 2008 financial crash; populist rallying against the one percent; distrust of the influence of wealthy donors on elections and policyall of these issues have their roots in a larger discussion of how wealth operates in American economic and political life. In Wealth a distinguished interdisciplinary group of scholars in political science, law and philosophy address the complex set of questions that relate to economic wealth and its implications for social and political life in modern societies. The volume thus brings together a range of perspectives on wealth, inequality, capitalism, oligarchy, and democracy. The essays also cover a number of more specific topics including limitarianism, US Consti
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University of Toronto Press The Rancheros of Pisaflores
Book SynopsisThis case study of the 'ranchero' region of Sierra Alta de Hidalgo offers a new perspective on the rancheros and their role in the Mexican Revolution and its aftermath. Focusing on the economic and political history of the municipio of Pisaflores over the past hundred years, the author demonstrates that the rancheros were not subsistence family farmers, as they have been described by other scholars, but commercial farmers, a local elite employing wage labourers.This 'peasant bourgeoisie' far outnumbered the absentee owners of a huge hacienda who figure so prominently in the literature, and they played an important part in the armed phase of the Mexican Revolution that started in 1910. The Revolution, in fact, provided individual members of this rural class with a unique opportunity to improve their economic and social position. In the Sierra Alta de Hidalgo many rancheros became local revolutionaries, recruiting their own employees and tenants, and two members of prominent ra
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University of Toronto Press Social Criticism
Book SynopsisStephen Leacock, long celebrated as Canada's foremost humorist and social satirist, has received little recognition for his considerable accomplishments as a serious thinker and social critic. In fact, Leacock was a professor of political economy, and more than half of his writings addressed the pressing issues of his day. This volume represents the neglected aspect of Leacock's career, gathering together his writings on a range of subjects, including imperialism, education and culture, religion and morality, feminism, prohibition, and social justice.The collection begins with 'Greater Canada: an appeal,' which dates from 1907, when Leacock was a popular lecturer advancing the cause of imperialism. Bowker points out that, for Leacock, imperialism was more a spiritual mission than a political agenda, representing the opportunity to unite Canadians, to inspire allegiance to a lofty tradition, and thereby to combat the threat of materialism, urbanism, fragmentation, and continentalism
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Cornell University Press Achieving Workers Rights in the Global Economy
Book SynopsisThe world was shocked in April 2013 when more than 1100 garment workers lost their lives in the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory complex in Dhaka. It was the worst industrial tragedy in the two-hundred-year history of mass apparel manufacture. This so-called accident was, in fact, just waiting to happen, and not merely because of the corruption and exploitation of workers so common in the garment industry. In Achieving Workers'' Rights in the Global Economy, Richard P. Appelbaum and Nelson Lichtenstein argue that such tragic events, as well as the low wages, poor working conditions, and voicelessness endemic to the vast majority of workers who labor in the export industries of the global South arise from the very nature of world trade and production.Given their enormous power to squeeze prices and wages, northern brands and retailers today occupy the commanding heights of global capitalism. Retail-dominated supply chainssuch as those with Walmart, Apple, and Nike at Trade ReviewAchieving Workers' Rights in the Global Economy seeks to understand why sweatshops continue in the apparel industry despite the 20-year-long investment in private regulation (monitoring corporate codes of conduct) by major brands and retailers.... In sum, Achieving Workers' Rights in the Global Economy is an important book that is particularly useful as a textbook for students learning about the barriers to effective improvements in labor standards, as well as for useful pathways to explore for the future. In addition, practitioners will gain from the discussion of potential avenues forward. -- Matthew Fischer-Daly * ILR Review *Fourteen papers analyze the system of world capitalism under which the majority of workers labor, explaining how corporate social responsibility (CSR) has failed to achieve its professed objectives, different approaches to the governance of global suply chains, the prospects for workers' rights in China, and the way forward for labor rights. * JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Achieving Workers' Rights in the Global Economy Richard P. Appelbaum and Nelson LichtensteinPart I SELF-GOVERNANCE: THE CHALLENGES AND LIMITATIONS OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY1. Outsourcing Horror: Why Apparel Workers Are Still Dying, One Hundred Years after Triangle Shirtwaist Scott Nova and Chris Wegemer2. From Public Regulation to Private Enforcement: How CSR Became Managerial OrthodoxyRichard P. Appelbaum3. Corporate Social Responsibility: Moving from Checklist Monitoring to Contractual Obligation? Jill Esbenshade4. The Twilight of CSR: Life and Death Illuminated by Fire Robert J. S. RossPart II GOVERNANCE OF GLOBAL PRODUCTION NETWORKS5. The Demise of Tripartite Governance and the Rise of the Corporate Social Responsibility Regime Nelson Lichtenstein6. Deepening Compliance?: Multistakeholder Communication in Monitoring Labor Standards in the Value Chains of Brazil’s Apparel Industry Anne Caroline Posthuma and Renato Bignami7. Law and the Global Sweatshop Problem Brishen Rogers8. Assessing the Risks of Participation in Global Value Chains Gary Gereffi and Xubei LuoPart III PROSPECTS FOR WORKERS’ RIGHTS IN CHINA9. Apple, Foxconn, and China’s New Working Class Jenny Chan, Ngai Pun, and Mark Selden10. Labor Transformation in China: Voices from the Frontlines Katie Quan11. CSR and Trade Union Elections at Foreign-Owned Chinese Factories Anita ChanPart IV A WAY FORWARD?12. The Sustainable Apparel Coalition and Higg Index: A New Approach for the Apparel and Footwear Industry Jason Kibbey13. Learning from the Past: The Relevance of Twentieth-Century New York Jobbers’ Agreements for Twenty-First-Century Global Supply Chains Mark Anner, Jennifer Bair, and Jeremy Blasi14. Workers of the World Unite!: The Strategy of the International Union League for Brand Responsibility Jeff Hermanson
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Cornell University Press Priests of Prosperity
Book SynopsisPriests of Prosperity explores the unsung revolutionary campaign to transform postcommunist central banks from command-economy cash cows into Western-style monetary guardians. Juliet Johnson conducted more than 160 interviews in seventeen countries with central bankers, international assistance providers, policymakers, and private-sector finance professionals over the course of fifteen years. She argues that a powerful transnational central banking community concentrated in Western Europe and North America integrated postcommunist central bankers into its network, shaped their ideas about the role of central banks, and helped them develop modern tools of central banking. Johnson's detailed comparative studies of central bank development in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia, and Kyrgyzstan take readers from the birth of the campaign in the late 1980s to the challenges faced by central bankers after the global financial crisis. As the comfortable certainties Trade ReviewThe United States is not the only country in which the consensus on central-bank independence is in trouble: central bankers across the former communist world are facing sustained political challenge as well. The difference in the latter is that central-bank norms, practices and policies never sat that well within regimes in transition, and the consensus spread only weakly beyond the central banks themselves. This is the argument Juliet Johnson makes in her brilliant book on the role that central bankers played in the transformation of the post-communist world. * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *Investigates how the transnational central banking community actively guided the transformation of postcommunist central banks through transplantation and its stages of choice, transformation, and internalization. Discusses why and how central bankers in advanced industrial democracies formed a cohesive community championing price stability and political independence in the 1900s. * JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE *This book provides insight into an important element of the transition of postcommunist economies. * Choice *How timely is Juliet Johnson's Priests of Prosperity, which highlights not only the intricacies of central bank development and practice but also the role of an international community of banks in shaping this development. The book provides an illuminating comparison of central bank evolution and transformation across a number of postcommunist countries, including Hungary, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia. * Business History Review *Provides a unique theoretical framework for institutional emulation and a well-developed analysis of the diffusion of central bank independence throughout the postcommunist countries. It will be read and valued by experts and anyone working on the political economy of transition, central bank independence, or institutional emulation worldwide. * Slavic Review *A substantively significant and exciting contribution to the field of comparative political economy and to the understanding of postcommunist societies' transformation. The book is clear and persuasive because of a combination of a carefully developed theory, a deep understanding of postcommunist countries, and a combination of qualitative and quantitative evidence. * Perspectives on Politics *Priests of Prosperity is Juliet Johnson's exhaustively researched account of the adoption of politically independent, inflation-targeting central banking in the post-communist world. * Economic and Political Weekly *Table of ContentsPreface Notes on Nomenclature 1. E Pluribus Unum 2. Transplantation 3. Choosing Independence 4. The Transformation Campaign 5. The Politics of European Integration 6. The Trials of Post-Soviet Central Bankers 7. Paradise Lost
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Cornell University Press Reprogramming Japan
Book SynopsisHow have state policies influenced the development of Japan''s telecommunications, computer hardware, computer software, and semiconductor industries and their stagnation since the 1990s? Marie Anchordoguy''s book examines how the performance of these industries and the economy as a whole are affected by the socially embedded nature of Japan''s capitalist system, which she calls communitarian capitalism.Reprogramming Japan shows how the institutions and policies that emerged during and after World War II to maintain communitarian norms, such as the lifetime employment system, seniority-based wages, enterprise unions, a centralized credit-based financial system, industrial groups, the main bank corporate governance system, and industrial policies, helped promote high tech industries. When conditions shifted in the 1980s and 1990s, these institutions and policies did not suit the new environment, in which technological change was rapid and unpredictable and foreign produTrade ReviewReprogramming Japan is rich in both detail and insight in analyzing the institutional context within which Japanese high-technology firms operate.... Anchordoguy paints a vivid image of Japan's capitalism and analyzes why Japanese firms have responded so sluggishly to fast-paced technological change.... The general reader will find great satisfaction in Anchordoguy's highly thought-provoking overview of what has gone wring in Japan's variant of capitalism. The specialist will find a wealth of detail, including extensive quotes from key actors in the four sectors semiconductors, computer hardware, software, and telecommunications. * Asian Business and Management *Reprogramming Japan is an engrossing study of why Japan has performed poorly in almost all the information technology industries. In explaining Japan's adherence to communitarian capitalism, Anchordoguy disagrees with analysts who blame a political system that favors entrenched interests. Instead, she argues that the root problem is strong social norms that dictate against market disruption. Her best evidence is a rich body of material from her own interviews with an impressive array of Japanese business and government officials. The real jewels of the book are the quotes from these interviews that reveal Japan’s continued moral ambivalence about competitive markets. * Pacific Affairs *
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Cornell University Press Traders in Motion
Book SynopsisWith essays covering diverse topics, from seafood trade across the Vietnam-China border, to street traders in Hanoi, to gold shops in Ho Chi Minh City, Traders in Motion spans the fields of economic and political anthropology, geography, and sociology to illuminate how Vietnam''s rapidly expanding market economy is formed and transformed by everyday interactions among traders, suppliers, customers, family members, neighbors, and officials.The contributions shed light on the micropolitics of local-level economic agency in the paradoxical context of Vietnam''s socialist orientation and its contemporary neoliberal economic and social transformation. The essays examine how Vietnamese traders and officials engage in on-the-ground contestations to define space, promote or limit mobility, and establish borders, both physical and conceptual. The contributors show how trading experiences shape individuals'' notions of self and personhood, not just as economic actors, but also in termsTrade ReviewThis edited volumen successfully presents its arguments and analyses with clear contextualization aand well-organized theoretical frameworks... I highly reccomend this book * Sojourn *Inarguably an exceptional collection on Vietnam's contemporary political economy, the book provides a comprehensive and critical update of how post socialism and neo- liberalism interplay (and clash) in Vietnam, and how powerful macrostructures and ideologies shape, and in return, become shaped by grassroots actors through their everyday practices. * Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography *
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Cornell University Press Good Governance Gone Bad
Book SynopsisIf we believe that the small, open economies of Nordic Europe are paragons of good governance, why are they so prone to economic crisis? In Good Governance Gone Bad, Darius Ornston provides evidence that adapting flexibly to rapid, technological change and shifting patterns of economic competition may be a great virtue, but it does not prevent countries from making strikingly poor policy choices and suffering devastating results. Home to three of the big five financial crises in the twentieth century, Nordic Europe in the new millennium has witnessed a housing bubble in Denmark, the collapse of the Finnish ICT industry, and the Icelandic financial crisis.Ornston argues that the reason for these two seemingly contradictory phenomena is one and the same. The dense, cohesive relationships that enable these countries to respond to crisis with radical reform render them vulnerable to policy overshooting and overinvestment. Good Governance Gone Bad tests this argumentTrade ReviewOrnston shows how we can recognize this mechanism by a wider pattern of logical entailments, negative as well as positive. The book is carefully designed to reveal that pattern and painstakingly researched to bring it to life. * Governance *Darius Ornston has built on years of comparative political economic studies to provide an ambitious if demanding critical study of the region... [he] has made an important empirical and theoretical contribution. * EuropeNow *Ornston's book is a must-read not only for academics but also for Nordic policy makers, businesspeople, and all institutional actors who are keen to make rapid reforms in the name of innovation and change. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: The Nordic Paradox 1. Good Governance Gone Bad: Overshooting in Nordic Europe 2. Manufacturing a Crisis: Planning in Sweden 3. Connecting People: Innovation in Finland 4. From Banking on Fish to Fishy Banks: Liberalization in Iceland 5. Overshooting in Comparative Perspective: Contrasting Cases 6. Overshooting beyond Nordic Europe: Ireland and Estonia Conclusion: Lessons for Large States Appendix 1: Measuring Cohesive, Encompassing Networks Appendix 2: Characterizing Economic Adjustment Notes References Index
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Cornell University Press Good Governance Gone Bad
Book SynopsisIf we believe that the small, open economies of Nordic Europe are paragons of good governance, why are they so prone to economic crisis? In Good Governance Gone Bad, Darius Ornston provides evidence that adapting flexibly to rapid, technological change and shifting patterns of economic competition may be a great virtue, but it does not prevent countries from making strikingly poor policy choices and suffering devastating results. Home to three of the big five financial crises in the twentieth century, Nordic Europe in the new millennium has witnessed a housing bubble in Denmark, the collapse of the Finnish ICT industry, and the Icelandic financial crisis.Ornston argues that the reason for these two seemingly contradictory phenomena is one and the same. The dense, cohesive relationships that enable these countries to respond to crisis with radical reform render them vulnerable to policy overshooting and overinvestment. Good Governance Gone Bad tests this argumentTrade ReviewOrnston shows how we can recognize this mechanism by a wider pattern of logical entailments, negative as well as positive. The book is carefully designed to reveal that pattern and painstakingly researched to bring it to life. * Governance *Darius Ornston has built on years of comparative political economic studies to provide an ambitious if demanding critical study of the region... [he] has made an important empirical and theoretical contribution. * EuropeNow *Ornston's book is a must-read not only for academics but also for Nordic policy makers, businesspeople, and all institutional actors who are keen to make rapid reforms in the name of innovation and change. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: The Nordic Paradox 1. Good Governance Gone Bad: Overshooting in Nordic Europe 2. Manufacturing a Crisis: Planning in Sweden 3. Connecting People: Innovation in Finland 4. From Banking on Fish to Fishy Banks: Liberalization in Iceland 5. Overshooting in Comparative Perspective: Contrasting Cases 6. Overshooting beyond Nordic Europe: Ireland and Estonia Conclusion: Lessons for Large States Appendix 1: Measuring Cohesive, Encompassing Networks Appendix 2: Characterizing Economic Adjustment Notes References Index
£25.19
Cornell University Press Strong Governments Precarious Workers
Book SynopsisWhy do some European welfare states protect unemployed and inadequately employed workers (outsiders) from economic uncertainty better than others? Philip Rathgeb's study of labor market policy change in three somewhat-similar small statesAustria, Denmark, and Swedenexplores this fundamental question. He does so by examining the distribution of power between trade unions and political parties, attempting to bridge these two lines of researchtrade unions and party politicsthat, with few exceptions, have advanced without a mutual exchange.Inclusive trade unions have high political stakes in the protection of outsiders, because they incorporate workers at risk of unemployment into their representational outlook. Yet, the impact of union preferences has declined over time, with a shift in the balance of class power from labor to capital across the Western world. National governments have accordingly prioritized flexibility for employers over the social protection of outsiders. As Trade ReviewConversely to existing theoretical arguments that consider trade unions as organisations that contribute to both labour market dualization and the emergence of precarious work, this book takes a much more brave and provocative approach, which without any doubt contributes to its merits. * British Journal of Industrial Relations *Strong Governments, Precarious Workers delivers a clear and intriguing argument that should stimulate debate and research in the years to come. -- Jens Arnholtz, University of Copenhagen * ILR Review *Rathgeb's book is timely in contributing to contemporary analyses and debates around addressing the precarity of work. Academics and practitioners have much to gain from Rathgeb's political analysis of how to advance social solidarity and protect precarious workers in the neoliberal era. * Work, Employment and Society *Strong Governments, Precarious Workers provides an innovative take on a much-debated issue, making it highly recommended reading for all scholars concerned with the transformations of labour relations in modern capitalism. * Journal of Social Policy *Rathgeb's excellent study engages with important and timely issues for both research and society and should be read widely by scholars and experts in the fields of welfare state politics, political economy, and employment relations. * Perspectives on Politics *
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