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Book SynopsisFocusing on the organizations and activities of Hindu ascetics and gurus, the author explores the complex interrelations among religion, the political economy of India and global capitalism. The work illustrates the pervasive presence of Hindu imagery in India's burgeoning market economy.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1: Sumptuary Spirituality 2: Hardwar and Rishikesh: Gateway to Gods and Godmen 3: Savarkar: Nationalist Ideologue and Organizer of Hindus 4: Hindu Sangathan after Savarkar: The Vishva Hindu Parishad 5: Swami Satyamitranand: VHP Leader and Founder of Hardwar's Bharat Mata Temple 6: The Bharat Mata Temple: Satyamitranand's Candid Appraisal 7: Sivananda and the Divine Life Society 8: Arenas of Ashram Life 9: Celebrating the Birth Centenary of Gurudev Sivananda 10: Shakti ex Machina Epilogue Appendix 1 The Manav Utthan Seva Samiti Appendix 2 A Brief Account of Hardwar Bibliography Index Gallery follows page 96

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Book SynopsisWith essays on labour force participation and retirement, housing equity and the economic status of the elderly, and financing of social security and health care in the 1990s, this volume covers a broad spectrum of issues related to the economics of ageing in the United States and Japan.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 Yukio Noguchi, David A. Wise. 1: Aging and Labor Force Participation: A Review of Trends and Explanations 7 Robin L. Lumsdaine, David A. Wise. 2: Social Security Benefits and the Labor Supply of the Elderly in Japan 43 Atsushi Seike, Haruo Shimada. 3: The Economic Status of the Elderly in the United States 63 Michael D. Hurd 4: Household Asset- and Wealthholdings in Japan 85 Noriyuki Takayama 5: Problems of Housing the Elderly in the United States and Japan 109 Daniel L. McFadden 6: The Cost of Aging: Public Finance Perspectives for Japan 139 Seiritsu Ogura 7: Financing Health Care for Elderly Americans in the 1990s 175 Alan M. Garber Contributors 195 Author Index 197 Subject Index 201

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Book SynopsisAn overview of the political and economic issues involved in the formation of budget deficits. The text brings together theoretical models, empirical evidence and case studies to analyze the effect of political institutions, fiscal regulations, and policy decisions on accumulating deficits.

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Book SynopsisAlfred Marshall, Principles of Economics (1890) – Founder of Modern (Neo-classical) Economics. His book Principles of Economics was the dominant textbook in economics for a long time and it is considered to be his seminal work.Trade Review"It is impossible to understand economics in the twentieth century without knowing about Marshall's Principles. The simplicity of his presentation conceals complexities that were not apparent to later generations who picked up on the mathematics whilst ignoring many of the evolutionary ideas that fascinate modern scholars." Roger E. Backhouse, Professor of the History and Philosophy of Economics, University of Birmingham, UK "Alfred Marshall's Principles of Economics is an outstanding contribution, one of the foundations of neoclassical economics, and shaped the thought of economists from John Maynard Keynes to Milton Friedman. Every modern economist should make its acquaintaince and should look in admiration at that seminal diagram in which Marshall drew a supply curve intersecting a demand curve. Peter Groenewegen, Marshall's biographer and the greatest living Marshall scholar, has written a new introduction for this edition, drawing on a lifetime of insightful scholarship." Robert W. Dimand, Professor of Economics, Brock University, CanadaTable of ContentsBOOK I: PRELIMINARY SURVEY 1. Introduction 2. The Substance of Economics 3. Economic Generalizations or Laws 4. The Order and Aims of Economic Studies BOOK II: SOME FUNDAMENTAL NOTIONS 1. Introductory 2. Wealth 3. Production, Consumption, Labour, Necessaries 4. Income. Capital. BOOK III: ON WANTS AND THEIR SATISFACTION 1. Introductory 2. Wants in Relation to Activities 3. Gradations of consumers' demand 4. The elasticity of wants 5. Choice between different uses of the same thing. Immediate and deferred uses. 6. Value and utility BOOK IV: THE AGENTS OF PRODUCTION. LAND, LABOUR, CAPITAL AND ORGANIZATION T 1. Introductory 2. The Fertility of Land 3. The Fertility of Land, continued. The Tendency to Diminishing Return. 4. The Growth of Population 5. The Health and Strength of the Population 6. Industrial Training. 7. The Growth of Wealth 8. Industrial Organization 9. Industrial Organization, continued. Division of Labour. The Influence of Machinery 10. Industrial Organization, continued. The Concentration of the Specialized Industries in Particular Localities. 11. Industrial Organization, continued. Production on a Large Scale 12. Industrial Organization, continued. Business Management. 13. Conclusion. Correlation of the Tendencies to Increasing and to Diminishing Return BOOK V: GENERAL RELATIONS OF DEMAND, SUPPLY, AND VALUE 1. Introductory. On Markets. 2. Temporary Equilibrium of Demand and Supply 3. Equilibrium of Normal Demand and Supply 4. The Investment and Distribution of Resources 5. Equilibrium of Normal Demand and Supply, continued, with reference to long and short periods 6. Joint and Composite Demand. Joint and Composite Supply 7. Prime and total cost in relation to joint products. Cost of marketing. Insurance against risk. Cost of Reproduction. 8. Marginal costs in relation to values. General Principles. 9. Marginal costs in relation to values. General Principles, continued 10. Marginal costs in relation to agricultural values 11. Marginal costs in relation to urban values 12. Equilibrium of normal demand and supply, continued, with reference to the law of increasing return 13. Theory of changes of normal demand and supply, in relation to the doctrine of maximum satisfaction 14. The theory of monopolies 15. Summary of the general theory of equilibrium of demand and supply BOOK VI: THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE NATIONAL INCOME 1. Preliminary survey of distribution 2. Preliminary survey of distribution, continued 3. Earnings of labour 4. Earnings of labour, continued 5. Earnings of labour, continued 6. Interest of capital 7. Profits of capital and business power 8. Profits of capital and business power, continued 9. Rent of land 10. Land tenure 11. General view of distribution 12. General influences of progress on value 13. Progress in relation to standards of life

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Book SynopsisAndré Broome is Associate Professor of International Political Economy at the University of Warwick, UK. He has published various articles on global political economy, and is the author of The Currency of Power: The IMF and Monetary Reform in Central Asia (Palgrave Macmillan).Trade Review"An ideal introduction to the field of international political economy for both undergraduates and masters' classes, addressing an array of topics from finance to development, NGOs to inter-governmental bodies, and realist to feminist political economy. It incorporates contemporary developments without losing sight of both deeper structures and trends within IPE." - Jason Sharman, Griffith University, Australia "A highly innovative and exceptionally informative textbook that is about as comprehensive as it gets, is distinctive in its approach not least through its novel focus on actors in the world economy, and is right up-to-date with respect to the key issues, theories and debates that have emerged in the discipline within the last decade. A brilliant IPE textbook for the 21st century." - John M. Hobson, University of Sheffield, UK "A comprehensive study of an ever-expanding field, usefully divided into the theories, actors and topics that constitute the agenda of contemporary research into the global political economy. It allows the student to engage with the key concerns of the field at multiple levels simultaneously, providing a synoptic approach that other textbooks lack." - Mark Blyth, Brown University, USA "Clearly presented and engagingly written, this analysis offers a fresh and timely perspective on the global political economy and is an essential read for students of the field." - Jacqueline Best, University of Ottawa, CanadaTable of Contents1. Introduction to International Political Economy 2. Theoretical Perspectives in International Political Economy 3. Contemporary Debates in International Political Economy PART I: ACTORS IN THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY 4. State Actors 5. International Organizations 6. Club Forums 7. Market Actors 8. Non-Governmental Organizations 9. Everyday Actors PART II: Issues in the Global Political Economy 10. Global Trade 11. Global Money and National Currencies 12. Global Capital Mobility 13. Financial Crises 14. Sovereign Debt 15. Tax and Welfare 16. Global Poverty and Development 17, Resource Competition and Energy 18. The Environment and Climate Change.

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Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates the connection between economic and strategic developments in Asia with several, interrelated arguments. India is close behind, and warns that while many observers are proceeding as if current U.S. treaties will continue indefinitely, Asia is already preparing for changing patrons.Trade Review"A marvelously rich, important, original book on the rise of the 'mega-countries,' China and India, who are casting a long shadow on the rest of the world." - Paul Bracken, Professor of Management & Political Science, Yale University "Thisboth sweepingand detailed study contributessignificantly to our understanding of the combination of economic and strategic developments in Asia since the financial crisis of 1997. The economic-growth driven, sustained, phenomenal rise of China and India is a dominant event of the 21st century. In his analysis, Professor Denoon considers how these new, evolving strategic realignments and balances in Asia will have significant, though not yet well appreciated, implications for U.S. foreign policy." - Hugh T. Patrick, Co-Director, APEC Study Center, Columbia University and R.D. Calkins Professor Emeritus"David Denoon has given us a major book which will help refocus our attention away from the post-9/11 preoccupation with the Middle East and Gulf to fundamental strategic realignments underway in South and East Asia. Denoon is a unique Asia specialist in his ability to assess the economic as well as the political trends that are transforming the Asia-Pacific region. He documents in detail how the continental powers of Asia India and China as well as Japan emerged unscathed from the financial crisis of 1997 to reshape the economic structure of the region, and how institutions like ASEAN and APEC have failed to give voice to the concerns of smaller regional states. This is an analysis much broader than the 'rise of China'.It will help us understand why Asia will be the world's power center of the 21st Century." - Richard H. Solomon,President, U.S. Institute of PeaceTable of ContentsOverview Why Was the 1997 Crisis So Severe? Is the Current Recovery Sustainable? The Mixed Record on Integration in East Asia Strategic Realignments in Asia United States Policy and Asian Realignments

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] fascinating and exhaustive study...An excellent storyteller, Fleischman has produced a very well-written book that will be useful togeneral readers and specialists alike." * Choice *"[D]escribe[s] the shifting, meaningful relationship between hogs and humans, a relationship worthy of our attention." * Ohio Valley Review *"Communist Pigs gives historians in many fields much to think about: the German Democratic Republic, the Eastern Bloc, Cold War diplomacy, late-twentieth-century capitalism, German reunification, industrial agriculture, environmentalism, and the pig. Fleischman convincingly argues that pigs' centrality to the GDR's trade with foreign nations, organization of internal priorities, and creation of challenges for the regime to grapple with makes them an effective lens for studying these histories, and succeeds in challenging ideological interpretations of the Cold War's outcome and of global capitalism's legacies." * H-Net *"[A] remarkable first book... Communist Pigs makes a major contribution to the ongoing efforts to reframe East Germany’s environmental history." * American Historical Review *"[P]acked with original insights. It represents a significant contribution to the intersecting histories of the environment, technology and science, and animals, and fills animportant gap in our knowledge about the relationship between communism, technology, and animals." * Technology and Culture *

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Book SynopsisPresenting a synthesis and interpretation of the work undertaken at the Copenhagen Seminars for Social Progress in Denmark, this book makes a contribution to the international dialogue on social progress. It is useful to economists, planners, aid agencies, and all students of international studies.Trade Review"No public body or group, I speak seriously, has undertaken a more important and germane effort in our time." - John Kenneth Galbraith

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Book SynopsisThe first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period and the legacy of this developmentTrade Review“Valuable . . . offers many lessons for Western policy makers today.”—Paul Kennedy, Wall Street Journal“Lucidly written, scholarly and thought-provoking.”—Gideon Rachman, Financial Times“Mulder . . . looks at sanctions over the three decades after the First World War—and reaches unsettling conclusions. . . . The lessons are sobering.”—The Economist“Mulder charts how the rise of economic sanctions and blockade during the interwar years, as a tool to enforce peace, drove the autarkic policies of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, ultimately destabilising the international system rather than fortifying it.”—Robin Harding, Financial Times“Mulder argues in his impeccably well-researched and, because of its timeliness, gripping book that ‘sanctions did not stop political and economic disintegration but accelerated it’ in the interwar period. . . . Mulder’s book provides an uncomfortable warning that while sanctions have sometimes worked, they have also been contentious, ineffective and counterproductive.”—Emma Duncan, The Times“This revelatory history of ‘economic warfare’—blockades and sanctions—reminds us that up to 400,000 people died of blockade-induced malnutrition in Central Europe in the First World War, plus 500,000 in the Ottoman Middle East. You will look at twentieth-century history with fresh eyes.”—Noel Malcolm, Daily Telegraph, “Perfect Holiday Reads”"A fortuitously timed history of the use of economic sanctions during the interwar period of the 20th century. Their mixed success cautions against hoping that the West’s sanctions against Russia can bring about an end to war in Ukraine."—The Economist, "Best Books of 2022"A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2022“As Nicholas Mulder shows in The Economic Weapon, a much longer history lies behind the invention of modern sanctions.”—Tom Stevenson, London Review of Books“A fascinating new book. . . . Taken as a superbly researched work of history, it lights up key aspects of the twentieth century in a deeply thought-provoking way.”—Noel Malcolm, Daily Telegraph“Original and persuasive analysis. . . . For those who see economic sanctions as a relatively mild way of expressing displeasure at a country’s behavior, this book, charting how they first emerged as a potential coercive instrument during the first decades of the twentieth century, will come as something of a revelation.”—Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs“[A] superb study of sanctions during the interwar era. . . . Mulder’s fascinating story weaves together politics, economics and law [and] provides invaluable insight into the experience of sanctions one hundred years ago.”—Max Harris, Times Literary Supplement“An excellent historical study. . . . Western countries have directed an unprecedentedly severe battery of punitive economic measures against Russia. . . . For those of us seeking better to understand this reaction and gauge its likely efficacy, there is no better place to turn than Cornell historian Nicholas Mulder’s erudite and uncannily timely book on the origins of economic sanctions."—Alexander Watson, Literary Review“Mulder’s examination of the details of economic diplomacy in the interwar era makes for fascinating reading, and at the least it will remind us that, in the case of determined dictators, something more than sanctions may be needed.”—Matthew Partridge, Money Week, “Book of the Week”“There are few books that can be said to be timely like Nicholas Mulder's The Economic Weapon . . . [it is] an important contribution to the history of economics and international relations in the interwar period.”—Roman Köster, sehepunkteWinner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize for best first book by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR)“The Economic Weapon is a superb account of the history of sanctions, and their profound impact on international politics. Although sanctions were once heralded as a force for peace, Mulder shows they often fail and sometimes make war more likely or even produce a humanitarian nightmare.&rdquot;—John Mearsheimer, author of The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities“This is a tour de force of historical research and argument. With great subtlety and richness, Nicholas Mulder transforms our understanding of twentieth-century global and international history.”—David Edgerton, King’s College London“Mulder reveals the history of liberalism’s ultimate weapon. An essential contribution both to scholarship and to the present-day debate on economic sanctions.”—Adam Tooze, author of Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy"A fortuitously timed history of the use of economic sanctions during the interwar period of the 20th century. Their mixed success cautions against hoping that the West’s sanctions against Russia can bring about an end to war in Ukraine."—The Economist, "Best Books of 2022" * Economist *

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a new narrative on the eurozone crisis. It argues that the common currency has the potential to kill the European Union, and the conventional wisdom that the eurozone can be fixed by a common budget and further political integration is incorrect.The authors address key questions such as why the European Union and the single market have been successful, why the common currency poses a threat to European integration, and whether it is possible to either fix the eurozone or dissolve it while keeping the EU and the single market. Contrary to the view that it would be best if the Southern European countries left the eurozone first, the book makes the case that the optimal solution would be to start the process with the most competitive countries exiting first. The authors argue that a return to national currencies would be beneficial not only to the crisis-ridden southern countries, but also to France and Germany, which were the main promoters of the singTrade Review"The authors cast clear and revealing light on the painful dilemmas posed by the single currency for the countries that use it. Their book builds on previous contributions to this debate by showing not only why the Euro is unsustainable but also, and more fundamentally, how the Euro should be dismantled. In one of their more striking arguments, the authors draw a parallel between the constraints imposed on present-day European economies by the Euro and the effects of the gold standard in the interwar period, highlighting the dangers of such an exchange rate regime for European democracies. This book contains a powerful warning about real dangers and constructive proposals for avoiding them." — Brigitte Granville, Professor of International Economics and Economic Policy at Queen Mary University of London"This book is a sensation for three reasons:First, it demonstrates how detrimental the euro is to Europe and the EU. Stefan Kawalec, Ernest Pytlarczyk and Kamil Kamiński deal with this subject without the usual ideological background music.□Secondly, like a medical team, they not only provide a diagnosis and a prognosis (for what will happen if nothing is being done about it), they prescribe a medicine, the patient being the Eurozone. These authors come up with what is by far the most realistic and the least disruptive way out of the Eurozone.Thirdly, the book has been written by distinguished highly competent economists, from a country which is not a member of the Eurozone. This book will surely help avoid the Poles losing their monetary and economic independence by making the same mistake as the Austrians, the Germans and the Dutch did. But most importantly the book may help existing Eurozone members and the whole EU to exit the euro trap. That’s why this book should be widely circulated in all EU countries. It is not the first time, Poles teach Western Europeans a lesson in freedom." — Hans-Olaf Henkel, Former President of the Federation of German Industry – BDI (1995–2000). Former President of the Leibniz Association and former CEO of IBM Europe"This book should be required reading for European economic policymakers wishing to avoid another lost European economic decade. In a highly readable and timely manner, it provides a well-researched and insightful diagnosis of the Eurozone’s economic malaise. More welcome yet, it provides a thought provoking and persuasive plan for Europe to exit its Euro trap. European policymakers would ignore this book’s constructive exchange system proposals at their peril." — Desmond Lachman, Resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Former deputy director in the International Monetary Fund’s Policy Development and Review Department"In distinguishing between productivity and competitiveness the authors have provided a very rigorous analysis of the role of currency adjustments in modern history, and of why the existence of the euro will make it nearly impossible for European economies to adjust without incurring severe social and political costs. This is an important book that should be read by any European policymaker or citizen interested in the role of the euro in domestic and EU-wide policymaking." — Michael Pettis, Senior Fellow at Carnegie-Tsinghua Center. Professor of Finance and Economics at Peking University"Building on their work on Controlled Dismantlement of the Eurozone, published in 2013 in the German Economic Review, the authors explore the consequences of an unpleasant truth that is increasingly hard to conceal: the Eurozone is not an optimal currency area, and there is no such thing as an ‘endogenous optimum currency area’. The long-run consequences of real exchange rate misalignment on productivity growth, an obvious consequence of preventing nominal exchange rate adjustment, are putting European countries on diverging trajectories. It is now up to contemporary politicians to understand that the economic unsustainability of the single currency cannot and should not be addressed through politically unsustainable measures (ranging from restricting freedom of speech on these issues to addressing imbalances through austerity policies). Kawalec, Pytlarczyk and Kamiński's book provides a way out of this trap: dismantling the Eurozone starting from the more competitive countries. Far from being a mere provocation, this proposal should be considered seriously by European governments as a precious opportunity to manage an unavoidable outcome." — Sen. Alberto Bagnai, Associate Professor of Economic Policy, Head of the Treasury and Finance Committee, Senate of the Italian RepublicTable of ContentsList of illustrations. List of contributors. Acknowledgements.Introduction and overview. Part I: From the success of the European Union and the single market to the euro crisis. 1. The European Union and the single market: Europe’s great success 2. The euro as an intended step towards strengthening the EU and the single market 3. The eurozone at a crossroadsPart II: The significance of national currencies and exchange rate adjustments. 4. Loss of international competitiveness and inability to restore it as a source of the problems of the eurozone’s depressed economies 5. International competitiveness should not be confused with productivity 6. Currency weakening compared to deflationary policy: Two alternative scenarios for restoring international competitiveness 7. The meaning of exchange rate adjustments (bike trip example) 8. The tragic experience of the defence of the gold standard through deflationary policy during the Great Depression 9. Devaluations that allowed countries to escape from crises in the post-war period 10. The cases often presented as the evidence of effectiveness of the internal devaluation 11. Controversies surrounding devaluationPart III: Can Europe compensate for the lack of national currencies? 12. The search for solutions that will repair and strengthen the eurozone 13. Can fiscal union deliver the tools to improve threatened countries’ competitiveness? 14. What could a more flexible labour market deliver? 15. Can a fiscal union protect eurozone members from future problems with competitiveness? 16. The US, nation states and underdeveloped regions, and the ability of a single currency to function in Europe 17. The optimum community level for a single currencyPart IV: What are the consequences of defending the Euro at all costs? 18. The threat to European integration 19. Conflicts with trading partnersPart V: How to return to national currencies, while preserving the European Union and single market? 20. The euro trap 21. The way out of the euro trap: Germany should leave first 22. The main elements of the strategy for a coordinated euro break-up 23. Impact of the proposed strategy on risks associated with segmentation of the eurozone 24. The special role of the ECB during the transition period 25. The ability to cope with banking and debt crises 26. A new currency coordination system in Europe 27. Europe avoids conflicts with trading partners; Germany avoids a hard landing 28. Who can initiate the dissolution of the eurozone? 29. A new Bretton Woods. Conclusion.The European Solidarity Manifesto. Bibliography. Names Index. Geographical Names Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies provides an up-to-date and authoritative introduction to the field, challenging mainstream development discourse and the assumptions that underlie it.Critical development studies lays bare the economic, political, social, and environmental crises that characterise the current global capitalist system, proposing instead systemic change and different pathways for moving beyond capitalism into a new world of genuine progress where economic and social justice and ecological integrity prevail. In this book, the authors challenge market-driven, neoliberal development agendas, incorporating analyses of class, gender, race, and the dynamics of uneven capitalist development. This thoroughly revised and expanded second edition includes: â 18 new chapters, including on topics such as philanthrocapitalism, race, the energy transition, Indigenous resistance and resilience, and global health â Expanded global coverTrade Review'In this updated and expanded edition across over forty chapters, this volume is the "go to" source for scholars and students of critical development studies. It provides the highest levels of scholarship and knowledge around the history, content and scope of the field with relevance for challenging and posing contemporary policy and activism.'Ben Fine, Emeritus Professor, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK'Given the aspirations for social, economic and climate justice, the need for critical, interdisciplinary knowledge that points us toward bold alternatives has never been greater. This Essential Guide offers an invaluable resource in this regard. Its chronicling of the trajectory of development studies will be particularly useful to contemporary scholars to see their ideas in a historical context.'Ananya Mukherjee Reed, Professor, Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada; Co-editor, Canadian Journal of Development Studies'The second edition of The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies offers a theoretically sophisticated, comprehensive and highly accessible guide to the growing field of international development studies from a critical perspective. It is critical in two senses: critical of mainstream development thought, while at the same time scrutinising popular ideas on alternatives. It will be an indispensable guide for academic researchers (students and senior scholars) as well as activists and development policy practitioners.'Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Professor of Agrarian Studies, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), the Netherlands'We have not reached the end of history but the story of progress, its errors and criticisms, is the most important one in social science. Here critical development scholars have both charted and navigated an extensive archipelago of ideas to produce this guide. This updated and expanded edition covers many crucial debates and is indispensable.'Barbara Harriss-White, FAcSS, Emeritus Professor and Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford University, UKTable of ContentsCritical Development Studies: An Introduction 1. Introduction to Critical Development Studies: Four Characteristics with Illustrations from Seven Decades Part 1: History as Development 2. Unravelling the Canvas of History Part 2: Thinking Critically about Development 3. Critical Development Theory: Results and Prospects 4. Race in/and Development 5. Development Theory: The Latin American Pivot 6. Postdevelopment and Other Critiques of Development 7. Feminist Contributions to Critical Development Studies Part 3: System Dynamics: Capitalism, Imperialism, Development, and Globalisation 8. Capitalism and Crises 9. Development, Capitalism, Imperialism, Globalisation: A Tale of Four Concepts 10. Globalisation Versus Development: Beyond Dualism 11. Philanthrocapitalism and Development 12. The Migration-Development Nexus in the Neoliberal Era Part 4: Policy Configurations for Development 13. The Post-Washington Consensus 14. International Cooperation for Development 15. The Developmental State, Globalisation, and Structural Transformations 16. Local Economic Development, Microcredit, and Financial Inclusion Part 5: Inside the BRICS 17. Brazil: Development Strategies and Peripheral Conditions 18. India: Critical Issues of a ‘Tortuous Transition’ 19. Interrogating the China Model of Development 20. South Africa: An Economy of Extremes Part 6: Poverty, Inequalities, and Development Dynamics 21. Development: Class Matters 22. The Dynamics of Poverty Production: A Political Economy Perspective for the SDGs Era 23. Poverty Analysis through a Gender Lens 24. Women, Work, and Gender Inequalities: With Illustrations from Cambodia and China 25. Health Inequalities and Development in a Global Context Part 7: Capitalism, Labour and the State 26. Labour and Development 27. The Triangle of Underdevelopment: Technology, Patents, and Monopoly 28. The Making of the New Chinese Working Class 29. Labour and Development in Latin America 30. Class and State Formation in the Gulf Arab States Part 8: Dynamics of Agrarian Change and Urban Development 31. Contemporary Dynamics of Agrarian Change 32. Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions 33. Urban Development in the Global South 34. Peasant Alternatives to Neoliberalism Part 9: Development, Climate Change, and the Environment 35. Eco-Marxist Lenses for Viewing Human-Nature Relations 36. Climate Change and Development 37. The Energy Transition and the Global South 38. The Political Economy of Extractivism in North Africa Part 10: Resistances and Alternatives 39. Understanding the Rise of the Far Right, and what to do about it 40. Rural Dispossession and Resistance in Asia and Africa 41. Extractive Capitalism and the Resistance in Latin America 42. Colonialism’s Miasmas: Indigenous Resistance and Resilience 43. Workers’ Control and Self-Management 44. Communitarian Revolutions: Ecological Economics from Below Conclusion 45. Moving towards Another World: Possibilities and Pitfalls

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Starting from the key concept of geo-economics, this book sheds light on the new power politics and argues that the changing structural aspects of the international system are recasting the strategic imperatives of state practice.

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Book SynopsisModern Money and the Rise and Fall of Capitalist Finance examines the true nature of modern money and seeks ideas for an alternative economic system for a just society.This book suggests that adopting the ideas and institutions of a trust allowed personae to be combined with creditor-debtor relations and, by doing so, led to the evolution of modern money. This also helps explain why modern banking arose in England rather than continental Europe, by conceptualizing modern money as a trust and investigating the inseparable relationship between personae and modern money, because it is more than creditor-debtor relations - it takes the form of a trust. In explaining how the capitalist credit-money economy differs from previous economies, this book is a significant contribution to the literature on modern money, heterodox economics and the philosophy of economics and finance.

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding the New Global Economy: A European Perspective argues that globalisation is facing economic and political headwinds. A new global economic geography is emerging, cross-border relationships are changing, and global governance structures must come to terms with a new multipolar world. This book clarifies the fundamental questions and trade-offs in this new global economy, and gives readers the tools to understand contemporary debates. It presents a range of possible policy options, without being prescriptive. Following a modular structure, each chapter takes a similar approach but can also be read as a stand-alone piece. State-of-the-art academic research and historical experiences are weaved throughout the book, and readers are pointed towards relevant sources of information . This text is an accessible guide to the contemporary world economy, suited to students of international economics, political economy, globalisatTrade ReviewA comprehensive and accessible guide on global and European economic affairs; an essential text outlining the underpinnings of current debates on globalisation, digitalisation, and sustainability; a must read for students, executives, and policy makers.Iftekhar HasanUniversity Professor and E. Gerald Corrigan Chair in International Business and Finance, Fordham University, USAThis book, based on a masterful analytical survey viewed from European perspective, gives update on the structural changes in the global economy. It is a "must" reading for both specialists and nonspecialists interested in the global economy to understand the multi-polarized New Global Economy emerging in the 21st century.Kwan S. KimEmeritus Professor of Economics, Kellogg Institute for International Studies and Fellow, Liu Institute for Asian Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA.European integration is Globalisation – writ small and large. Small, though not that small, given its regional dimension. Large, since it allows for a significantly deeper integration and embedding of markets. Harald Sander, in most accessible ways, provides his readers with the data and the tools to understand what is happening around them. A most impressive achievement!Hans-Helmut KotzResident Fellow, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, USA; Former Member of the Executive Board of Deutsche BundesbankThis tour-de-force book provides an analytical framework and essential information for the readers to make their own judgement for the future of globalisation. A must read in the current uncertain world economy.Justin Yifu LinProfessor, Peking University; Former Chief Economist, the World BankTable of Contents1. Introduction, 2. Global Production, 3. Global Trade, 4. Global Investment, 5. Global Intangibles, 6. Global Money and Finance, 7. Governance in the New Global Economy

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a robust theoretical and empirical exploration of the interrelationship between economic neoliberalism and international development. Putting the experiences of developing and transitional economies centre stage, the book investigates how their economic policies compare with the nature of economic liberalism during and after the significant economic reforms which took place from the mid-1980s. Beginning with two chapters which provide an introduction to the concept of economic neoliberalism, the second section focuses on its application to practice', and the book moves on to country/regional case studies, taken from Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Latin America, China, and Eastern Europe. The book closes with some concluding remarks summarising some of the principal findings.Bringing together a wealth of expertise, this book clarifies controversial economic and political issues which have been significantly misunderstood in public discourse, and as sTrade Review"A clear and pragmatic primer on the ideological underpinning of a major – and often dominant – strand of economic thought. Both the conceptual analysis and the country-level applications will help students and policy-makers plot their way through the many challenges which lie in wait." -- Simon Maxwell CBE, Former President, Development Studies Association of the UK and Ireland"Much has been written about the experience of neoliberal economic policies in developing countries, including previous work by contributors to this volume, but this is a valuable addition. This book provides a ‘one stop shop’ overview and reflection covering the concepts, application and experiences that will be useful to researchers and students of development studies." -- Oliver Morrissey, Professor of Development Economics, University of Nottingham, UK"This book brings together an impressive group of experts to make a clear and focussed point, that the market-oriented approach to development policy is dysfunctional and ineffective. It should appeal to the informed citizen as well as serve as a basic reference work." -- John Weeks, John Weeks, formerly Professor Emeritus, SOAS University of London and Progressive Economy Forum (John Weeks passed away in late-July 2020)Table of ContentsPart 1: Introductory 1. Introduction 2. How Did Economic Neoliberalism Become Mainstream? Part 2: Neoliberalism and Economic Policy 3. Privatisation in Developing Countries 4. Neoliberalism, Macro-Economic Policy and Development5. Neoliberalism and Trade Policy 6. Neoliberalism and Manufacturing Sector Development Part 3: Country Experience 7. Economic Neoliberalism and African Development 8. Liberalised Trade Policy with State Commitment to Growth 9. Economic Neoliberalism in Latin America 10. Neoliberalism and Economic Policymaking in Contemporary China 11. The Polish Transition to Capitalism Part 4: Conclusion 12. Concluding Remarks

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Book SynopsisThis book is set against the assumption that humans' unique feature is their infinite creativity, their ability to reflect on their deeds and to control their actions. These skills give rise to genuine uncertainty in society and hence in the economy. Here, the author sets out that uncertainty must take centre stage in all analyses of human decision making and therefore in economics. Uncertainty and Economics carefully defines a taxonomy of uncertainty and argues that it is only uncertainty in its most radical form which matters to economics. It shows that uncertainty is a powerful concept that not only helps to resolve long-standing economic puzzles but also unveils serious contradictions within current, popular economic approaches. It argues that neoclassical, real business cycle, or new-Keynesian economics must be understood as only one way to circumvent the analytical challenges posed by uncertainty. Instead, embracing uncertainty offers a new analytical paradigm which, inTrade Review"Essential reading for everyone who is willing to take "uncertainty" in economics seriously!", Prof. Dr. Joachim Güntzel, Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University, Ravensburg, GermanyTable of ContentsPreface.Acknowledgements.Introduction.1. What's uncertainty, after all?2. Uncertainty in economics.3. Uncertainty in the economy.4. The empirics of uncertainty.5. Conclusion.Bibliography.Index.

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Book SynopsisThis is an academic inquiry into how labor power has been dehumanized and commodified around the world through the ages for capital accumulation and industrialization, and colonial and post-colonial economic transformation. The study explores all major episodes of slaveries beginning from the ancient civilizations to the end of Transatlantic Slave Trade in the eighteenth century; the worlds of serfdoms in the context of Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and Russia; the worlds of feudalisms in the context of Latin America, Japan, China, and India; the worlds of indentured servitudes in the context of the Europeans, the Indians, and the Chinese; the worlds of guestworkers in the contexts of the United States and Western Europe; the worlds of migrant labor programs in the context of the Gulf States; and the contemporary world of neoslavery focusing on human trafficking in both developing and developed countries, and forced labor in global value chains. The book is designed Table of Contents1. Introduction: The World of Coerced Labor Part I: The World of Slaveries—Conceptual Contexts 2. Slaveries in the Pre-Columbian World 3. The Slaveries of Amerindians and Native Americans 4. African Slavery in the New World Part II: The World of Serfdoms—Conceptual Contexts 5. The West European Serfdom 6. Eastern European Serfdom 7. The Russian Serfdom Part III: The World of Feudalisms—Conceptual Contexts 8. The Chinese Feudalism 9. The Japanese Feudalism 10. The Indian Feudalism 11. Latin American Feudalism Part IV: The World of Indentured Servitudes—Conceptual Contexts 12. Indentured Servitude of the Europeans 13. Indentured Servitude of the Indians 14. Indentured Servitude of the Chinese Part V: The World of Guestworkers—Conceptual Contexts 15. The Bracero Program of the United States 16. Guestworker Programs of Northern and Western Europe 17. The Kafala System of the Gulf States PART VI: Neoslavery in the Twenty-First Century—Conceptual Context 18. Neoslavery in the Twenty-First Century—Human Trafficking 19. Neoslavery in the Twenty-First Century—Global Value Chains 20. Neoslavery in the Twenty-First Century—Assessment of Global Measures to Combat the Menace

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Book SynopsisThis book sails in uncharted waters. It takes a human rights-based approach to tax havens, and is a detailed analysis of structures and the laws that generate and support these. It makes plain the unscrupulous or merely indifferent ways in which, using tax havens, businesses and individuals systematically undermine and for all practical purposes eliminate access to remedies under international human rights law. It exposes as abusive of human rights a complex structural web of trusts, companies, partnerships, foundations, nominees and fiduciaries; secrecy, immunity and smoke screens. It also lays bare the cynical manipulation by tax havens of traditional legal forms and conventions, and the creation of entities so bizarre and chimeric that they defy classification. Yet from the perspective of the tax havens themselves, these are entirely legitimate; the product of duly enacted domestic laws.This book is not a work of investigative journalism in the style of the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of The Panama Papers, exposing political or financial corruption, money laundering or the financing of terrorism. All those elements are present of course, but the focus is on international human rights and how tax havens do not merely facilitate but actively connive at their breach. The tax havens are compromising the international human rights legal continuum.Trade Review'Paul Beckett dares to link two themes that most will not associate: human rights and tax havens. This is long overdue. As he argues, we cannot appraise the cost of tax havens solely in monetary terms. Their opacity, which creates privileged access to capital and opportunity for some whilst denying it to others, is now a real issue in international human rights. His arguments are strong, and sometimes provocative, but what they do is add an essential dimension to the critical debate on the future of tax havens.'Professor Richard Murphy, City, University of London, and Director, Tax Research UK'The financial crisis of 2008 and the subsequent dawning of the age of austerity has given fresh life to the debate about tax avoidance and the use of tax havens. Paul Beckett’s book makes a valuable contribution to that debate. His fresh, rights-based analysis of the problems which tax havens cause, and the deleterious effects they can have on human rights, is a passionate call to arms.'Julian B. Knowles QC, Matrix Chambers, Gray’s Inn, UK'This scholarly book which amalgamates human rights and tax havens had to be written! Its originality, detailed and critical analysis, lucid style, comprehensive content of different legal systems and thoughtful and balanced recommendations stimulate the reader’s mind into new thinking. It introduces an international debate and makes for essential reading.'Professor Jo Carby-Hall, University of Hull, UKTable of ContentsChapter 1: Overview of Tax Havens and International Finance CentresChapter 2: Offshore Structures: Accountability AvoidanceChapter 3: Beneficial Ownership AvoidanceChapter 4: Tax avoidance and tax evasionChapter 5: The Isle of Man and the International Human Rights ContinuumChapter 6: Switzerland: Illicit Financial Flows, Women’s Rights and Gender EqualityChapter 7: Concluding Recommendations

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Book SynopsisAn urgent examination of how the political, economic and social volatility in Europe will affect the world.Trade Review"A compelling and urgent alert that Europe’s creation of a peaceful community in place of a warring continent, may be unraveling. Great Britain is leaving. Other EU members are suffering from political and economic stresses and the burden of refugees fleeing conflicts and migrants escaping poverty. For the United States, a diminished Europe creates an alarming risk." -- James Hoge, Senior Advisor, Teneo Intelligence"This is the best book I've read on the recent turmoil sweeping through Europe--excellent reporting, beautifully written and sensibly, carefully analyzed. Everything that I would expect from a journalist/scholar like Bill Drozdiak." -- Marvin Kalb, Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice, Emeritus, Harvard University"Europeans and Americans alike would benefit from heeding Drozdiak’s warning: That European unification may go into reverse and unravel due to blinkered nationalism on both sides of the Atlantic." -- Politico.eu"A veteran foreign correspondent views Europe’s current dilemmas and power struggles through a series of chapters written from the key capitals, including Berlin, Moscow and London." -- Gideon Rachman, Politics Top picks of 2017 - Financial Times"... William Drozdiak’s fascinating book on Europe..." -- International New York Times"... a very good survey of what the European experiment is for and why we need to have an integrated Europe, both economically and politically." -- The best books on The European Union recommended by Giles Merritt - Five Books"Drozdiak’s book doesn’t read as an obituary but as a sombre plea to recognise the gravity and urgency of the problems facing Europe and, more broadly, the West." -- 8 best books on European politics - The Independent

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Book SynopsisThe last two hundred years have seen a massive increase in the size of the world economy and equally massive inequalities of wealth and power between different parts of the world. They have also witnessed the rise to dominance of the capitalist mode of production. Marxists, from Marx himself through to present day thinkers, have argued that these changes are profoundly interconnected. This book offers a unique account of Marxist theories of Imperialism. It has been fully updated and expanded to cover all the developments since its initial publication and will be essential reading for any student of Marxism.Trade Review`Brewer has performed an enormous service ... he writes extremely clearly, even when presenting complex and rigorous economic arguments ... and his work deserves a wide audience not only among students but also in trade union groups, evening classes and the like. It will stand for a long time as the obvious introduction to a very important topic.' - Marxism TodayTable of ContentsPreface, Anthony Brewer; Abbreviations, Anthony Brewer; Chapter 1 Introduction, Anthony Brewer; Chapter 2 Marx, Anthony Brewer; Chapter 3 Luxemburg, Anthony Brewer; Chapter 4 Hobson, Anthony Brewer; Chapter 5 Hilferding, Anthony Brewer; Chapter 6 Bukharin and Lenin, Anthony Brewer; Chapter 7 Baran, Anthony Brewer; Chapter 8 Dependency Theories, Anthony Brewer; Chapter 9 Emmanuel, Anthony Brewer; Chapter 10 Classes and Politics in the Third World, Anthony Brewer; Chapter 11 After Imperialism?, Anthony Brewer; S1 Index, Anthony Brewer;

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Book SynopsisFor decades, neighbourhoods been pivotal sites of social, economic and political exclusion processes, and civil society initiatives, attempting bottom-up strategies of re-development and regeneration. In many cases these efforts resulted in the creation of socially innovative organizations, seeking to satisfy the basic human needs of deprived population groups, to increase their political capabilities and to improve social interaction both internally and between the local communities, the wider urban society and political world. SINGOCOM - Social INnovation GOvernance and COMmunity building is the acronym of the EU-funded project on which this book is based. Sixteen case studies of socially-innovative initiatives at the neighbourhood level were carried out in nine European cities, of which ten are analysed in depth and presented here. The book compares these efforts and their results, and shows how grass-roots initiatives, alternative local movements and self-organiziTrade Review"A common criticism of edited volumes is that they can sometimes be little more than a loosely connected series of chapters. However, Can Neighbourhoods Save the City does not fall into this trap. Not only are the empirical chapters, which form the body of the book, connected through a commonly considered analytical framework, but a solid narrative draws the reader through from conception to conclusion. Ultimately, it is clear that sub-city initiatives provide hugely generative sites of social cohesion that co-exist alongside official state-driven forms of city governance. Many of these initiatives are not new, although the invocation of innovation and enterprise within their analysis may not have been so emphasised in previous eras."–Professor Anna Davies, Trinity College DublinTable of Contents1. Social Innovation and Community Development: Concepts and Theories 2. Historical Roots of Social Change: Philosophies and Movements 3. ALMOLIN: How to Analyse Social Innovation at the Local Level 4. Kommunales Forum Wedding – Innovation in Local Governance in Berlin 5. Arts Factory, Rhondda Cynon Taff, South Wales 6. Social Exclusion/Inclusion and Innovation in the Neighbourhood of Epeule (Roubaix). The Case of the Association Alentour 7. The End of Social Innovation in Urban Development Strategies? Neighbourhood Development Corporations in Antwerp 8. How do you Build a Shared Interest? Olinda - a Case of Social Innovation Between Strategy and Organizational Learning in Milano 9. Centro Sociale Leoncavallo - Milan - Italy. A building-block for an Enlarged Citizenship in Milan 10. Associazione Quartieri Spagnoli (AQS) - Naples 11. New Deal for Communities in Newcastle 12. The Ouseburn Valley. A Struggle to Innovate in the Context of a Weak Local State 13. The Contradictions of Controlled Modernisation: Local Area Management in Vienna 14. Self-determined Urban Interventions as Tools for Social Innovation: The Case of City Mine(d) in Brussels 15. Creative Designing the Urban Future: Building on Experiences - A Transversal Analysis of Socially Innovative Case-Studies 16. Socially Innovative Projects, Governance Dynamics and Urban Change: A Policy Framework

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Book SynopsisHow the media are organised and funded is central to understanding their role in society. Critical Political Economy of the Media provides a clear, comprehensive and insightful introduction to the political economic analysis of contemporary media. Jonathan Hardy undertakes a critical survey of political economy scholarship encompassing worldwide literature, issues and debates, and relationships with other academic approaches. He assesses different ways of making sense of media convergence and digitalisation, media power and influence, and transformations across communication markets. Many of the problems of the media that prompted critical political economy research remain salient, he argues, but the approach must continue to adapt to new conditions and challenges. Hardy advances the case for a revitalised critical media studies for the 21st century. Topics covered include: media ownership and financing news and entertainment Trade Review"Jonathan Hardy’s book deals in a highly astute manner with the question: How are the media shaped by and shaping capitalism and power structures? It is an excellent resource for scholars, students, activists and citizens who are interested in the critique of the political economy of the media and who want to understand what informational capitalism is doing to us and how we can politically resist it." Christian Fuchs, Professor of Social Media, University of Westminster "Questions about the arrogance of media owners, the pervasiveness of advertising and public relations, the failure of regulation, and the pressures on public cultural institutions, are once again rising to the top of the agenda for debate. Jonathan Hardy’s timely intervention provides an admirably clear and accessible introduction to a tradition of inquiry, critical political economy, that has always placed these issues centre-stage. Anyone seriously interested in unpicking the ways media are shaped by the shifting play of power between corporations, governments and civil society will find this book an indispensable guide." Graham Murdock, Professor of Culture and Economy, Loughborough University "The critical study of the political economy of the media has never been more important. Jonathan Hardy provides an excellent overview of this vital perspective in a book that should become a key text in media and communication studies." Janet Wasko, Professor & Knight Chair in Communication Research, University of Oregon Table of ContentsForeword James Curran Part I: Mapping approaches and themes 1. What (is) political economy of the media? 2. Paradigms of media power: liberal and radical perspectives on media processes 3. Media cultures, media economics and media problems Part II: Critical investigations in political economy 4. Concentration, conglomeration, commercialisation 5. Political economy of the Internet and digital media 6. Marketing communications and media 7. Globalisation, media transnationalisation and culture 8. Media convergence and communications regulation Part III: Interventions and Change 9. Media power, challenges and alternatives Bibliography

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Book SynopsisKnown as the economist''s economist for his work on creating a synthetic economic theory, Swedish economist Knut Wicksell was a controversial, but highly influential figure in modern economic thought. His contributions to marginal productivity theory, income distribution and, most notably, his theory of interest would come to have a profound impact upon twentieth century economic theory, not least in the work of John Maynard Keynes.First published in English in 1934 and 1935, this Routledge Revival set is a reissue of Wicksell''s two volume work on political economy, first published in Sweden in 1901 and 1906. This work is aimed at both the professional economist and the advanced student alike, as well as all those interested in the theoretical development of political economy. Volume I concerns itself predominantly with issues of theory: specifically the theory of value, the theory of production and distrib

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Book SynopsisThe first text to examine the concept of trust and the role that it played on the Industrial Revolution, this book is a key resource for studentsâ studying nineteenth century British history as well as historically minded sociologists.Analytical in style and comprehensive in approach, Social Capital, Trust and the Industrial Revolution covers a range of themes, including: the forms of behaviour, institutions and strategies that contributed to the formation of trust the circumstances that could lead to its rise or fall the presence of distrust the relationship and links between trust and power. Although research has shown that high levels of social capital and trust promotes economic growth, low crime rates and improved labour relations, little work has been done on the historical impact of this essential resource. David Sunderlandâs incisive monograph is resets the balance and demonstrates how social capital played Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Middle Class Trust 2. Working Class and Inter-Class Trust 3. Formal Networks 4. Philanthropic, Religious and Education Networks 5. Informal Networks and Miscellaneous Trust Determinants 6. Governments and Trust 7. The Law and Trust 8. Kin, Geographic and Masculine Trust 9. Business Trust 10. Employer-Employee Trust. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIntended as a successor to Monetary Policy and Credit Control (Croom Helm, 1978; Routledge Revivals, 2013), this book, first published in 1982 with a revised edition in 1984, traces the changes in approach to monetary control in the U.K. throughout the 1970s, and the consequences for policy and the British economy. The book considers the widely-publicised proposals for reserve base' or monetary base' control of the financial system, including a critique of the 1980 Bank of England Green Paper. David Gowland concludes with an analysis of the 1979 Conservative Government's monetary policy. This is a very interesting title, of great relevance to students and academics researching recent British economic history and varying governmental approaches to monetary policy.Trade Review'David Gowland, guru and myth-dispeller on monetary economics, has become "the authority" to many teachers concerning has monetary policy works ... The exposition is enviably lucid ...' - The Times Educational Supplement'This blend of historical survey and economic analysis provides an excellent and ... readable guide to events and arguments for and against the policies successively adopted' - Public MoneyTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction 2. Techniques of Monetary Control 3. Techniques of Monetary Control II: Portfolio Constraints and the Reserve Base System 4. Techniques of Control III 5. The New Approach 6. The History of Competition and Credit Control 7. Competition and Credit Control: An Analysis 8. The New ‘New Approach’ 9. The Labour Government’s Monetary Policy 10. Plus Ça Change?; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisHuman history is in reality a history of corrupt governmentsTable of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Preface and Acknowledgements Chapter 1. The Politics of Bad Governance – A Framework for Analysis Chapter 2. Post-Soviet Bad Governance: A Vicious Circle? Chapter 3. Authoritarian Modernization: Illusions and Temptations Chapter 4. Opportunities and Constraints: Policy Reforms in the 2000s Chapter 5. The Technocratic Traps of Policy Reforms Chapter 6. Success Stories amid Bad Governance Chapter 7. The Politics of Bad Governance: Russia in Comparative Perspective References

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses political and economic change in the United States and Sweden from the 1920s to the end of the 1990s. The key claim is that economic ideas are political tools used by domestic groups in order to effect change.Trade Review'Great Transformations is a significant book in at least two ways. First, it extends academic debate about the causes of change in wealthy capitalist countries in important ways … Second, and more important, Great Transformations dissects profound changes in the state that leave many millions of individuals much more vulnerable … Those hostile to granting ideas a role in political explanation will have to engage with Blyth's framework, the mark of an important scholarly work.' West European PoliticsTable of ContentsPart I. Theory: 1. Karl Polanyi and institutional change; 2. A theory of institutional change; Part II. Cases: 3. Building American embedded liberalism; 4. Building Swedish embedded liberalism; 5. Disembedding liberalism: ideas to break a bargain; 6. Disembedding liberalism in the United States; 7. Disembedding liberalism in Sweden; Part III: 8. Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisPolitical history in the industrial world has indeed ended, argues this pioneering study, but the winner has been social democracy - an ideology and political movement that has been as influential as it has been misunderstood. Berman looks at the history of social democracy from its origins in the late nineteenth century to today and shows how it beat out competitors such as classical liberalism, orthodox Marxism, and its cousins, Fascism and National Socialism by solving the central challenge of modern politics - reconciling the competing needs of capitalism and democracy. Bursting on to the scene in the interwar years, the social democratic model spread across Europe after the Second World War and formed the basis of the postwar settlement. This is a study of European social democracy that rewrites the intellectual and political history of the modern era while putting contemporary debates about globalization in their proper intellectual and historical context.Trade Review"In this fascinating book, Sheri Berman rewrites the ideological balance sheet of the twentieth century, making a powerful case that history ended with the triumph not of free market liberalism but social democracy. In emphasizing the variety of capitalisms and diverse paths that societies take, she makes us think differently about the past and the future. As countries struggle to find their way in a new age of globalization, Berman's work offers essential insights. It is likely to become a classic in the field." Fareed Zakaria, author of The Future of Freedom"Sheri Berman has written a wonderfully lucid account of the origin of social democratic ideas, which she uses to make a passionate argument for their continued relevance as a way of preserving democracy in the world of globalization." Harold James, Princeton University"Sheri Berman's book is a real tour de force, a real land-mark study of ideology, social democracy and European political history. It is an outstanding analysis of the importance of ideas and ideology in politics. Berman argues convincingly that social democracy should neither be understood as a watered down version of Marxism, nor as capitalism with a human face. Instead, Berman shows that social democracy is a distinct political ideology in its own right that should be understood as a political meta-ideology about how to connect everyday social and economic realities with abstract theory in real-world politics. As such, the book is not only an excellent study of the past, but also has important lessons for the present discussion about the possibility of politics in the new globalized economy." Bo Rothstein, Göteborg University"Sheri Berman writes with great lucidity, analytic skill, and political sympathy about the undervalued social democrats of Europe. Everyone knows the story of fascist and Stalinist brutality in 20th century Europe; Berman tells another story, less known and often denied, of social democratic solidarity and compassion." Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study"[A]mbitious and provocative... this is a strong, useful defense of a political ideology and a political movement that have done much good and fought evil with courage and lucidity." Foreign Affairs"...The Primacy of Politics is one of the most thought-provoking books on twentieth-century ideologies to appear for many years." Vernon Bogdanor, Times Literary Supplement"...this book is an excellent overview of the several strands of political thinking that began with the criticism of Marxist economic determinism and ended with the dominant role of social democracy, especially in the last half of the twentieth century in Europe." -Dietrich Orlow, H-GermanTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The background and foundations; 3. Democratic revisionism comes of age; 4. National socialism; 5. From revisionism to social democracy; 6. Fascism and national socialism; 7. The Swedish exception; 8. The postwar era; 9. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the ways in which the Swiss defined their national identity in the long nineteenth century, in the face of a changing domestic and international background. Its narrative begins in 1761, when the first Swiss patriotic society of national significance was founded, and ends in 1891, when the Swiss celebrated their 600-year existence as a nation in a monumental national festival. While conceding that the creation of a nation-state in 1848 marked a watershed in the history of Swiss nation-formation, the author does not focus one-sidedly - as many others have done - on the activities of the nationalizing state. Instead, he attributes a key role to the competitive and contentious struggles over the shaping of public institutions and over the symbolic representation of the nation. These struggles, to which the nation-state and civil society contributed in equal measure, were framed increasingly along national lines.Trade Review'There are many strengths here, alongside the relative uniqueness of the subject. Zimmer's work is soundly based on historical, political and sociological theories of nation development. ... This is supplemented by extensive work in Swiss archives and historiography. And all is set in a helpful comparative perspective … Zimmer makes [a] … real contribution to our understanding of Swiss identity, then and now.' English Historical Review'… a very illuminating assessment not only of Swiss nationalism, but also of theoretical questions arising from the recent literature on nation formation. Zimmer's thorough reading across the theoretical canon makes A Contested Nation a highly relevant text not just for scholars interested in Switzerland, but for anybody working within the broader domains of nation formation.' H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online'A Contested Nation brilliantly illustrates the often-messy process of nationalization … [The book] is both accessible to advanced undergraduates and vital reading for established scholars. It is a detailed, readable, and balanced addition to the nationalism literature.' The Nationalism Project'A Contested Nation is an impressive book.' Jonathan Steinberg University of Pennsylvania, Nations and Nationalism'Zimmer enters into the tangled discussions of nationalism and nation-building with confidence and flair … His book represents a model of close historical research into the political and social conflicts of a state, linked to careful linguistic analysis of participants' statements. It is a model that future scholars of nationalism would do well to emulate.' Celia Applegate, Journal of Interdisciplinary History'This book is a major contribution to scholarship on nineteenth-century European nationalism. It challenges simplistic approaches and instead asks the reader to pay close attention to the interplay and overlap of various national discourses.' Thomas Kiihne, Social HistoryTable of ContentsList of illustrations; List of tables; Preface; Introduction: history, memory and the politics of national identity; 1. Confederate identity before nationalism - events, politics, symbols; Part I. Towards the Cult of the Nation: 2. Dreaming of the wider fatherland - the nation of the patriots; 3. Contentious unity - the rise and fall of an indivisible nation; 4. 'The nation has had her say at last'; Part II. The Birth of the Modern Mass Nation: 5. 'We have become a people'; 6. Competing visions of the nation's past; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThere is a widespread concern about governments which are unable to exercise effective authority. This book explains why taxation is a vital topic in explaining weak government in the poorer world, and provides a wide variety of cases from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America.Trade Review'This book does a masterful job of clarifying the centrality of taxation as a means to build both states and societies. Its analytic contribution is significant. It also offers an excellent set of case studies that demonstrate how government can improve revenue raising while also promoting the general welfare of the polity. The neat combination of theory and cases ensures that this exciting collective endeavor will shape both scholarship and policy-making for years to come.' Margaret Levi, University of Washington'The news is in: how much and how states tax their populations makes a tremendous difference to how well those populations live. And more taxes can actually coincide with better lives. In a series of well crafted studies, Brautigam, Moore and Fjeldstad show exactly how taxation - from coercive to contractual - makes a difference to national well being.' Charles Tilly, Columbia University'Ranging across continents and political regimes, Brautigam, Fjeldstad, Moore and their colleagues provide lucid, dispassionate analysis of one of the most crucial issues in the contemporary political economy of development. Taxes are the cornerstone of any modern society, but for poor countries the capacity to tax can be the difference between chaos and development. This book skillfully dissects the ways in which global models have failed to serve the interests of poor countries and provides careful suggestions as to what actually works. Policy-makers and scholars alike should be grateful to have such a well-crafted, finely-balanced contribution to a topic too often mired in polemic and ideology.' Peter Evans, University of California, BerkeleyTable of Contents1. Introduction: taxation and state-building in developing countries Deborah Bräutigam; 2. Between coercion and contract: competing narratives on taxation and governance Mick Moore; 3. Capacity, consent and tax collection in post-communist states Gerald M. Easter; 4. Taxation and coercion in rural China Thomas P. Bernstein and Xiaobo Lü; 5. Mass taxation and state–society relations in East Africa Odd-Helge Fjeldstad and Ole Therkildsen; 6. Contingent capacity: export taxation and state-building in Mauritius Deborah Bräutigam; 7. Tax bargaining and nitrate exports: Chile 1880-1930 Carmenza Gallo; 8. Associational taxation: a pathway into the informal sector? Anuradha Joshi and Joseph Ayee; 9. Rethinking institutional capacity and tax regimes: the case of the sino-foreign salt inspectorate in republican China Julia Strauss; 10. Tax reform and state-building in a globalised world Odd-Helge Fjeldstad and Mick Moore.

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. ix*List of Abbreviations, pg. xv*Introduction, pg. 1*Chapter 1. The Quest for Settlements in the North-South Arena, pg. 9*Chapter 2. The Commodity Debate, pg. 39*Chapter 3. The Integrated Program for Commodities, pg. 58*Chapter 4. Commodity Bargaining, pg. 103*Chapter 5. UNCTAD and the Institutional Crisis, pg. 169*Chapter 6. Institutional Reform: Is What is Possible Sufficient?, pg. 217*Chapter 7. The Quest for Rules In the North-South Arena, pg. 240*Index, pg. 281

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