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Ecological Imperialism, Development, And The Capitalist World-System - Cases From Africa And Asia

by Mariko Lin (Westminster College, Usa) Frame

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 Drawn from extensive theoretical, historical, policy, and empirical research, as well as fieldwork in Africa and Asia, this book examines the crucial characteristics of the capitalist world-system and how it enables and drives ecological imperialism.
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Ecological Imperialism, Development, And The Capitalist World-System - Cases From Africa And Asia

by Mariko Lin Frame

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 Drawn from extensive theoretical, historical, policy, and empirical research, as well as fieldwork in Africa and Asia, this book examines the crucial characteristics of the capitalist world-system and how it enables and drives ecological imperialism.
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Ecological Imperialism, Development, And The Capitalist World-System - Cases From Africa And Asia

by Mariko Lin Frame

55,64€ + 10% CARD

 Drawn from extensive theoretical, historical, policy, and empirical research, as well as fieldwork in Africa and Asia, this book examines the crucial characteristics of the capitalist world-system and how it enables and drives ecological imperialism.
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Ecological Imperialism, Development, And The Capitalist World-System - Cases From Africa And Asia

by Mariko Lin Frame

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 Drawn from extensive theoretical, historical, policy, and empirical research, as well as fieldwork in Africa and Asia, this book examines the crucial characteristics of the capitalist world-system and how it enables and drives ecological imperialism.
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Cooperatives, The State, And Corporate Power In African Export Agriculture - The Case Of Ugandaâ€™S Coffee Sector

by Karin (German Society For International Cooperation (Giz)) Wedig

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 Agriculture contributes more to Africaâ€™s GDP than any other sector, and small farms are the largest food producer and a major source of employment and export earnings. However, productivity remains low and destitution among small producers is widespread. This book explores the strengths and weaknesses of the revival of Africaâ€™s cooperatives.
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Miracle For Whom? - Chilean Workers Under Free Trade

by Janine Berg

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 Offers a fresh perspective to the debate on rising income inequality in Chile, and on the question of how free trade affects the demand for workers in developing countries. The author argues that heightened international competition has forced Chilean firms to drop their prices to retain market share, lowering profits.
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Cooperatives, The State, And Corporate Power In African Export Agriculture - The Case Of Uganda’S Coffee Sector

by Karin Wedig

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 Agriculture contributes more to Africaâ€™s GDP than any other sector, and small farms are the largest food producer and a major source of employment and export earnings. However, productivity remains low and destitution among small producers is widespread. This book explores the strengths and weaknesses of the revival of Africaâ€™s cooperatives.
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Cooperatives, The State, And Corporate Power In African Export Agriculture - The Case Of Uganda’S Coffee Sector

by Karin Wedig

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 Agriculture contributes more to Africaâ€™s GDP than any other sector, and small farms are the largest food producer and a major source of employment and export earnings. However, productivity remains low and destitution among small producers is widespread. This book explores the strengths and weaknesses of the revival of Africaâ€™s cooperatives.
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Cooperatives, The State, And Corporate Power In African Export Agriculture - The Case Of Ugandaâ€™S Coffee Sector

by Karin (German Society For International Cooperation (Giz)) Wedig

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 Agriculture contributes more to Africaâ€™s GDP than any other sector, and small farms are the largest food producer and a major source of employment and export earnings. However, productivity remains low and destitution among small producers is widespread. This book explores the strengths and weaknesses of the revival of Africaâ€™s cooperatives.
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Political Economy From Below - Economic Thought In Communitarian Anarchism, 1840-1914

by Rob Knowles

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 Communitarian anarchism is a generic form of socialism that denies the need for a state or any other authority over the individual from above, and which requires absolute belief that the individual cannot exist outside of a community of others. This book suggests that the communitarian anarchists of the nineteenth century developed and articulated a distinct tradition of economic thought. The period of this study begins with the first major writing of the French communitarian anarchist, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, in 1840 and ends with the temporary burial of anarchist theorizing at the beginning of the First World War in 1914. However, he tradition of communitarian anarchist economic thought did not end in 1914. The economic thought explored in this book provides a fresh perception of the fragmentation evident in many societies today, especially where there is a substantial "informal economy."
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From Economics To Political Economy - The Problems, Promises And Solutions Of Pluralist Economics

by Tim B. Thornton

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 The discipline of economics has been increasingly criticized for its inability to illuminate the workings of the real world and to provide reliable policy guidance for the major economic and social challenges of our time. A central problem in contemporary economics, and a problem from which many of its other failings flow, is its lack of plurality. By a lack of plurality it is meant that contemporary economics lacks diversity in its methods, theories, epistemology and methodology. It is also meant that economics has become far less interdisciplinary. From Economics to Political Economy offers an explanation as to why economics has become so determinedly non-pluralistic, and also gives considerable attention to exploring and evaluating promising strategies for reform. These strategies include developing a pluralist economics under the label of ‘political economy’ within other social science departments (such as departments of politics). Along the way the reader will learn about the worldwide student movement seeking greater pluralism in economics, encounter some dramatic case studies in intellectual suppression, gain a fuller sense of the nature of contemporary economics and explore the relationship between economics and other social sciences.This book is of interest to any social scientist, particularly those with interests in economics and politics.
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From Economics To Political Economy - The Problems, Promises And Solutions Of Pluralist Economics

by Tim B. Thornton

64,91€ + 10% CARD

 The discipline of economics has been increasingly criticized for its inability to illuminate the workings of the real world and to provide reliable policy guidance for the major economic and social challenges of our time. A central problem in contemporary economics, and a problem from which many of its other failings flow, is its lack of plurality. By a lack of plurality it is meant that contemporary economics lacks diversity in its methods, theories, epistemology and methodology. It is also meant that economics has become far less interdisciplinary. From Economics to Political Economy offers an explanation as to why economics has become so determinedly non-pluralistic, and also gives considerable attention to exploring and evaluating promising strategies for reform. These strategies include developing a pluralist economics under the label of ‘political economy’ within other social science departments (such as departments of politics). Along the way the reader will learn about the worldwide student movement seeking greater pluralism in economics, encounter some dramatic case studies in intellectual suppression, gain a fuller sense of the nature of contemporary economics and explore the relationship between economics and other social sciences.This book is of interest to any social scientist, particularly those with interests in economics and politics.
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Late Neoclassical Economics - The Restoration Of Theoretical Humanism In Contemporary Economic Theory

by Yahya M. Madra

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 Several contemporary economic theories revolve around different concepts: market failures, institutions, transaction costs, information asymmetries, motivational diversity, cognitive limitations, strategic behaviors and evolutionary stability. In recent years, many economists have argued that the increase in circulation and mobilization of these new and heterogeneous concepts and their associated methodologies (e.g., experiments, evolutionary modelling, simulations) signify the death of neoclassical economics. ? Late Neoclassical Economics: The Restoration of Theoretical Humanism in Contemporary Economic Theory draws on the work of Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault and the Amherst School, to construct the concept of a self-transparent and self-conscious human subject (Homo economicus) as the theoretical humanist core of the neoclassical tradition. Instead of identifying the emergent heterogeneity as a break from neoclassicism, this book offers a careful genealogy of many of the new concepts and approaches - including evolutionary game theory, experimental economics and behavioural economics - and reads their elaboration as part of the restoration of the theoretical humanist core of the tradition. ‘Late neoclassical economics’ is therefore characterized as a collection of diverse approaches which have emerged in response to the drift towards structuralism. ? This book is suitable for those who study political economy, history of economic thought and philosophy of economics. The arguments put forward in this text will also resonate with anyone who is interested in the fate of the neoclassical tradition and the future of economic theory.
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Late Neoclassical Economics - The Restoration Of Theoretical Humanism In Contemporary Economic Theory

by Yahya M. Madra

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 Several contemporary economic theories revolve around different concepts: market failures, institutions, transaction costs, information asymmetries, motivational diversity, cognitive limitations, strategic behaviors and evolutionary stability. In recent years, many economists have argued that the increase in circulation and mobilization of these new and heterogeneous concepts and their associated methodologies (e.g., experiments, evolutionary modelling, simulations) signify the death of neoclassical economics. ? Late Neoclassical Economics: The Restoration of Theoretical Humanism in Contemporary Economic Theory draws on the work of Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault and the Amherst School, to construct the concept of a self-transparent and self-conscious human subject (Homo economicus) as the theoretical humanist core of the neoclassical tradition. Instead of identifying the emergent heterogeneity as a break from neoclassicism, this book offers a careful genealogy of many of the new concepts and approaches - including evolutionary game theory, experimental economics and behavioural economics - and reads their elaboration as part of the restoration of the theoretical humanist core of the tradition. ‘Late neoclassical economics’ is therefore characterized as a collection of diverse approaches which have emerged in response to the drift towards structuralism. ? This book is suitable for those who study political economy, history of economic thought and philosophy of economics. The arguments put forward in this text will also resonate with anyone who is interested in the fate of the neoclassical tradition and the future of economic theory.
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Everyday Economic Practices - The 'Hidden Transcripts' Of Egyptian Voices

by Savinna Chowdhury

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 Exploring the significance of local everyday economic practices to development policy-making, this book demonstrates why it is a misrepresentation to characterize all that is economic as â€˜capitalismâ€™ and offers alternative ways to conceptualize economic developments rather than just as theÂ industrialization, urbanization and environmental degradation as experienced by the West.
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Worker Identity, Agency And Economic Development - Women''S Empowerment In The Indian Informal Economy

by Elizabeth Hill

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 This book makes an important contribution to the fields of development economics, political economy and gender studies analysing the capacity of the Indian informal economy to deliver socio-economics security and well being to workers.
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Seeking Sustainability - On The Prospect Of An Ecological Liberalism

by G. J Paton

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 This book is born of the need for a critique of current approaches to environmental policy and governance and the search for alternative sustainability frameworks.
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Prison Labor In The United States - An Economic Analysis

by Asatar Bair

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 This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of contemporary prison labor in the United States, offering new insights into the practice of prison labor and exploring how the prison industrial complex shapes American society.
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Rethinking Municipal Privatization

by Oliver D. Cooke

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 This book examines one of the most high-profile municipal privatizationsâ€"the privatization of New York Cityâ€™s Central Park. This fascinating account highlights the immense theoretical and political issues involved in radically rethinking privatization in both the municipal and global contexts.
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Discipline In The Global Economy? - International Finance And The End Of Liberalism

by Jakob Vestergaard

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 This book investigates the new mode of global economic governance. Vestergaard argues that only by abandoning certain â€˜laissez-fairy talesâ€™ about liberalism, may we begin to understand our present condition, and open a space for critical thought in the face of an ever-more pervasive neoliberalism.
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Unions And Class Transformation - The Case Of The Broadway Musicians

by Catherine P. Mulder

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 How can unions move from a defensive strategy to one of class transformation? Using the case study of the Broadway musiciansâ€™ union, Mulder shows how unions can facilitate a class transformation that increases workersâ€™ control over their working conditions and lets them make the changes needed to improve their lives.
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Labor, Industry, And Regulation During The Progressive Era

by Daniel E. Saros

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 The Progressive Era was among the most volatile times for the economy and labor in American History. Daniel E. Saros explores the institutional and economic conditions of this time, revealing new insight into the regulated nature of industry and the conditions of labor.
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Worker Identity, Agency And Economic Development - Women'S Empowerment In The Indian Informal Economy

by Elizabeth (University Of Sydney, Australia) Hill

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 This book makes an important contribution to the fields of development economics, political economy and gender studies analysing the capacity of the Indian informal economy to deliver socio-economics security and well being to workers.
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Class, Gender, And The American Family Farm In The 20th Century

by Elizabeth Ramey

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 Integrating a focus on gender with Marx’s surplus-based notion of class, this book offers a one-of-a-kind analysis of family farms in the United States. The analysis shows how gender and class struggles developed during important moments in the history of these family farms shaped the trajectory of U.S. agricultural development. It also generates surprising insights about the family farm we thought we knew, as well as the food and agricultural system today. Elizabeth A. Ramey theorizes the family farm as a complex hybrid of mostly feudal and ancient class structures. This class-based definition of the family farm yields unique insights into three broad aspects of U.S. agricultural history. First, the analysis highlights the crucial, yet under-recognized role of farm women and children’s unpaid labor in subsidizing the family farm. Second, it allows for a new, class-based perspective on the roots of the twentieth century "miracle of productivity" in U.S. agriculture, and finally, the book demonstrates how the unique set of contradictions and circumstances facing family farmers during the early twentieth century, including class exploitation, was connected to concern for their ability to serve the needs of U.S. industrial capitalist development. The argument presented here highlights the significant costs associated with the intensification of exploitation in the transition to industrial agriculture in the U.S. When viewed through the lens of class, the hallowed family farm becomes an example of one of the most exploitative institutions in the U.S. economy. This book is suitable for students who study economic history, agricultural studies, and labor economics.
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