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Spectre Of State Capitalism

by Adam D. Dixon e Ilias Alami

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 The state is back, and it means business. Since the turn of the 21st century, state-owned enterprises, sovereign funds, and policy banks have vastly expanded their control over assets and markets. Concurrently, governments have experimented with increasingly assertive modalities of statism, from techno-industrial policies and spatial development strategies to economic nationalism and trade and investment restrictions. This book argues that we are currently witnessing a historic arc in the trajectories of state intervention, characterized by a drastic reconfiguration of the state's role as promoter, supervisor, shareholder-investor, and direct owner of capital across the world economy. It offers a comprehensive analysis of this a new state capitalisma , as commentators increasingly refer to it, and maps out its key empirical manifestations across a range of geographies, cases, and issue areas. Alami and Dixon show that the new state capitalism is rooted in deep geopolitical economic and financial processes pertaining to the secular development of global capitalism, as much as it is the product of the geoeconomic agency of states and the global corporate strategies of leading firms. The book demonstrates that the proliferation of muscular modalities of statist interventionism and the increasing concentration of capital in the hands of states indicate foundational shifts in global capitalism. This includes a growing fusion of private and state capital, and the development of flexible and liquid forms of property that collapse the distinction between state and private ownership, control, and management. This has fundamental implications for the nature and operations of global capitalism and world politics.This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
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Rise And Fall Of Neoliberal Rentier Capitalism - The Political Economy Of The 20th And 21st Centuries

by Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira

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 The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Rentier Capitalism is an account of the political economy of capitalism in the 20th and 21st centuries. Capitalism is an unjust form of economic organisation; it is a culture of exacerbated individualism justified by the glorification of individual competition. Today, after 40 years of neoliberalism, capitalism faces again a legitimation crisis. The book discusses capitalism after two revolutions - the Organisational Revolution and the Democratic Revolution. It views capitalism since the New Deal in the US and the post-war as a progressive and developmental era and the Neoliberal Turn as the change from social democracy to radical and regressive global neoliberalism, which was a regressive time for almost forty years. In the Neoliberal Years, rentiers replaced entrepreneurs in the command of the economy and called on the financiers to manage their wealth and serve as organic intellectuals, and both mounted an attack to the state, which is the main capitalist institution. The global crisis and, in 2020, the Covid pandemic showed that the state remains the nations' resource of last instance. The transition of China from statism to an active developmentalism resulted in an extraordinary growth. Given such realities, in 2021 we saw the collapse of neoliberalism, and in the United States, a Developmental Turn - the state is back in the economy.The transition phase we live in is characterised by three main forces - economic liberalism, managerialism, and democracy. Economic liberalism is the great defeated, managerialism became powerful and is developmental, and democracy is the stronger force. It was attacked by neoliberalism and is now being attacked by right-wing populism, but resisted and resists brilliantly, proving that it was a conquest of the popular classes that became a universal value counting on the support of all social classes.
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Taxing For Development - Contested Ideas, The State, And Commodity Taxes In Argentina

by Matt (Lecturer In International Political Economy, Lecturer In International Political Economy, University Of Glasgow) Barlow

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 Taxing for Development shows that tax is a profoundly political problem, associated with debates about the role of the state, the market, and business-state relationships.
The Invisible Hand(Out) - Aid, Trade, And Unequal Globalization

by Samuel (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, School Of Politics And International Relations University College Dublin) Brazys

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 The Invisible Hand(out): Aid, Trade, and Unequal Globalization examines the relationship between foreign aid, market access, and economic growth in developing countries during the era of globalization.
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The Rise And Fall Of Neoliberal Rentier Capitalism - The Political Economy Of The 20th And 21st Centuries

by Luiz Carlos (Emeritus Professor, Emeritus Professor, Getulio Vargas Foundation) Bresser-Pereira

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 The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Rentier Capitalism is an account of the political economy of capitalism in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Business Of The State - Why State Ownership Matters For Resource Governance

by Jewellord T. Nem Singh

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 As the world moves towards decarbonization and the race for clean energy technologies accelerates, states in the global south are increasingly called upon to supply critical minerals to fuel the transition. Business of the State details how mineral states might design effective growth strategies in this context of strategic competition and climate emergency, via the rise of a hybrid developmental strategy during 1990s and 2010s- the embrace of market-conforming policies to attract FDI and the re-assertion of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) as players in industrial development. Drawing from the experiences of Brazil''s Petrobras and Chile''s Codelco, the book argues that SOEs might open new pathways for technological innovation and even support industrial policy, if subjected to effective governance reforms and aligned with the private sector. In this way, the book shifts the analytical lens away from extractivism as a growth model and towards hybrid development strategies formulated through SOEs.Business of the State asks fundamental questions about states and markets: why do states seek to intervene in the affairs of public enterprises? And what role might they play in structural transformation? The book provides answers using a historical institutionalist framework, process tracing the complex process of market reforms in highly strategic natural resource industries.
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The Spectre Of State Capitalism

by Dr Ilias (Assistant Professor In The Political Economy Of Development, Assistant Professor In The Political Economy Of Development, Cambridge University) Alami e Prof Adam D. (Adam Smith Chair In Sustainable Capitalism, Adam Smith Chair In Sustainable Capitalism, Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University) Dixon

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 This book argues that we are currently witnessing a historic arc in the trajectories of state intervention, characterized by a drastic reconfiguration of the state's role as promoter, supervisor, shareholder-investor, and direct owner of capital across the world economy.
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Business Of The State - Why State Ownership Matters For Resource Governance

by Jewellord T. (Assistant Professor In International Development, Assistant Professor In International Development, International Institute Of Social Studies (Iss), The Hague) Nem Si

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 Business of the State asks fundamental questions about states and markets: why do states seek to intervene in the affairs of public enterprises? And what role might they play in structural transformation?
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Disrupted Development In The Congo - The Fragile Foundations Of The African Mining Consensus

by Ben Radley

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 Through a detailed case study of gold mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Disrupted Development in the Congo reveals the fragile foundations on which the African Mining Consensus rests. It documents how foreign mining corporations in the Congo have been prone to mismanagement and implicated in fuelling conflict and violence.
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Disrupted Development In The Congo - The Fragile Foundations Of The African Mining Consensus

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 Through a detailed case study of gold mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Disrupted Development in the Congo reveals the fragile foundations on which the African Mining Consensus rests. It documents how foreign mining corporations in the Congo have been prone to mismanagement and implicated in fuelling conflict and violence.
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Politics And The Urban Frontier - Transformation And Divergence In Late Urbanizing East Africa

by Tom Goodfellow

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 This book offers the first full-length comparative analysis of urban development trajectories in Eastern Africa and the political dynamics that underpin them. It offers a multi-scalar, historically-grounded, and interdisciplinary analysis of the urban transformations unfolding in the world's most dynamic crucible of urban change.
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The Many Faces Of Socioeconomic Change

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 Development is not a purely economic phenomenon; it also has a strong sociological element. This book surveys narratives of how development occurs, starting with early evolutionary models and moving on to recent types of development theory, outlining the main long term changes in how socioeconomic development has been envisaged through time.
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Equity, Evaluation, And International Cooperation - In Pursuit Of Proximate Peers In An African City

by Gabriella Y. Carolini

~~80,81€~~ 64,65€ 20% OFF

 Equity, Evaluation, and International Cooperation provides a grounded analysis of the production of international development cooperation in urban infrastructure projects, with a critical eye toward whether South-South cooperation provides any particular value as a form of development partnership.
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They Eat Our Sweat - Transport Labor, Corruption, And Everyday Survival In Urban Nigeria

by Daniel E. Agbiboa

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 They Eat Our Sweat examines the corruption complex in Africa in the context of transportion. Focusing on Lagos, Nigeria, Agbiboa shows that corruption is driven by the imperatives of urban economic competition.
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Philanthropy And The Development Of Modern India - In The Name Of Nation

by Arun Kumar

~~80,81€~~ 64,65€ 20% OFF

 This volumes draws on the history of the philanthropy of India's economic elites to examine how their ideas and understanding of development have shifted and changed over time. Kumar shows how development in India provided the moral justification for the protection of commercial interests during a turbulent period of Indian history.
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They Eat Our Sweat - Transport Labor, Corruption, And Everyday Survival In Urban Nigeria

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 They Eat Our Sweat examines the corruption complex in Africa in the context of transportion. Focusing on Lagos, Nigeria, Agbiboa shows that corruption is driven by the imperatives of urban economic competition.
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Philanthropy And The Development Of Modern India - In The Name Of Nation

~~125,72€~~ 100,58€ 20% OFF

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 This volumes draws on the history of the philanthropy of India's economic elites to examine how their ideas and understanding of development have shifted and changed over time. Kumar shows how development in India provided the moral justification for the protection of commercial interests during a turbulent period of Indian history.
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Prosperity Paradox - Fewer And More Vulnerable Farm Workers

by Philip Martin

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 The Prosperity Paradox explains why farm worker problems often worsen as the agricultural sector shrinks and lays out options to help vulnerable workers.
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Going Nowhere Fast - Mobile Inequality In The Age Of Translocality

by Laurie Parsons e Sabina Lawreniuk

~~78,16€~~ 62,53€ 20% OFF

 Using data and insights from over ten years of field research in Cambodia this book explores how inequality persists in a hypermobile world.
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Susceptibility In Development - Micropolitics Of Local Development In India And Indonesia

by Tanya Jakimow

~~86,11€~~ 68,89€ 20% OFF

 Susceptibility in Development offers a novel approach to understanding power in development through theories of affect and emotion.
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Developmentalism - The Normative And Transformative Within Capitalism

by Graham Harrison

~~70,21€~~ 56,17€ 20% OFF

 Developmentalism uses 250 years of case studies to show the deep contextualization of capitalist transformation, as well as the massive improvements in material life that is has generated.
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The Prosperity Paradox - Fewer And More Vulnerable Farm Workers

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 The Prosperity Paradox explains why farm worker problems often worsen as the agricultural sector shrinks and lays out options to help vulnerable workers.
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Susceptibility In Development - Micropolitics Of Local Development In India And Indonesia

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 Susceptibility in Development offers a novel approach to understanding power in development through theories of affect and emotion.
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Inclusive Dualism - Labour-Intensive Development, Decent Work, And Surplus Labour In Southern Africa

by Jeremy Seekings e Nicoli Nattrass

~~74,19€~~ 59,35€ 20% OFF

 This book uses the South African case to argue for inclusive dualism as a development strategy in surplus labour countries. It shows that low- and high- productivity firms can co-exist and challenges the notion that a race to the bottom is inevitable.
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